Wait for the Lightning: A Sneak Peek

Chapter 1: Just so you know

I don’t do systematic theology very well.

Systematic theology is where you create a more-or-less eternal statement about (to borrow a phrase from Doug Adams’ Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy) life, the universe, and everything. The nature of God. The condition of humanity. What, in fact, is reality?

A million years ago when I was in seminary we spent a great deal of time studying systematic theology. We dissected and analyzed reality to make it fit someone’s system of th...