Spirit Midwest, Bible camp, and prayer as conversation
- Is prayer a formal practice with a required format, or simply a conversation with God?
The interview continues: Next Crossing plays the Spirit Midwest Festival (Aug 6-7) on the main stage, is recording a demo at Riemann Music in Ames, and discusses sounding somewhere between Creed and 'not Demon Hunter.' The hosts recap their Bible-camp gig (the kids loved the Revelation Song), then pivot to the week's prayer theme: prayer as 'the great equalizer,' just a conversation with God stripped of formulas. One guest shares being raised LDS — with its address-thank-ask-close prayer format — and contrasts it with the relational prayer he found after coming to faith in December 2005. A host jokes about half-running funny thoughts by God in the car and then wondering if they're offensive.
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'When God is silent': what counts as hearing from the Lord?
- What does it mean to 'hear from the Lord,' and how often should we expect it?
Mike brings a question from his Bible study, whose paragraph heading was 'when God is silent': the author wrote that he experienced God's silence for a couple of weeks and freaked out, and Ben expected a relatable years-long drought story — 'Oh, two weeks.
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'What would I fight God on?': buildings, pews, and the zero-fruit youth group
- What would I fight God on — and would my heart go along with following him?
Ben shares what he ran into in the last couple weeks: 'what would I fight God on even if I knew it was him?'
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Is modern Christianity biased toward a personality type?
- Is modern Christianity (its sermons and worship music) biased toward a certain personality type?
A host asks whether what churches teach, focus on, and sing is biased toward a certain personality type — prompted by emotive worship lyrics (the 'sloppy wet kiss' line in a…
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Should following Jesus feel more comfortable as time goes on?
- Should following Jesus feel more comfortable as time goes on?
A host asks whether following Jesus should feel more comfortable as time goes on — noting the low-level tension many feel around am-I-doing-enough and the stigma that contentment equals laziness.