Jen Wilkin and J. T. English have given you an invitation. They want you to know and love God well.

Sounds good, right? It’s hard to imagine any of us turning down that offer.

There’s just one catch. You need to become a theologian.

Uh oh.

But you can do it. You were built for it! That’s their theme in a new book, You Are a Theologian (B&H). They’re bringing theology to the masses, something they’ve been doing together for many years.

This paragraph sums up their work in You Are a Theologian:

Theology is not done exclusively or even primarily in the classroom. It is done in everyday life, every minute of every day. We are doing theology when we preach, pray, and sing, but we are also doing theology when we go to work, when we take a vacation, as we care for an aging parent, as we fight sin, as we raise kids, as we mourn the loss of a loved one, as we spend our money, and as we grow old. You are a theologian, and you are always doing theology.

They deliver on the premise in this book that I think works well in Sunday schools, youth groups, college discipleship, leader training, and more. I talked with them on Gospelbound about misunderstood doctrines, favorite doctrines, favorite theologians, theological training in the church, men and women working together in the church, and more. Stick around to the end for Jen’s favorite story of how I embarrassed her at the annual meeting of the Evangelical Theological Society.