Watchout For WOLVES: Keys To Discerning Authentic Ministries & Evaluating Doctrinal Trends

…he that is weak in the faith… Romans 14:1

…stand fast in the faith… 1 Corinthians 16:13

…he now preaches the faith… Galatians 1:23

…till we all come to the unity of the faith… Ephesians 4:13

…if you indeed continue in the faith… Colossians 1:23

…rooted and built up in Him and established in the faith… Colossians 2:7

…holding the mystery of the faith with a pure conscience… 1 Timothy 3:9

…great boldness in the faith which is in Christ Jesus… 1 Timothy 3:13

…some will depart from the faith… 1 Timothy 4:1

…some have strayed from the faith… 1 Timothy 6:10

…rebuke them sharply, that they may be sound in the faith… Titus 1:13

O Timothy! Guard what was committed to your trust, avoiding the profane and idle babblings and contradictions of what is falsely called knowledge--by professing it some have strayed concerning the faith. 1 Timothy 6:20-21 Paul said that there were certain traditions that he had established that he wanted practiced in all of the churches (1 Cor. 4:17; 11:2).

Keys to Maintaining Balance

If balance can be achieved in all of the above areas, if Christians “were to use the best fruits of the managerial

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