Biblical Doctrine and Life Go Hand in Hand and in Matt Order.

You see, when we think correctly about doctrine, we think correctly about life.

Today on Insight for Living, Chuck Swindall continues his Thought-Provoking series on the

great Biblical Doctrines of our Faith.

It's called Growing Deep in the Christian Life.

Today's study will discover it doesn't serve anyone to convey that man is inherently

good.

In fact, to ignore the doctrine of depravity is to lead people toward their eternal demise.

Chuck titled today's message, Exposing the Dark Side.

I like good news and I prefer to talk about the good, bright, light side of life, but

that is only half the message that the Christian has for the world.

I suppose we can't really appreciate the bright and beautiful side of life until we know

how black the backdrop is.

And so to be true to my calling and to be complete with the subject of Biblical doctrine,

it falls my lot to talk for a while about the dark side.

It was back in 1886, a man named Stevenson, Robert Lewis, Stevenson wrote a work that talked

about all our lives.

And he called it Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde.

You may not know it, but he was a little older though a contemporary of Mark Twain, the

American storyteller.

And perhaps it was from that book, Jekyll and Hyde, that Twain came up with the statement

so familiar to all of us.

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