- What is your favorite way to connect with God?
Ben asks each person their favorite way to connect with God. Jake: two solitary hours in the woods at Hidden Acres with a prayer packet. Mike: singing ‘working songs’ — he once sang Rend Collective's ‘Yahweh’ through a stomach-churning Minneapolis train ride, the song itself becoming an Ebenezer. Dan: the low-lit prayer room, or singing with the church. Boova: a pew in Penn Hills, Pennsylvania, where he realized worship is about who he's speaking to, not who he's with. Ben: hearing children sing worship tunes, and reading the creation story back to God in second person. Dan closes with two stories — souring on nursing-home hymns until he recognized genuine worship (‘you got Zimbabweed’), and a shaky phone video of the new Zimbabwe church singing ‘the presence of the Lord is here.’ Boova notes they've spent the last stretch doing exactly what they prescribed: remembering what God has done.
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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
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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.