I've been re-reading a book by one of my upcoming seminary professors, and it just reaffirmed what I already knew: doctrine matters. The book is The Shape of Faith to Come by Brad Waggoner. The book is built around surveys they did with church attendees as to what they believed about particular doctrines and the results were abysmal. Two examples are:
The Bible is the written Word of God and is totally accurate in all that it teaches. Only 54% strongly agreed
Christians must continually work toward their salvation or risk losing it. 23% strongly disagreed
That is horrible. I know that teaching about doctrine is not the most interesting topic in the world for some people, but doctrine shapes worldview, and worldview shapes practices. If our doctrine is wrong, it leads to wrong actions. I hope you would commit with me to to pay attention to doctrine. Learn it, teach it, and correct poor doctrine, because our influence in the culture will continue to slide if we don't correct poor doctrine.
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