NO CREED BUT CHRIST (1 OF 4)
by Jeff Strite
Scripture: Colossians 2:1-6, Colossians 2:8-12, Colossians 2
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No Creed But Christ (1 of 4)
Series: Whatsa Motto U
Jeff Strite
Colossians 2:1-12
OPEN: Years ago I supply preached for a small country church that had about 35 in attendance. They weren't part of our brotherhood, but they liked me and asked me to consider becoming their preacher. At the time I was candidating for another church, but that church hadn't yet made up their minds to hire me. So, I told the little country church that if the 1st church didn't hire me, I liked them really well and was more than willing to consider working with them.
Since this small country church wasn't part our brotherhood I asked to look at their by-laws to make sure there wasn't anything I had to consider before actually saying ''yes'' to them. They handed me a document roughly 10 pages in length and I took it home to read it over. They by-laws seemed fairly normal (essentially what ours might look like) until I got to the back pages. I swear to you, the last 2/3rds of their constitution consisted of their church's doctrine. Coming from the Church of Christ, I'd never seen anything like it.
Now, granted, most of it was fairly common Bible doctrine - things that we'd have no problems with. But there was just enough within this statement of theology that I felt was questionable and hard to justify. So when I met with their leadership the next week I told them if I came to work for them there would a few things I'd want to change in their constitution's doctrinal statements.
''Oh no'' one of the sighed, ''the last 3 preachers have wanted to change our doctrine.''
And I could see why, it was so intricate and exhaustive, nobody could agree with all of it. But I tried to reassure them that the change I wanted to make was very simple...and nobody would ever see a need to change it ever again. My suggestion was very straightforward... I wanted them to scrap the entire section on doctrine and replace it with one statement:
''Where the Bible speaks, we will speak and where ...
Series: Whatsa Motto U
Jeff Strite
Colossians 2:1-12
OPEN: Years ago I supply preached for a small country church that had about 35 in attendance. They weren't part of our brotherhood, but they liked me and asked me to consider becoming their preacher. At the time I was candidating for another church, but that church hadn't yet made up their minds to hire me. So, I told the little country church that if the 1st church didn't hire me, I liked them really well and was more than willing to consider working with them.
Since this small country church wasn't part our brotherhood I asked to look at their by-laws to make sure there wasn't anything I had to consider before actually saying ''yes'' to them. They handed me a document roughly 10 pages in length and I took it home to read it over. They by-laws seemed fairly normal (essentially what ours might look like) until I got to the back pages. I swear to you, the last 2/3rds of their constitution consisted of their church's doctrine. Coming from the Church of Christ, I'd never seen anything like it.
Now, granted, most of it was fairly common Bible doctrine - things that we'd have no problems with. But there was just enough within this statement of theology that I felt was questionable and hard to justify. So when I met with their leadership the next week I told them if I came to work for them there would a few things I'd want to change in their constitution's doctrinal statements.
''Oh no'' one of the sighed, ''the last 3 preachers have wanted to change our doctrine.''
And I could see why, it was so intricate and exhaustive, nobody could agree with all of it. But I tried to reassure them that the change I wanted to make was very simple...and nobody would ever see a need to change it ever again. My suggestion was very straightforward... I wanted them to scrap the entire section on doctrine and replace it with one statement:
''Where the Bible speaks, we will speak and where ...
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