Signing a doctrine aggrement

So Superwoman you feel that you can teach whatever you want too? You sound like you want to be an authority unto yourself.

 

Are you accountable to anyone? Or can you teach whatever you want and no one in authority knows?

 

I would simply say, cheerio.

Cheers,

Jim

 

You will quickly learn when someone is a false teacher. Most likely someone will make it known about a class or teacher.

Signing a doctrinal statement does not guarantee sound doctrine wil be taught. A doctrinal statement cannot cover every possible scenario.

A false teacher can take over an entire church if sound doctrine is not taught from the pulpit. It happened to a church before I pastored and they did not like it when I dealt with scripture because that meant they began to lose their foothold. The deacons were liars and wanted their power among themselves. I asked to have the books of the church audited. When I was audited by the IRS I was clean, but when they loked at the church records they were not. I had refused to go along with the church's records. The same CPA had been doing my taxes for years and still does to this day. He did the taxes for many pastors in the area for free. When the deacons' practices became uncovered they asked for my resignation. When I asked what the issue was, I never got a straight answer. In that same community were business dealings that were not ethical and some of those same peope went to the church I pastored.

 

A few years ago I had entertained the idea of planting some churches with a well known Baptist denomination which came highly recommended to me. I met with their church planting board and was approved. When I began to seriously meet with the person in charge of church planting in the area, I began to have some serious doubts. He asked me why people would want to come to my church. I gave him the reply, "Because there are genuine Christians there." His response was that people come to church because of good entertainment. Then he told me that I was not the right kind of person to plant churches. What he did not know is that I had replanted one church and another pastor and myself planted two new churches. The sad thing is that he was so busy with his things that he had seriously neglected his family. His wife had filed for divorce and his children would not live with him.

That particular denomination was a split many years ago from another denomination and wrote a doctrinal statement in line with what they wanted. The preach and teach their doctrinal statement in an effort to preserve their doctrine. Yet they failed to deal with one of their own families. I think of it as practical liberalism. If anyone read their doctrinal statement they would appear very conservative.

I wanted nothing further to do with them once I saw their practice.

 

Many years ago, it was learned that a young woman who was teaching our teenage girls had advocated abortion. She was immediately removed from her teaching responsibility.

Were we wrong to do so, superwoman?