Future posts will argue your second point, that we still
need some doctrinal statements, but for purposes other than condemning and judging others.
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.
We need the doctrinal statement so people know what we believe, and so we can take a stand on the truth.
Not exact matches
No
need for a separate
doctrinal statement to join... Christ is our
doctrinal statement!
With
doctrinal statement, we don't
need God anymore to tell us the truth: we got it!
I also found no
need to fret about
doctrinal statements or a worship style, and had no fear of being recruited into ministry opportunities.
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.