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A twelve-year-old in a hospital waiting room asks why we pray if God already knows what will happen, and every adult in the room answers with theology. Some of it is good, and some of it isn't. In this pilot episode, Michael makes the case that every Christian is already a theologian, so the real question is whether we're good ones. We trace Scripture's call to know God, from the kitchen-table theology of Deuteronomy 6 to Peter's charge to "grow in the grace and knowledge" of Christ. We meet Anselm of Canterbury, who defined theology as faith seeking understanding and wrote it as a prayer, and we find that Thomas Campbell's famous slogan is itself a theological claim. Along the way, we introduce the three lenses this show uses (biblical, historical, and systematic theology) and answer three common objections to doing theology at all. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit start2finish.substack.com