About this episode

The episode discusses the importance of forming a relationship with Jesus Christ and explores concepts from Building Bounce Chapter Eight, including listening prayer and discernment.

"Christianity is not a religion. It's a relationship." What does this adage actually mean? John 15 gives a picture of this when Jesus describes our relationship to Him as branches attached to a vine. Relationships are attachments. Christianity is about forming an attachment with Jesus Christ, then spending the rest of our lives walking deeper with Him. And if we want to be relationally engaged with God, it makes sense that we'd want to know and cooperate with how He designed us to function relationally. In this On the Trail episode, we discuss Building Bounce Chapter Eight: Connecting with God , where we talk about our faith being in God not the process, listening prayer, discernment, and lifestyle. We also unpack the V.C.R. tool (Validate, Comfort, Recover). This episode wraps up our Building Bounce book study. Next week we're asking the question, "Is Spiritual Warfare optional?" with a two-part prequel series before launching our next book study: What Every Believer Should Know About Spiritual Warfare! Thank you for joining us – father-daughter duo Marcus Warner and Stephanie Warner – on the trail to a deeper walk with God! 🎁 FREE DISCUSSION GUIDE…

People in this episode

Hosts: Marcus Warner, Stephanie Warner

Topics covered

• relationship with God
• listening prayer
• discernment
• faith
• Building Bounce
• spiritual warfare

Keywords

• Christianity
• relationship
• God
• faith
• Building Bounce
• spiritual warfare
• listening prayer
• discernment

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Deeper Walk, Bounce Project

Books & works: Building Bounce, John 15

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