The Christian life is a life of listening.In this memoir, lifelong minister of the gospel Leighton Ford tells his story as a personal history of listening for God's voice. Beginning with his earliest memories, he recounts the different ways God has spoken to him, and the different ways he has learned to listen. Through the joys of ministry, first as an international evangelist, often in partnership with Billy Graham, and later as a leader of the Lausanne Movement and a mentor of emerging leaders, he remembers God's voice proclaiming, instructing, reassuring. Through the pain of deep loss, he remembers God's voice calling out to him, even in the deafening silence.What emerges is not just an account of a long and faithful life of Christian service, but a picture of the Christian lifethe life of listening. What will it sound like, Ford asks, when God speaks to you?

Leighton Ford is president of Leighton Ford Ministries. He served for many years as an evangelist with Billy Graham, and was featured as the alternate speaker to Billy Graham on the Hour of Decision broadcast. He also served for nearly twenty years as chairman of the Lausanne Committee for World Evangelization, an international body of Christian leaders, and for many years has mentored emerging leaders all over the world. The author or coauthor of numerous books, including Transforming Leadership and The Attentive Life, Ford lives in Charlotte, North Carolina.

Introduction: A Testament of Listening
1. The Earliest Voices
2. Discerning One Voice from Another
3. Choosing to Become a Listener
4. Called to Lead, Led to Preach
5. Crossing New Thresholds
6. The Mentor and the Mockingbird
7. Discerning a Shift
8. Voices in a Dark Night
9. Pieces in the Identity Puzzle
10. Losing a Son, Restoring a Soul
11. A Mantle Falling, A Seed Growing
12. The Start of a Second Journey
13. A Voice After the Hurricane
14. When We Lose Our Way
15. The Voice of Beauty
16. A Voice Among the Voices
17. Summoned to Attentiveness
18. The Sound of that Voice
Acknowledgments
Notes