Sentences with phrase «doctrinal statement»

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

While truth can be found in doctrinal statements, they themselves are not the source of truth.

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

With doctrinal statements for church (business) comes a membership requirement into a social club that looks only one way at scripture and halts everyone from actually learning and growing deeper in Christ.

I look at the fruit of people's lives way more now than I do at their signed doctrinal statements.

The Swedenborgian Church teaches (1) marriage in heaven and (2) the three heavens and (3) the spiritual world is arranged in earths and (4) St. Paul wrote doctrinal statements not scripture.

People began to use doctrinal statements as a way of deciding who was a true believer, and who was not.

Some years ago I heard the lead theologian of a denomination describe doctrinal statements as those statements which define the «doctrinal distinctiveness» of the particular denomination.

We are at the point today where there are thousands of different doctrinal statements for the thousands of different denominations, churches, and ministries.

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.

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.»

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

The church began to develop doctrinal statements in order to know who is «in» and who is «out.»

So before we say we need doctrinal statements and membership classes to protect ourselves from false teachers, we must remember that in some way or another, we ourselves are false teachers, and need to hear the corrective voice when it comes, however it comes, and through whomever it comes.

Publishing a public doctrinal statement helps people know who you are and what you believe.

For example, most doctrinal statements include the idea that Jesus is fully human and fully divine.

I have experienced devisiveness over doctrinal statements and creeds alike.

Longer doctrinal statements lead to abuse and disunity in the church.

Only the very inquisitive ever read the wide variety of historical data and revealing doctrinal statements written by earlier Mormon leaders.

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).

By the way, I am not into doctrinal statements either.

Even more emphatically than the «normal» unanimous judgment, «By the Court» depersonalizes and thereby institutionalizes the Court's most important doctrinal statements.

In a previous post, I listed three ways doctrinal statements can be helpful.

Many church leaders want doctrinal statements, membership classes, sound teaching, and seminary degrees as a way to shield their church from false teaching.

Love is too hard; that's why we focus on doctrinal statements instead.

Doctrinal statements point to the truth, but are not themselves the truth.

I always thought doctrinal statements caused division.But at the same time, it lets me know what an organization believes.

Therefore not a condition of believing particular doctrinal statements.

To make absolute claims regarding such doctrinal statements gives too much weight to specific formulations of doctrine.

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

So maybe, instead of burning others at the stake, or burning their books, we should burn our own doctrinal statements instead.

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.

I think we mean it when we write and affirm doctrinal statements that boldly declare that we will not only believe but also live whatever Scripture teaches.

And in the next year the AG doctrinal statement was changed.

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.

One concept that really helps grasp the concept of living and ministering without doctrinal statements is idea of bounded and centered sets.

As far as I know, the Anglican church has tried to distance itself from that sort of imagery and concept in recent doctrinal statements.

A movement built on broad - based networks of churches and parachurch organizations will inevitably fragment when it tries to move to more thorough doctrinal statements.

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

I have written half a dozen doctrinal statements over the years, and as I look back over them now, I cringe at how I said certain things, and some of the things I emphasized.

First, Jesus makes sure that Levi can agree to the detailed doctrinal statement of Jesus.

I've signed my fair share of doctrinal statements through the years.

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

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

This may be true of the earliest creeds, but are not true of most creeds and doctrinal statements after about 500 AD.