Expositional Listening

For all of you who do not know our church is doing a book study on Sunday nights. We are going through the book What is a Healthy Church Member? by Thabiti M. Anyabwile. This book takes us through what a healthy church member should look like. The first characteristic of a healthy church member is being an "Expositional Listener." In his book Thabiti says,

"Expositional listening is listening for the meaning of a passage of Scripture and accepting that meaning as the main idea to be grasped for our personal and corporate lives as Christians."

The first way to be an expositional listener is to "Meditate on the Sermon Passage During Your Quiet Time." This means you ask the pastor ahead of time what he will preach on the following Sunday, and you take the Scripture and meditate on it during the week. Pastor Randy is preaching on Mark 10:35-45. The men will be meeting tomorrow afternoon at 4:00 P.M. I encourage you to come and be an expositional listener.

Soli Deo Gloria!!