Finding Intimacy With God (with Theo Koulianos)

What would it look like to be so close to God that your own kids notice before anyone else does?

Most of us treat intimacy with God like a discipline to maintain, something we fit in before the real work starts. Theo Koulianos flips that order. Before God ever gave Adam a job, He asked him to walk with Him. Everything else, the calling, the ministry, the family, is a byproduct of that walk, not a substitute for it.

In this episode, Preston Morrison sits down with Theo Koulianos, husband, father, and co-leader with his wife Rachel of a ministry to marriages and families.

Theo shares how a Greek Orthodox upbringing and a Holy Spirit who discipled him when no one else could built a foundation of first love, and how a knock on a dinner table changed his definition of success.

In this episode:

• Shut The Door: the Matthew 6 picture God gave Preston about just how intimate the secret place is meant to be
• Walk Before Work: why “tend and keep the garden” was never the first thing God asked of man
• Grieve Or Please: Theo’s childlike test for every decision, and why it’s simpler than we make it
• Rabbi To Messiah: the transformation that only ever happens in private
• The Most Holy Piece Of Furniture: hint, it’s not the pulpit
• Raising Priests: why Theo stopped trying to raise good kids & focuses on this instead
• Get The Canvas: the field God is calling Theo’s family to, and why it’s never about just you

Intimacy with God isn’t a step toward your purpose, it is the purpose. The breakthrough you’re looking for is relational before it is ever occupational.