DISCOVER GOD’S WAYS
This book explores the six ways we connect to God.
The 6 Ways We Relate to God
Way of Pain
The experience of being out of harmony with God’s loving Presence. It’s the pain others have inflicted on us by not welcoming us into their groups or friendship, and the pain we experience when others purposefully or unconsciously abuse us.
Way of Poverty
The experience of encountering someone or something that is “richer” than you. To experience God is to experience something (Someone!) incomparably “richer” than we are.
Way of Presence
Is part surrender ceremony and part discovery of a new continent you never knew existed. It is learning to deactivate the shields, to surrender and allow God to be present however He wants.
Way of Purity
In the Way of Purity, God uses the Ways of Pain and Poverty like a spade to break up rock-hard ground of our self-grown heart and will so it can finally grow good stuff.
Way of Power
In the Way of Power, you experience God’s own power come through you so that you love others in a way that produces effects way beyond what you would be able to pull off alone. Power comes from being “with” God.
Way of Partnership
God is most interested in setting you free and setting you up to be His Partner. From His first interactions with His human creations, God has always been about making people fit to be His “partners in business.”
MEET BILL GRIFFIN
Bill Griffin
When I was 16 years old, on a backpacking trip just over the hill from Big Sur, California, I composed a poem about the deep desire in my heart to share with others the wild green beauty of the steep forest landscape I was walking through. I wanted others to experience the joy and meaning I was tasting. I didn’t realize how that desire to see others succeed was so central to my own heart and that God would fan that desire into a fire that burns in me still.
