What is the Function of Biblical Theology in the Life of the Local Church?
Affects Our Application
- If I have no idea what my wife's favorite flowers are, I will be hard pressed to please her with a bouquet of them when I come home from work. We simply cannot apply what we do not know.
- If we want to live lives that please God in every way, then we must know something of who God is, what He desires from us, how he wants us to walk before Him, and the traits in His character that He delights to see reproduced in us.
- Biblical theology therefore functions in the local church to notify pastor and parishioner alike of how we can please God in our behavior by showing us His character and ways writ large on the canvas of redemption.
