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The Welcome to the Sword and the Trowel of the podcast of Founders Ministries.

Founders Ministries exist for the recovery of the gospel and the reformation of local

churches. I'm Jared Longshore. And I'm Tom Askell. Thanks for joining us on this podcast. I'm not sure

what number it is. I think this is number nine. Number nine, I think. That's a streak.

It's a tradition now.

It's a tradition. It's a thing.

We've been talking about the statement on social justice in the gospel.

Today we want to talk about article number nine on heresy.

So why don't I read it?

All right. Let's talk about it. We affirm that heresy. So why don't I read it? All right.

Let's talk about it.

We affirm that heresy is a denial or departure from a doctrine that is essential

to the Christian faith.

We further affirm that heresy often involves the replacement of key essential truths

with variant concepts or the elevation of non-essentials to the status of

essentials. To embrace heresy is to depart from the faith once delivered to the saints,

and thus to be on a path towards spiritual destruction. We affirm that the accusation of heresy

should be reserved for those departures from Christian truth that destroy

the weight-bearing doctrines of the redemptive core of Scripture. We affirm that accusations of

heresy should be accompanied with clear evidence of such destructive beliefs.

Yeah, this is an important statement because of what it tries to set up the boundaries of our thinking about what the scripture teaches about what it means to be right with God, how one becomes right with God.

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