What it comes down to, I suppose, is that if you are looking for a church that will tell you everything you have to believe, we're probably not the one for you. We don't make beliefs tests of faith. If you're the sort of person who really gets great enjoyment out of endless discussions of such topics as how many angels can stand on the head of a pin, you need to understand we don't do that very well. On occasion, someone will claim that since we don't have a stated creed or list of beliefs to which everyone must ascribe that ''you can believe anything you want. Nothing could be further from the truth.
Beliefs are incredibly important.
It's just that as historic, traditional Cambellites, we believe the truth of what God has done in Jesus Christ is so great that there is no one creed, no one opinion, no one theological perspective that can capture all the truth. Differences may just be two partial perspectives on the same truth. If we listen to our differences, we might find out that together we come much closer to the whole truth. In the fifteenth chapter of the Gospel of Luke, the Master tells a story that we know as The Parable of the Prodigal Son. It's really a parable about two kids in the same family.