Description
SUBTITLE: Listen with your heart. A guide for leaders seeking God’s agenda for their congregation
FORMAT: Electronic book in the ePub format
PAGES: 128
SUMMARY: New updated and revised editon. An extensive guide using the Listening Cycle to help church leaders to organise and arrange meetings in such a way that church meetings will grow from regulative meetings to meetings that are in nature meetings of listening – to one another and to God.
CONTENT
Preface
Acknowledgements
Part 1: Introduction
The birth of the first congregation: Acts 4–15
Questions for discussion
Part 2: Background knowledge and the use of the Listening Cycle
Chapter 1: God speaks … in the first person
First discovery: Torah … God speaks
Second discovery: Nebi’im … God takes the initiative
Third discovery: Ketubim … God gives his wisdom in discernment through spiritual discernment
What does spiritual discernment mean?
Chapter 2: The use of the Listening Cycle during meetings
Practical guidelines and questions on the use of the listening cycle during meetings
Part 3: The Listening Cycle
Chapter 3: First movement – resting
Station 1: Invited by God to be calm and rested …
Station 2: Entering God’s time
Chapter 4: Second movement – hearing
Station 3: Listening to the Word of God
Station 4: Listening to each other
Station 5: Listening to others and to the times
Station 6: Listening to the Word of God again and becoming aware of the Holy Spirit working
Chapter 5: Third movement – living
Station 7: Focus on what God is doing now: the challenge of responsible leadership
Station 8: Answering with our lifes
Part 4: Resources
Resources for congregational leaders
Lectio Divina
Liturgy 1: Agapé meal
Liturgy 2: Hope
Bibliography
AUTHOR
Dr Frederick Marais works for Communitas, based in Stellenbosch. He is widely known and recognised as an experienced consultant for congregational matters.
