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Explain how Bible study, fellowship, and prayer can be called different forms of spiritual communication.
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Yes, I’ve committed my life to God.
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God wrote the Bible, it is His letter to us. Anything He tells us will be in line with what the Bible says, so we need to know it well in order to discern if we are hearing Him, ourselves, or Satan speaking to our thoughts. Fellowshipping with other Bible-believing Christians will also help us to discern as they may have studied parts of the Bible that we have not yet studied and God will also speak to us through them. Prayer isn’t just speaking to God, it is also sitting in silence listening for His response, that’s often the hard part, sitting in silence in a world (and brain) filled with distractions.
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I love the phrase “His letter to us.” We don’t often write letters anymore, and so we often lose a special communication that comes through a letter vs an email.
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Yes, letters bring an excitement and anticipation that just isn’t there with an email.
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When we engage in Bible Study, we have God’s written words to us, which helps us to learn more about him, and the study of his word also lets us know how to become more of who God created us to be. When we fellowship one with another, this is an opportunity to hear different views, and also communicate our views on a subject matter. We learn from each other. Prayer is simply talking to God; having an honest, vulnerable conversation with him, but it is also listening to God.
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They all involve relating to/communicating with God.
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Bible study is the Word of God which is alive and changes our lives as we read it. Fellowship with other believers encourages one another. Prayer is in direct fellowship with God and declaring our need for Him.