WayMaker by Ann Voskamp
Week 5: Chapter 4 — The Sacred Pathway: COMMUNE
Read Chapter 4 of WayMaker. Key Scripture: Exodus 33:11; John 15:4–5.
Previewing Week 5 of WayMaker
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Stopping and attending prepare the ground; communing is the actual encounter — and Ann unpacks why so many of us settle for information about God when we could have intimacy with Him.
Discussion Questions
8 questions1.Moses spoke with God 'face to face, as a man speaks with his friend' (Exodus 33:11). What does that image stir in you — longing, skepticism, something else? How does your actual prayer life compare to that description?
2.Voskamp distinguishes between praying at God and communing with God. What is the difference in practice, and which posture characterizes most of your prayer time?
3.She writes about the way suffering can either drive us away from God or into a deeper intimacy with Him — and that the direction depends largely on whether we bring our honest pain into His presence. When you have suffered, which direction did you tend to move, and what determined that?