Sentences with phrase «best doctrinal statements»

If one believes all the right things, and can sign on the dotted line of the best doctrinal statements that the church has ever written, but their life is full of hatred, greed, and selfishness, I would argue that while they may have eternal life, and while they may believe some good truths from the gospel, they really have not understood the most essential parts of the gospel.

This is a good doctrinal statement.

Not exact matches

Evangelicals often have at best very minimal doctrinal statements and a range of other, often confessionally unstated, cultural concerns which guide policy.

faith and freedom in the body of Christ is painful and scarry, full of dangers and pitfalls... a good way to avoid this is doctrinal statement,..

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.

When we use doctrinal statements to determine the eternal destiny of other people — which is something only Jesus should do — it is not long before we get the idea that if a person is reprobate and a heretic, it is better to send them on their way to hell, then to let them stick around and lead others astray.

I agree that the short doctrinal statements are better than the long ones.

Despite how doctrinal statements can be misused and abused, I do think there are several good uses for them.

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.

But in recent years, I have begun looking at something else, which I think displays the soundness of a church or ministry better than doctrinal statements.

Well, God's written word is the truth as well and, insofar as a given doctrinal statement reflects the truth of God's word, the doctrinal statement is also the trWell, God's written word is the truth as well and, insofar as a given doctrinal statement reflects the truth of God's word, the doctrinal statement is also the trwell and, insofar as a given doctrinal statement reflects the truth of God's word, the doctrinal statement is also the truth.

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.

Despite how hard I have been on doctrinal statements in recent posts, I do think there are several good uses for them.

Doctrinal statements are good for one thing and one thing only.

Aside from these three good uses of doctrinal statements, can you think of any others?

My general thinking is that doctrinal statements are good as descriptors but horrible as prescriptors.

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.

Once we get outside of Scripture, we see other doctrinal statements develop rather quickly as well.

First, a written doctrinal statement is only as good as the character of the people who are supposed to be using it.

In this series on doctrinal statements, I will argue that something similar happens in many other areas of theology as well.

First, I could continue on to the next chapter in Close Your Church for Good., in which I will challenge the use of Doctrinal Statements.

Many churches or denominations won't allow people to become members unless they use these words in their description of Scripture... Oddly, I've never heard of a church or denomination that asked people to affirm a doctrinal statement like this: The purpose of Scripture is to equip God's people for good works.

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.