Life Journal
The Life Journal is how we are learning to hear God speak through his word each day. Part of the Life Journal is a Bible reading plan, but it’s way more than a reading plan. Inside the pages of your Life Journal are a method that can help you hear God speak to you through His Word.
We believe so much in the power of learning to hear God speak through his word, we want to give you one free! You can pick one up in the lobby on any Sunday, or you can request one below.
Underneath this is the conviction that God still speaks today. He didn’t stop when he stopped writing the Bible, he still speaks. The primary way God speaks to you is through the word. The Holy Spirit is promised to guide you in all truth, and as you read the word that’s what he does.
I believe God uses preachers and podcasts, but you’re getting it second hand when you get it from someone else. And that’s ok as a part of your spiritual diet, but that’s not ok if that’s all you get. You need to learn to feed yourself on the word.
Frequently Asked Questions
It’s okay. Don’t be ashamed. Everybody struggles at times to understand what they’re reading. The important thing to ask: “is Jesus transforming me from the inside out?”
Jesus said the goal in reading the word is to act on what you do understand. As you do what you do understand, then as you revisit what you don’t understand, you’ll learn more and more by the Holy Spirit.
You can always go back and read or listen to any passages that you miss if you want to do that.
This moves you from simply learning about God to communicating with the person of God. SOAP (the acronym in the Life Journal) reminds us that when you interact with the Bible, it’s not just a book, you are interacting with God himself.