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Embracing Silence: Listening to God in Community Through Scripture

Explore the practice of listening to God in the silence, community, and through Scripture. Discover ways like reading the Bible devotionally, writing to God, and praying for others. Learn to set aside uninterrupted time alone for rest, worship, and restoration. Discover the benefits of a personal Sabbath and how to incorporate it into your life rhythm. Are you ready to seek and find God with all your heart?

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Embracing Silence: Listening to God in Community Through Scripture

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  1. Be still and know that I am God. Psalm 46:10 Listeningin the silence

  2. We’re going to be looking at listening to God… …in the silence …in community …through Scripture Last week… we checked our hearing. On Listening to God…

  3. Be still. Read the Bible devotionally (listening for what God is saying to us). Worship with music. Write a letter to God. Take a walk with Jesus. Read something that helps you listen. Pray for people you care about. During longer sabbath times: sleep. What do we do in the silence?

  4. Set a goal you can reach regularly. For example—4 to 5 days a week • Experiment with time of day Morning? Lunch break? Before bed? • Start small 10 minutes a day, 4 days a week is better than an hour once a month To make it a habit

  5. What is a personal sabbath? • Uninterrupted time alone with God • To rest • To worship • To be restored • To hear from God • To get in touch with what is going on inside ourselves • To receive vision for ministry • To pray for others

  6. Give yourself a half day each month A morning, afternoon, or evening—3 ½ to 4 hours • If half day is too painful, work up to it. • Beware of measuring productivity. Camp out by the train track. • Partner. Give each other the gift of solitude. • Where? Hilltop Quiet Place Great Plains Nature Center/Botanica Park/lake Library/bookstore Getting started with a Personal Sabbath

  7. Greatest barrier?

  8. 120: Family gathering (“worship”) 12: House church 7: MinistryTeam 3: Triad 1: Sabbath Hilltop DNA What if these 5 relationships were built into the regular life rhythm of every HUC leader?

  9. Are you ready to listen? “You will seek me and you will find me when you seek me with all your heart.” Jeremiah 29:13

  10. To be a reproducing family living out together by the Spirit’s power the countercultural way that Jesus lived and taught— loving God, loving one another, and loving our neighbors asourselves. Our Mission

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