By Michaela Gordoni
If you’ve grown up in church or have been around it for a while, then you’ve probably heard of Henry Blackaby’s beloved Experiencing God Bible study. And if you haven’t, well, now you have.
The original study was published in 1990. Now, Henry’s oldest son, Richard, and his grandsons Mike and Daniel have created a new study: Experiencing God in Everyday Life: A Journey Toward Spiritual Maturity. It is an eight-week study for individual or group use.
Lifeway Christian Resources will release the book on June 1, and it’s available for pre-order now through Blackabystore.org.
“It is an incredible privilege and honor to continue to build upon the legacy of my father and Experiencing God,” said Richard. “Being able to work on this study with my sons and see the Lord’s faithfulness throughout its creation has been a true blessing. My prayer is that this study will have an impact on believers for generations to come, just as my father’s work has continued to do so to this day.”
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“Many devotionals focus on the big mountaintop moments of faith, but this study meets people in the valleys,” said Mike. “Spiritual maturity doesn’t occur from just a single moment. You can build it through small, consistent steps taken every day.”
Where the original study is meant to shape believers’ understanding of encounters with God, the new one addresses faith in the mundane, Lifeway said.
“Experiencing God in Everyday Life is designed for fostering genuine spiritual health,” explained Daniel. “It’s crucial for believers to develop fruit-bearing habits that sustain their walk with God. The eight central truths throughout this study are centered around this exact kind of long-lasting spiritual growth.”
The book features video access with teachings from Mike, Richard and Daniel, as well as personal study opportunities, guided small group sessions, weekly spiritual exercises and group discussion guides.
An excerpt from the book reads, “When you open your eyes to God’s activity, even the mundane moments of your life provide surprising opportunities to experience the eternal purposes of God.”
Richard recently reflected on the legacy of Experiencing God.
“Long before my dad wrote Experiencing God, he was living it. My family would sit around the dinner table and listen to stories of how God had miraculously given us exactly what we needed. For us, God wasn’t simply a doctrine; he was a person we could experience and trust,” he said.
Richard’s grandparents and great-grandparents also had faith in Christ.
Through the generations, he’s learned that it’s “one thing to teach your children to attend church, live a moral life and believe in God. It’s another to teach your children to experience God. Once they have, they will never want to settle for anything less.”
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