followers live). In the broadest sense, theology shapes who we are and how we live by helping us to better understand who God is and how we can live together as members of God’s family in this world that God created and loves. Missiologist Andrew Walls offers this insightful summation: Theology springs out of mission; its true origins lie not in the study or the library, but from the need to make Christian decisions—decisions about what to do, and about what to think. Theology is the attempt to think
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