Thank you, Otavio, for your kind remarks and admonition! I can’t tell you how thrilled I am to see the Lord using our work in the lives of people across Christian confessions in various countries like Brazil. I have made it my goal to be a spokesman for what C. S. Lewis called “mere” Christianity, that is to say, the cardinal doctrines of the Christian faith affirmed by all the great Christian confessions, whether Catholic, Orthodox, Protestant, or Coptic.
At the same time, I do have views of my own on doctrines which are not universally held, and in my lectures in my Defenders class my typical procedure in dealing with a particular doctrine is to give the interpretation of that doctrine from different confessional perspectives and then provide at the end my own assessment of the correct formulation.
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