This page states a view. It does not survey both sides. The evidence is in the dossiers it links to.
The other side is given its due in Part II. The limits of AI are stated honestly in Part IX.Write down the claim, and the verse that was used for it.
“They searched the scriptures daily, whether those things were so” (Acts 17:11). They checked an apostle.
No creed means no guardrails. Whatever is said becomes the teaching.
Does your church confess it? If not, ask why.
A pastor who answers to no one is unrestrained. Be all the more careful.
Read the verse in context. Ask an AI search tool. Ask for the other side. Check the sources.
Check the verse yourself. Check the Spider too.
“My pastor told me” will not be an answer.
No preacher, church or member. This is a general argument, not a reply to one sermon.
What this page is asking
This is not a response to one sermon. It is a general argument about what a Christian in the pew should do with what he hears from the pulpit.
The question, in a form that can be checked
Should Christians check what they hear from the pulpit, and does Scripture expect them to? Is taking notes in church a sign of distrust, or of attention? What do creeds and confessions do for a congregation, and what is lost when a church has none? Is rejecting the Nicene Creed a warning sign? What safeguards exist when a pastor answers to no one outside his own congregation? How can a church member use AI search responsibly to check a claim, and what are its limits?
Before you read: if you saw someone taking notes during a sermon and looking up the verses afterwards, what would you think it showed?
Your answer is kept on this page only. You will be asked again at the end.
What the Spider holds, stated up front
- The Spider is asking for attention, not suspicion, and a faithful preacher loses nothing by it. Part I.
- The other side is sincere, and a creed guarantees nothing. The question is what is left to check a preacher when the creed and the bishop are both gone. Part II.
- Scripture tells you to check, and the first people praised for it checked an apostle. Part III.
- Taking notes is an old Christian habit, not a modern threat to preaching. Part IV.
- Three red flags: no creed, a church that rejects the Nicene Creed, and a pastor with no human boss. Parts V–VII.
- The claims most worth checking are the ones that benefit the speaker. Part VIII.
- How to check in two minutes, with the limits of AI stated plainly, and example searches you can copy. Parts IX–X, interactive.
- Where does your church stand? A seven-question self-check. Part XI, interactive.
- You are responsible for what you believe. Part XII.
The prompt behind this page
This page was produced by giving the following brief to a frontier language model with web search, which assembled and checked the sources. It is published so you can run it yourself, change it, or reverse it. Two experiments are worth trying. Reverse it: ask for the strongest case that a member should trust his pastor’s preaching without checking it, written by someone who holds that view, and see what it does with Acts 17:11. Neutralise it: remove the instruction to state a verdict, and see whether the red flags survive as findings or only as opinion.
Write a short, source-first, interactive opinion article, in
British English, for a general reader. Quote Scripture from the
Authorised Version. Verify every quotation, date and reference
against a reliable published source; where an item does not hold
up, drop it or soften it, and say so. Do not invent quotes.
WORKING TITLE. Pay Attention and Take Notes. Then Check. It
Takes Two Minutes. Alternatives to consider: "Take Notes in
Church", "Check the Sermon", "Two Minutes to Check a Sermon",
"Who Checks Your Pastor?" Confirm the title with me.
FORM. A short dossier, a fraction of the length of a full one,
and an opinion piece, in the voice of the Spider: the church
member from Dossiers 68 (Kill the Spider?), 69 (Educate the
Spiders, Maybe?) and 76 (Against Baptism? The Spider Answers),
the one who asks the questions. Like 76, it does not set out both
sides and leave the verdict open. It states what the Spider
believes, plainly, with the reasons in brief. Mark it clearly at
the top as "The Spider's opinion." Send readers who want the full
evidence to the dossiers that already carry it. Do not repeat
them. Third person ("the Spider believes") or first person
plural; keep it consistent with 76. Tone: direct, practical and
encouraging. Be fair to the other side and honest about the
limits of AI, then do not soften the red flags. The reader should
come away wanting to try a search, not just agreeing.
THESIS. When you listen to a sermon, take notes, and check what
you heard. Scripture tells you to, and modern AI search makes it
easy: most claims can be checked in two minutes. This matters
most in churches with no creed and no one the pastor answers to.
There nothing outside the pastor limits what can be said from the
pulpit, and he is free to make claims that benefit himself. A
church that rejects even the Nicene Creed is, in the Spider's
opinion, a major red flag.
KEY POINTS, each in its own box.
- Take notes. Write down the claim and the verse cited.
- Check it. Scripture commands it (Acts 17:11), and AI makes it
a two-minute job.
- No creed means no guardrails. Rejecting the Nicene Creed is a
major red flag.
- No human boss means no brakes. Be all the more careful.
- You are responsible for what you believe. Do not outsource it.
SCOPE. A general argument, not a response to one sermon. No
preachers, churches or members are named, and no names, dates,
occasions or timestamps are supplied or guessed.
QUESTION TO TEST. Should Christians check what they hear from the
pulpit, and does Scripture expect them to? Is taking notes in
church a sign of distrust, or of attention? What do creeds and
confessions do for a congregation, and what is lost when a church
has none? Is rejecting the Nicene Creed a warning sign? What
safeguards exist when a pastor answers to no one outside his own
congregation? How can a church member use AI search responsibly
to check a claim, and what are its limits?
SUPPORTING ARGUMENTS.
1. What the Spider is asking for. State it first. Not suspicion
of every sermon, not disrespect for pastors: attention. Write
down what is claimed and which verse is used; afterwards read
the verse in context and check the claim. A faithful preacher
has nothing to lose, and will usually welcome it.
2. The other side, in one paragraph. Many in non-creedal
churches believe everything the Nicene Creed says and reject
creeds only so that Scripture alone binds the conscience; "No
creed but the Bible" began as a sincere slogan (link 24). Many
independent pastors are faithful and accountable to elders
and members. Hebrews 13:17: "obey them that have the rule over
you." Denominations with bishops and confessions have produced
false teachers too. Concede all of it. Then answer: a creed or
a bishop does not guarantee sound teaching; the question is
what is left to check a preacher when both are removed.
Hebrews 13:17 does not cancel Acts 17:11.
3. Scripture tells you to check, one line each, verified: Acts
17:11; 1 Thessalonians 5:21; 1 John 4:1; Galatians 1:8;
2 Timothy 4:3; Acts 20:30 (said to the elders); James 3:1.
Link 18 and 29.
4. Taking notes is an old Christian habit, two or three lines,
verified: Calvin's sermons taken down word for word from 1549
by a paid scribe, Denis Raguenier; English and New England
Puritans taking sermon notes, often in shorthand, and
reviewing them at home (cite a historian).
5. No creed means no guardrails. A creed binds the pastor as
well as the people. In the historic churches a minister
promises at ordination to teach in line with the confession
and can be removed if he does not (verify Lutheran, Presbyter-
ian and Anglican examples). Link 24 and 51.
6. Red flag: rejecting the Nicene Creed (325, expanded 381),
confessed by Orthodox, Catholic, Lutheran, Anglican, Reformed
and some Methodist and Baptist Christians. Major warning
graphic. Ask readers in a box: does your church confess it?
Has it ever been read aloud? If not, ask your pastor why.
Text of the creed in a collapsible panel, standard English
translation, cited.
7. Red flag: a pastor with no human boss. Galatians 2:11; Acts
15; Acts 14:23; Titus 1:5; 1 Timothy 5:19-20. Founder, appoints
the board, controls the money, answers to no bishop, synod,
presbytery or members' vote: not necessarily a bad man, but
unrestrained. Link 43, 70, 59.
8. Claims that benefit the speaker, one line each, linked:
giving (08, 66); opposing the pastor is opposing God (06, 15);
God will judge those who disagree (19, 68); "God told me"
(03, 30); the historic Church is "dead" (10, 23); verses
lifted out of context (05); a familiar word given a new
meaning (72).
9. How to check: two minutes with AI search, as a step-by-step
card. Write down the exact claim and verse; read the whole
paragraph; ask an AI search tool what the passage means and
whether it supports the claim; ask for the strongest case for
it; ask for sources and check they exist and say what is
claimed; if it does not hold up, ask your pastor privately
first (Matthew 18:15; link 69). Limits of AI, honestly: it
makes mistakes, invents quotations and references, and tends
to agree with how a question is worded. Check the Spider too.
10. Example searches as copyable cards, grouped, each a neutral
question, each linked to the dossier that covers it: a general
template; verses in context (Matthew 16:18; Luke 2:21-24;
1 Chronicles 16:22; Malachi 3:8-10; Luke 13:1-5; Psalm 91 and
Matthew 4; 1 Samuel 2); church history (infant baptism;
rebaptism; the Nicene Creed); authority (a pastor who must not
be questioned; Acts 17:11; safeguards); your own church.
11. Self-check: where does your church stand? A short checklist
with a traffic-light result, presented as the Spider's
opinion, not a verdict. Link 31.
12. You are responsible for what you believe. Close plainly.
False teaching, heresy and even blasphemy can be preached
with confidence from a pulpit no one checks (link 76, 51). On
the last day no one will be able to say, "My pastor told me."
Do you want to be led astray? It takes two minutes. Please try
it. Link 29.
PROMINENT BOXES, so a reader who only skims them gets the full
argument, with a distinct warning style (red border, warning
icon) for the red flags.
EARLIER ARTICLES. Link rather than repeat: 29 (main link), 18, 24,
51, 02, 43, 70, 59, 68, 69, 76, 31, 05, 72, and the dossiers named
in points 8 and 10.
OUTPUT: a single self-contained interactive HTML page, professional
and readable, light theme by default with a dark switch, stating the
question at the top and publishing this prompt in full. Also a
plain-English quick version and a Simple English version.
The page you are reading is the output of that brief after the sources were checked. The title is “Take Notes. Then Check.” with “It takes two minutes” as its subtitle, which keeps the working title’s words in a shorter form. Third person (“the Spider believes”) is used throughout, as in Dossier 76. Everything marked “verify” was checked. Nine things corrected, qualified or extended the brief, and each is marked where it arises.
1. Calvin’s scribe: confirmed, with the purpose softened. Denis Raguenier, himself a French refugee, was hired in 1549 by the Bourse française, Geneva’s fund for refugees, to take Calvin’s sermons down in shorthand as he preached; Calvin preached without notes. The purpose was to preserve and copy the sermons, not, as far as the sources say, so that hearers could check them. The page says “so that they could be kept, copied and read.” Part IV.
2. Puritan sermon notes: confirmed, and one phrase softened. Meredith Marie Neuman, Jeremiah’s Scribes: Creating Sermon Literature in Puritan New England (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2013), studies the notebooks of New England hearers, some in shorthand, and says the notes fed conversations within families. Arnold Hunt, The Art of Hearing: English Preachers and Their Audiences, 1590–1640 (Cambridge, 2010), reads English hearers’ notes against the manuals that taught note-taking and memory. Not every hearer took notes, so “commonly” became “many,” and “reviewed them at home with their families” became “talked them over at home.” Part IV.
3. Ordination vows: confirmed, from the churches’ own texts. Lutheran (Lutheran Church–Missouri Synod, Lutheran Service Book Agenda), Presbyterian (Presbyterian Church in America, Book of Church Order 21-5) and Church of England (Canons C 14 and C 15). The Church of England oath is one of obedience to the bishop rather than a vow to a confession; the doctrinal commitment is in the Declaration of Assent. The page quotes each and says only that a minister can be disciplined, and in the end removed, by those he answers to, without claiming a particular procedure. Part V.
4. The Nicene Creed: a translation note. The panel prints the creed from the Book of Common Prayer (1662), as Dossier 24 does. The brief quotes “one holy catholic and apostolic Church”; the 1662 text reads “one Catholick and Apostolick Church,” without “holy,” which is in the Greek of 381 and in most modern translations. The words “and the Son” are a later Western addition that the Orthodox do not say. Both are noted under the panel. Part VI.
5. “Some Baptist”: confirmed. The General Baptists’ Orthodox Creed (1679), article 38, says the Nicene, Athanasian and Apostles’ Creeds “ought throughly to be received, and believed,” and prints them. Part VI.
6. Psalm 91: a dossier number corrected. The brief links the Psalm 91 search to Dossier 41. Dossier 41 discusses how the historic Church met plague, but not Psalm 91. The verse, and Satan’s use of it in Matthew 4:6, are discussed in Dossier 05. The card links both. Part X.
7. Two searches given dossiers. The brief gave no number for the Matthew 16:18 or Eli’s sons searches. Both are now covered: Dossier 78 on “my church” and “this church,” and Dossier 77 on 1 Samuel 2–3. Part X.
8. Matthew 18:15: used for its pattern. The verse concerns a brother who “shall trespass against thee.” A question about a sermon is not a trespass. The page uses the verse for its order, privately first, and says so. Part IX.
9. Hebrews 13:17: the rest of the verse added. The verse goes on: “for they watch for your souls, as they that must give account.” The leader the verse tells you to obey is himself accountable. Part II.
What follows
What the Spider is asking for
Not suspicion of every sermon. Not disrespect for pastors. Attention. Write down what is claimed and which verse is used for it. Afterwards, read the verse in its context and check whether it says what the sermon said it says.
Write down the claim, and the verse that was used for it.
Two lines in a notebook or on a phone is enough: “Claim: … Verse: …”A faithful preacher has nothing to lose from this, and will usually welcome it. He has studied the passage and wants his hearers to know it better. A congregation that reads its Bible after the sermon is the result he is working for. The only preacher who should fear a note-taker is one whose claims will not survive being checked.
Taking notes is not a sign of distrust. It is a sign that someone was listening.
The other side, given its due
Many sincere Christians in non-creedal churches believe everything the Nicene Creed says. They reject creeds only because they want Scripture alone to bind the conscience. “No creed but the Bible” began as a sincere slogan, and its history is told in Dossier 24. Many independent pastors are faithful, accountable to their elders and their members, and teach soundly. Scripture does tell believers to “obey them that have the rule over you, and submit yourselves” (Hebrews 13:17). And denominations with bishops and confessions have produced false teachers too. The Spider concedes all of this, openly.
Creeds and bishops are not guarantees. They are checks. The Spider’s question is what remains when the checks are taken away.
Scripture tells you to check
“These were more noble than those in Thessalonica, in that they received the word with all readiness of mind, and searched the scriptures daily, whether those things were so.”
Acts 17:11. The Bereans were checking the apostle Paul, and Luke calls them noble for it.“Prove all things; hold fast that which is good.”1 Thessalonians 5:21All things, including what is preached.
“Beloved, believe not every spirit, but try the spirits whether they are of God: because many false prophets are gone out into the world.”1 John 4:1The test is given to ordinary believers.
“But though we, or an angel from heaven, preach any other gospel unto you than that which we have preached unto you, let him be accursed.”Galatians 1:8The test applies to the apostles themselves.
“For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but after their own lusts shall they heap to themselves teachers, having itching ears.”2 Timothy 4:3Hearers can be complicit in bad teaching.
“Also of your own selves shall men arise, speaking perverse things, to draw away disciples after them.”Acts 20:30Said by Paul to the elders of Ephesus. The danger comes from inside the leadership.
“My brethren, be not many masters, knowing that we shall receive the greater condemnation.”James 3:1Teachers are judged more strictly, not less.
What the New Testament commands about testing teaching is set out in full in Dossier 18, Leave Your Mind at the Door, and the case for due diligence in Dossier 29, Have You Abandoned Your Beliefs Without Meaning To? The Spider does not repeat them here.
Taking notes is an old Christian habit
Hearers who write down what is said, and test it at home, are not a modern threat to preaching. They are part of its history.
No creed means no guardrails
A creed or confession is a public, written statement of what a church teaches. It binds the pastor as well as the people, and anyone can check a sermon against it. In the historic churches a minister promises at his ordination to teach in line with the church’s confession. Three examples, in their own words:
In each case there is someone outside the pulpit who can hold the minister to his promise, discipline him, and in the end remove him. A church with no creed and no written statement of faith has nothing outside the pastor to check him against. Whatever he says becomes the church’s teaching by being said.
No creed means no guardrails. Whatever is said from the pulpit becomes the teaching.
Every church interprets Scripture. The difference is whether the interpretation is written down where the members can check it. See Dossier 02, Every Church Has a Theology, 24, No Creed but the Bible?, and 51, Old Heresies, New Pulpits, which tests whether ancient errors return where no creed is kept.Rejecting the Nicene Creed
A church that refuses to confess the Nicene Creed has removed the one public test that almost every Christian church has shared for sixteen centuries.
Not proof that the church is heretical. A refusal to be checked by the most widely shared statement of the Christian faith there is.The Nicene Creed was agreed at Nicaea in 325 and completed at Constantinople in 381. It is confessed by Orthodox, Catholic, Lutheran, Anglican and Reformed Christians, and by some Methodists and Baptists; the General Baptists’ Orthodox Creed of 1679 says it “ought throughly to be received, and believed.” It says who God is: Father, Son and Holy Ghost. It says who Jesus is: “very God of very God … being of one substance with the Father.” It says what the Church is: one, holy, catholic and apostolic.
In the Spider’s opinion, a church that refuses to say it is a major red flag. Not because the refusal proves the church is heretical. Many who refuse it believe every line of it. But because the refusal removes the one test that almost every Christian church has shared since the fourth century, and leaves the pastor’s own reading as the only standard.
- Does your church confess the Nicene Creed?
- Has it ever been read aloud in your church?
- If not, ask your pastor why.
Read the Nicene Creed — about one minute
I believe in one God the Father Almighty, Maker of heaven and earth, And of all things visible and invisible:
And in one Lord Jesus Christ, the only-begotten Son of God, Begotten of his Father before all worlds, God of God, Light of Light, Very God of very God, Begotten, not made, Being of one substance with the Father, By whom all things were made: Who for us men, and for our salvation came down from heaven, And was incarnate by the Holy Ghost of the Virgin Mary, And was made man, And was crucified also for us under Pontius Pilate. He suffered and was buried, And the third day he rose again according to the Scriptures, And ascended into heaven, And sitteth on the right hand of the Father. And he shall come again with glory to judge both the quick and the dead: Whose kingdom shall have no end.
And I believe in the Holy Ghost, The Lord and giver of life, Who proceedeth from the Father and the Son, Who with the Father and the Son together is worshipped and glorified, Who spake by the Prophets. And I believe one Catholick and Apostolick Church. I acknowledge one Baptism for the remission of sins. And I look for the Resurrection of the dead, And the life of the world to come. Amen.
The Book of Common Prayer (1662), Holy Communion. The Greek text of 381 reads “one holy, catholic and apostolic Church,” and most modern translations include the word; the 1662 text omits it. “And the Son” is a later Western addition, not said by the Orthodox. Why the creed was written, and how nearly every tradition received it, is in Dossier 24.
A pastor with no human boss
In Scripture no leader is beyond correction.
“But when Peter was come to Antioch, I withstood him to the face, because he was to be blamed.”Galatians 2:11An apostle corrected another apostle, in public.
The apostles and elders came together in Jerusalem to consider a dispute, and decided it together.Acts 15Not one man’s word.
“And when they had ordained them elders in every church…” — “ordain elders in every city.”Acts 14:23; Titus 1:5Elders, in the plural.
“Against an elder receive not an accusation, but before two or three witnesses. Them that sin rebuke before all, that others also may fear.”1 Timothy 5:19–20Assumes that someone can do the rebuking.
Now picture a pastor who founded the church, appoints the board, controls the money, and answers to no bishop, synod, presbytery or members’ vote. Nothing stops him from saying whatever benefits him: on giving, on loyalty, on those who oppose him, on revelation he says he has received. He is not necessarily a bad man. He is unrestrained.
A pastor who answers to no one is unrestrained. Be all the more careful.
No brakes does not mean a crash. It means the only thing between the pulpit and the congregation is the pastor’s own character, and the congregation’s attention. See Dossier 43, The Board That Only Says Amen, 70, A Free Pass for the Anointed?, and 59, Nobody Else Is Worthy, on the historic Church’s checks on preachers.Watch for claims that benefit the speaker
Every claim deserves attention. These are the kinds most worth checking, because they are the kinds a speaker has a reason to stretch. Each is tested in an earlier dossier.
- Claims about giving and tithing.08 · Just Give. Don’t Ask Questions. · 66 · Will a Man Rob God?
- Opposing the pastor is opposing God.06 · Are You With Me, or Against God? · 15 · Who Is Your Covering?
- God will judge or remove those who disagree.19 · Our God Is a Deadly God · 68 · Kill the Spider?
- “God told me” and private revelation.03 · Thus Saith the Lord, Approximately · 30 · Theology and Reason are Dead! Trust Me.
- The historic Church is “dead.”10 · The Branch Calls the Tree Dead · 23 · Dead Rituals?
- A sermon full of verses, each lifted out of its paragraph.05 · A Hundred Verses, and All of Them Agree With Me
- A familiar word given a new meaning without saying so.72 · Orwellian Deception?
How to check: two minutes with AI search
- Write down the exact claim, and the verse or verses cited.Word for word if you can. A claim you cannot quote, you cannot check.
- Open a Bible and read the whole paragraph around the verse.Not just the verse. Most misuse of Scripture is fixed by reading five verses either side.
- Ask an AI search tool what the passage means in context, and whether it supports the claim.Google, Claude, ChatGPT or similar. Ask neutrally; do not tell it the answer you expect.
- Ask for the other side.“What is the strongest case for this claim?” A fair check looks at both.
- Ask for sources, and check them.Commentaries, creeds, the Church Fathers. Make sure each source exists, and says what the AI says it says.
- If it does not hold up, ask your pastor about it, respectfully and in private first.Matthew 18:15 gives the order: “between thee and him alone.” That verse is about a brother who has wronged you, and a question is not a wrong; the Spider borrows only its order. A good pastor will answer. Dossier 69 sets out what Scripture requires of a teacher who is asked.
Try it now: build your search
Type a claim you have heard and the verse that was cited. The search below fills itself in. Nothing you type leaves this page.
Read the verse in context. Ask an AI search tool. Ask for the other side. Check the sources.
The limits of AI, stated honestly
AI search makes mistakes. It can invent quotations and references that do not exist. It tends to agree with the way a question is worded, so a leading question gets a leading answer. It is a starting point, not an authority. Ask neutral questions, ask for the opposing view, and always check the verse yourself in a Bible.
Check the verse yourself. Check the Spider too.
The same standard applies to this page. Every dossier on this site publishes its prompt so that you can.Example searches to copy
Each card is a neutral question you can paste into a search tool. One tap copies it. The dossier that covers the topic is linked underneath, so you can compare what the search tells you with what has already been checked.
Copied searches are plain text. Paste them into any AI search tool, and remember Part IX: ask for the other side, and check every source.
Self-check: where does your church stand?
Seven questions. Answer what you know; “not sure” is an honest answer, and a reason to find out. The light at the end is the Spider’s opinion about structures, not a verdict on any church, pastor or member.
For a fuller way to place your church among fifty-two others, quoted from their own documents, see Dossier 31, Where Does Your Church Land?
You are responsible for what you believe
The Spider’s opinion is plain. False teaching, heresy and even blasphemy can be preached with confidence from a pulpit that no one checks. Dossier 76 sets out the Spider’s charge of blasphemy against rebaptism, and Dossier 51 shows old heresies returning in new pulpits. None of them announced themselves. They were simply said, and not checked.
On the last day, no one will be able to say, “My pastor told me.”
So the Spider asks you directly. Do you want to be led astray? Should you not check the facts yourself? It takes two minutes. Please try it. Pick one claim from the last sermon you heard, or one of the cards in Part X, and check it today.
And if you want to know what happens to people who never check, read Dossier 29, Have You Abandoned Your Beliefs Without Meaning To? It makes the case that a person can change religion without ever deciding to, simply by not checking.
Now, after reading: if you saw someone taking notes during a sermon and looking up the verses afterwards, what would you think it showed?
Check it yourself
This page is short because the evidence is published elsewhere. If you read only one thing more, read Dossier 29.
- 1. Acts 17:1–15. Five minutes. Read what happened at Thessalonica, then at Berea, and notice what Luke praises.
- 2. The Nicene Creed, in the panel in Part VI or in any prayer book. One minute. Then ask whether your church would say it.
- 3. Ordination vows. Lutheran Church–Missouri Synod, Lutheran Service Book Agenda, rite of ordination; Presbyterian Church in America, Book of Church Order 21-5; Church of England, Canons C 14 and C 15.
- 4. On sermon notes. Meredith Marie Neuman, Jeremiah’s Scribes: Creating Sermon Literature in Puritan New England (2013); Arnold Hunt, The Art of Hearing: English Preachers and Their Audiences, 1590–1640 (2010); on Calvin’s scribe, any modern introduction to Calvin’s sermons.
- 5. Earlier dossiers. The evidence behind this page, in full:
29Have You Abandoned Your Beliefs Without Meaning To?The main link. Due diligence, and checking a teacher. 18Leave Your Mind at the DoorWhat the New Testament commands about testing teaching. 24No Creed but the Bible?The Nicene Creed, and the slogan. 51Old Heresies, New PulpitsAncient errors in churches that keep no creed. 02Every Church Has a TheologyThe unnamed tradition of non-denominational churches. 43The Board That Only Says AmenAccountability, and what a board owes. 70A Free Pass for the Anointed?“Touch not mine anointed,” and the rules that bind teachers. 59Nobody Else Is WorthyThe historic Church’s checks on preachers. 68Kill the Spider?Who the Spider is. 69Educate the Spiders, Maybe?What Scripture requires of a teacher who is asked. 76Against Baptism? The Spider AnswersThe Spider’s first opinion piece. 31Where Does Your Church Land?A fuller self-placement tool. 05A Hundred Verses, and All of Them Agree With MeHow claims are dressed in Scripture. 72Orwellian Deception?A familiar word given a new meaning.
- 6. One search. Do this one. Copy the template card in Part X, fill in one claim you have heard, and run it.
No preacher, church or member is named or identifiable on this page, and no sermon, date or occasion is referred to. This page states an opinion about how to listen and about church structures; it does not judge any person’s faith, sincerity, character or standing before God.
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