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001. How God Gets Our Attention and the Pace of Formation ft. Tyler Staton
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- Formation with John Ortberg
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- Apr 22, 2026
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- 4707
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Summary
What does it mean to know God, not as a doctrine held, but as a presence inhabited? Tyler Staton joins John for the first conversation in Formation's history: an unhurried exploration of how the Holy Spirit forms us, why prayer is less about technique than attention, and what it looks like to discover God not only in the sanctuary but in the chaos of a basketball sideline, a marriage, and a cancer diagnosis. This is a conversation about the ancient and the empirical, and how sometimes we may ...