Sentences with phrase «thought doctrinal statements»

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

I think doctrinal statements are important!

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But there are numerous problems with thinking that doctrinal statements and membership classes can keep false teaching out of the church.

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

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.

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.

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.

(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.

But what so often happens is that we write a doctrinal statement, and then we think it is the truth, rather than recognizing that it is our interpretation of the truth of Scripture.

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

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.

Though my job performance was faultless, and not a single one of the doctrines I was studying had anything to do with the doctrinal statement of the organization, the founder thought that if donors heard that I was studying these doctrines, support for the organization would decrease.

I think what Viola is saying is that many churches seem to put their pastor up as the head, or the denomination, or the doctrinal statement, or a particular system of theology, or the Bible.

We get the gospel wrong when we think that doctrinal statements can summarize the gospel and empower us to live like Jesus.

[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.

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

But I think there is feature of those earlier doctrinal statements that are absent from most creeds and confessions from today.

... typically don't have a building, a budget, a staff, a doctrinal statement, a mission's team, a children's program, or any of the typical trappings of what most people think of as «church.»

The doctrinal statement of the school restrains their desire to learn, study, and think for themselves.