In contemporary society it is common for each individual to develop their own truth. The act of stopping to hear people became weird. The excuse is lack of time, but learning to listen can be the key to many conflicts. For the rest, hearing was always more important than talking. That is biblical.

Adam and Eve had difficulty listening to God, who gave them an order not to eat the fruit of knowledge. This difficulty in listening remains with humanity until today. The Creator wanted to have a kind of relationship based on dialogue with human beings, but man preferred the most painful path: silence.

Throughout the Bible it is common to highlight several orientations on the importance of hearing. King Solomon emphasizes in the book of Proverbs 18: 3 that it is foolish to respond before he hears: "Answer before hearing is foolishness and shame." Among many quotations on the matter throughout the Scriptures, James reinforces (1:19): "Therefore, my beloved brethren, every man be ready to hear, belated to speak, belated to be angry."

LISTENING IS THERAPEUTIC

The greatest example of the art of hearing comes from Jesus. Throughout his ministry, he was a model in what he did maintaining the habit of giving attention to people and stopping to hear them, regardless of the "group" they belonged to, to simply create a bond with them, and then share the mission of the Kingdom of Heaven is reached.

Knowing how to listen depends not only on the sense of hearing, but also on some factors such as family, emotional and intellectual formation. "Listening well is a key to good relationships, there are people who need to find someone to hear them.

Not always the couch of a therapist will solve the problem of those who only need to talk without someone trying to interpret them, in what they are wanting to say. The serenity of hearing is next to what the response that that person may be from God may be.

He remembers that the Bible is a complete book and has an answer to every question without exception. What we need is to hear what the Spirit has to tell us in the hour we need. There are many biblical texts that provide the basis for talking about the successful art of listening, with attention and goodwill.

The story described in II Samuel 13 and 14. "Absalom kills brother Amnon for sexually abusing his half sister Tamar." After three years away from Jerusalem, he returns, but King David, his father, does not receive him in the Joab, commander of the armies of King David, became interlocutor between the two and architect a plan for David to receive him.Joab hires a tecoite woman and places the words that she should use in her audience with the king. If you read the text in question, you will discover that David accompanied the case with such care and attention that in the end he discovered that the woman was speaking to him one thing, but he wanted to say another.

OFFICE OR MINISTRY

In the market for some audition is a work tool. There are professionals trained to listen, as is the case of psychoanalysts, social workers and psychologists. For each purpose a particularity. .

When the other speaks and we are truly attentive, we manage to observe details that even the people who speak do not perceive, helping them to identify anxieties, prejudices and pre-notions that can be modified.

In the case of the pastor, it is a ministry. The pastoral cabinet is a common practice for priests who seek to lead their sheep well. The church can and should stimulate the emergence of an advisory ministry that goes beyond the pastoral cabinet. Ministry that must be formed by people trained to listen.

He evaluates that a loving pastor develops loving leaders and will surely attract people. Pastors have as their main role to "equip" the saints so that they can do the work of the ministry and build the church. "On the other hand a shepherd who never has time will drive away his sheep and have them look for others to hear them in. Pastors should be concerned about" hearing "the sheep well, but they should also train others for this. Principle of Ephesians: 4.11 and 12, which says: 'And he appointed some for apostles, others for prophets, others for evangelists, and others for pastors and teachers, in order to prepare the saints for the work of the ministry, so that the body of Christ is edified, communion goes through the well-made communication between parents, children and family dialogue.

A psychologist and pastor of a well-known Church says that hearing is important for a life of relationships. "God himself began that, encouraging his disciples, even though we are hitting the key, very well used, that we have a mouth and two ears, yet we find, for selfish reasons, low self-esteem or need for greatness, that talking is more important than hearing. "

This Pastor also reminds us that the book of Genesis leads us to think that the afternoons in Eden were exceptional. "Because God and the couple walked gloriously with the right to the deepest relationship conversations, in the biblical concordance we find three pages on 'talking' and six on 'hearing' Until then the Bible is extensive and conclusive. learn to speak, but we need to learn to listen, error, if you want to learn to speak, learn to listen, it's an exercise, it's a sacrifice, but it's worth it for relationships. "

Even in the relationships between parents and children, husband and wife, hearing is important. In synthesis listening is therapeutic, educational and a ministry. It is an art that the church itself needs to give stimuli for the skill to be developed.

In the end everyone wants to be heard.

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