Listen Up (Swedish)

A very positive and constructive guide to a listening that leads to deeper spiritual maturity.

Christopher Ash shows how to prepare to listen to a sermon, and since a sermon never leaves an unchanged one, the question is what to do with what you have heard?

We Christians listen to thousands of sermons - and often have critical views on how it is preached. But when did we last think about our own listening? Christopher Ash has written a unique, challenging and very practical little book on how to develop one's own listening - and get more out of the sermon. Recommended!

How a person receives and accepts the proclamation of the Word of God is vital. This rare occurrence of preaching in the sabbatical therefore has the potential to transform both the lives of individuals and congregations.

That everyone has a personal responsibility for listening to the word's preaching is an obvious biblical thought. Finally, Christopher Ash's little booklet is in Swedish! It helps to create a healthy congregation environment where we can grow as disciples through a biblical hearing.

Like all forms of communication, the sermon has not only a sender and a message, but also a recipient. We all hope that our preachers, pastors and publishers do their part in the work, but there are probably few of us who actually think about how to listen well. This very accessible and concrete book gives good tips on how to listen to a sermon so that the word of God can work.

The book was a joy to read. It reminded me of Britta, a member of our congregation who is now with the Lord. What role model she was! I once mentioned how important it is to pray for the services. She listened and began to practice this. Later, she testified how it had changed her Sundays. Now she came to the church expectantly and even thought that I had begun to preach better. I do not know if that is true, but her heart had become receptive to the divine voice that gives comfort and power to follow Jesus. Such a joy and enthusiasm as Britta had, we can also get if we read and ponder Christopher Ash's book.

This book should be distributed to all worshipers ...