Well, if I'm looking at the schedule right, this episode launches on the evening of Thanksgiving.

So if that's the case, happy Thanksgiving evening to you, I hope your day was full of great

fellowship and good food.

Now we can push through the trip to fan haze together, and we can do it while talking

about the solid meat of sound doctrine.

It's a question that comes to us from Derek.

Hello, Pastor John.

Thank you for the podcast and for answering very hard Bible questions throughout the years.

Here's mine.

Is there an ideal mark of doctrinal maturity to reach in the Christian life that once a

person has gotten settled on the basics of Christ's life and work, his death and resurrection,

and the future of his return?

Then moves on from these foundational doctrines, leaving them behind, so to speak, and not

returning to them and rethinking them over and over throughout the years.

In other words, how do you, Pastor John, interpret Hebrews chapter 6 verses 1 to 3?

Well, it is certainly right that we not be constantly going back to the basics of our

faith as if to dig up the roots to see if there's still a life.

That's a good way to kill a plan.

And you don't constantly disassemble the foundation of your house to see if it's firm.

That's a good way to bring the whole house down on your head.

So that's the first thing to say.

The second thing to say is no, there is no ideal mark of doctrinal maturity in the Christian

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