I love theology. I really do...and I'm a girl. Strange, huh? Most women I know do not have the same sentiment. When I express my heart in this area I am most often met with these kinds of comments:
"Theology? That's way too hard for me! I'm just not that smart."
"That's nice but I don't need all that high and lofty stuff, I just need something practical to get me through the day."
"Who has time? I have laundry, dishes, meals to make and kids to deal with."
"What difference does that really make? I just read the Bible and try to get something out of it."
As I have walked with women through life I have come to the conclusion that too often we sell ourselves short. We've allowed theology to become a man's world and thus there are few women studying scripture, reading church history and having doctrinal dialogues from a woman's perspective. God has created us to function differently then men so don't we have something to offer to the church as His daughters? (There is much more to say on this topic but that's for another day.)
Over my next few posts I want to try to show that theology is important and approachable! I'm planning to look at the practicality of theology, the necessity of theology to reading scripture well, the academic nature of theology and the time factor. Please join me. I promise they won't be too academic just a little something to get your brain moving!
I'll be reading! :)
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