Sentences with phrase «about doctrinal statements»

Tim, I am already softening some of my stance about doctrinal statements, and future posts will reflect this stance.

I feel in my heart what I want to say about doctrinal statements, and these posts are a weak attempt to get it out into words.

I also found no need to fret about doctrinal statements or a worship style, and had no fear of being recruited into ministry opportunities.

Not exact matches

I will begin to look at this issue tomorrow as we continue this series about how some churches throughout history have used doctrinal statements to damage and even kill others.

And stop asking to see a church's doctrinal statement or inquiring about whether or not an author, blogger, or teacher is «doctrinally sound.»

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.»

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

I am not sure how long you have been reading this blog, but this post here is actually part of a series that has been going on for about three weeks so far, in which I look at at the use and abuse of doctrinal statements.

Taking the yoke of Jesus is not about signing a doctrinal statement or making an intellectual commitment to a set of propositions.

I have written about some of this in an earlier post: The History of Doctrinal Statements.

On an earlier comment, Sam talked about «insider theology» where a group has a hidden doctrinal statement that is not written on paper, and you don't know what it is until after you trespass and get burned for it.

Instead of bringing about unity and love, doctrinal statements created division and strife instead.

My posts from today and the next few days will be about your first point, that doctrinal statements lead to judging others.

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.»