Hey everyone, welcome to Ask the Pastor. I am Madlove. I am here with Pastor J.D. Greer.

And today we are wrapping up a series we've been doing called Why Does It Matter?

And we've just been exploring all these great questions, some of which we've touched on in

different ways in the past, but all through this lens of why are these things that we know

Christians believe or we've heard are important?

Why are they so important to the faith?

And, J.D., in some ways, this question feels a little bit like we're kind of saying,

last question, let's just catch anything else that we didn't think to catch in the first couple of episodes.

Because we're asking a question, why does it matter to have correct theological doctrine?

Why does it matter to be able to kind of nail these doctrines down so particularly?

And again, we've covered this in some different ways before, but it felt like

something that was worth revisiting in the context of this series. So help us unpack this.

Yeah, well, it's a great question, especially because most of us that grew up around evangelical churches,

we heard statements like, it's not religion, it's relationship, God's not a doctrine that you learn,

it's a person that you know.

And so we put the emphasis, you know, on the relational aspects. And, you know, it's less important

that I know everything about God. But what you've got to realize is that's all true.

But at least the part about knowing God is true and relationally. But what you have to realize

is that the Bible is very, very zealous to talk about a proper view of God.

In fact, the famous verse that always says it's quoted out of context where there's no vision that people perish.

Vision, it's not talking about a vision to build, you know, build a church and, you know, do, it's talking about the vision.

Though I have heard many sermons by our pastoral apprentices using it that way.

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