Why Is Theology Important?

Excerpts from Why Is Theology Important? by Bert Waggoner, National Director of Vineyard USA

Why is this discipline important? I could list many reasons, but here are my top ten reasons:

1. Theology provides us with the answers to life’s questions regarding meaning in life: "Who am I?", "What am I doing here?", and "Where am I going?”

2. Theology tells us not just what the Bible says, but also what it means....

3. Theology helps us recognize God not simply in life's boundary situations, but in the center of every situation.

4. Theology is vital to Spirituality...

5. Theology makes us more or less articulate our experience of God's multifaceted grace. God does not wait until we have knowledge before giving us grace. We learn to articulate His grace in theology.

6. Theology puts wonder in worship (Hebrews 12:28-29)

7. Theology plays a strategic prophetic role in the Church....

8. Theology makes all practical things really practical because its primary concern is not with theory or speculation....

9. Theology makes preaching as difficult as it ought to be....

10. Theology makes praying as easy as it ought to be.