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I understand and wholly support your decision.

What I have FAILED to see from most religions much less churches or pastors, is a "flow of beliefs". Such a flow starts from the most basic presumption or article of faith... that there is a Gog, and then works out the details of how they believe. What is accepted on faith, what scriptures are accepted, do Christ's teachings carry more weight, etc. Then go into particular doctrine, explain the supporting scriptures, historical contexts, etc.

I believe that for me, this is important. In fact, it is a self project that I have started... to map and document my own faith and beliefs. A personal apologetics if you will.

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Our Pastor believes in the usefulness of apologetics and uses it. We are currently going through a series that explains how the Bible was put together and vetted out as an exercise in understanding the truth and being able to give intelligent answers to folks who might be swayed or confused by things like the DaVinci Code. He also has an awesome one-hour synopsis of Revelations. He makes no bones about Biblical truth and is unapologetic to those who find it sexist, un-PC, etc. The best part is that he is a teacher vs. a preacher and doesn't sermonize, but he does use real life situations to help clarify his teachings.