Communicating by Listening

The Jeff Cavins Show (Your Catholic Bible Study Podcast)

Ascension

Self-improvement, Education, Christianity, Jeff Cavins, Spirituality, Religion & Spirituality, Faith, Bible Study, Catholic, Catholicism, Christian, Catholic Bible Study, Ascension, Ascension Press

4.8 • 2K Ratings

🗓️ 6 July 2018

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

The goal of a debate or a discussion about the Faith should not be to win; the goal should be to share Christ. This involves more than just telling people what Scripture says, it involves listening to where they are coming from and then giving them an answer that meets the pain and angst that they are experiencing in their life. Today, Jeff gives you ten points on how to become a better listener to others so that you can touch people’s hearts and answer their questions with the message of the gospel.

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0:00.0	You're listening to the Jeff Caven Show, episode 71, communicating by listening.
0:07.0	Hey, I'm Jeff Cavens. How do you simplify your life? How do you study the Bible?
0:15.0	All the way from motorcycle trips to raising kids, we're going to talk about the faith and life in general.
0:21.0	It's the Jeff Kaven Show.
0:26.0	Recently I just came back from an amazing trip through Western Europe from Holland to Germany, France, and ending up in Switzerland and had so many opportunities
0:38.2	to talk to people.
0:39.7	Not only people who were traveling along with my wife and myself on our 40th anniversary on the
0:46.8	Ryan River beautiful time but just meeting people in towns I had an opportunity
0:52.2	to talk to so many people and I found myself
0:55.4	in situations where I wasn't listening and people were trying to tell me their
1:02.3	political bent to their religious experience, their ideas on the Catholic Church and so much more.
1:09.0	And I found myself in sort of an automatic defensive mode ready to answer all of their questions and I realized
1:15.2	in the middle of it, you know what? I got to do a better job of listening. Welcome to the show.
1:21.1	I hope you're listening. I truly do think that part of communicating and sharing the faith with other people really involves listening to people and today I'm going to give you 10 points on becoming a better listener to those who are telling you
1:35.7	about the plight of their life and the difficulties that they are going through.
1:40.8	I am sitting here in the deep woods of Minnesota right now along a lake taking just a few minutes
1:46.4	out to get away and talk to you joined by my bulletproof coffee this is something new me. I don't have a sponsor or anything, but have you heard
1:56.2	a bulletproof coffee, certified clean coffee, brain octane oil, grass-fed butter?
2:07.9	Interesting. Maybe it'll make for a better show, I don't know, but maybe you've had this bullet, but it's a new thing now I think, particularly out west, bulletproof coffee.
2:14.0	Anyway, I want to talk to you about communicating by listening.
2:19.7	And this could end up becoming a series of shows
2:22.3	that I'm going to do over the next week or a week or two or a month or so about listening to people.
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