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Explain how Bible study, fellowship, and prayer can be called different forms of spiritual communication.
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Bible study is reading God’s Word in a group and learning from others what God says to them and sharing what God says to me. Then learning historical facts that often bring clarity. It’s a fascinating way to allow God to communicate with us.
Fellowship is gathering with others, sharing testimony, listening to testimony and helping each other through what we’ve learned and experienced. It’s communication with God’s church.
Prayer is an intimate communication directly with God that strengthens my relationship with Him.
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Through Bible study, fellowship and prayer we communicate with God and our fellow sisters and brothers how to love, move, learn and survive in Christ.
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God desires to speak to us, and us to Him, and as we read His word we begin to hear His voice in the bible if we are truly seeking to know Him. As we share His truth to other believers, we encourage and speak His truth to them and we build other believers up allowing God to speak through us. In the same way we are built up in Gods truth by other believers. Finally, we are expected to share this truth of who God is to those who have not yet heard, and to share about Jesus and how He paid for us to be forgiven and brought back into a relationship with God. We were meant to communicate with God and people in His truth, its how He made us and in this we find joy and become more like Jesus
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Bible study is listening to God by reading his word. Sometimes reading his word is better when you do it in a community of believers so that we can help one another understand his Word. Fellowship is spending time with other believers – worshipping God together, learning Christ-likeness together, encouraging and praying for one another. And prayer is how we communicate with God.
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Bible study is learning what God says to us about Himself, the world, and our place in it. Fellowship helps us to enjoy loving relationships in the Lord and to refine each other, allowing God to speak into and through those relationships. Prayer is direct communication with the Father.