Fresh Wind, Fresh Fire: prayer is proportional to belief that God is good
Addressed by name, Mike says the book Fresh Wind, Fresh Fire moved him: a church that took emphasis off the Sunday service and put it on the Tuesday night prayer circle (a missionary's line — Sunday morning attendance attests to the popularity of your worship, Sunday night to your preacher, Tuesday prayer circle to Jesus). Prayer life, he says, is proportional to how much you believe God is good and can be trusted; he realized he had never even asked God what songs he wanted for worship. Ben (named by the others when they mock his analogy) adds that knowledge about God can't be the whole expression of faith, and tries a Tom Cruise gas-station analogy — you'd be crushed to learn God was working in your house and you missed it — which the others roast as unrelatable.
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'When God is silent': what counts as hearing from the Lord?
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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
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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.