Chapter 8

This week's chapter is about understanding Healthy Doctrine.  The authors draw a distinction between our desire for "sound doctrine" and a more scriptural "healthy doctrine."  They emphasize that a desire for "sound doctrine" focuses on getting it all right, while healthy doctrine is a broader concept.  Healthy doctrine incorporates and understanding of the coure of God's entire story in scripture, reading from this core or center, and allowing our ministry in Christ to shape our understanding.  While trying to "get it right" has its place, it is not the end of the matter.  As we look through the lens of God's story, and walk that story out in our lives, our understanding of doctrine deepens and we see that there is even a place for Grace in our understanding.  Come to class tonight, 7pm in the upstairs library, and we will dig a little deeper into "The Crux" of the matter.