Theology Is Not Just for Scholars I did not grow up wanting to be a theologian. I grew up wanting to know God. That is different. The word "theology" scared me. It sounded like something for men in dusty libraries. Men with spectacles and long words. Men who argued about things that did not matter to the rest of us. But then I started reading the Bible more seriously. And I realized something. Every Christian is a theologian. Every person who thinks about God is doing theology. The question is not whether you do theology. The question is whether you do it well. That is why I wrote this handbook. The Problem with How We Learn Theology Most Christians learn theology by accident. We pick up a verse here. A sermon there. A song lyric that stuck in our heads. A conversation with a friend. We build our understanding of God from scattered pieces. And sometimes those pieces do not fit together. I remember a woman in my church named Mama Bose. She had been a Christian for forty years....