Sentences with phrase «signed doctrinal statements»

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

Consider signing a 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.

Student groups requiring leaders to sign doctrinal statements were derecognized to second class status.

It is much easier to sign a doctrinal statement than it is to show love to the sick, the dying, the dirty, and the lost.

However, by the end of the year, the church council forced Calvin to resign his position and leave Geneva because he wanted to force church members to sign his doctrinal statement and articles of church organization (which few people wanted to do), and because he refused to serve communion with unleavened bread on Easter Sunday.

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.

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

Not exact matches

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.

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...

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

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.

[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.