The boring doctrine may save you

As a christian, how much do you know about what you claim that you believe? As a leader of the youth group in the church, I always need to remind the members to rethink about what we call christianity. In today's church, it becomes obvious that christians are far more focusing on emotion other than the boring doctrine. They enjoy a lot singing some popular christian songs, or listening to some marvelous personal story testifying how God's powerful hand rescure a desperate poor guy. But if you ask them to have some serious Bible study, some of them may lose their passion and begin to nod. This morning one call from my friend once again convinces me that some solid doctrine teaching is still necessary. He told me that he surprisedly found the church he joined for a long time is finally proved as a cult. The pastor teaches that salvation comes from following the good deeds of Jesus, who was just a man but had set a good example for us to follow God's will and if we follow his step we may even surpass him. Members in this cult have great enthusiasm preaching their "gospel" and be very active in colledges. They truely believe that God has given them special revelation and they are persecuted by other churches. I believe that a christian who are very familier with the Bible won't be easily fall into this trap, but it may sounds convincing to those with great fever but of little knowledge of truth. As a leader, it's a great temptation to please the crowd by giving them what they want. But I know that some stuff that make them bored may save them from the danger.