To guide us who we can fellowship with and at what level

1. DEGREES OF
DOCTRINE

2. THE LORD’S TEACHING ON DEGREES (MAT
28:19-20)
 1ST DEGREE. Go ye therefore, and teach all nations,
 2ND DEGREE. baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of
the Holy Ghost:
 3RD DEGREE. Teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have
commanded you: and, lo, I am with you alway, even unto the end of the
world. Amen.

3. FIRST DEGREE DOCTRINES
 THE GOSPEL TRUTH
 Rom. 1:16, Eph. 1:13, Gal. 1:7, 2Co 10:4-5
 All who continued in darkness about these primary truth are not saved and all
who teach against such are false teachers
 Trinity, Deity of Christ, One God, Sin, Salvation by grace alone, thru Christ
alone, without works, without baptism, without membership.

4. SECOND DEGREE DOCTRINES
 Things which accompany salvation (Heb. 6:9)
 Must be believed and pursued or else we cannot fellowship as a church, the
church world is the battle field.
 Works or fruits of repentance, sound doctrine, proper baptism, church truth,
correct soteriology.

5. THIRD DEGREE DOCTRINES
 Going on unto perfection (Heb. 6:1-3), pressing toward the mark (Phil. 3:14),
reprove, rebuke, exhort with all longsuffering and doctrine (2 Tim. 4:2), speak
the truth in love (Titus 2) persuade men (2 Cor. 5:11).
 The local church is the battle field, self is also a battle field