Wright State Chi Alpha

The way God calls us can be amazing and supernatural, but what if we don’t hear the audible voice of God? God has called us already and is still calling us. Sometimes fulfilling that call is simply obeying the desires He’s put in our hearts to see lives changed by the Gospel, whether we go across the world or across the classroom.

Take a deeper dive with us in to the Bible! The Bible isn't as intuitive to study as you might think. Historical and literary contexts are not as obvious to the modern reader.

In John 15, Jesus compares our relationship with God to a grapevine. When we are connected to Him and each other, we are set up to grow properly with the proper attention from the Gardener, our Father. Without pruning and cutting, we will be doomed to a sense of false productivity instead of bearing real fruit.

Andy and Heather Erickson are switching it up this week! They wanted to break it down for family talk about what God is saying to our family for this next season.

When we draw people to ourselves, we are shortchanging them. John the Baptist modeled leadership and influence and what it should look like in the Kingdom of God: He drew people to himself so He could point them to Jesus. This is the lifestyle of decrease.

We are empowered by the Holy Spirit to live out a supernatural life. This supernatural life is only possible through simple obedience to the voice of Holy Spirit. The Bible is clear: be baptized in the Holy Spirit and keep being baptized in the Holy Spirit. Steve Brannan is the State Director of Chi Alpha in Ohio.

#TooJuicy! God has designed it so that our life, both pre-marriage and post-marriage, gives Him glory. When we walk out our relationships in the context of community, we can ensure that our relationships reflect God's style of love that point people to Christ.

The life of Jesus was effortlessly supernatural. It turned the most mundane and ordinary moments into supernatural encounters with the Father simply because He believed that God was capable and willing. We too have the same calling and anointing here and now that Jesus did there and then.

What we see and feel is only the tip of the iceberg of what is actually reality. What we call "real life" is actually a facade. Eternal life is real life. If this is true, then we have to ask ourselves this question: "How deep do I buy into God's reality?"

Josh Ortega is the campus pastor for H2O Church at Wright State. Jesus' ministry was always about the "one". His encounter with the demoniac in Mark 5 was another clear example of that objective. In heaven, we're not going to wish we did anything else more on earth except share Jesus with one more person. Like Jesus, are we about the "one"?

The book of John makes no bones about it: Jesus came to destroy social, racial, gender, and religious barriers that keep people from experiencing the fullness of God. With the woman at the well, Jesus gets straight to the point that He is the Messiah and He came for her too, a Samaritan woman living in open adultry. Let's not forget that we have the responsibility to have those same life-giving conversations with those around us. What God does to us, He wants to do through us.

It matters who writes your story, and what matters more is what's in your story. Heather Erickson starts our semester in John 1 which points to Jesus as eternal Creator God. Jesus did not begin existing when He took on human flesh. He was there from the beginning and always will be.