David Mathis is executive editor for desiringGod.org and pastor at This is the beginning of the death of the spiritual life. Are you listening?Again, with others, we are not looking for further instructions beyond, or differing from, God’s revealed word. Ricklee@Ricklee. We need to be aware of their needs (When listening we also need to pay close attention in order that we might come to the right conclusions. It requires discipline, effort, and intentionality. Becoming a better listener hangs not on one big resolve to do better in a single conversation, but on developing a pattern of little resolves to focus in on particular people in specific moments.Freshly persuaded this is a needed area of growth in my life — and possibly yours as well — here are six lessons in good listening. [M]any times God simply wants to use me as a channel of his affirming love as I listen with compassion and understanding.” Echoes Bonhoeffer, “Often a person can be helped merely by having someone who will listen to him seriously.” At times what our neighbor needs most is for someone else to know.Sometimes good listening only listens, and ministers best by keeping quiet, but typically good listening readies us to minister words of grace to precisely the place where the other is in need. Of course that doesn’t stop me crying over lost friends, yelling at God over them (he has big shoulders) and generally harrasing him at every oppotunity.

It is patient and kind (1 Corinthians 13:4).This counsel is writ large in the Proverbs. When we are people quick to speak, it takes Spirit-powered patience to not only be quick to hear, but to keep on hearing.Half-eared listening, says Bonhoeffer, “despises the brother and is only waiting for a chance to speak and thus get rid of the other person.” Poor listening rejects; good listening embraces. “The purpose in a man’s heart is like deep water,” says Proverbs 20:5, “but a man of understanding will draw it out.” Good listening asks perceptive, open-ended questions that don’t tee up yes-no answers, but gently peel the onion and probe beneath the surface. Anyone who thinks that his time is too valuable to spend keeping quiet will eventually have no time for God and his brother, but only for himself and for his own follies.Good listening is a great means of grace in the dynamic of true Christian fellowship. I have a slight concern when you say “The problem is getting people to believe”. It flows from a humble heart that counts others more significant than ourselves (Philippians 2:3). Not only is it a channel through which God continues to pour his grace into our lives, but it’s also his way of using us as his means of grace in the lives of others. That’s where a good listener comes in. Perhaps I am distracted by some other noise or voice or whatever I am currently involved with; I can hear her talking, but I do not listen. Listening, which is far more important than simply hearing, is a vital spiritual skill—actually an act of love—that is exponentially important when listening or responding to the words of God. No Problem here for me. He has seen fit to reveal His will to mankind in the form of words (We need to listen to the word of God as we have it here in this volume (the Bible), God will not send it again—He will not repeat Himself. .

A BIBLICAL LOOK AT THE IMPORTANCE OF LISTENING!! Do you struggle to see and believe who you are in Christ? My wife becomes very annoyed with me when she speaks and I … A   BIBLICAL  LOOK  AT  THE  IMPORTANCE  OF  LISTENING! It is hearing with faith (Galatians 3:2, 5) that accents the achievements of Christ and thus is the channel of grace that sta… Are you listening to God, to your brethren, to others?Dear Vertical Viewer: A very, very good message. Instead of concentrating on what is being said, we are busy either deciding what to say in response or mentally rejecting the other person’s point of view.”Positively, then, good listening requires concentration and means we’re in with both ears, and that we hear the other person out till they’re done speaking. Poor listening diminishes the other person, while good listening invites them to exist, and to matter. We need to listen to the word of God as we have it here in this volume (the Bible), God will not send it … As Bonhoeffer writes, “We should listen with the ears of God that we may speak the Word of God.”While the fool “gives an answer before he hears” (Proverbs 18:13), the wise person tries to resist defensiveness, and to listen from a nonjudgmental stance, training himself not to formulate opinions or responses until the full update is on the table and the whole story has been heard.Our inability to listen well to others may be symptomatic of a chatty spirit that is droning out the voice of God. Communication is more than just our ability to talk, but also to listen. People are desperately trying to find answers to life’s problems. Rarely will the speaker begin with what’s most important, and deepest. We’re on a mission to change that. Still the work is up to God. Listening is one of the easiest things youll ever do, and one of the hardest. It is not my intention to offend you in any way. We have to listen for their cries for help. The lesson I learn is that my wife is like most everyone else—she does not like to repeat herself after she has said it once. Post was not sent - check your email addresses! Good listening silences the smartphone and doesn’t stop the story, but is attentive and patient.
Bonhoeffer writes, “Just as love to God begins with listening to his Word, so the beginning of love for the brethren is learning to listen to them.”Good listening goes hand in hand with the mind-set of Christ (Philippians 2:5). The world is lost and dying in their sins.
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