As Christians our faith should be coming from the same source and be in the same thing - God has given each of us the "seed" of faith in His word, the Bible, and the the message of the Gospel of Jesus Christ that it lays out from its beginning to its end.
From our faith our doctrine (i.e teaching) is determined. Basically we draw our doctrinal conclusions from whatever our faith is in... that is only logical. Muslims determine their doctrine from the Koran, Mormon's from the book of Mormon and the "Prophets" etc.
It would only make sense then to conclude that our "practices" should root in our doctrine and support both our "faith" and our "doctrine" so that each element of our lives are completely and equally supported by the other two.
The fundamental challenge that I have with the modern Protestant church is that its commonly held to "practices" do not line up with its "faith" or doctrine". And is therefore, slowly changing the common Christians doctrines to not line up with the Word of God, their faith, but instead lining up with the practices that are implemented in their church families and will eventually lead the church into a state of apostasy similar to the Catholic church just prior to Martin Luther's Reformation!
Over the course of these articles I am going to address certain practices of the common Protestant Church that are not accomplishing the God commissioned goals for us, the church.
In each of these articles I am going to point out the practice, show you where it came from, why it was implemented in the first place, why it is no longer needed and/or was not needed in the first place and then offer a solution (i.e a practice to replace it with) that will in fact support our "Faith" and "Doctrine" and therefore preserve Biblical Christianity!
I invite comments and critique as my goals are to serve the Living God as obediently as possible and to help others do the same. Please offer your feed back and correction as long as you feel that it would be entirely productive to the Kingdom of God.
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