Whose Job is theology?

What’s amazing about theology is that it’s less about finding answers and more about experience and daily life. If you neglect your theological task and assimilate to someone else’s ideas then it’s never going to be real to you.
I often run theological circles. I begin to bring into question something I’ve always “known” and come out believing the same thing. As I explore and probe my beliefs I’m not actually changing them (sometimes I do) I’m claiming them. Your job in theology is to wrestle. Wrestling is the only sport in the Bible In Genesis 32 Jacob wrestles with God and what happens? Jacob is blessed, he comes out limping but he’s blessed. People who really do theology, limp. When we wrestle with our theology and with scripture we are making it our own and not someone else’s. We will come out limping but we will be blessed.