While God may reveal himself in many ways during the twists and turns of our journey, we believe the most important revelation comes when God’s light first breaks upon us and we glimpse who he is for the first time. Just as the early earth was in chaos and underwater, and God said, “Let there be light,” we too were groping in the dark chaos, spiritually drowning in deep waters until the light of God’s life broke across our vision for the first time. Until then we were unaware of the darkness of sin that surrounds us. While in this darkness, God calls out to us, revealing himself as the Holy One who makes the pathway out of the darkness. Read full answer to question here. Watch Bible Project video on Christ's role as Light. Salvation: What comes after we become aware of the darkness and reach for Christ's light.

Revelationship is the combination of two words: revelation and relationship. It refers to the revelation necessary for relationship. While it's technically not a real word (you won't find it in Merriam-Webster's Dictionary), it can be found in the Urban Dictionary defined as "A relationship in which each involved party acquires increasing knowledge through every interaction with one another." We define it as: (Noun) How God reveals himself to us as he pursues us for relationship. (Noun) The pathway to an intimate relationship with the God who created you. (Verb) Receiving from God all he pours out, then turning it back to him in worship. We believe that revelationship is the heart of God, the mission of the Son, and the work of the Holy Spirit.

(From Cathy) The revelation of the omni-presence of God. Since God is present in the past and the present and the future, all at the same time, filling all of time for all time, I have nothing to fear. He is still laying the foundations of the earth, still present with me, and already present in the future where he has already won the victory.

(From Cathy) El Shaddai, the Promiser of Promises, fulfilled. Our Bible translates this name to mean “Almighty” but the meaning is more full than this. It means something like “Out of my mountain of abundance, I am your sufficiency.” Or all-sufficient one. And there is nothing “measly” or “just enough” about this incredible name God uses to introduce his covenant to Abraham.

As a child of the Jesus Movement, I (Cathy) grew up (literally) under the pews. I’ve never know a moment without his presence but it wasn’t until God spoke to me in my lowest moment that I knew his voice for myself. Read more of my story >> Read Randy's bio >>

We define it as the ways in which God reveals himself as he pursues us for relationship. Revelationship is a journey of transformative intimacy with the God who knows you and wants to be known by you.

(From Cathy) For me, it would be God’s essence, his holiness. Stephen Charnock’s book, The Existence And Attributes of God, makes the case that God’s holiness is the attribute or virtue of God that is the most vital to him and the one that sustains all the others (e.g. his love is a holy love, his mercy is a holy mercy, his justice is a holy justice, etc.). Holiness can be very difficult to understand.

It was actually a fluke. In one of our many discussions about revival and the Bible, I shared with Dad about a way to study that the Holy Spirit showed me. This new way made the Old Testament come alive. The Old Testament was no longer a dry and dusty read, but instead, transformative. It had come through a prompting by the Holy Spirit to remember a very important lesson from C. S. Lewis’ The Lion, The Witch, And The Wardrobe series: look for Aslan. Of course, in The Lion, The Witch, And The Wardrobe, Aslan represents Christ. So, as I read the Old Testament looking for the revelation of Christ, what had once seemed ancient, irrelevant— even bloody and legalistic—was transformed. Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Deuteronomy, and even Numbers all came together in the revelation of the eternal Christ. Dad invited me to share my new-found passion for the Old Testament to his group of interns at Coweta Community Church. Later, as Dad was further talking about revelation and how revelation is necessary for relationship, he accidentally wrote the word Revelationship on the board. The rest is history. Or, rather, the rest is written in the book, Revelationship.

Both. The free devotional guide (available soon!) can turn the book into an immersive experience meant to be savored, but the book can also be read quickly to discern how you might more fully open your heart to experience God.

I (Cathy) was in the middle of writing another book (coming soon!) when Dad and I realized that it needed a precursor.

To help readers get “unstuck” in their pursuit of a relationship with God. When we limit God to one or two ways of revealing himself, we miss the opportunity to experience him in all the way he reveals himself as he pursues us.

Absolutely. That is the purpose of revelationship. When you embrace Christ’s revelations of his character and his great passion for a relationship with you, he personally and uniquely meets your deepest needs, wrestles your deepest questions, and heals your deepest hurt.

It’s an easy read, but one that can’t be rushed. That’s according to the reviews so far. It’s meant to be a primer of sorts. A reminder of how God has revealed himself to readers who are long-time Christians as well as a map for new Christians to open them up to the ways God makes himself known.

(From Cathy) It became clear that the way I found to study the Old Testament looking for the revelations of God needed a precursor—or explanation.