Pastoral Epistles: 1 Timothy 3:15 - The Church as a Pillar of Truth

We, the church, neither invent the truth nor alter it. We, rather, receive it and deliver it. We are to support it, proclaim it, promote it, and safeguard it. It is the sacred, saving treasure given to sinners for their forgiveness, and to believers for their sanctification and edification, that they might live for the glory of God. The church has the stewardship of Scripture, the duty to guard it as the most precious possession on earth. Churches that tamper with, misrepresent, depreciate, relegate to secondary place, or abandon biblical truth destroy their only reason for existing and experience impotence and judgment.