What if all our questions asking God, ‘Why?’ point to one fantastic answerfrom God: ‘Relationship.’ Real.ational God helps us see how to develop a real relationship with a God that many of us know about, but don’t really relate to in our daily experience. Stephen guides us to experientially connect to the Triune God who really wants only one thing from you — Real.ationship!”
— JOHN BURKE,
Lead Pastor, Gateway Church, Austin TX
Author of No Perfect People Allowed and Unshockable Love
Steve Woodrow is the real deal. He is a passionate follower and a gifted leader with a heart that is fully alive. With insight and care, Steve has written an extraordinarily important gift to anyone who desires to know God more personally and intimately. Why just believe in God? It’s better than that. God wants to be known … by you.”
— BILL WILLITS
Executive Director of Ministry Environments
North Point Ministries, Atlanta, GA
Co-author of Creating Community
Steve Woodrow has captured the heart and spirit of the longing we all feel for something deeper, when, as he observes, our inner life is sep-arated from our outer life by numbing busyness and a regular diet of superficial religious activity. As a long-time friend of Steve’s, I can attest to the au-thenticity of his life and message. Relational God will inspire you and invite you – highly recommended.”
— KEN COCHRUM
VP of Global Digital Strategies, Cru
Author of ClOSE, Leading Well Across Distance and
Cultures
Steve Woodrow is as realistic as they come; no ‘pie in the sky’ poet, but one who yearns for us to have what God wants for those who have ‘bowed the knee’ to ‘the God who is there’…intimacy with Him-self that is contagious…essentially what Jesus Christ had in mind by promising His most hungry followers, ‘Abundant Life’. Woodrow has given us a treasure for reflection with a purpose.”
— REV. DR. GREG LIVINGSTONE
Founder of Frontiers
Buckinghamshire, England
This book is an invitation. Not just to read something that is Biblical, well written, thoughtful, and insightful. Relational God is all of those things, and yet it also invites you to experience a soul-altering relation-ship with our Creator, and others, as these concepts are intended to be explored from a place of vulnerable and authentic discipleship. It is a beautiful tool in the pursuit “to equip the saints for the work of ministry” (Ephesians 4:12). A gifted encourager and equipper, Steve Woodrow consistently chases down and speaks the truth that our God is not a God to be experienced in isolation or in a vacuum, and that community is critical to our overall health and well-being. Because God emphasizes relationship over religion, it is within the Body of Christ that we learn to care, provide, and love one another just as Jesus does. This book promotes what psychological and sociological re-search concludes: it is the heart cry of every human being to know and to be known. As we fumble through that process, we find ourselves co-creating meaning and purpose.”
— DANIEL KAIL
Licensed Pastoral Counselor & Clinical Director at
Trailhead Christian Counseling
