Quick to Listen (Paperback)

Samuel Degner

ISBN 10: 0810029138 / ISBN 13: 9780810029132

Published by Northwestern Publishing House, Milwaukee, 2018

About this Item

Paperback. Throughout their faith journeys, every Christian encounters lifestyles and outlooks that test and even defy their trust in Jesus Christ. Your instincts may tell you to refute these opposing viewpoints with clever arguments and witty retorts. Unfortunately, these responses can push others away. Worse, they may not clearly reflect the loving attitude of Christ. "Quick to Listen" will help you lend a caring ear to those who hold these beliefs. This eye-opening tool helps you build relationships with evolutionists, atheists, Bible skeptics, and friends and members of the LGBTQ+ community based on genuine Christian compassion. Whether they continue to attend church or give no time to Christ, "Quick to Listen" equips you to acknowledge and understand their experiences and perspectives. Christian insights follow the accounts of these challenging experiences and perspectives and point you straight to the Bible to affirm and clarify your faith. The scripture shared in "Quick to Listen" will then fill you up with the love, empathy, and understanding you need to reach out with the Word and share "the reason for the hope you have . . . with gentleness and respect" (1 Peter 3:15). Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Quick to Listen (Paperback)
• Publisher: Northwestern Publishing House, Milwaukee
• Publication Date: 2018
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0810029138
• ISBN 13: 9780810029132
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: new

About this title

Synopsis

Do you know how to talk to people with different beliefs than yours?

Throughout their faith journeys, Christians encounter people with lifestyles, outlooks, and worldviews that test and even defy what they believe. Many Christians don’t know how to react to those encounters.

How do you have meaningful conversations that don’t devolve into heated arguments with people who don’t share your beliefs? Your instincts might tell you to refute opposing viewpoints with clever arguments and witty retorts, but those responses can push people away. Even worse, they don’t clearly reflect the loving attitude of Jesus.

Quick to Listen is made up of open and honest conversations and interviews held by the authors with evolutionists, atheists, Bible skeptics, and friends and members of the LGBTQ+ community. When asked what it meant to have his story shared in this book, one man replied, “It meant there’s at least one Christian out there more interested in understanding me than lecturing me.”

That’s what Quick to Listen is all about.

It’s a helpful tool to instruct you in listening and learning to talk with people who don’t share your beliefs as a Christian. It will equip you to acknowledge and understand their experiences and perspectives while also pointing you straight to the Bible to affirm and clarify your faith and beliefs. It will help you build relationships based on genuine Christian compassion so you can share Jesus and his love with them.

About the Author

Degner serves as a Professor and the Director of Student Field Services at Wisconsin Lutheran Seminary in Mequon, WI; Doerr serves as a pastor in metropolitan Milwaukee after editing at Northwestern Publishing House; Schmoller serves as Professor of Theology and Foreign Language at Martin Luther College (MLC) in New Ulm, MN; Thompson serves as Professor of History/Social Science and Theology at MLC in New Ulm, MN.