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Summary: Looking for a book that will change your life?
Review: This one is it! Next to the Bible, this is the greatest book that I have ever read. This book helps the reader return the the real focus of the Christian Life, experiencing a relationship with Almighty God, learning to hear His voice through the Holy Spirit and learning to recognize the difference between God's voice and our own selfish will. This book is POWERFUL, LIFE-CHANGING, and FULL OF DEEP SPIRITUAL TRUTH! I have seen this book change the direction of several churches and bring REAL revival to the personal lives of many people.
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Summary: Great
Review: This is a great resource for expanding your spiritual work and growth in Christ. It brings a refreshing perspective on our duties in spiritual growth as well as that of God's
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Summary: Excellent Christian workbook for group or self Bible study
Review: An excellent workbook for Christians who
want to know God's will. The study will also help you find out the purpose of your life.
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Summary: The Best Way to Know and Do the Will of God
Review: I used this book a year ago with a group of four other men in my church. At the onset, we thought that the best way to start our group was to find God's will for our lives. By the end of the 13 week study, 2 of us were in different states serving the Lord, and another one stepped up as a ministry leader.
Blackaby is a great author. His organization and step-by-step guides make it very easy to follow along.
I am so excited that I am ordering 2 more books as my wife and I are going to begin reading it again!
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Summary: Developing Our Relationship With God
Review: Henry Blackaby is very motivational as a speaker, enlightening as an author and obviously walking in God's truth. This is a workbook based upon Blackaby's bestselling book "Experiencing God." Both the book and workbook are excellent works! This workbook is well written and easy to use in a group setting. The questions are deep and probing to make us open our eyes. Our God wants a relationship with us. He wants us to hear Him and to obey Him. This workbook opens our eyes and ears to Him in many thought-provoking ways. Let's start deepening and developing our relationship with God, listening for His voice and obeying Him, this workbook is one step to help.John 10:27-30 27 "My sheep hear My voice, and I know them, and they follow Me; 28 and I give eternal life to them, and they shall never perish; and no one shall snatch them out of My hand. 29 "My Father, who has given {them} to Me, is greater than all; and no one is able to snatch {them} out of the Father's hand. 30 "I and the Father are one." NAS)
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Summary: EXCELLENT & PRACTICAL! Can be as deep as you want it to be.
Review: With any Christian book that's quite popular, it is guaranteed to bring in criticisms. There are LOTS of positive points about this book. I was evaluating this book by looking on the Internet and saw both rave and grave reviews. I suggest you ignore most of the negative criticisms - these people tend to nitpick (the kind that see specks in others' eyes and forget there's a plank in theirs) on details; they throw the baby out with the bath water; they are likely to criticise Jesus if He wrote a book. Read a couple of chapters (perhaps start with Chapter 5) and you'll see that this book is very God-centred, first and foremost. It is a VERY helpful and practical guide in our Christian walk. We were looking for a book instead of the arduous question-and-answer format for our Bible Study. We were deciding between Rick Warren's "The Purpose Driven Life" and Henry Blackaby & Claude V. King's "Experiencing God". We found "Experiencing God" much more suited for Bible Study (and even doubles as a devotion - of course, "The Purpose Driven Life" is touted to be an excellent devotional!) for the following reasons: 1) It's practical - the things in this book can be applied in our lives wherever we are. 2) It's flexible - new Christians and mature Christians alike will find it just as applicable. I have been a Christian for 18 years already an still found this book a tremendous blessing. 3) It puts God first - You'll find time and time again, the book gives glory and honour to God first and foremost - everything starts with God. After all, He is the great "I AM" by which all meaning in life is derived from! I truly believe you will be blessed by God through this book. Kudos to Blackaby and King for producing such a book. It is immensely useful and proves itself a worthy read!
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Summary: Excellent Study for Anyone!
Review: In my humble opinion, Blackaby has written a masterpiece for getting to know God better. Admittingly, this is written from the point of view of a conservative Christian, so people are bound to be offended by the title. But such is life! The workbook is broken down into 12 chapters: 1. God's Will and Your Life.
2. Looking to God.
3. God Pursues a Love Relationship.
4. Love and God's Invitation.
5. God Speaks, Part 1.
6. God Speaks, Part 2.
7. The Crises of Belief.
8. Adjusting Your Life to God.
9. Experiencing God Through Obedience.
10. God's Will and the Church.
11. Kingdom People.
12. Continuing Fellowship with God. Each chapter contains five readings for the week with exercises for each reading. Filling in the blanks causes the reader to be more actively involved in the study than just passively reading. While some of the exercises are just a rehash of what was just covered in the reading, other exercises challenge the reader to think more deeply about a response. I have gone through the workbook several times since Experiencing God's inception in the early 1990s and have been blessed in some way each time. Buy the workbook, be committed to complete the exercises, and watch for God's movement in your life and give Him plenty of room to do as He pleases! Highly recommended!
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Summary: How can I deepen my relationship with God?
Review: Blackaby and King have written an excellent practical workbook for the Christian who is serious about deepening his relationship with God. The central question of the book is, "What is God doing in my life, and around me?" The followup question is, "How then can I join that work?" The authors then challenge the participants in the study to examine how they listen to God and see God work, how they respond in faith, and how they change their lives to reflect that faith. The focus in the book is on God. It is biblical in almost every point. This book is to be done in connection with other Christians. Just reading it is not enough, nor is doing it by oneself. Others teach you and you teach them as you go through the study. I have done this study four times with different groups and have profited every time. I recommend the book highly as a paradigm-breaker and maker. God bless. Steve Austin
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Summary: Experiencing Henry Blackaby
Review: I've read "Experiencing God" twice in study groups, and would like to offer some observations--first as a textbook, then as a quest for spiritual truth.
"Experiencing God" is similar to many other Christian study books in its educational methods. In each section, the reader is presented with a spiritual idea, then invited to provide the "correct" answer to questions below. Granted, here and there the reader is asked to reflect on personal meaning, but overall the book is heavily scripted. One might call this "leading the witness," as the writer attempts to condition a specific answer from the reader. But, if the answer is already known, why ask the question at all? In terms of educational value, a good textbook should invite critique, in-depth analysis, self-exploration and discovery. I feel that Blackaby approaches his subject matter with too many foregone conclusions, rushing through concepts that haven't been adequately proven. This is a common teaching method, and I've seen its effect on people in Bible studies: people quickly catch on to how they should respond. Participants either become parrots, or bored and unresponsive. Personally, I find this approach insults my intelligence.
As a workbook to guide the reader towards "Experiencing God", I don't doubt Blackaby's good intentions towards knowing God. However, as I worked through the book, my internal alarm kept going off. Here's a few points on where I disagree with Blackaby's idea of knowing and serving God (page numbers cited):
In Experiencing God, one of Blackaby's central themes is our "divine assignment." According to Blackaby, "Once you have an intimate love relationship with God, He will show you what He is doing" (69). "If the Christian does not know when God is speaking, he is in trouble at the heart of his Christian life!" (132, 137). Over and over, Blackaby equates knowing and hearing God with receiving an assignment from Him. I take issue with this idea, firstly because I don't believe the New Testament supports this process word-for-word. Secondly, a new believer could think they're in "trouble" because God hasn't given them an "assignment." The reality is that God has given us gifts, and He invites us to discover and exercise them to the fullest (1 Cor12, 1 Peter 4:10). Don't wait for a booming voice from God, or some spectacular "assignment". Every day provides opportunities to serve God in your own way.
Finally, I'd like to touch upon a prevailing teaching in churches, which is to divide life into two categories: "spiritual" and "unspiritual". On page 48, under "Investing in the Future", Blackaby asks: "In what are you investing your life...make two lists below. On the left list things that will pass away. On the right list things that have eternal value."
Perhaps you already see problems with this approach. Applying simple common sense raises objections. More importantly, Jesus asks people to follow Him--not divide life into two disparate groups. Outside of clear moral commands in the Bible, it's simply impossible for human beings to know everything that has "eternal value". Otherwise, in our zeal to be spiritual, we run the risk of closing ourselves to God's experiences and lessons. When Jesus describes us as part of the vine, it is God who prunes those who bear fruit--not ourselves (John 15:2). Otherwise, why all this talk about "freedom" and "abundant life"? (John 10:10, Gal 5:1)
Don't take any of this at face value--check it out yourself.
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Summary: Draw near to God & He will draw near to you!
Review: I was privileged to be involved in an Experiencing God study in the early 90's and watched Him at work in my life and in many others' lives, as well. Hoping to rekindle that awesome connection that I had allowed to dissipate, I got out a copy of the workbook a year ago and reviewed several chapters--and had a wonderful increase in spiritual fruit, including leading a gal in prayer as she accepted Christ as her Savior. I gave her the workbook for discipleship. . . but did not see her again, and did not realize how much I need to focus myself on experiencing God. I'm looking for my original workbook again because, quite frankly, I've been telling the SAME exciting stories for too long, and have not added to them. As the workbook makes clear through interactive exercises, God, the Creator of the Universe, IS at work all around us, and WE need to tune it to Him, regularly and expectantly, remembering what He has done, and what He WANTS to do--He created us to have relationship with Him and draw others into that intimacy, too. Where would I be, and my children, and the others whose lives I've helped to enrich, if a stranger had not responded to God's prompting and asked me about my relationship with Jesus Christ??
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