God Humbled Me Through a Church I Disagreed With

A few years ago, I could tell you where I stood on many secondary and tertiary doctrines. I was proud of those stances, but if you asked, I’d naturally say that the gospel mattered most and that our stances on these issues don’t make us better than one another. What I didn’t realize is that God was about to put all of that to the test.

Growing up, I never dealt with theological labels much. I knew there were lines between what was truth and what was false teaching, and that not all churches claiming to be Christian worshipped God in spirit and truth. Growing up in church, my mentors and pastors taught me historic Christianity and founded me on the essentials—so that I could recognize when a church or teacher strayed from orthodoxy.

In those discussions, denominations didn’t really come up. Why? In a small town with only a handful of churches and people, nearly every church looked about the same. We weren’t taught to look at the denominational name on the front of the church, but to test the church’s teachers against Scripture.

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