This document discusses various ways that Christians relate to and experience God, including through obedience to God's laws, surrendering control to God, finding purpose in God, and experiencing God's love. It also discusses Jesus praying that Christians would be united with God and each other to spread God's message. The document lists spiritual disciplines like meditation, prayer, fasting and study that Christians can practice to open themselves to worshipping God. Quotes emphasize that a relationship with God is about pursuing God rather than actions, and that the deepest level of connection is wordless communion.

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under
for
at the
co re
from
OTHER WAYS
WE RELATE
TO GOD:
(My life is controlled by God’s Laws)
(God rarely/never influences my life)
(I exist to work for God) (God exists to work for me)

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5. WI TH
love
faith hope
(I am loved by God)
(I surrender and trust God) (I find my purpose in God)

6. 20 “My prayer is not for them alone. I pray also for those who will
believe in me through their message, 21 that all of them may be
one, Father, just as you are in me and I am in you. May they also
be in us so that the world may believe that you have sent me. 22 I
have given them the glory that you gave me, that they may be
one as we are one— 23 I in them and you in me—so that they may
be brought to complete unity. Then the world will know that you
sent me and have loved them even as you have loved me.
John 17

7. 24 “Father, I want those you have given me to be with me where I
am, and to see my glory, the glory you have given me because
you loved me before the creation of the world.”
John 17

8. - a knowledge that perfectly
unites the subject with the object,
that lays stress on participation
in the truth
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9. 17 I keep asking that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the
glorious Father, may give you the Spirit of wisdom and
revelation, so that you may know him better.
Ephesians 1

10. -?
How do we do it?

11. DISCIPLINES ARE
INTENTIONAL
WAYS WE OPEN
SPACE IN OUR
LIVES FOR THE
WORSHIP OF GOD.
Adele Ahlberg Calhoun

12. • Meditation
• Prayer
• Fasting
• Study
• Simplicity
• Solitude
• Service
• Confession
• Worship
• Celebration
SOME COMMON DISCIPLINES:

13. A LIFE WITH GOD IS NOT
MEASURED BY DOING, BUT
WHO YOU’RE PURSUING.

14. Thomas Merton
THE DEEPEST LEVEL OF COMMUNICATION
IS NOT COMMUNICATION BUT
COMMUNION. IT IS WORDLESS. IT IS
BEYOND WORDS, AND BEYOND SPEECH,
AND IT IS BEYOND CONCEPT.

15. THE BREAD AND CUP ARE
ONLY SACRED SYMBOLS
OF THE COMMUNION WE
HAVE WITH JESUS.