One of the newer missional networks does a good job of distinguishing between mere doctrinal correctness or even doctrinal allegiance and incarnating the gospel faithfully in our current cultural context..

"We are not focused on doctrinal uniformity. While acknowledging the indispensable importance of doctrine, it is our conviction that poor doctrine—conceived of in the typical systematic sense—is not our chief challenge. Our chief challenge is to rediscover the simple, but profound story lines that Scripture contains. Creation, fall, redemption, and future hope are dramatic narratives that we can apply to all areas of life. No one lives from a set of abstract theological propositions, especially when they have been torn from their context of an ongoing Story. We actually live from a sense of Story that shapes our imagination. As Christians, we seek to let the biblical Story shape our imagination. We don't have to write it again, but we have to be faithful actors who enter into the story and make it a lived reality. Or, in the image Paul uses, we are now in the position of young architects discovering a wonderful foundation already laid by a master architect. We have to creatively work out what sort of building was intended and faithfully build upon that foundation. In our journey toward discovering ever-growing clarity of biblical truth, we do not claim to know everything. Our desire and heart is to walk in humility and to invite others to journey with us as we press forward toward the fullness of truth, toward the day when we shall know Christ as we have been known."

Ultimately, we may need poets more than we need theologians.. we need people who are rooted in the Big Story, inwardly transformed by the Spirit of God, and shaping new stories in faithful missional communities.