Sentences with phrase «ways doctrinal statements»

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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...

When we use doctrinal statements to determine the eternal destiny of other people — which is something only Jesus should do — it is not long before we get the idea that if a person is reprobate and a heretic, it is better to send them on their way to hell, then to let them stick around and lead others astray.

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

As important as doctrinal statements are, there is a more excellent way to achieve church unity.

In today's blogging world, you have to be somewhat provocative to garner attention... As I mentioned above, I do believe in the value of doctrinal statements, but in a much different way than how they are used by most churches.

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.

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 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.

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.

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.

I agree with you that ever - lengthening doctrinal statements are not the way forward.

[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.

In such a way, doctrinal statements have gutted the gospel of any real importance or significance in our lives.]

(FWIW, my big problem with the way we do doctrinal statements is not that we have them, but that we insist on 100 % subscription to them.

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

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

Contrary to some media reports, social media activity and subsequent public perception, Dr. Hawkins» administrative leave resulted from theological statements that seemed inconsistent with Wheaton College's doctrinal convictions, and is in no way related to her race, gender or commitment to wear a hijab during Advent.

Though no one would describe it this way, the Bible is treated as a jumbled up collection of doctrines and ethics which must be organized and categorized into neat and tidy doctrinal statements and codes of conduct.