"No creed but Christ" has long been one of the rallying cries of the churches of Christ. 

But is it accurate? Is it helpful? Have we truly denied credalism?

We discuss creeds, confessions, and catechisms, along with ways they can be useful and ways they can be a hindrance to truth. 

Hosted by Titus Anderson, Daniel Mayfield, and Jack Wilkie.

We're back with a new season!

We kick off this summer's slate with a look at New Age religion and how it has quietly infiltrated the church through seemingly harmless practices and terms.

Yoga, "Manifesting," and other such related items are examined as we evaluate the Scriptural value of the ideology.

Hosted by Titus Anderson, Daniel Mayfield, and Jack Wilkie

There's been a growing trend in recent years to pit the words and works of Jesus in the 4 Gospels against the rest of the Bible. 

"Jesus never said anything about homosexuality."

"Paul said women can't teach, not Jesus."

"God may have condoned violence or strong words in the New Testament, but Jesus calls us to a different standard."

This belief brings with it an insistence that doctrine matters little and the only real push of Christianity is to "be a nice person." We discuss all the doctrinal error this exposes us to and how the church can guard against this insidious heresy. 

Gnosticism was one of the biggest false doctrines faced by the early church. Nearly 2,000 years later many Christians still wrestle with the gnostic urge to view the physical as bad and the spiritual as good. 

This week's episode digs into why this explicitly anti-Biblical belief has major implications on the way we live our lives.

Liberalism vs. legalism, religion vs. relationship, head vs. heart, law vs. grace. 

We're all drawn to one side of this spectrum or the other, but neither side understands God rightly. In fact, both present a false view of the Gospel.

In this episode:

- What legalism IS and what it ISN'T
- How the two sides have more in common than you might think
- Should we strive for balance between the two, or should we reject both and start afresh?

Christianity must be a religion of the heart... but it's not intended to stay there.

Many Christians today believe we are not to engage in the culture or the political system. Our private walk with God and evangelism are all that matter, in their understanding.

We break down why this pietistic view of the world is inconsistent with God's Word and forfeits ground God has sent us to shape in Christ's image.

Marcion the Heretic was removed from the early church for teaching that the God of the Old Testament was a different being than the God of the New Testament.

While his heresies were rejected long ago, many Christians have adopted a soft Marcionism, downplaying the Old Testament and implying Jesus' arrival erased much of what the OT shows us about God.

In this episode:

- Why it's good that the Old Testament narratives often make us uncomfortable
- How the New Testament's and Old Testament's depictions of God are incomplete without the other
- Why relegating our OT studies to moralizing children's Bible class stories has caused harm to the church

Humanists see man as a blank slate, starting off as basically good.

Calvinists see man as totally depraved, sinful from conception.

What does the Bible teach? Why is it wrong to say man is "basically good?" How does our understanding of sin and nature affect our evangelism, our churches, and our view of the world?

We discuss all this and more in this week's Who Let the Dogma Out?

What is a man? What is a woman?

The world is quickly losing the ability to answer these questions. But can the church give an answer?

If we don't know God's reasons for creating man and woman - or if we are too cowardly to say them - we will be unable to push back against the world's descent into madness.

It's really not a big deal if Christians don't believe Genesis 1-11 are literal, right?

Wrong.

Ceding ground on this crucial territory opens the door for all kinds of compromise.