Paul McCain at Cyberbrethren has a post quoting Hermann Sasse that is worth reading. I enjoy the point Sasse makes that (in my own words now) the church needs to understand orthodox doctrine is historically based in the Savior and the apostles' faithful teaching which the church fathers labored over to properly understand and maintain as pure. Any church wanting to sever its moors to that past is nothing more than a cult.
Having said that, I understand that because a church or denomination claims apostolic and patristic understanding of doctrine does not make that later doctrinal understanding correct. There is a continual need to weigh an understanding of the biblical text with patristic, medieval, reformation, etc. teaching to examine where I or past teachers may have gone astray.
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