Happy Thanksgiving! Thankfulness is biblical and helps us see God for who he is.

Follow-Up Questions:

What are your current practices of thankfulness?

What scripture on thankfulness do you need to further meditate on?

What sin comes out of you when you are not thankful?

How are you going to implement healthy rhythms of thankfulness?

Colin talks through how to be strategic with your life when answer the question: How do I leverage my life for the gospel? The answer does not have to be complicated.

Follow-Up Questions:

How do you answer the questions: Where God has me? Where am I gifted and passionate? How do I leverage where I am gifted and passionate for where God has me?

What do you see when you look Up? Out? In?

Who is best to process your answers with?

How will your week change after processing these questions?

How do you make decisions when they are hard? How do we think about hard decisions? Colin and Drake talk through principles for Godly decision making.

Follow-Up Questions:

Do you go to the Bible when you have a difficult decision to make? What is your process?

What community do you invite into your decisions? Do you think they are willing to challenge you?

What authority do you invite into your decisions? 

In what ways are you tempted to have your decisions affirmed as opposed to challenged?

Community is part of God's design. God exists in community and He made us to experience joy and obedience by living in community. We see the call for community from Genesis to Revelation. It is crucial we find ways to implement community into our Rule of Life.

Follow-Up Questions:

Why community is part of our Rule of Life?

What things keep you from experiencing community?

What are two ways you want to implement community into your Rule of Life?

This is the second half of Colin and Abbie's conversation about the nations. 

How do you know if you are called to love the nations?

How can you now begin making disciples of all nations?

Based on where God has placed you, how can you leverage your life for missions?

What is keeping you from applying for a summer trip?

Salt Company cares about the nations because God is a global God that cares about the nations. Hear from Abbie on how God used a summer overseas to sanctify her and change her view of God and the Bible.

Before this episode, what was your heart towards the nations and missions?

Where do we see in scripture God's heart for all peoples?

How is God challenging you in regards to missions?

Have you listened to part 2?

Prayer is a vital part of the Christian life. However, Salt Company wants to help you pray through the Bible. We believe God's voice is revealed in His word and we want prayer to be a conversation. Additionally, there are tips for implementing "Praying the Bible" into your Rule of Life.

Follow-Up Questions:

What are your current habits of prayer? Do you currently pray the Bible?

How do you want to implement praying the Bible into your Rule of Life?

What is one tip from this episode that will be helpful when it comes to your prayer life?

How can those around you keep you accountable?

How are we saved as Christians? How do we grow as Christians? The answer is the same: the cross. The cross chart helps us to see how Jesus can come increasingly beautiful while exposing ways we minimize it.

Follow-Up Questions:

In what ways do you you find yourself minimizing the cross by pretending (dishonesty, comparison, false righteousness)? 

In what ways do you you find yourself minimizing the cross by preforming (job/school, mercy, legalist)?

Read Galatians 4:1-6, what are the implications with how God views you?

What will you do to continue to see an increasing view of the cross?

We go to our Bibles because we believe God's voice is revealed in His word. Our Bibles reveal the glory of God to us.

Follow-Up Questions:

What is your current practice of Encountering God in the Bible?

What changes do you need to make about how you think about God's word?

What is your new rhythm for encountering God in the Bible?

What is a Rule of Life and why do we care? Rule of life is a tool that helps us create rhythms in our life to help us follow Jesus for the rest of our lives. Small practices form us into the people we will become.

Follow- Up Questions:

What are current rhythms and habits in your life?

Why is it important to create and implement healthy rhythms in your life?

Of the 5 categories: Encountering God in the Bible, Praying the Bible, Community, Rest, and Parenting Technology where do you have the healthiest rhythms and which category do you have the most unhealthy rhythms?

What is one small change in your habits you want to make today?