Theology doesn’t have to be a bloodsport. It can be a civil and intellectually honest conversation.
However, much of the problem today is that Christians use different conversational styles when they argue theology.
So the disagreement ends up being rooted in semantics rather than substance. And that’s why we have WWE-styled theological smackdowns!
Check out this blog series – which offers a cure for this ill:
Introducing Spiritual Conversational Styles
The Charismatic Spiritual Conversational Style
The Quoter Spiritual Conversational Style
The Pragmatic Spiritual Conversational Style
* This series is excerpted from Revise Us Again which goes into more detail. Endnotes are included in the book but not on the blog posts, because no one likes endnotes in a blog post!