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Christian Living Beginner ✦ 10-Part Series

GROWING CLOSER TO GOD

There is a question I want you to sit with before you turn another page: When is the last time you truly felt close to God? Not just attending a service, not simply going through the motions of daily devotion, but genuinely, deeply, intimately aware of His presence and near to His heart? If that question stirs something uncomfortable in you, then this study is exactly where you need to be.

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✦ Parts in This Series

1
The God Who Draws Near — And the Distance We Have Created
Before we can talk about growing closer to God
✦ James 4:8 20 min
2
The Priority of Prayer — Why Our Prayer Lives Must Change
If you want to measure the true state of your relationship with God
✦ Matthew 6:6 20 min
3
The Living Word — Why the Bible Must Become Your Daily Bread
There is a direct and unbreakable connection between how much of God's Word you are in and how close you feel to God.
✦ 2 Timothy 3:16–17 20 min
4
The Weight of Sin — Why Unconfessed Sin Destroys Closeness With God
There is nothing that creates distance between you and God more effectively, more immediately, and more devastatingly than unconfessed sin.
✦ Isaiah 59:2 20 min
5
Surrender and Obedience — The Path to Genuine Intimacy
There is a version of Christianity that is all knowledge and no surrender. It is the version that can quote Scripture, attend services, participate in small groups, and still live on its own terms.
✦ Luke 9:23 20 min
6
Worship That Goes Deeper — Encountering God Beyond Sunday Morning
If I were to ask most Christians what worship is, they would describe what happens in the first thirty minutes of a church service.
✦ John 4:23–24 20 min
7
The Distractions of This World — Reclaiming What Has Been Stolen
We live in the most distracted generation in human history. The average person picks up their phone dozens of times a day.
✦ 1 John 2:15–17 20 min
8
Community and Accountability — We Were Never Meant to Walk Alone
One of the most common deceptions in the modern Christian life is the idea that your relationship with God is purely personal and private
✦ Hebrews 10:24–25 20 min
9
Trusting God in the Dark — Staying Close When Life Is Hard
Growing closer to God does not happen only in the good seasons.
✦ Romans 8:28 20 min
10
A Life Transformed — Where Growing Closer to God Takes You
We have come a long way together in this study. We have talked honestly about the distance that exists between many Christians and God — a distance created not by God but by us, through neglect, distraction, unconfessed sin, half-hearted surrender,
✦ 2 Corinthians 3:18 20 min

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