Intellectually rich - we used to say “intellectually rigorous,” by which we meant that Christians should do the hard work of study. Estuaries started in part because of the false dichotomy between the charismatic and the intellectual
Listening requires attention and stillness. So much of what we call listening and dialogue is merely the bearing with another person’s words only so that we can say our own. Listening, though, as taught by land and commanded by God in Scripture, 7 means we take a position of humility and generosity, believing that the other (land, person, God) has something to gift to us through their manner of communication that we cannot attain for ourselves.
The call of the land and the call of the Holy Spirit is for us to embody the way of Jesus now, but in order to do that, we must put off the old way of domination and speech, and put on the new way of slowness and listening.
