What Is Orthodoxy and What Doesn't?

Right belief and right living must be fused together. If we do not have the person of Jesus Christ, our personal relationship with him fused into our understanding of doctrine, it does become a long, joyless, legalistic list of dogmas that we just bash people over the head with anytime they disagree with us. As Francis Shafer so wisely said, biblical orthodoxy without compassion is surely the ugliest thing in the world. We don't want to be out there hunting for heretics. But we also need to be discerning and we need to know what's going on in the world," he says.