5th Week of the Year

A T T E N T I V E

From your Pocket to your Heart!

Defined as ... Showing the worth of a person or task by listening and giving my undivided attention to his words and emotions.

“God has given us two ears to listen, and yet one tongue to speak and a brain to take the hint.”
~  Variation of Thomas Watson  ~

“Without the ministry of listening, there would be no ministry of teaching.”
~  Author Unknown  ~

“No man has ever listened himself out of a job.”
~  Calvin Coolidge  ~

ATTENTIVENESS EXEMPLIFIED

1. Eutychus
(Acts 20:7-12)
2. Martha & Mary
(Luke 10:38-42)
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ATTENTIVENESS
SCRIPTURALLY TAUGHT

“Therefore we ought to give the more earnest heed to the things which we have heard, lest at any time we should let them slip.”
Hebrews 2:1

“Hear, ye children, the instruction of a father, and attend to know understanding.”
Proverbs 4:1

“If any man have ears to hear, let him hear. And he said unto them, Take heed what ye hear: with what measure ye mete, it shall be measured to you: and unto you that hear shall more be given.”
Mark 4:23-24

“He that answereth a matter before he heareth it, it is folly and shame unto him.”
Proverbs 18:13

“And he read therein before the street that was before the water gate from the morning until midday, before the men and the women, and those that could understand; and the ears of all the people were attentive unto the book of the law.”
Nehemiah 8:3