Sentences with phrase «in doctrinal statements»

Subtle differences in doctrinal statements could easily be compared.

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

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.

Ironically, even if I did end up believing them, there was nothing in the doctrinal statement one way or the other on any of the issues I was studying.

These are the exciting and invigorating elements of the gospel, and it is these that you will never find in any doctrinal statement.

Therefore, the gospel can not be summarized in a doctrinal statement because statements of belief usually do not also contain statements of behavior, and even if they did, such «lists» soon become legalistic rules, which undermines the gospel even further.

Not exact matches

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.

Any doctrinal statement that contradicts what is stated in the Bible will be construed as blasphemy.

In order to make sure he agrees, Levi must attend a class to learn all the distinctives of the doctrinal statement, and then sign on the dotted line.

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,..

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...

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.

Few people in any church of which I have been a part know where to find their church's doctrinal statement, much less what that doctrinal statement says.

Were doctrinal statements true in an objective sense, or were they true only because of their subjective impact in the life of the believer?

I hope to bring out this point more clearly in the next several posts as I try to draw this series on Doctrinal Statements to a conclusion...

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

Love must be built in to the doctrinal statement.

If we did discard our doctrinal statement, and the Mormons discarded theirs, we could worship together in love and not be divided.

And when, as in the United Methodist Book of Discipline, one attempts to grasp the oneness of life, the effort is split up into «Doctrine and Doctrinal Statements» on the one hand, and the «Social Principles» on the other.

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And yet, because they get written into a formal «doctrinal statement» the words of the statement become set in stone, and soon, we become slaves to the statements.

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.

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.

In it, I explore the idea that doctrinal statements, while helpful in many ways, have harmed the Gospel, and hindered the spread of the Kingdom of GoIn it, I explore the idea that doctrinal statements, while helpful in many ways, have harmed the Gospel, and hindered the spread of the Kingdom of Goin many ways, have harmed the Gospel, and hindered the spread of the Kingdom of God.

So in this way, if a person longs to be part of the close - knit fellowship of the church, or join the church in building homes in the community, they can do so without signing a doctrinal statement.

Some points on some doctrinal statements must be wrong, and we must not be so arrogant to think that our chosen doctrinal statement is 100 % accurate, while everybody else is in error.

In these seminars I experienced that every individual doctrinal statement or ritual expression of Christianity receives a new intensity of meaning.

(available on the web, viewed by over 3,000) contains a kind of «doctrinal statement» on 3 days and 3 nights (Tuesday crucifixion and Friday resurrection) and I think it can be regarded as valid until someone refutes the findings and evidence contained in it.

Recent revisions of the Wesleyan Theological Society's doctrinal statement reveal a «purifying» process that avoids the characteristic expressions of the «inerrancy» position for vocabulary more at home in its prefundamentalist tradition.

«The most beautiful names of God» that appear in Muslim devotion have been used by Muslim theologians to express God's attributes even though they are more expressions of praise than doctrinal statements.

He urged his readers not to concentrate on the doctrinal statements which they mocked, but on a «sense and taste for the Infinite», or, in a phrase that he often used, on «a feeling of absolute dependence.»

We argued in May that such a focus upon the personal subject effectively excludes linguistic objectivity - and so the unchanging validity of doctrinal statements.

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.

The Southern Baptist chain stated Thursday that the author's statements «contradict LifeWay's doctrinal guidelines,» and it has discontinued selling her books in its 185 stores or online.

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.

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.

The «Instruction on the Ecclesial Vocation of the Theologian» issued by the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith in 1990, stated that no public discussion of non-infallible doctrinal statements is permitted within the Church.

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

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.

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.

Indeed, the consensus of the universal Church regarding doctrinal decisions was, from the outset, the most important criterion in determining whether a doctrinal statement was to belong to the Church's binding tradition of faith.

In other words, our doctrinal statements should simply explain to others what we believe.

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

In the next several posts, we are going to see that one way churches can become more loving and less power - hungry and controlling is by discarding their doctrinal statements.

Doctrinal statements, while helpful in many ways, have hindered the spread of the Gospel and harmed the advance of the Kingdom almost more than anything else in the history of Christianity.

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

In a statement afterward, the nuns said, «The meeting had been requested by the LCWR to address what the conference considered deficiencies in the process and the results of the doctrinal assessment of the organization released by the CDF in April.&raquIn a statement afterward, the nuns said, «The meeting had been requested by the LCWR to address what the conference considered deficiencies in the process and the results of the doctrinal assessment of the organization released by the CDF in April.&raquin the process and the results of the doctrinal assessment of the organization released by the CDF in April.&raquin April.»

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.

In previous series of posts, we have looked at two areas where churches often spend too much time talking and not enough doing: Doctrinal Statements and Prayer Meetings.

[So in general, doctrinal statements lead people to think that if they just believe the right things, and sign on the dotted line, then they can live any way they want.