Welcome to Breakpoint, a daily look at an ever-changing culture through the lens of unchanging truth.

For the Colson Center, I'm John Stone Street.

A.W. Tozer once said that what comes into our minds when we think about God is the most important thing about us.

Not all beliefs are equally important, and not all ideas are equally consequential.

But what we think about God, well, that's as important and and not all ideas are equally consequential. But what we think about God,

well, that's as important and as consequential as it gets. Toser's books, the knowledge of the holy and the pursuit of God, are in a line of essential reading about who God is. Others include

J.I. Packers' knowing God, Chuck Colson's loving God, the Bible, of course, and most recently, Thaddeus Williams' book, Revereing God.

Williams is a professor at Biola University. He wants believers to get God right. So I asked Thaddeus Williams to describe why, how we think about God is so very important.

Here's Dr. Thaddeus Williams. I commence every class I teach with the same two words, greetings, theologians. Though there are film, business, science,

majors, and more in the chairs, I greet all of them as theologians. It's not a gimmick. I want

every student to have a deep sense of something

R.C. Sprole love to say, and that is, everyone is a theologian. Now, of course, not everyone will

sport a tweed coat with elbow patches or cite Augustine in Latin, but however you earn a paycheck,

or whether you can say theanthropos 10 times fast,

if you seek to better understand your maker, then you too are a theologian. In fact, the issues we

tend to think about as cultural or political issues, abortion, racism, religious freedom,

transgender ideology, and so on, are at the deepest level

theological issues. And whether we think true thoughts about God will have everything to do

with whether we can see the issues of our day clearly, or whether we're blinded by the

deceptions and propaganda of our age. So how are we doing, theologically?

Nearly a century ago, A.W. Pink lamented,

how different is the God of the Bible from the God of modern Christendom,

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