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The topics this site documents, with the positions Christians and others have taken on each and the Scripture cited. Tiers show how much is at stake in each.
Christ
- Atonement · Tier 1: Orthodoxy
What Christ's death accomplished.
- Person of Christ · Tier 1: Orthodoxy
The deity and humanity of Jesus Christ.
Christian life
- Holiness & assurance · Tier 2: Confessional
Perseverance, assurance, and standards of conduct.
- Law & gospel · Tier 2: Confessional
The role of God's law for the believer.
- Marriage & sexuality · Tier 2: Confessional
Marriage and sexual ethics. Default Tier 2; the Reformed lens promotes it to Tier 1.
- Sanctification · Tier 2: Confessional
How believers grow in holiness.
- Sex & gender identity · Tier 2: Confessional
Sex and gender. Default Tier 2; the Reformed lens promotes it to Tier 1.
Church
- Catechesis & family worship · Tier 3: Conviction
Teaching children and worship at home. Default tier 3/4: displayed as conviction, practice measured where documented.
- Church discipline · Tier 4: Practice (coming soon)
Correction of members and officers, and restoration.
- Church government · Tier 2: Confessional
How a church is governed.
- Church & state · Tier 3: Conviction
The church's relation to civil government.
- Covenant framework · Tier 2: Confessional
How a church reads the unity of the Bible.
- Ecclesial self-understanding · Tier 4: Practice (coming soon)
Does the church understand itself as a covenant body or an organization? Scored under Shepherding.
- Membership · Tier 4: Practice (coming soon)
What belonging to the church means.
- Spiritual gifts · Tier 2: Confessional
Continuation of the sign gifts.
- Women deacons · Tier 2: Confessional
Whether women hold the diaconate.
- Women in leadership · Tier 2: Confessional
Who may hold office and preach.
God
- Doctrine of God · Tier 1: Orthodoxy
God's nature and attributes.
- Trinity · Tier 1: Orthodoxy
One God in three persons.
Humanity
- Age of the earth · Tier 2: Confessional
How a church reads the timing of creation. Default tier 2/3: Tier 2 for lenses that bind it, otherwise Tier 3.
- Creation & the fall · Tier 1: Orthodoxy
Adam, the fall, and original sin.
Last things
- End times · Tier 3: Conviction
The millennium and return of Christ.
- Final judgment · Tier 1: Orthodoxy
The final state of the unrepentant.
Practice
- Giving · Tier 3: Conviction
Teaching on giving, and financial transparency. Default tier 3/4: the teaching is displayed, transparency is scored.
- Prosperity & signs · Tier 1: Orthodoxy
Prosperity teaching and claims about signs. Default tier 1/2.
Revelation
- Scripture · Tier 1: Orthodoxy
The nature and authority of the Bible.
Salvation
- Gospel & justification · Tier 1: Orthodoxy
How a sinner is made right with God.
- Sovereignty & human responsibility · Tier 2: Confessional
Election, grace, and the human will.
Worship
- Baptism · Tier 2: Confessional
Subjects, mode, and meaning of baptism.
- Lord's Day · Tier 2: Confessional
The first day of the week.
- Lord's Supper · Tier 2: Confessional
Meaning, frequency, and admission to the Table.
- Worship · Tier 2: Confessional
What governs public worship.