• What lessons about listening to others can we learn from Jesus’ example?
• How quick are you to listen compared to speaking? (see James 1v19)
• How well do you listen to other people?
• How can you improve at this?
• Are there people with whom you share the deepest things of your life?
• How can you learn to open up your life to others so they can listen better to you?

Listening to God

• In what ways have you experienced listening to God?
• Read 1 Kings 19v11-13. Elijah learned that God was to be heard in quiet more than drama. How does that relate to your own experience?
• Do you make a daily “quiet time” to listen to God?
• If not how could you schedule some quality time for this? (A daily short time is probably more important than occasional long times, though these are good too!)
• How can you develop the kind of relationship with God in which you can be entirely open with him about what’s going on at the deepest levels of your life?
• How can you be sure God will not reject you or think worse of you if you are open?

Listening with the bible

• Do you have plan for reading the bible regularly, preferably daily?
• In what ways has God “spoken” to you through the bible?
• How can you learn to better listen to him through the bible?
• If you’d like bible reading notes, please speak to Val Golton.
• How have you experienced God speak to you through the bible in group study?
• To join a group to listen to God through the bible, speak to Dante Thomas.