God's Call to Listen - October 19th

Please see the basis for our discussion in this past week's class below:

"If we are led by the Spirit, we will increasingly imitate God and become people who are filled with "come-alongside-ness." That is, we listen to God and people and then come into their story, get involved with them enough that we can point out where God is in their story and allow them to do that for us as well. When we are full of come-alongside-ness, we will be willing to walk with people through their pain; we will listen before we try to fix. We will be with people. In our ministry, we have ample opportunity to do this. We also need to connect with peers, so we can learn and pray and encourage each other to grow in our faith. Because when we listen compassionately, we minister to others, but we are also ministered to. God speaks to us through them."

Pasted from Keri Kent's story posted at: