4.8 • 4.2K Ratings
🗓️ 25 October 2024
⏱️ 28 minutes
🧾️ Download transcript
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.
If you've listened to any of our podcasts, please give us your feedback.
Click on a timestamp to play from that location
0:00.0 | The more his presence is dynamic and filling and affirming and we want more of it. |
0:09.6 | You get a taste of God and you want more of God. You get too busy and distracted, you start to get by with just a little bit of God. |
0:18.0 | And that's not too far from stopping up the well together and then it becomes an obligation and you're not really getting hardly anything. |
0:25.9 | That's a profound observation from Gary Thomas. He's our guest again today on focus on the family with Jim Daly |
0:34.5 | helping us explore how we connect with God, how we can get to know God better. I'm John Fuller and |
0:40.0 | thanks for joining us. John it's always great to have Gary in the studio. |
0:43.4 | He's, I'm going to puff you up a little bit. |
0:45.2 | He's brilliant. |
0:46.2 | He's a great communicator and that is all true. |
0:49.2 | Normally I go home, like tonight I'll go home and say to Jean, have got this great idea, this |
0:53.7 | assessment of nine ways to worship the Lord. Maybe we should take that and she'll |
0:57.8 | say, who'd you tape with today? She's got that down, it's wonderful. So I'm looking forward to learning more. If you didn't |
1:04.8 | hear last time's program, go to the YouTube channel or you can get a download from |
1:08.8 | focus on the family.com. That's a great way to do it. Or the app is another good way to do it so you can hear the program from last time. |
1:16.0 | We're going to continue today with Gary and talk about this idea of sacred pathways, nine ways to connect with God. |
1:22.0 | We kind of joke last time that you know this is why |
1:24.9 | denominations exist because we get into a more dogmatic approach to the way we |
1:30.3 | worship and commune with the Lord when the Lord creates us to commune with the Lord. When the Lord creates us, to commune with him |
1:34.4 | in a variety of ways. |
1:35.8 | I mean, it'd be pretty boring as the Creator |
1:37.9 | to create one temperament, one style. |
1:40.2 | So the Lord, like a bouquet of flowers, |
... |
Please login to see the full transcript.
Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Focus on the Family, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.
Generated transcripts are the property of Focus on the Family and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.
Copyright © Tapesearch 2025.