{"id":2901,"date":"2020-11-23T04:22:38","date_gmt":"2020-11-23T04:22:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/leadinghorsestowater.net\/?p=2901"},"modified":"2021-02-24T01:32:46","modified_gmt":"2021-02-24T01:32:46","slug":"why-is-a-doctrinal-statement-important","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/leadinghorsestowater.net\/?p=2901","title":{"rendered":"Why Is A Doctrinal Statement Important?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>What is a doctrinal statement?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>A doctrinal statement defines Christian teaching.\u00a0 It should define the fundamental doctrines of Christianity. A doctrinal statement is a concise statement of basic Christian doctrine according to Scripture.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">A fundamental doctrine is a truth from Scripture,\u00a0without which, Christianity ceases to be Christianity.\u00a0 It is called a fundamental doctrine because it is a foundational truth to Christianity.\u00a0 Remove that doctrine and\u00a0the house of Christianity becomes red tagged.\u00a0 Fundamental doctrines are the load bearing walls of Christianity.\u00a0 They hold the house up.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Before supporting, endorsing or receiving teaching from any ministry that calls itself Christian, a believer should review that ministry&#8217;s doctrinal statement.\u00a0 If it does not subscribe to the basic doctrines of Christianity, then that ministry does not deserve one&#8217;s support and\/or recognition as Christian.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Whosoever transgresseth, and abideth not in the doctrine of Christ, hath not God. He that abideth in the doctrine of Christ, he hath both the Father and the Son.\u00a0\u00a0<\/em><em>If there come any unto you, and bring not this doctrine, receive him not into\u00a0your\u00a0house, neither bid him God speed:\u00a0<\/em><em>For \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0he that biddeth him God speed is partaker of his evil deeds. \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0<\/em> I John 1:9-11<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><strong>&#8230;let the word of Christ dwell in you richly&#8230;<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Note:\u00a0 One should also become familiar with a ministry before supporting and\/or endorsing it even if the doctrinal statement is sound.\u00a0 One should observe whether or not the actions of the ministry are consistent with their own statement of faith.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Search on this blog for &#8220;My Doctrinal Statement&#8221;.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What is a doctrinal statement? A doctrinal statement defines Christian teaching.\u00a0 It should define the fundamental doctrines of Christianity. A doctrinal statement is a concise statement of basic Christian doctrine according to Scripture. A fundamental doctrine is a truth from Scripture,\u00a0without which, Christianity ceases to be Christianity.\u00a0 It is called a fundamental doctrine because it &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/leadinghorsestowater.net\/?p=2901\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Why Is A Doctrinal Statement Important?<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/leadinghorsestowater.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2901"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/leadinghorsestowater.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/leadinghorsestowater.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leadinghorsestowater.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leadinghorsestowater.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2901"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/leadinghorsestowater.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2901\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3314,"href":"https:\/\/leadinghorsestowater.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2901\/revisions\/3314"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/leadinghorsestowater.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2901"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leadinghorsestowater.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2901"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leadinghorsestowater.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2901"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}