Why do you say Christ’s encounter with the people on the road to Emmaus is a master class in learning to hear God’s voice? And the Lectio Divina is a 3,000-year-old approach to not just reading the text of the Bible for information and education, but learning to pray the Word of Scripture for revelation and conversation with God.

I meet so many people – especially young people – who are sick and tired of the way that prophecy has been used and abused in recent years. It has had the opposite result, in that it’s confirmed my cessationist view on prophetic gift and how we hear God today. Expand your Bible reading experience using our valuable library of more than 50 top resources by becoming a member of Bible Gateway Plus.It says beginning with Moses and the prophets, he explained how the whole of the story of the Scriptures pointed to himself.

In many ways, this is the aim of this whole book: that we become so familiar with the word of God in its most obvious forms—in Scripture, in prophecy, in dreams, and in soul friendships—that we are enabled to hear God speak in all the earth through people and things that are not in any way consciously Christian. And I’ll tell you the other reason I love it, Christin, is the couple on the road to Emmaus so consistently and reassuringly got it wrong.This book reminds us that it is essential that we develop and commit to intentional practices and disciplines that help us to rediscover our connection to God the Father, the Creator and sustaining life-force of all of Creation.