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Active Listening In Lord Of The Flies Study Guide

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My dear brothers and sisters take note of this: Everyone should be quick to listen, slow to speak and slow to become angry. Active listening is a learned skill. It involves “listening for meaning” in what someone says. When you are actively listening, you say very little and actively pay attention to what someone says, while conveying empathy, acceptance and genuineness. Someone who is actively listening is fully focused on what the person is saying and communicating. This is generally not easy for us to do. This is James's first assault on a major theme in his epistle: the immorality and destructiveness of an uncontrolled tongue. His first command regarding one's tongue is to silence it. Instead of talking, listen. His emphasis is not just on the quantity of listening (listen a lot) but on the promptness of listening (listen first): be quick to do it. The complementary command is to be slow to speak. There is an important reason in the context of trials for making this the first instruction: trials make us do the opposite of what James says to do. The pressures of trials …show more content…

The Scriptures also tells us how we are to speak the truth: We are to speak it “in love”.What is "love" and how do you speak the truth in it? We might think of "love" simply as doing what benefits others the most. The original Greek word (agape) conveys this. It is like the love which God and Christ manifested for us. They did something for us! God loved us enough to send His son to this earth as the only acceptable, perfect sacrifice for sins. “But God demonstrates His own love toward us, in that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us” (Romans 5:8). Christ loved us enough to suffer the cruelest kind of death to pay the penalty for our sins. When we are told to love one another as Jesus loved us, we are talking about sacrificial good will. That is

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