Have you heard someone say, “I don’t want doctrine or theology, I just want the Bible?”  The apostle Paul warned the church that “the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine.”  The word doctrine, as it is used in that text and many others, refers to instruction in the Christian faith.  Jesus commanded His church to “make disciples.”  The only way to make disciples is to instruct from the whole counsel of God.  Anyone who says, “I don’t want theology” means ...


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