Doctrine: Strengthening Your Uncertain Beliefs

• Distinctive Discipleship – Designing Specific Plans for Christian Maturity
• Category #3: Doctrine
• “teaching everyone with all wisdom” (Col. 1:28).

Evaluate

• How familiar am I with the Word of God?
• If the Church is ignorant with the Scriptures, why are we surprised that our culture is intolerant?
• Each of us will respond to our biblical uncertainty by either ignoring it, justifying it, or addressing it.
• You will never fortify an unstable belief by accident.

Examine

• What should I know by now?
• A dull adherence to biblical theology says more about the believer than the content (5:11).
• Being unwilling to mature in doctrine threatens your beliefs and your behaviors (5:12-13).
• You will never graduate from elementary understanding without consistent training (5:14-6:3).
• Those who never advance past basic beliefs are more prone to abandon the Christian faith (6:4-8).

Engage

• What is the uncertain belief that I must address next?
• Every heresy is defended by taking some Scripture out of context.
• Focus on studying a critical doctrine more than a curious topic.
• The goal is to take a vague idea and enforce it as a biblical doctrine.
• The pivotal doctrine for me to study is:
• How?