Some ideas never go away. They just circle around and attack from a new direction. One of those is the idea that theology is only for the specialists, the academics, those privileged few who have enough leisure time that they can sit around drinking coffee all day arguing about things that don’t really matter. Everyone else is too busy doing the real work of ministry to bother with such arcane issues. Focused on the pressing realities of everyday life, they don’t have time to hide behind a book.
On this view, ministry is a little like surgery. There’s a person dying on the table, and you have to get to wor...
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