Articles on Guidance

I have been thinking about how God guides his people, and have found several helpful articles at Stand To Reason. Greg Koukl, Christian radio broadcaster, has an interesting article which shows how divine intervention was even unusual in the Book of Acts. In Divine Direction and Decision-Making in the Book of Acts, he shows that God is said to give personalised direction only 16 times over the 30 year period of the Book of Acts, but people made up their own minds without special signs 71 times!

I also found his article on Hearing God's Voice stimulating. In this article he points out that you can't prove that God speaks to people directly today by sharing an experience in which you believe he did, because this is assuming what you are trying to prove! He also shows that God does speak today through his Word and through the inner voice of the Holy Spirit, but does not give us tips on future events.

Michael Spencer's The Internet Monk terrific site for interesting Christian articles. His friend, Bill McKinnon's No Voices in My Head is a humorous look at the way various Christians claim they obtain supernatural guidance. I love his subtitle, which is "God may or may not have told me to write this."

I hope you find these articles as helpful as I have.