*NOT FINISHED*
A year ago, I started looking at what I called God-Thinking Theology. In part, it was a reaction to reading about efforts to “balance out” works-oriented theology with grace-oriented theology by leaders in the IC0C subculture. It struck me as odd that an unbiblical practice would require balance instead of elimination. It also struck me as strange that by implication, grace also needed to be balanced out. I certainly do not want grace to be “balanced out” for me as I have no righteousness of my own to use as counter-balance. I believe I know what was meant: there was a fear that teaching too much grace would demotivate people from acts of service, love, kindness, etc. Still, the bottom line is a concern about what a person does instead of who a person is.

Imperatives
Since then, I have thought through various things searching for a God-thinking theology. Being a thinker, I naturally gravitated to search for God through theological means. I read various articles and books about the Theological Imperative(TM). In essence, the theological imperative states that problems come in Christianity (and in churches) when proper theology is not stressed enough. I have come across extreme examples denouncing the heresies of using little plastic cups for communion, dancing, and women wearing anything but dresses to church. I’ve read that the theological imperative is needed to “eliminate Arminianism” and the “damnable heresy of baptismal regeneration”.