Most Christians will quickly affirm the authority and even the inerrancy of the Scriptures. However, those affirmations - important as they are - are not the complete picture of what Scripture claims for itself or for what the historic Protestant belief regarding scripture has been. Scripture is authoritative and inerrant, and it is also sufficient. The sufficiency of scripture is the heartbeat of sola scriptura. The sufficiency of scripture is the doctrine that the Word of God alone is what the Church as a whole and Christians individually must turn to in order to learn God's will for Christian worship and daily life. All traditions and practices must be conformed to the scriptures, not the other way around.