The simplest definition that I can come up with is this: Theology is the study of God.

Most people are either scared, confused  or bored by the thought of theology. Some people visualize a theologian as an old man with white hair who has spent his life with his nose in the bible and various other  biblical texts so that they he might explain the weightier things of God to us laymen in easy to understand terms.

Personally, I love theology. I enjoy learning who God is, what He has done and is yet to do. When I speak with most people about the subject of theology they tell me “Why bother? We should concentrate on loving people and bringing them to the Lord.” While I don’t disagree with that there is so much more to the Christian life, and if we are going to be honest with each other then we must admit that everybody has THEIR OWN theology, even those who say there is no real need for it. The question boils down to “How good is your theology?” Are your views and thoughts biblical, do they accurately portrait what the bible teaches?

Theology should be objective, not subjective. It is the search for truth about God. Jesus told the Samaritan woman that those who worship God must worship him in spirit and in truth (John 4:23).

Hosea 4:6 says: My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge: because you have rejected knowledge, I will also reject you, that you shall be no priest to me: seeing you have forgotten the law of your God, I will also forget your children.

More than anything I want to worship my God in spirit and truth and I constantly thirst for knowledge that I might know Him better and serve Him faithfully.