After prayer, the next act of service is to listen as we pursue our personal mission, is to listen. Listen to one citizen every week. The fall of humankind has broken our relationship to God, disrupted our relationship to creation, broken community, and complicated our relationship even to our very selves. We suffer the disintegration of the self. All citizens of the City of Frankston are tainted and pained by this great fall. Therefore as an act of service, we listen to their pain. We come to grips with how the fall has specifically touched them.
Sermon Reflection Questions
1. Who is the one person, friend, neighbour or citizen, you are committing to praying for everyday?
2. According to Genesis 3, what are the four ways all our friends and neighbours are tainted and pained by the fall of our first parents? Where have you seen this pain and taint in your community? In yourself?
3. What is the heart of sin, in ourselves, and in our friends and neighbours? (Eg. Romans 1.21-23).
4. How did Jesus show himself to be the best of friends?
5. In what way would you like to try and listen to one person you are praying for? What does weekly contact look like for you?
6. In what way can you ensure that your listening is non-judgemental on the one hand, yet open to the transformation Jesus would bring, on the other?
Praise and Worship Videos
Matt Redman, ‘We Praise You’.
Hillsong, ‘Christ is Enough’.
Sovereign Grace, ‘Turn Your Eyes’.