Active listening and Note Taking Tool

How to use:

This tool can be used in a variety of different ways. No one way is the best. You know yourself. You know how you take notes. Yow know how you learn and recall best. Use it during the teaching time to aid in note-taking or use it to filter the notes that you took during the teaching. We created this tool for you in an effort to aid you in your active engaging with the material presented and seeing transformation take place in your heart.

What was the main scripture passage taught?

Were there any supporting scripture passages read and/or taught or

Do you know of any scriptures that support the passages taught?

What was the one main idea of the sermon/teaching?

(Try to distill the message into only one...what is the ONE things you and your group must know or take away from the message?)

Discover the "why" of the main idea. Why do you and why do the people you care about need to know the main idea?

How should/does the main idea change the way you view and

God (His character/way He works, etc)

Your friends?

Your enemies?

How you live daily?

How will the non-Christian culture we live within and non-Christians we live alongside of try to convince us that the main idea taught today is false, irrelevant, or irrational?

What is one "concrete" way to practically integrate the main idea in the way you live?

(As Christians, we realize that our "doing" things never gains God's favor, but it is a joyful response empowered by the Holy Spirit of all that God has done for each of us in the Gospel)

Other thoughts: