Week 1 Quick to Listen

Quick to Listen, Slow to Speak

James the Just

James 1:19 NLT

Understand this, my dear brothers and sisters: You must all be quick to listen, slow to speak, and slow to get angry.

be late

be curious

ask questions

James 1:19 NLT

Understand this, my dear brothers and sisters: You must all be quick to listen, slow to speak, and slow to get angry.

talking with my son

You can right the person you love right out the door

James 1:19 NLT

Understand this, my dear brothers and sisters: You must all be quick to listen, slow to speak, and slow to get angry.

Angry: Drawing hasty, misinformed, relationally destructive conclusions

formula: the longer you listen, the more you learn, the less angry you’ll be.

Observation: Everything everyone does makes sense to them.

Also: Everything everyone says makes sense to them as well.

“I don’t know why they would…do that, say that, believe that...”

Habit 5: Seek first to understand, then to be understood. Steven Covey The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People

James 1:20 NLT

Human anger does not produce the righteousness God desires.

3 agendas yours, theirs and God’s

my righteousness,

I know I’m right, I want you to know I’m right, I want everyone to know I’m right

God is calling us to be right with each other not at each other.

If the two of you aren’t right, it doesn’t matter who’s right.

James 1:21 NIV

Therefore, get rid of all moral filth and the evil that is so prevalent and humbly accept the word planted in you, which can save you.

take off the convince, convict, control jacket

Recognize that WE are more important than me.

James 1:19–21 NLT

Understand this, my dear brothers and sisters: You must all be quick to listen, slow to speak, and slow to get angry. Human anger does not produce the righteousness God desires. So get rid of all the filth and evil in your lives, and humbly accept the word God has planted in your hearts, for it has the power to save your souls.