How to Improve Your Listening Skills

by | Feb 26, 2019 | Uncategorized

By Mario Vega, www.elim.org.sv The first condition for listening well to people is to prepare the environment. People need to build trust and the right environment to express their concerns and problems. This usually takes time. If we have only reserved a few minutes...

Effective Listening

by | Feb 25, 2019 | Uncategorized

By Robert Lay, Cell Church Ministry Brazil, www.celulas.com.br People have two ears and one mouth to listen two times more than speak.  Some people do just the opposite. Their tongues are not connected to their brains and has a mind of its own. It is a loose organ...

3 Keys to Great Listening

by | Feb 22, 2019 | Uncategorized

By Scott Boren, The Center for Community and Mission  (www.mscottboren.org), Twitter@mscottboren Show Interest in People’s Interests Years ago, I read the book How to Win Friends and Influence People. One thing stood out to me. Dale Carnegie writes about how he can...

Guidelines for Leading through Listening

by | Feb 21, 2019 | Uncategorized

By Scott Boren, The Center for Community and Mission  (mscottboren.org) , Twitter@mscottboren The degree to which we listen to each other will be the degree to which we experience the presence of Jesus in the midst of our groups. To listen to one another requires that...

I Can’t Hear You When I Am Talking

by | Feb 19, 2019 | Uncategorized

By Bill Mellinger, www.crestlinefbc.com Recently I read the book of Job and I was impressed by the compassion of his three friends as described in chapter 2. Job 2:11 says the three friends “met together by agreement to go and sympathize with him and comfort him.”...

Making Time to Listen

by | Feb 19, 2019 | Uncategorized

By Gerardo Campos, district pastor at Elim Church, www.elim.org.sv We live in a world that is under the tyranny of the immediate, to the point of thinking that in order to be efficient in cell ministry everything must be done right now, immediately. Such an attitude...