Theology is our ideas about God. Good theology is based on sound doctrine that is in turn based on the scriptures and the accumulated knowledge of the Christian Church.
NON-IGNORANCE MEANS LIFE “Most people are turned off by the word theology, and people in some churches don’t even want their pastors to take a theology course – they’re afraid it will corrupt them and turn them away from the Bible, and yet on this program we’re talking about a specific kind of theology – Trinitarian theology. What difference does it make, and how does that apply to the average believer, and why should we care?
TRUTH IS VITAL “Theology” is what we believe about God, we’re saying that what we believe about God makes a difference. What would be more important? The word sounds technical, but literally it means a study of God – we spend a great deal of time studying other things for our professions, whatever they may be – a great deal of time and money. Why not give a little bit of energy (actually we should give it as much energy as we can) to the study of God? That’s what theology, at its best, is about. And Trinitarian theology says that who this God is – Father, Son, and Holy Spirit – is important – that your kind of theology should say something about who God has revealed himself to be.”
PASSION FOR LIFE This kind of revelation says who we are in relation to God. Those who take life seriously desire to know the truth about their relationship to God. We can if we are passive or too casual drift along in the stream of life more like a piece of debris that an agent of Christ’s Spirit and life. Unless we are serious about knowing Christ, we will remain a muted self and never reach our potential as a human being. The best that can be said about us will be, ‘He was there.’