Do we really need to study theology? Is it really necessary to spend all this time in Sunday school working our way through a systematic understanding of the Trinity? Isn't this just an exercise in empty religion and cold academic thought? Why does doctrine or theology matter?

"There is a direct line that runs from our doctrine to our actions, from what is in our minds to what is in our words and ways… The heart spills over into life. Thoughts of God, and of all else, erupt into acts. The filling of the heart with wise thoughts of God becomes the most important, the most practical, business in the world."

- Tom Wells

"Questions of who God is and of what He is like can never be considered irrelevant to the practical matters of church life. Different understandings of God will lead you to worship Him in different ways, and if some of those understandings are wrong, some of those ways in which you approach Him could be wrong as well."

- Mark Dever

"The ultimate goal of theology is not knowledge, but worship. If our learning and knowledge of God do not lead to the joyful praise of God, we have failed. We learn only that we might laud. Another way of putting it is to say that theology without doxology is idolatry. The only theology worth studying is a theology that can be sung."

- Sam Storms

"...grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ."

- 2 Peter 3:18

"...walk in a manner worthy of the Lord, fully pleasing to him, bearing fruit in every good work and increasing in the knowledge of God."

- Col 1:10

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