Jesus without doctrine?

One of the things that I hear from many well-intentioned Christians is that they don't want doctrine or teaching, they just want Jesus. And one of the things that I often say in response is that they cannot have Jesus without doctrine or teaching. Everything that we believe as Christians is doctrine. You want to talk about the person and work of Christ, that is doctrine. You want to talk about forgiveness of sins, that is doctrine. You want to talk about how we are to live in light of our great salvation, that is doctrine.

Here is what J.C. Ryle has to say on the subject (taken from his book Holiness):

"A religion without doctrine or dogma is a thing which many are fond of talking of in the present day. It sounds very fine at first. It looks very pretty at a distance. But the moment we sit down to examine and consider it, we shall find it a simple impossibility. We might as well talk of a body without bones and sinews. No man will ever be anything or do anything in religion, unless he believes something. Even those who profess to hold the miserable and uncomfortable views of the deists are obliged to confess that they believe something. With all their bitter sneers against dogmatic theology and Christian credulity [faith], as they call it, they themselves have a kind of faith."