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Charles Haddon Spurgeon:
"If there is any doctrine too difficult for a child, the fault is the teacher’s conception of it rather than the child’s ability to receive it, provided the child is really converted to God. Our responsibility is to make doctrine simple; this is a main part of our work."

Dallas Willard:
"One of the greatest weaknesses in our teaching and leadership today is that we spend so much time trying to get people to do things good people are supposed to do, without changing what they really believe... We frankly need to do much less of managing of action, and especially with young people. We need to concentrate on changing the minds of those we would reach and serve. What they do will certainly follow, as Jesus well understood and taught... When we bring people to believe differently, they really do become different.”

Sam Luce:
"...Barna says that by age thirteen, your worldview is pretty much baked in. Most people will die believing what they believe by the time they reach their teens. This means the work must be done in homes and churches to form our kids’ theological understanding while they are young."

Hunter Williams:
"We can't teach kids kitty-cat theology and expect them to have lion-like resolve... People cannot live beyond their perception of God. If we present them with a lackluster view of God when they are young, they will lead lackluster lives for Christ as they grow older."

Charles Haddon Spurgeon:
"If the Lord will but help us to teach the children, we shall be teaching ourselves. There is no way of learning like teaching–and you do not know a thing till you can teach it to another. You do not thoroughly know any Truth of God till you can put it before a child so that he can see it. In trying to make a little child understand the Doctrine of the Atonement you will get clearer views of it yourselves and, therefore, I commend the holy exercise to you."

John W. Tweeddale:
"Theology is the pursuit of the mind of God as it is revealed in Scripture. Its primary purpose is to know God. Theology is important because what you believe about God transforms your mind, shapes your heart, informs your will, changes your behavior, and fuels your worship. In other words, what we believe about God matters. If we want to be better students and employees, sons and daughters, husbands and wives, moms and dads, then we need to strive to be better theologians."

R.C.Sproul:
"No Christian can avoid theology. Every Christian is a theologian. Perhaps not a theologian in the technical or professional sense, but a theologian nevertheless. The issue for Christians is not whether we are going to be theologians but whether we are going to be good theologians."

J. I. Packer:
"As I often tell my students, theology is for doxology and devotion—that is, the praise of God and the practice of godliness. It should therefore be presented in a way that brings awareness of the divine presence. Theology is at its healthiest when it is consciously under the eye of the God of whom it speaks, and when it is singing to his glory."

C.S. Lewis:
"Theology is like a map... based on the experience of hundreds of people who really were in touch with God. In other words, Theology is practical: especially now. In the old days, when there was less education and discussion, perhaps it was possible to get on with a very few simple ideas about God. But it is not so now. Everyone reads, everyone hears things discussed. Consequently, if you do not listen to Theology, that will not mean that you have no ideas about God. It will mean that you have a lot of wrong ones—bad, muddled, out-of-date ideas."

A.W. Tozer:
“Theological knowledge is the medium through which the Spirit flows into the human heart.”

Wayne Grudem:
"Systematic theology is any study that answers the question, ‘What does the whole Bible teach us today?’"

A.W. Tozer:
"What comes into our minds when we think about God is the most important thing about us."

Dorothy L. Sayers:
“Official Christianity, of late years, has been having what is known as a bad press. We are constantly assured that the churches are empty because preachers insist too much upon doctrine—dull dogma as people call it. The fact is the precise opposite. It is the neglect of dogma that makes for dullness. The Christian faith is the most exciting drama that ever staggered the imagination of man—and the dogma is the drama.”

J.T. English and Jen Wilkin:
"What is theology? Words about God.
Who does theology? Everybody.
What does theology do? It organizes biblical truths.
Why does theology matter? Because living well matters.
Simply put, theology is part of a life well lived.
Theology helps us live all of life well. "

C.S. Lewis:
"For my own part, I tend to find the doctrinal books often more helpful in devotion than the devotional books, and I rather suspect that the same experience may await others. I believe that many who find that ‘nothing happens’ when they sit down, or kneel down, to a book of devotion, would find that the heart sings unbidden while they are working their way through a tough bit of theology with a pipe in their teeth and a pencil in their hand.

Wayne Grudem:
"I do not believe that God intended the study of theology to be dry and boring."