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“The Believers Church: A “Natural Resource” Worth Conserving by Jason G. Duesing is an article about the need to preserve and protect the doctrine of the church. President Theodore Roosevelt’s words, not only addressed “Conservation as a National Day”, but he was able to foresee the industry expanding and the population growing as a vital threat to natural resources. Duesing states that climate of ecclesiological relativism is on the rise as “believers engaged in old wasteful methods with regards to natural resources of the doctrine of the church”. Roosevelt showed no interest in the existence of the growing nation, but he was concerned regarding the indifference of the present population. Although indifference abounds as it relates to biblical doctrines, the doctrine of believers is more overlooked than deliberated. Roosevelt’s situation of indifference calls for a common effort and …show more content…
Duesing stated that “in modern America where differences over the doctrine of the church do not merit the sentence of capital punishment, such issues are not as essential as to how one answers the contemporary evangelical question, “If you died tonight, how certain would you be that you would be in Heaven?” Since the Anabaptist cultural environment appeared to be more complicated, this lead to the reason that gospel essentials was preserved because of ecclesiological distinctives. The Anabaptist sought to accomplish biblical truth by establishing a believer’s church. The believer’s church saw advancement in membership growth due to their agreeance in baptism and doctoral belief. The Anabaptist were simply believers who were “standing under the conviction of what they perceived to be the biblical means for protecting Gospel essentials: the preservation and right articulation of the Gospel can only be accomplished through the preservation and right articulation of the

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