In this month's episode of Echo Zoe Radio, Bob DeWaay of Twin City Fellowship Church in St. Louis Park, MN joins me as co-host. Our guest is Pastor Gary Gilley of Southern View Chapel in Springfield, Illinois. The topic of the discussion is “Hearing from God”.
A popular teaching in Evangelical Christianity says that God has a plan (or a will) for us in our individual lives. Some say the level of detail of that plan is limited to major decisions in life such as who to marry, what career to pursue, where to go to college, etc. Others believe that even the minor decisions are planned out by God, such as: what kind of tooth paste to buy, what route to take to work, or how to style your hair. However, most agree that we as Christians need to seek Gods will in that plan, and can hear God speak to us in this regard by way of inner promptings, subjective signs, having a peace about a decision, or other subjective means. Pastors DeWaay and Gilley disagree with this “Popular View” (as Pastor Gilley calls it). After holding a conference about the importance of the Reformation doctrine of Sola Scriptura, I had the privilege of sitting down with them to discuss the topic. We talked about where the view stems from, why they disagree with it, and what the scriptural arguments are for both sides of the view.
In the course of the discussion, Pastor Gilley explains the importance of practicing sound Biblical hermeneutics. Pastor DeWaay recommends a course taught at Twin City Fellowship on hermeneutics by Ryan Habbena, available for free at their website.
For more on the subject, Gary Gilley has written a book called “Is That You Lord?: Hearing the voice of the Lord, A Biblical Perspective,†which is available at his church’s online bookstore.
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It’s been a while since I’ve been here and seen you around. You’ve got some substantive, high quality stuff here, EZ. I remember you from before you even had the Morning and Evening Devotionals up here, and iirc, it was just one of those regular blogs out there. Now, you’ve gotten even better. I bookmarked this site now. 🙂
I’ll listen to this podcast later! May God bless you!
Oh, one more thing. EZ – Crystal Lake Observatory is no longer in business. I have no idea who or what that “Living Free in the World” is, but it’s not mine. I stopped blogging a long time ago.
Thanks Sarah! It’s nice to hear from you again, I think the last time we kept up with each other was about 2004?
Sorry I missed your post until now, I just got back from a week in the Caribbean 🙂
This site has always been more of a hobby than anything else, and life is a lot busier than it was back in those days, so I don’t post very often. However, the podcast is a new thing, and I work hard to stick to my one episode per month goal (any more than that would be very hard to keep up with).
Thanks for the update on the link too. Do you have another blog at a different address? If so I would be glad to link to it again.
Nope! I have no other blog. You have a good one there! And hey, good to hear you had some fun in the sun!