Theological Discussions // a missed part

I asked a couple of friends the other night as we sat on their back deck enjoying the night air, “what’s your theology?” They didn’t readily know how to answer. I don’t think I would have either as I wasn’t exactly sure what I was asking to be honest.

As I fleshed the question out, what I came around to was, how do you see God playing into your salvation and how does that affect you now in the way you live and in the way you see Him. Needless to say, a great conversation followed. We didn’t plan a Bible study. We didn’t have a structured format. I just asked a question about God and found out more abou their life and their family than I had originally intended. But it was perfect. It confirmed something about the discipleship question that’s been floating around here so much lately. Just doing life together, eating together, sitting around a fire pit on a back deck together and allowing lives to meld together is where its at. We don’t need the formalities.

After all, we’re all theologians. Its not about a seminary degree. The original Greek word for theology literally meant the study or knowledge or talk of God. If you’re seeking the knowledge of God, you’re a theologian. The question really is how good you are at it. We discovered on the backporch that evening that asking questions like “how do you see God” makes us better people. It makes us stop for a minute and say, “I don’t know. Let’s begin a conversation and flesh this out because I may be viewing God in a certain way that is causing me to live a certain way that I don’t need to be living in.” And that’s why I love to ask questions and do life with people.

How is it that you see God?