(i.e. with your physical and theological) ears open, you have an advantage in counseling situations. If you’re prone to making a lot of applications throughout your messages from the pulpit, you’re usually shooting from the hip at a conjectured target. (That’s why I prefer to let the Spirit make His own applications from the texts of my messages; after all, He doesn’t shoot from the hip, but accurately hits multiple targets with His sawed-off, applicational shot gun!) Now, returning to the advantage