Sentences with phrase «christian doctrinal statement»

The eucharistic prayer, the central Christian doctrinal statement, must be rediscovered as prayerful proclamation.

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All Christians ever since, whether they are Roman Catholic, Eastern Orthodox, Anglican, Protestant, or Free Church, have agreed on the central doctrinal statements expressed in this particular statement of faith.

I hope you will be able to see that this isn't one of the dumbest things I have ever said, but it might actually be those who demand and require doctrinal statements who are missing some pretty key points of the basic Christian walk.

For example, if a denomination declared in their doctrinal statement that the Bible teaches that all good Christians must wear pink hats and only those people who wear pink hats can indeed be true followers of Jesus, we would conclude upon reading this statement that we would never be accepted by those folks because we don't agree with this bit of ridiculous theology.

If we believe that the Holy Spirit has helped guide Christians of the past to know and understand the truth of Scripture, then doctrinal statements can help us in our own understanding and interpretation of Scripture.

Similarly, other points from doctrinal statements often represent key teachings from Scripture and can help guide our own study into Scripture, keeping us within the doctrinal boundaries of Christians from the past (See The Shape of Sola Scriptura for more on this idea).

In some ways, doctrinal statements are a summary of the doctrinal conclusions that Christians of the past have drawn from Scripture.

The history of the development of doctrinal statements and Christian creeds is a bloody mess, full of killing and war.

It calls us to recognize the limited nature of all Christian theology, all church structures, all theological imagery, all doctrinal statements.

While the Tribunal accepted that Christian Horizons sincerely and honestly believed the requirement to adhere to the Doctrinal and Lifestyle Statements was necessary for the performance of employment, it did not accept that the qualification was objectively appropriate or reasonably necessary to the performance of a support worker position.

The Tribunal held that, while Christian Horizons was a religious organization, it could not claim the exemption offered by s. 24 (1)(a) because it was not primarily engaged in serving the interests of persons who are «similarly identified — i.e. persons who are adherents to its Doctrinal and Lifestyle and Morality Statements, or indeed, in serving the interests of Christians more generally.