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What is Doctrine ?
Q n e o f t h e tragic aspects o f much contemporary preaching to day is its total lack o f doctrinal preaching. It is small wonder that today many o f the wise and good church members are drop ping out o f the well-known denominational churches. Some go to other churches where they hear doctrinal preaching and alas, others find their way into the cults — those deviate systems o f religion. They make these changes not knowing fully what the church which they have left actually does believe, or what the sect to which they are going actually teaches. Becoming enamored with a personality, they go to hear him preach regardless o f what he presents. I f he is clever enough, his heterodox ideas will be delivered in such a manner that they will sound quite orthodox. Before the unwary individual realizes it, he becomes enmeshed in a false religion. These uninformed people are more to be pitied than condemned. It is the pastors o f the churches from which they have departed who should be condemned because they did not instruct their parishioners in the great doctrines o f the Word o f God, so that they might be thoroughly established in the truth, as it is found in the Bible. Unfortunately, the modern church speaks very lightly o f doctrine, as though it were something to be either ridiculed or avoided completely. It should be emphasized, however, that doc trine is absolutely essential to the proper understanding o f the Word o f God. It is absolutely essential also to one’s thinking about the great truths o f scripture. Doctrine has been defined correctly as simply orderly arrangement o f Bible truths. The Bible is not a book on doctrine, but it is filled with doctrinal truths. It is the responsibility o f the student o f the Word to discover these doctrinal truths for himself and to organize his own system o f belief, for doctrine is simply the stun total o f what one actually believes. Everyone has his doctrine concerning the person and work o f Jesus Christ. The modernist or liberal believes that Jesus Christ was merely a man; that He was not born o f the virgin Mary; THE KING'S BUSINESS
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