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Summary: This was the start of great spiritual journey
Review: Our church did this study as a body. It was the most eye opening experience of my life. I could hardly wait to move ahead to the next days studies. Shortly after beginning this study, I began hearing and sensing the leading of the Lord--nothing compares to it! We serve and awesome God!
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Summary: A great book
Review: I heard about Henry Blackaby on the radio, so I thought that I'd give it a shot. This book does not contain formulas, nor is it touchy-feely like so many books today. Mr. Blackaby uses biblical examples to show you how and why God communicates with you. I'm buying two copies to give away. It is one of the best books that I have ever read!
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Summary: He that has ears to hear, let him hear
Review: Next to the Bible, this is the only other book that has really challenged me to look closer at my relationship with God. I also used this book to conduct studies with new and old Christians. I have never seen such awesome results.
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Summary: Practical Revelations about a Personal Relationship with God
Review: This book is the only book I have ever read (other than the Bible) that has allowed me to understand how to have a meaningful and personal relationship with God and to know His will in my life. Obedience, submit and trust are not my favorite words as a Christian, but the author sets forth in a straight forward approach the way to know God, see His will in your life, trust Him and react based upon that trust. This should be recommended reading for every member of the clergy so they would be better prepared to help their church members develop a personal relationship with God. The reader will find that if this book is read, studied and the roadmap set forth in this book followed, it will be a life-changing experience. It was for me.
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Summary: Experiencing God
Review: Simply awesome. Praise be to our Lord Jesus Christ for the gift given to the authors to write such a helpful tool. Our Church is using this workbook to know our God in a deeper, personal way.
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Summary: To know Him!
Review: I started the study of "Experiencing God" for one reason and that was to know Him. I really can't put into words what this study has meant to me. The workbook was a help to me because I need "baby" steps. Some do not and the study goes at whatever pace you need. The small group study helped me see God working through others to teach me. You learn so much about His love. I recommend this workbook in a small group study for anyone. Whether you are spiritually mature or are just starting your journey as a follower of Christ.
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Summary: A Journey of Discovery
Review: 13 years ago when I became a christian, it was a profession of faith in Jesus Christ that began the journey. This bible study leads to a deeper understanding on how to "do the will of God". This study will take you to places you have not thought of, and to places that many would rather not really go. This is the study that changed my life in my walk with God. It took me from convert to disciple. You will not regret this purchase.
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Summary: Draw near to god and He will draw near to you
Review: I came to the workbook expecting yet another attempt to rejuvinate my love for God and found a relationship deeper than I've ever known. A follower of Christ for 15 years, both devoted and devout, I was beginning to think that going through the motions was as good as it was going to get. Henry Blackaby's Experiencing God and follow up study, When God Speaks have transformed my relationship. It is NOT profound. It is filled with many truths I've long known about God but I have never been so challenged in my journey as I am now. I thank God for the opportunity to have an active relationship with Him and will be forever grateful for Blackaby's writings that have so encouraged me. I continue to struggle with many of life's questions, but no longer seek to explain them away with religion. Instead, I know who I am and I know who God is and will continue to seek and continue to find. Relationship is fragile and too often we "christians" think we have one when we don't. Drawing nearer to God with Blackaby's help has saved me from my worst sin, pride. God has used Henry Blackaby to remind me that apart from Him I can do nothing of eternal importance.(John 15:5). (Incidentally, I finished the studies over one year ago)
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Summary: Experiencing God promotes immaturity
Review: The key idea of the book is that we can play an active role in the outworkings of God's plan by seeking his will on a regular basis. Perhaps the most common way of discovering his will regarding a situation is to pray about it, then wait for some kind of feeling from God. Blackaby considers such feelings a sort of revelation, even though they, unlike genuine revelation such as the Scriptures, would seem to lack propositional content.I wouldn't recommend this book to anyone, not even to people I don't like. Most reviewers of the book point out that it is "thoroughly biblical," or something of that sort, but in fact the book is not as much in line with the teaching of the Bible as it is with what most Christians mistakenly perceive to be the biblical view (hence its popularity). Here is just one example. Blackaby would no doubt counsel us to pray for God's will when facing an important (or even a mundane) decision in life, such as whether or not to marry a certain person, and then to wait for some sort of response from God. This is precisely the view that most evangelical Christians hold (myself excluded). But in 1 Corinthians 7, Paul addresses the same question and gives quite a different piece of advice. In essence, he says that if it would make you happy to marry person X, then do it; either way you will not be sinning. One thing that strikes me about this passage is that if Blackaby's view is correct, Paul missed the perfect opportunity to explain that before proposing to person X, one should first pray to see whether that is God's will. Granted, this may not be an outright inconsistency (i.e. between the Bible and Blackaby's book), but I think it suggests another way of viewing God's will that is more consonant with those biblical texts that make normative claims, that is, claims about what all Christians everywhere should do. Blackaby's proposal can be thought of as the view that God leads the "mature" believer through life by the hand. Actually I think this picture depicts the believer as immature. The model suggested by passages such as 1 Cor. 7 is that God wants us to learn to make decisions for ourselves, decisions that are informed by the revelation he has given us in Scripture, but not dictated to us by him. I think this sort of approach to decision making, though not as easy to put into practice as Blackaby's, represents a true sign of spiritual maturity.
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Summary: THE TRUTH
Review: This book is Bible-based. It speaks truth. Those who are not ready to hear the truth won't like it. Those who are "ripe" for the harvest will relish every chapter.
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