The other day I was having a conversation with a family friend from out of town and we were discussing a church that her son was attneding but had recently moved from. In the conversation I made a comment about some theological issues I had with some of the beliefs in that church and she responded "Well I don't worry about that theological stuff." What? How is that possible? After having this coversation a saying that I have heard multiple times in the classroom at SEBTS kept running through my mind; "We are all theologians, the question is whether we are a good one or a bad one."
So often I fear this is the mindset of most people sitting in the pews on Sunday morning. They know absolutely nothing about God, and seem to have no desire to. They think it is the job of the pastor to know all that stuff, all they have to do is show up. So often we claim to love God, claim to have faith in Him, yet we walk around completely ignorant as to who He really is. So often we are more content to keep this made up image of God in our minds than to apply the effort to study and to learn who He really is.
What if we as Christians took the reality seriously that we are all theologians and sought to be good ones. Will we put forth the discipline and time it takes to honestly seek the Lord for who He is? We are all theologians, my question to you is, what kind are you?
