Experience How It Works

As Jesus emerges from His Jordan-River baptism, the disciples hear God’s voice boom: “This is my dearly loved Son, who brings me great joy. Listen to him.” It’s easy to jump over those last three words, but we have a sacred invitation to pay better attention to Jesus…

Listening to Jesus Together is a set of six carefully crafted “listening encounters” designed for three people to experience together. The goal is to give people in your congregation a weekly “reminder habit” to help them listen to Jesus in the context of a short-term small-community experience…

In Listening to Jesus Together, trios meet online or in-person for six 30-minute sessions.
  • Each trio will have a designated leader, the Host, who follows the session outline each time they’re together.
  • It’s powerful for community-building if the trios are made up of people who don’t know each other well, but these can be put them together in any way you want.
  • This idea also works well for specific groupings—parents of young children, parents of teenagers, single adults, seniors, college-age, teenagers, and so on…
  • The best way to put together these trios is to specifically invite participants—each Host plays “matchmaker” by inviting two other people to participate in a specific trio for six weeks.
  • The starting place is to invite leaders who are open to guiding a trio as the Host, then have them invite two people to join them in a trio.
  • Each session guide gives the Host everything he/she needs to lead the 30-minute experience—it’s easy!
  • This is a digital-download resource, and that means you can purchase it and then send it to whoever you want, as many times as you want.

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Learn More About Listening to Jesus Together

Learn more about Listening to Jesus Together and discover additional resources for cultivating deeper prayer and community practices at www.vibrantfaith.org. Together, let’s help people grow closer to Jesus through shared listening and authentic relationships.

1. Copyrights:
Vibrant Faith owns the copyrights to all Listening to Jesus Together materials. You have permission to use all files in the resource within your ministry or small group context.

2. Terms of Service:
Listening to Jesus Together was created for churches, ministry leaders, and small group facilitators to use in their congregations and ministries. We kindly ask that you only share Listening to Jesus Together resources within your ministry context. If you know someone outside your ministry context who would benefit from this resource, please refer them to the Listening to Jesus Together webpage so they can purchase their own copy.

3. Access:
Your one-time purchase of Listening to Jesus Together gives you lifetime permission to use the resource.
To access your downloads* visit: vibrantfaith.org/my-account/downloads

*NOTE: File download access is subject to product lifespan. Access to downloads is not guaranteed beyond product availability or two years after purchase.