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James 1 Listening to Scripture 1. Living and Active 2. Strengthens us to love 3. Discerning ways to read 4. Disagreeing with love 5. Vision Somewhere we know that without silence words lose their meaning, that without listening speaking

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James 1

Listening to Scripture

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  • 1. Living and Active
  • 2. Strengthens us to love
  • 3. Discerning ways to read
  • 4. Disagreeing with love
  • 5. Vision
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“Somewhere we know that without silence words lose their meaning, that without listening speaking no longer heals, that without distance closeness cannot cure.”

  • Henri Nouwen
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“The first service that one owes to others in the fellowship consists in listening to them. Just as love to God begins with listening to His W

  • rd, so the beginning of love for the

brethren is learning to listen to them. It is God’s love for us that He not only gives us His W

  • rd but also lends us His ear.
  • Dietrich Bonhoeffer
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  • u must understand this, my beloved:

let everyone be quick to listen, slow to speak, slow to anger; 20 for your anger does not produce God’s righteousness. 21 Therefore rid yourselves of all sordidness and rank growth of wickedness, and welcome with meekness the implanted word that has the power to save your souls.

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22 But be doers of the word, and not merely hearers who deceive themselves. 23 For if any are hearers of the word and not doers, they are like those who look at themselves in a mirror; 24 for they look at themselves and, on going away, immediately forget what they were like.

James

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25 But those who look into the perfect law, the law of liberty, and persevere, being not hearers who forget but doers who act - they will be blessed in their doing.

James

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James 1

Listening to Scripture

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James

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  • u must understand this, my beloved:

let everyone be quick to listen, slow to speak, slow to anger; for your anger does not produce God’s righteousness. Therefore rid yourselves of all sordidness and rank growth of wickedness, and welcome with meekness the implanted word that has the power to save your souls.

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Story Writing teams Council T ranslators Scripture Inspired God breathed Us

Living and Active

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Scripture Us

Living and Active

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Toddler Scripture

Living and Active

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Child Scripture

Living and Active

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Adolescent Scripture

Living and Active

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Adult Scripture

Living and Active

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Adult Scripture Life Context

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Context Us Slavery Earth not Center Gender Equality Scripture Societal Context

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Fixed

Adolescent Scripture

Fixed

Problem

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Objective Seminary

Scripture

Reformation Fixed Fixed

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Story Context Context Us Age of Universe Slavery Earth not Center Gender Equality Writing teams Council T ranslators Reader Scripture Inspired God breathed

Mystery

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Story Context Context Us Age of Universe Slavery Earth not Center Gender Equality Writing teams Council T ranslators Reader Scripture Inspired God breathed

Listen

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“So it is His work that we do for our brother when we learn to listen to him. Christians, especially ministers, so often think they must always contribute something when they are in the company of others, that this is the one service they have to render. They forget that listening can be a greater service than speaking.

  • Dietrich Bonhoeffer
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Context Us Gender Sexual Orientation Politics Race Scripture

Listen

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Many people are looking for an ear that will

  • listen. They do not find it among Christians,

because these Christians are talking where they should be listening. But he who can no longer listen to his brother will soon be no longer listening to God either; he will be doing nothing but prattle in the presence of God too.”

  • Dietrich Bonhoeffer
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22 But be doers of the word, and not merely hearers who deceive themselves. 23 For if any are hearers of the word and not doers, they are like those who look at themselves in a mirror; 24 for they look at themselves and, on going away, immediately forget what they were like.

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T rue Self False Self Kingdom of God Kingdom of the W

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Kingdom of God Kingdom of the W

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T rue Self False Self Image of God Ego Immorality

Debauchery

Morality

Religion Life to the Full

Love Joy Peace Patience Kindness Goodness Faithfulness Gentleness Self Control

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Kingdom of God Kingdom of the W

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T rue Self False Self Morality Immorality

Scripture

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False Self

Scripture

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Kingdom of God Kingdom of the W

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T rue Self

Loved Scripture

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“ As the Father has loved me, so have I loved you. Now remain in my love.”

  • Jesus
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“ And I pray that you, being rooted and established in love, may have power, together with all the saints, to grasp how wide and long and high and deep is the love

  • f Christ, and to know this love that

surpasses knowledge - that you may be filled to the measure of all the fullness of God.”

  • The Apostle Paul
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Kingdom of God Kingdom of the W

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T rue Self False Self

Scripture Loved?

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Kingdom of God Kingdom of the W

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T rue Self

Scripture Loved

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25 But those who look into the perfect law, the law of liberty, and persevere, being not hearers who forget but doers who act - they will be blessed in their doing.

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Kingdom of God Kingdom of the W

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Morality

T rue Self False Self

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Kingdom of God Kingdom of the W

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T rue Self False Self

Immorality

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Kingdom of God Kingdom of the W

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T rue Self False Self

Impressiveness

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Kingdom of God Kingdom of the W

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T rue Self False Self

Success

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Kingdom of God Kingdom of the W

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T rue Self False Self

Loved

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Kingdom of God Kingdom of the W

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circumcised

Flesh

Israel T ribe of Benjamin Hebrew of Hebrews Pharisee Righteous Blameless

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Kingdom of God Kingdom of the W

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T rue Self False Self

Loved

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Kingdom of God Kingdom of the W

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Sold Everything Pearl of Great Price

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Kingdom of God Kingdom of the W

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Still Loved

Scripture

Always Loved

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In Louisville, at the corner of Fourth and W alnut, in the center of the shopping district, I was suddenly overwhelmed with the realization that I loved all those people, that they were mine and I theirs, that we could not be alien to one another even though we were total strangers. It was like waking from a dream of separateness, of spurious self-isolation in a special world, the world of renunciation and supposed holiness.

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The whole illusion of a separate holy existence is a dream. This sense of liberation from an illusory difference was such a relief and such a joy to me that I almost laughed out loud. I have the immense joy of being human, a member of a race in which God Himself became

  • incarnate. As if the sorrows and stupidities
  • f the human condition could overwhelm

me, now that I realize what we all are.

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And if only everybody could realize this! But it cannot be explained. There is no way of telling people that they are all walking around shining like the sun.

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Then it was as if I suddenly saw the secret beauty of their hearts, the depths of their hearts where neither sin nor desire nor self-knowledge can reach, the core of their reality, the person that each one is in God's

  • eyes. If only they could see themselves as

they really are. If only we could see each

  • ther that way all the time.”
  • Thomas Merton
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