Spiritual Life Basics
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Lesson OneBeginning the Spiritual Life9 Activities|1 Assessment
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Lesson TwoMaking God and His Word a Priority8 Activities|1 Assessment
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Lesson ThreeLearning to Pray8 Activities|1 Assessment
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Lesson FourConnecting in the Church8 Activities|1 Assessment
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Lesson FiveSharing the Good News of Christ7 Activities|1 Assessment
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Course Wrap-UpCourse Completion2 Activities
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Explain how Bible study, fellowship, and prayer can be called different forms of spiritual communication.
Callie Estes replied 10 hours, 8 minutes ago 537 Members · 552 Replies
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All are different. The Bible is God’s word, fellowship is communication with other believers, and prayer is communicating and listening to God.
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God reveals Himself to us through His word, His living, active and true Word. We can be encouraged by others by what God is doing in their lives and teaching them as we walk side by side continuing to grow individually and grow the Kingdom. And then prayer is our mode of communication with God. All are direct ways to see, hear, experience God, but all are still different in the patterns in which they occur.
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God has revealed Himself to us through His Word and speaks to us through it. We speak to God through prayer. And through fellowship we are engaging with other believers who are also united with the Father through faith in Christ– allowing believers to fellowship together with Christ as Mediator.
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The Bible His God’s word. This is one way in which he communicates to us. His Word tells us His plans for us and how we are to worship Him and live with others.
Fellowship is how we show God’s love towards each other.
Prayer is how we communicate with God. -
God has revealed himself to us through His word. So, through Bible study we get to know God more and because his word is alive and active, we are transformed by his word. We know God has communicated about himself to us through his word, so reading the word is like “hearing” from God.
Fellowship can be called a form of spiritual communication because as we are in community with other believers, we are sharpened, encouraged, rebuked, corrected, etc., according to the word of God. So in this case, it’s like God uses others to communicate his will and desires to us. He uses other believers to point us back to himself.
Prayer can be called a form of spiritual communication because prayer is talking with God. So in prayer we are communicating with our Father in heaven.