Our church’s normal approach to preaching is to go through books of the Bible. For this series, we are taking a different approach. We are looking at our doctrinal statement, the 2000 Baptist Faith & Message. Each week we are focusing on a different section from our statement. For example, we talk about Scripture, God, man, salvation, and the church. We will ask the question, "What does the Bible teach about this subject?" The reason we affirm this doctrinal statement is because we believe it accurately reflects what the Bible teaches. Christians seem to be increasingly less interested in doctrinal statements and theology. Healthy believers and churches have always been able to articulate and defend what they believe. Our goal in this series is simply to guard and be faithful to "the faith once for all delivered to the saints."