[Gamecock]

Willow Creek also surveyed it’s membership to see what they wanted more of. A large number said they wanted more doctrine.

Willow Creek’s answer was they needed to teach them to be “self-feeders.”

So much for the instruction to feed the sheep.

[rusty schucklefurd]

If the church leadership and teachers are teaching doctrine in the first place, then the members can learn to feed themselves. That is part of the intent behind the instruction in the Bible to “Study to show thyself approved unto God, a workman who needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth. 2 Timothy 2:15”.

But if the church is not teaching doctrine, what in the world is it teaching, and why? If it is not teaching the Word of God, then it really needs to get into some other business because it is not fulfilling the mission of the church.