Sentences with phrase «with doctrinal statements»

Hmm... one of the problems I see with doctrinal statements — and the underlying need for them — is that they often are the result of disagreements over interpretation.

This is really the main point of your post showing the problems with doctrinal statements.

Churches should do away with their doctrinal statements.

With doctrinal statement, we don't need God anymore to tell us the truth: we got it!

Sure, I know that if I were to reject two or three certain doctrines listed above that they would be at odds with the doctrinal statement of the Grace Evangelical Society.

Though my job performance was faultless, and not a single one of the doctrines I was studying had anything to do with the doctrinal statement of the organization, the founder thought that if donors heard that I was studying these doctrines, support for the organization would decrease.

I was once fired for reading about and investigating some doctrines that made my boss uncomfortable, though I never disagreed with the doctrinal statement.

Not exact matches

It wasn't the summer that brought an end to my doubt, but it was the summer I encountered a different Jesus, a Jesus who requires more from me than intellectual assent and emotional allegiance; a Jesus who associated with sinners and infuriated the religious; a Jesus who broke the rules and refused to cast the first stone; a Jesus who gravitated toward sick people and crazy people, homeless people and hopeless people; a Jesus who preferred story to exposition and metaphor to syllogism; a Jesus who answered questions with more questions, and demands for proof with demands for faith... a Jesus who healed each person differently and saved each person differently; a Jesus who had no list of beliefs to check off, no doctrinal statements to sign, no surefire way to tell who was «in» and who was «out»; a Jesus who loved after being betrayed, healed after being hurt, and forgave while being nailed to a tree; a Jesus who asked his disciples to do the same...

But there are numerous problems with thinking that doctrinal statements and membership classes can keep false teaching out of the church.

To this day (as well as when I wrote this post) I can in good conscience and with full conviction sign a doctrinal statement like that of DTS or GES or most any decent Bible church.

They're the ones mixing the gospel with politics and reducing faith to an endless list of doctrinal statements.

However, by the end of the year, the church council forced Calvin to resign his position and leave Geneva because he wanted to force church members to sign his doctrinal statement and articles of church organization (which few people wanted to do), and because he refused to serve communion with unleavened bread on Easter Sunday.

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.

While I do think that there are some things we can know with absolute certainty, I think that several ideas found on most doctrinal statements do fall into this category.

it is through the devotional, «spiritual,» prayerful practice of Christianity that one has a «real apprehension» (as contrasted with a merely «notional apprehension») of what doctrinal statements are all about.»

Some religious groups prefer precise doctrinal statements in order to enhance the cohesion of their members, and they are only secondarily concerned with the effect of such regulation upon spontaneity.

I personally have a good relationship with church communities in my city and I don't even attend church nor hold to many of their doctrinal statements.

However, just because a doctrinal statement can be used to restrict who is placed in a position of leadership in a church or ministry, I strongly discourage the use of doctrinal statements as a means of restricting who can attend or participate with the church or ministry in its services and functions.

In these chapters, he shows how the reality of postmodernism is actually a blessing for the mission of the church, not something to be attacked or fended off with ever - lengthening doctrinal statements.

I agree with you that ever - lengthening doctrinal statements are not the way forward.

I hope that if / when the book comes out, my point will be more clear — Doctrinal Statements are good when used in their proper place, but just as with anything, they can be very dangerous if used improperly.

I want to end with a citation from the 1985 statement of the Inter-Orthodox Symposium on the Lima documents; it takes its direction from the classical concept of reception: «Reception at this stage is a step forward «in the «process of our growing together in mutual trust...» towards doctrinal convergence and ultimately towards «communion with one another in continuity with the apostles and the teachings of the universal Church».

From the simplicity of the Apostles» Creed spawned an ever - increasing number of doctrinal statements, with ever - increasing length and complexity.

I definitely think that a lot of Creeds and Doctrinal statements begin with Biblical teaching.

Anytime someone disagrees with us or our group's doctrinal statement, we feel justified in leveling the charge of heresy against them.

(FWIW, my big problem with the way we do doctrinal statements is not that we have them, but that we insist on 100 % subscription to them.

If you disagree with this, just suggest to you pastor that the church discard its doctrinal statement and then see what he says.

One could of course complain that if that's what they all believe, they ought to update their doctrinal statement, but living people change; groups of living people change; the paperwork rarely if ever keeps up with the changes.

But there are several problems with the development of doctrinal statements as a way of protecting the truth.

«Dr. Hawkins's administrative leave resulted from theological statements that seemed inconsistent with Wheaton College's doctrinal convictions,» the college stated.

Since the early church had no set «canon of Scripture» (we'll deal with this later), no universally accepted doctrinal statements or creeds, no seminaries to teach «correct doctrine», and no Pope or Denominational leaders to decide between disagreeing factions, there was a lot of disagreement in the early church about what was truth and what was «heresy.»

if I do, I run the risk of making this chapter go too long, just like I did with the last one on doctrinal statements....

Faculty will teach with the full Doctrinal Statement in mind; but we welcome warm dialogue with students of varying backgrounds who subscribe to the above positional statements.

The new ideas of the Reformation which initially reinvigorated the church, soon killed the church when people tried to codify, define, and defend all the new ideas with ever - lengthening doctrinal statements.

Contrary to some media reports, social media activity and subsequent public perception, Dr. Hawkins» administrative leave resulted from theological statements that seemed inconsistent with Wheaton College's doctrinal convictions, and is in no way related to her race, gender or commitment to wear a hijab during Advent.

We are well used to such Evangelicals, sharing with them the doctrinal and moral essentials of classical Christianity, a commitment to the Augustinian patrimony of the West, recent remarkable joint statements on justification, and much common work for the sanctity of life, Biblical standards of sexual morality, social justice, environmental responsibility and world peace.