How to Hear God: A Simple Guide for Normal People

by Pete Greig

The simple fact of the matter is that for every person who encounters Christ dramatically on the Damascus road with blinding lights and a booming voice, hundreds more meet him slowly and quietly, incognito on the Emmaus road, through friendship, Scripture, and conversation.

Any revelation that claims to be from God, therefore, but does not sound like Jesus, and fails to push us deeper into relationship with Jesus, is fundamentally not Christian, no matter how supernatural it seems, how profound it sounds, and how many Bible verses come wrapped around its delivery.

Surely, if God can speak through a burning bush to Moses, and to the prophet Balaam through a donkey, and to King Belshazzar through graffiti at a party, he must be willing and able to speak to me through the quirkiness of my own imagination.