Asking God Without Manipulating the Answer 🙏

The Church Renewal Podcast · Oct 15, 2026 · 24m · transcript

Praying together can either soften a church toward God or become a polished way to avoid Him. Matt and Jeremy dig into a tension we see everywhere in church leadership and congregational life: we ask for discernment, but we come with a preferred answer, idle curiosity, or a plan we want God to bless. That posture sounds spiritual, yet it quietly refuses obedience. So we slow down and ask what faithful corporate spiritual discernment actually requires when a community may not yet be willing to follow.

We ground the conversation in biblical wisdom from James and the lived example of Acts 15…