Conservative Teaching Doctrine

Acts 17:11

Many people today—even some pastors and church leaders—think the thread isn’t that important.  But there can be no personal stability, inner peace, or unwavering confidence without the thread of solid doctrine.  In the old days, theology was considered the queen of the sciences, and systematic theology was the crown of the queen.  Today, however, those who hold to solid biblical teaching are called dogmatic, intolerant, and outdated. 

That criticism didn’t faze London pastor Joseph Parker.  Read what he said:

They may be old-fashioned doctrines, but they created missionary societies, Sunday schools, hospitals, orphanages, and refuges for penitence; they gave every child a new value, every father a new responsibility, every mother a new hope, and constituted human society into a new conscience and a new trust.  We cannot first sneer at the doctrine and then claim its infinite beneficence, nor can we borrow its socialism that we may quench its inspiration.  Let us be very careful how we give up trees that have borne such fruit, and in whose leaves there has been such healing.   

I hope you’re growing in your knowledge of the Bible.  You don’t have to be a learned theologian, but the Bible does recommend to us the example of those new Christians in the town of Berea who “searched the Scriptures daily to find out whether these things were so” (Acts 17:11).

David Jeremiah, Signs of Life, p.  110