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Learning about God (listening) is good.

But it's not good enough.

God calls us to be DOERS of His Word.

The scientific community has estimated that good communication is 98% listening.

Hearing and listening are not the same thing.  Hearing is passive.  Listening is actively interacting with a message.  And you interact with a message by being quiet (zipping it); allowing it to penetrate your heart (internalizing it) and working through it (processing it).

Consider this: nonverbal communication accounts for 58% of the total message.  Tone of voice makes up 35% .  The actual words you say account for only 7% of the total message.

You see communication is not what you say, but what the other person understands by what you say.  And then what that person does in response to their understanding.

Take a listen (click the play button above) to a recent message I shared this past Sunday from the book of James 1:17-29.  It's part 3 of a 9-part series on the entire book of James.