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How Do I Know if I’m Really Hearing From God?

If God is really always present and at work, and salvation is participating in the divine life God shares with us, we can assume we are meant to live lives of constant communion with God. As Dallas Willard put it, we can cultivate a “conversational relationship with God.”

This is wonderful news, but one of the first issues that comes up for people who seek this kind of relationship with God is the question: “How do I know if I’m really hearing from God?”

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On Cultivating a Habit of Daily Prayer

One of our axioms at Gravity Leadership is that whatever God does THROUGH you he also does IN you.

There is a holistic and organic connection between your work as a leader and the health and growth of your own soul. You can’t lead others through skill alone, in other words. To open space for others to encounter God’s transforming presence we must be open to that presence ourselves.

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4 Kinds of Sermons That Will Cripple Discipleship

“Why do I spend all this time on these sermons if people forget almost everything I say by the time they’re halfway home?!? Sermons are so ineffective!”

Jared was a little worked up. He’s a pastor, and he was realizing that what he put the most ministry effort into (his sermons) was bearing very little tangible fruit in the lives of the people of his congregation.

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How (Not) to Use Technology in Church

A couple summers ago, Mark Zuckerberg suggested that Facebook could replace the church. He argued that his technology platform could create a sense of community the face of falling church membership.

Christian leaders, predictably, objected to this idea, but Skye Jethani responded to the hulabaloo with a thread of messages on Twitter that highlight a subtle problem with these objections: much of the church is just as enamored with the “dis-incarnation” of technology as Zuckerberg is.

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