-
Explain how Bible study, fellowship, and prayer can be called different forms of spiritual communication.
-
Bible study is God’s way of speaking to us. Fellowship is our way of learning from and growing with other believers. Prayer is our way of communicating to God. All three are important and all three interact and feed into each other.
-
Each has their own format and relationship(s). Bible study is about getting in the word, studying what God wrote and seeking the direction of mentors, teachers, and scholars. It’s the nuts and bolts and is an ongoing responsibility. It’s how God communicates to you through others. Fellowship is friendship and interaction with other children of God…for me it’s where I draw a lot of energy. The warmth of Children’s’ smiles, the hugs and handshakes, and the witness of other people’s tremendous devotion to God. Finally prayer…it’s very personal. It can be disciplined and formal or very random and conversational. It can be during a quiet time or during the day’s events. It’s my spiritual umbilical cord to Jesus…I’m never alone, comm is always up!
-
We can hear from God through His word in the Bible, we can hear from fellow believers who are walking with Christ as we have fellowship with them and they speak into our lives, and we can hear from the Holy Spirit as we pray to God and we listen.
-
They are each a form of communication either between God and the believer or the believer and other people. This communication is of a spiritual nature.
-
All of them show different prospectives of the spiritual life. In God’s word he’s communicating with his own words & character, in fellowship he’s communicating through his creation of man, & in prayer we are directly communicating to God through & with both of the previous things.