4 questions

A thorough way to do theology and counseling is to walk through these four questions in the current order:

1.  Who is God? 
2.  What has He done? <--Relational identity -->
3.  Who are we? (Who has God made the Church to be?)  <--Functional identity -->
4.  What do we do? (What has God saved and created the Church to do?)

This is the exact opposite of what we normally do - normally we find our identity based on what we do, assume God interacts with us based on who we are and what we do, and therefore see God's identity based on what he does, who we are, and what we do.  That's crazy!  Real theology and counseling should go about it the other way. (Not rocket science, obviously this shouldn't be surprising.)

(also from Soma School training)