You want to know something?
It is so refreshing to have long held convictions challenged in the light of Jesus in scripture and be found to be misguided on those convictions and then gracefully corrected.
The role of women, the importance of full-time ministers and having your own building used to be such a big deal for me and those views have been substantially and gracefully changed over the last 4 years.
My take on the Sabbath has changed. My perspective on scripture has changed. My view on church, baptism, discipleship, mission, the Lord’s Supper, evangelism, community, sin, culture, the nature of man, the holiness of God, the importance of the Holy Spirit, the definition of fellowship and of course the beauty of cherry bakewell tarts have all experienced change in the last 4 years at least.
I praise and thank God for that and am also aware in the light of that not to be so dogmatic in what I believe and why I believe it, and always be sensitive to the leading of the Spirit in all things.
What does all this mean? Well it means that even as you change as you grow so you should expect that in Christ. As a result I should be a lot more gracious to other believers on this Christian pathway whatever their convictions knowing that as long as they are in Christ God by His Spirit will lead them into Truth (as in Jesus) in His own way, in His own time, for His own glory even as He does so in me.
There. Now you know something.
Carry on.
For His Name’s Sake
Shalom
C. L. J. Dryden
Life With CD 
Indeed, although I often find that when I am willing to question long held dogmas I find that some are overturned by Scripture but some are strengthened. The critical attitude is that we be willing to hold everything up to the light of the Scriptures and embrace anew what is good and cast aside what is not.
Indeed and amen King Arthur.
This is a really great post, Chris. It’s been my experience too and I can tell you that for me it began in the 1970s and I’m still changing my opinions today. I must be a slow learner!
It’s been a humbling experience, but a very beneficial one. I sense I’ve been moving on a trajectory that Jesus approves of (though he’d surely have liked to see me move much faster and more wholeheartedly).
If we truly have hearts of flesh we WILL change. But if we have hearts of stone we will not.
Keep on posting!
Chris J