It combines some fabulous hearing God stories with rock-solid theology. Michigan: Zondervan, 1998įrom the first time I heard this man speak in my church over twenty years ago I’ve been impressed by his ministry.

Here are my top 5 hearing-God’s-voice books: 1. I encourage you to keep listening to and learning from the journey of others as you seek to know God’s voice in your own life! God’s nature and character is consistent, but his creativity is never-ending and his methods often surprising. One of the best things about reading about the experiences of others is that you begin to recognise the same voice heard through multiple expressions and contexts. These books have some great insights, solid biblical grounding and helpful stories to illustrate how God speaks today. There are also some fabulous books out there that are a less academic but still thoughtful and well-researched which I will share with you here in this post. That one was quite brilliant, but left me with a significant headache as I took some time to process the content! A third book takes you inside a congregation’s hearing God experiences from an anthropological and psychological perspective. One author believed that claims to hearing God’s voice was elitist and fraught with so many dangers that we shouldn’t even contemplate that God speaks today! Another book discussed how God spoke in the first century church – always a great place to start, even when the relatively few records we have in the Scriptures (and outside them) make it challenging to resolve some of the current debates. The literature spans all sorts of viewpoints from the negative to the positive and the pragmatic to the academic. Study at this level involves reading everything that’s available about hearing God experiences in the contemporary church. In 2015 I commenced a Doctor in Ministry focussing on people’s experience in hearing God’s voice (Read about it here: The Wacky, the Frightening and the Spectacular: Researching our Experiences Hearing God’s Voice).

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