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As Christ followers who want to be more serious in our relationship with Jesus we hear a lot about being a disciple of Jesus. We hear so much in church about "making disciples" and "being disciples" but what does it actually mean? How do we do this practically in our every day life?

To help us understand this better I invited Roger Ross on this week to walk us through some simple yet super effective ways to go from curious to serious about Jesus. Roger has a heart for the spiritually curious. He has served as a church planter, senior pastor, and director of church planting in Missouri. He now leads TheHumilityGroup.org, coaching faith leaders to lead grace-shaped lives that transform the world. Roger and his wife, Leanne Klein Ross, have two adult children, a son-in-law, and one adorable grand dog.

Roger shared about what we can do today to help us become more serious about Jesus. Here's your take home practical advice for the day! Get into scripture!!! This method of REAP is a great simple way to get more serious in your relationship with Christ.

The REAP method of Scripture Engagement:

Read: Meditate (think on) on a passage of scripture 2-3 times

Evaluate: Identify commands, promises or principles

Apply: Determine immediate & practical actions

Pray: Journal the insight and ask God how to apply it

Conversation Highlights:

• Being curious gets us interested, being serious takes us farther
• We aren’t meant to stumble across the line of faith but to go deeper with God
• You are a disciple if you are in the process of making more disciples
• We aren’t supposed to just know but actually obey what God says
• Close the gap between what you know and what you do, and that will draw people towards Jesus
• Establish the habit to be with God, don’t worry about what it looks like

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Let's talk about when God feels silent. In today's world we would say God has "ghosted" us aka... gone silent. It can totally feel like that at times. Things get hard, situations feel impossible and now all of a sudden God feels like he's stopped speaking completely. What's up with that? How do we handle that?

My new friend Autumn wrote a book about it and I am so excited to tell you about it because it's packed full of practical tips on how to reconnect with God when it feels like he's gone silent. She takes us into the book of Job, a place not many of us venture too often and WOW did she come out with some eye opening and amazing strategies we can apply with we feel ghosted by God!

Autumn Miles is the founder and CEO of Autumn Miles Ministries, an organization devoted to spiritually challenging the way people think. The author of four books, she is passionate about women in ministry, Biblical literacy, leadership development, and adoption. Autumn’s larger-than-life yet down-to-earth personality and her tenacious, driven leadership style have enabled her to live out her life mission: to infect and affect all she meets with the passion of Jesus Christ.

Conversation Highlights:

• Not knowing why God feels silent can be hard
• The hard things to understand about God do not outweigh the goodness and faithfulness of God
• We have been taught not to bring God into our emotions about Him, that’s wrong, tell him how you feel
• God desires truth in the inward parts of us, be fully honest with him so he can lead you into a new place with him
• Remember God’s character and His word, it will sustain you

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What is it about the hard questions in life that make us sink back and avoid them? Is it the awkwardness? The unknown? The not fully understanding the topic? It could be any number of these things or others but what we are asking this week on the podcast is, why not talk about it?

That's why the wonderful and talented Kendall Mariah wrote this book on this very topic. She isn't afraid to go to those hard topics and talk about them. She knows that when we do, our faith can be strengthened. why? Because when we take those hard topics to God he is faithful to respond and meet us right where we are. What a great God we serve!

So many people are looking back to 2016, and for Kendall, in 2016 she founded Unapologetic Ministry, a blog and community focused on topics that are often-taboo in the church--infertility, depression, anxiety, and eating disorders, just to name a few. She is an influencer, author and Bible study leader. Kendall and her husband, Justin, are currently remodeling a 1937 colonial home in their hometown of Benson, North Carolina, where she loves to share a glimpse into their small-town life.

This is one of those books you will want to read with a friend so you can practice those hard conversations in a safe place.

Conversation Highlights:

• All of scripture is connected & it’s overarching theme is the story of God’s redeeming plan
• We can have the same determined loyalty as Ruth in following Christ
• A daily desire to be in relationship with God can be simple
• Jesus shows us what a relationship with God looks like so we can be redeemed
• God will faithfully meet you with his redeeming love when you go to scripture

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