Doctine

A woman recently complained to me about the youth group her 17-year-old daughter attends.  Her daughter had said something like, "The Trinity is an outmoded concept.  We don't need to think of God in such a complicated way anymore." The youth
leader had replied, "Well, that's wrong. That's not the way Christians look at it."

The girl's mother was deeply offended: how presumptuous of this youth pastor to tell her daughter she was wrong!

"Your daughter is extremely bright," I said after listening to this mother.  "She's gotten a huge scholarship to the college of her choice.  But she's ignorant and uninformed when it comes to basic Christian doctrine. As Christians, we're not
here to say, `I agree or disagree with that.'We're here to be instructed, to be enculturated into a very different way of looking at things.

Willimon, William.  "Turning an Audience into the Church." Leadership Winter 1994: Vol. 15.1

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