"One summer afternoon as I was sitting in my office, the phone rang. I didn't know the caller, but he identified himslef as being a member of a nearly church. During the conversation, we began to talk about things having to do with the church, "Pastor," he said, "I think our church as too many doctrines." Tongue in cheek, I responded, "What do you know about the will of God for your life that you wish you didn't know?"

"Our doctrines reveal God's will for our lives. From my point of view, I wish that instead of twenty-eight, we had five hundred. You see, the word doctrine means "teaching." Can we know too much about the will of God for our lives? The answer is found in 1 John 5:3: "This is the love of God, that we keep his commandments: and his commandments are not grievous."

"I invite you to think about it for yourself. Which of the doctrines of the church do you wish we didn't have? I can't think of any. I believe our doctrines are true. That being the case, I would have to ask myself what part of truth I would want to give up.

"Contrary to the saying, ignorance is not bliss.In the last days, to be ignorant of spiritual truth is dangerous. The apostle Paul has warned us about "lying wonders" and the "deceivableness of unrighteouisness in them that perish; because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved" (2 Thessalonians 2:9,10)."