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When Doctrine Divides the People of God: An Evangelical Approach to Theological Diversity is unavailable, but you can change that!

As evangelicals, we desire to be biblical—we want our doctrine to be rooted in the Bible, our lives to be guided by the Bible, and our disagreements to be resolved by the Bible. And yet, conflicts within our church communities continue to appear and seemingly multiply with time. Interpretations of the Bible and deeply held convictions often put Christians at odds. Encouraging us toward grace in...

God-images of evangelical Christians, the data showed that among evangelicals, Christian teaching was ultimately a stronger influence on a person’s personal feelings of God’s presence, acceptance, and challenge than life experience.73 This is good news for Christian disciple makers! We may have intuitions and inclinations that form our initial beliefs or preunderstandings of Scripture, but they can be retrained or corrected. Worldviews are not immutable. If they were, the gospel message would never
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