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Profitable Correction: Embracing Balance and Restoration in Faith

Progressives in faith focus on accentuating the positive, grace, and truth, while acknowledging the need for correction and balance in teachings. This article delves into the importance of correction in staying true to the gospel and understanding the significance of scriptural guidance. It highlights examples from biblical narratives where correction was crucial for spiritual growth and adherence to core beliefs. The text emphasizes the relevance of correction and reminders in today's context, calling for a return to the fundamental message of salvation through Christ, baptism, confession, repentance, and belief.

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Profitable Correction: Embracing Balance and Restoration in Faith

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  1. Profitable For Correction 2 Timothy 3:16

  2. Progressives Insist On: • Accentuating the positive • Grace and truth (Jn. 1:17; re. Rom. 6:1) • Gospel, not doctrine (1 Cor. 15:1-4; re. Jn. 7:16-17; Acts 2:42) • Spirit, not the letter (2 Cor. 3:6; re. 2 Cor. 3:3; Rom. 7:6)

  3. Progressives Insist On: • Ignoring anything negative • Where is the balance? (Rom. 2:4-11) • Does it matter? (2 Thess. 1:7-10) • What about Matthew 4:17?

  4. Correction Is Good For Us • Notice 2 Timothy 3:16 • Scriptures are “profitable for correction” • “Correction” means “a restoration to an upright or right state” (Thayer)

  5. Sometimes correction, though necessary, isn’t always appreciated • Pharisees (Matt. 15:1-14, esp. 12) • Jews & Stephen (Acts 7:51ff) • The Corinthians did not receive Paul’s unknown letter well (1 Cor. 4:21) • The progressivism at Corinth needed correction (1 Cor. 11:17-20, esp. 23-26)

  6. Correction And/Or A Reminder • Today churches have progressed away from the gospel message • Some kind of socially involved “Christ Club” • An institution to relieve the economically disadvantaged • Provide wholesome entertainment and secular education for children

  7. Correction is needed in such cases • “The power of God to salvation” (Rom. 1:16) • “Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners” (1 Tim. 1:15) • “For from you the word of the Lord has sounded forth” (1 Thess. 1:8)

  8. “This is my beloved Son, with whom I am well-pleased; hear Him” Matthew 17:5

  9. “This is my beloved Son, with whom I am well-pleased; hear Him” Matthew 17:5 2 Timothy 4:8 Be baptized (Mark 16:16) Confess Jesus (Matt. 10:32) Repent of sins (Luke 13:3) Believe in Jesus (John 8:24)

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