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I'm thinking today of the book of Hebrews in chapter 6.

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In the first couple of verses of chapter 6, the author of the book of Hebrews is talking

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about the things that the author is going to kind of assume or leave behind or take

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as basic fundamental things that all Christians have observed and understood and applied.

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Included in there is washing for factisms, laying on of hands, the resurrection of the

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dead, eternal judgment, and more.

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These seem like not very basic or simplistic things.

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In fact, there are things that one Christian factor or another might argue over.

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There might even be disagreements.

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And there really shouldn't be.

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The word is pretty clear about these things.

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But when you take on laying on hands, for example, well, laying on hands happens in

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a church environment.

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Baptism is a church environment.

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And so people don't want to be involved in church sometimes.

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They don't want to be with a local church for whatever reason.

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It's because they don't want their sin to be noticed or because they have psychological

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or physical barriers that make it hard for them to be involved in a local body, whatever

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it is.

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The bottom line is the writer of Hebrews is saying these things are a sin.

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They are fundamental to the faith.

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And when the writer moves on to the things that are less basic, which the writer will

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do in the upcoming chapters, by no means does the writer say that we should leave these

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things out.

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But we have to accept that certain fundamental teachings of Christianity hold true.

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Whatever you decide about what you consider to be higher level doctrines, whatever questions

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you may come up with, you cannot deny that Jesus Christ authored the church, gave the

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church the keys to the kingdom, and said to the church, go ye therefore.

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And so we are to be the church doing the things that the church is to be doing and recognizing.