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🗓️ 24 October 2024
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Gary Thomas has identified 9 “pathways” or spiritual temperaments in which we experience God best. Some people who feel most connected to God in nature, others love celebratory worship. And some experience God by caring for others. Gary emphasizes we can learn and grow spiritually from these different temperaments.
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0:00.0 | I would say I feel most connected to God when I'm in community, whether that be at church or in a small group and we're together, focused on him discussing him. |
0:09.0 | So I would say I feel most connected to God when I am outside just observing nature. |
0:16.2 | I feel most connected to God when I'm listening or even singing praise and worship songs. |
0:22.8 | Well, how do you best connect with God? |
0:25.1 | Maybe your faith is inspired by beautiful art |
0:28.2 | or maybe a song like we heard there. |
0:30.6 | Or you love God by serving others or perhaps you find great meaning and |
0:35.4 | strength through church and spiritual traditions. We're going to explore all of |
0:40.0 | these and more today on Focus on the Family with Jim Daly. I'm John Fuller and |
0:44.8 | Jim I wonder what happens when you take diverse people who experience God in |
0:48.6 | all sorts of different ways and put them together in a room, the quiet devotional ones and then the loud rejoicing ones. |
0:56.3 | Yes, I think you end up with 60,000 denominations, right? |
1:00.5 | That's kind of what happens with that. |
1:02.0 | But it is interesting that we do kind of have different temperaments that bend us in a different direction, |
1:07.5 | maybe where we're comfortable, and in our worship and our connection with God. |
1:12.0 | And we do, we do get kind of |
1:13.9 | dogmatic about the way it should be done and you just think of the way |
1:17.5 | marriage works you know we tend to marry opposites you know gene is an |
1:21.7 | introvert scientist I'm more a marketing guy on the extrovert scale and it's true of our |
1:27.4 | worship too I could see that so clearly you know she likes really structured worship |
1:31.3 | she wants to go ten minutes this way with song and |
1:34.4 | you know five minutes of prayer and now let's get to the kids devotional. I'm like let's just |
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