Remember, as a communicator,
your job is to deliver a message.
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It's about the message, it’s
not about you.
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This isn't about me.
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And that takes the focus off yourself.
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So to me, that's just foundational.
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Rick Rhodes.
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So you have spent decades, in ministry,
teaching things like that.
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You, lived in Grenada
for a while on the mission field
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you were at IGO in Thailand
for a number of years.
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You're back in the States
now, and you run a conference,
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among many other things that you do
in life on good
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communication skills
or developing our communication skills.
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This is a huge topic,
and I'm sure we won't cover everything,
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but I want to hit at least
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some of the fundamental principles of this
and why it matters.
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So let's just jump right in
and I'll start with the first question of
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why does it matter?
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Like why should we care
about good communication?
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And I guess convince me
because some people are like,
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oh, that's not really that big a deal.
Okay.
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Well, I believe the greater
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the value of a message,
the greater the need to deliver well.
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The greater
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the value of the message,
the greater the need to deliver well.
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So for anybody out there
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who does any type of communication,
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how important is your message?
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If if you're in business,
it's not always the best business
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or the best product that gets the job
or that has the most sales,
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it's usually the one that's been presented
the best.
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Okay.
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So if you're in business,
and you have a message to get out there
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and you're trying to sell products or
whatever it may be, your message matters.
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It's your livelihood. Okay.
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If you're a team leader, you lead a team.
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Communication matters that you can do that
well.
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It's got to happen, if you're in ministry.
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And for those of us in ministry.
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And what we do is
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present the word of God,
whether we're teaching, discipling,
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or evangelism, obviously
we know that that message matters.
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So the
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greater the value the message, the greater
the need to deliver well.
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If we've been given a very important
message, we want to deliver it well.
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So that's why good communication matters.
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So in that case where do people start
developing these skills.
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I call it a skill
because I think it's something
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that can be developed
and honed and improved.
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Well maybe first you should convince us
though that it can because some people
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you hear statements like,
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I'm a terrible public speaker,
I just I'm no good at this.
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I can't write well, I can't whatever.
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They make these definitive statements
about their abilities.
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Is this something
that can be improved and.
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Yeah.
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You want to look at it as any other skill.
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So, you know, if you're in construction,
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you don't say, well,
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I wasn't born with this skill,
so I can't do it.
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Anybody that does well in construction,
they learned, is a learned skill.
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Some people may be gifted in
different areas, but good communication.
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It's a skill that you can learn.
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So to say I check out of this one,
you know,
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because I wasn't born with this gift.
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No, it's a skill that you learn.
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So it is something that you can learn.
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It is something that you can develop.
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And so all of us can do it, and all of us
do a measure of communicating somewhere.
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In fact,
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what I like to tell people when we're
we're doing our communication conference
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and we get to the stage presence,
we do one, one session on, on delivery.
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And you talk about, you know,
what do we do with our hands,
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what you do with,
you know, where you're at.
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When do you stay behind a podium
when you move in this type of thing?
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I said during break,
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I'm looking
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at 50 communicators who aren't trying
to figure out where to put their hands.
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They're not trying to figure out
how do I stand?
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Like everybody's being themself
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and so, so in a sense, we get it.
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We know how to communicate.
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What happens is when we get on a stage
or we get to a we're performing,
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or whether it's in sales in a meeting,
all of a sudden
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we think we got to be somebody different
or do something different.
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But no, you're to be yourself, in line
with the message.
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So again, communication
is something that you can learn.
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And for myself, you know,
I started with, with just reading books.
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So I read a lot of,
a lot of books by different authors.
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And it's good
to read from different perspectives.
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You know, so I
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read a wide range of communicating books.
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And what I found was
these authors would have their,
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their grid that they go through to develop
their message or their speaking.
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And there are some that I like,
some that I didn't like.
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Some of that felt really clunky
and I didn't like that.
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But what I found a common theme.
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And this is what you want to look
for as you as you study
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things, is look for a common theme
coming from different perspectives.
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And the common
theme is the greatest need in
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communication is a crystal clear focus.
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You need a clear focus.
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Okay, So like those times
when we've heard a sermon
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that has 12 different points
to remember at the end,
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is that an example of whoa,
too many things to focus on?
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Is that what you mean,
or am I taking this down the wrong stream?
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that definitely is.
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Yeah. Is in this line.
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So you listen to a sermon with 12 points
two days later.
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How many of those points do you remember?
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Well, that's
kind of always been my challenge.
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Like, right,
if there's too many pieces involved,
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it's like, I don't know if I can remember
this, you know?
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So as a communicator,
what we've got to ask ourselves is,
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can I give a message,
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develop it, and then package the delivery
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in a way
that my audience will remember it?
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That's what we've got to do.
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If I give a message and two days later,
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nobody can remember what I've said.
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I've wasted their time and I've wasted
all the time I put into it.
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Like, what was the point?
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If if I'm speaking to somebody
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and all I'm going to do is.
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Keep them entertained
or they're listening, filling their time
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for 45 minutes or whatever it may be.
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And if they're not gonna remember
any of it, like something's
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wrong with that.
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And the responsibility of
that is on the communicator.
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So what I need to do as a communicator
is when I have an opportunity to speak,
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I need to say, okay,
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I've need to study, develop it well,
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and then say, okay,
how can I package this message and deliver
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in a way that they'll understand it
and they'll remember it.
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And when we do that, to me
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that's being a good steward
of our opportunities.
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So, so yeah, when that whole thing
of a crystal clear focus,
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some, some I've heard people say this,
you know, I just have.
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I want everybody
to be able to get something.
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And I have a wide.
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I have a wide range in this audience.
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So, you know, so I'm just,
you know, a little bit of this, this
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kind of like a buckshot,
you know, when you're hunting.
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And it's about as successful
as using buckshot to shoot an elk,
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you know, the thing's going to run off
and be stung a little bit,
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but you're not going to get to the game
when when you speak and you have all these
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different points, what happens
is everybody remembers very little,
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but you want a crystal clear focus.
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So that's in in
as I read from different communicators,
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that came clear to me.
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Okay. It's a clear focus.
We need clear focus.
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So I did a lot of reading books, then,
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bought a DVD series
that had a, from a training conference
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and went through that, so,
so that was good.
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But there was something
that I was missing, so I knew I enjoyed
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communicating.
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I knew that's
what God had called me to do.
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And so a lot of my work was involved in
that, in teaching and, and then preaching.
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But what I lacked
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was personal coaching in this.
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And interesting what you know,
I don't get that from a book.
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I don't get that from a DVD.
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And what can happen is
we don't realize how we're coming across
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until somebody who knows communication
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listens to us, watches us,
and then speaks into it.
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So, back in 2013, when our family was,
living in Thailand, yet
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we were in the States for a one year
furlough.
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One of my goals was to go to
a, communicating conference.
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And so I did went to that conference.
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I think I paid $2,100 to go
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to this conference to fly out to Colorado,
where this was went to this conference.
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I had already read the
The Communicators book.
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I already had this DVD series.
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So I didn't learn anything
new through the sessions like I,
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because I'd been through it all.
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I devoured it all.
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But what I wanted to get
was that individual coaching.
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And at this conference,
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you you were part of a speech group
and you had a speech coach.
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So there are eight people in my speech
group, and there's a speech coach,
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and that's what I knew I needed.
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I need a speech coach
to listen to me speak
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and to speak into my communication skills
after my first speech.
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And so you're given five minutes
to present a speech.
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After my first speech,
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my speech coach said this.
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Your voice is way too intense.
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It makes it hard to listen to you.
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Nobody ever told me that.
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And then he went on to explain.
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He said, what you need to do
is just speak in,
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in your optimal, your normal voice.
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And then when your message is intense,
then be intense.
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But for short periods of time
when you're always intense,
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you become hard to listen to.
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It's like,
okay, I had 2 more speeches to give
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so I could work on that and,
you know, point out a few other things.
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That honestly is the only thing I remember
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from that conference
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is you’re to intense.
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It was worth my $2,100
to have somebody tell me that
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I went back home, and two months
before the conference,
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I just was the evangelist at a big, area
wide tent meeting out in Holmes County.
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And had preached,
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I think,
ten, 12 sermons in these tent meetings.
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They recorded these, put them on, on CDs,
and then they gave me a set
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when it was done. I'm not sure why.
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Maybe they said, you know,
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have some of your own medicine,
listen to your preaching. What?
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I don't know, but, you know,
they gave me a copy when I got back from,
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from this communication conference.
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Oh. I'm going to listen to myself speak,
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put one of these in my CD player
and listen to it.
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And the first thing that jumped out of me
is how intense my voice was.
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And it didn't let up, like,
I was just intense.
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And I was like, my coach was so right.
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This is hard to listen to.
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I shut it off and I never listened
to another one of my those CDs.
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It's like it hurt.
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I'm like, oh no, what did I put
all these people through? And,
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so I say that to say,
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if we're going to develop ourselves
as communicators,
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we got to have feedback into saying, look,
this is how you're coming across.
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Because in our minds, we can think,
this is what I said,
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and this is what I meant,
and this is how I said it.
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But the true gauge is,
what did your audience hear you say?
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How did they hear you say it?
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And when you think about it,
as communicators,
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there's very few places
where you get that.
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So if you're a team leader at a business
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and you lead in communicating
to your staff,
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who in your staff is going to come to you
after the meeting and say, you know,
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this is how you're coming across
or this is this is a weakness.
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This is a distraction.
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They don't really want to do that.
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Then if you're in ministry,
you know, you're preaching a sermon.
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Who afterwards is going to say,
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you know, that was good,
but there's some things
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that were distracting me or this is or,
you know,
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you had a great sermon,
but there was no application.
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I don't know what to do with it.
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What happens is we have almost no place
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to get personal feedback
into our communication.
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Therefore, I'll continue in my bad habit
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of being intense all the time
unless somebody says it.
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So that's where to develop yourself. You.
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You want to read,
you want to watch. Good communicators.
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I've done that. You you learn from these,
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but you need feedback
into how you're coming across.
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And, I got that at that conference from
the coach speaking directly into that.
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And you can seek it,
as you know, from your audience.
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So if you are teaching Sunday
School class,
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outside of the class, you can go to
somebody that you know and trust
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and that somebody that would trust
you and say, can you tell me
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how am I coming across, you know,
what are some things that I could work on?
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And you can give people permission
to give that to you?
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You know,
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as, as a preacher, you can do that.
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But you've got to be you've got to be
willing to take it or you'll shut it down.
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They won't give it again.
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And and honestly, as a communicator,
we really want to do it well,
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like I do want.
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And I believe everybody
we want our audience to understand it.
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We want them to get it.
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We don't want to have
roadblocks in the way.
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So how do we get there?
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We get there by understanding
what is effective communication.
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And then how can I deliver in a way
that I'm not a distraction to the message?
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Yeah.
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That that's really helpful
because you know
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you could go on like Amazon right now
or something and type in communication
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books or something
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and get like I don't know,
500 million results or something insane.
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And some of those are very helpful.
Some of them are very good.
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I've read different ones and whatever.
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Or you can watch good communicators.
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It feels like you would tap out
at at a certain level though.
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Yeah. Of
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improvement.
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If you don't have that active feedback.
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Right.
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You're saying to get that feedback
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you basically just have to ask for it
then, right?
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for the most part.
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Now, being a dad,
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after I preach,
I can get some honest feedback
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without asking for it, and it's great.
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Driving home from church
not that long ago, and I preached that
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morning and, my one said, said
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the PowerPoint.
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Dad, that picture was terrible.
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Like you never should have used.
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It just looked unprofessional, like, okay,
so let me, you know, plug into it.
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I thought it was a great example
of what I was going to use.
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You know, I earlier this past summer,
I preached one
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and one of my boys said, dad, you weren't
really on your A-game on that one.
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Like,
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and sometimes,
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you know, what we could do
is become defensive when people give it.
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Or you can be curious and say,
so why do you say that?
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What were you thinking? Okay. Yeah.
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It's good for me to hear those thing.
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So apart from some of that,
you can get it in-house.
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Where do you get.
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Where do you get that feedback?
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And that's where.
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That's where being at a conference
where you will speak to a group
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that they know their job is to listen to
you and then to give that feedback
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that's really helpful.
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And you're not going to get that in
a book.
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You're not going to get that
just by watching good communicators.
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So that's where you can take
your communication on to another
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level is okay, I get feedback
now I'm going to work on these things. So
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so one option might be
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having some kind of structured practice
or something like you could even
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get a group together
and say we're going to let's practice and
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and take notes on each other or something.
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It seems to me though, to do this
well, you'd have to be very vulnerable
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and very humble. Yeah, yeah. For sure.
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So, let me let me say a couple things
with that.
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Out of having been
to a communication conference
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that, Darryl Weaver went with me.
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We were missionaries together in Grenada.
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Had kind of stayed in touch.
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And then during that furlough,
I was teaching school at the school
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where he was a principal,
and I wanted to go to this conference.
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And so I said, hey, Darryl,
would you go with me?
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We went there together,
and it was really good.
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But we knew that
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most of our Anabaptist people
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wouldn't come to this conference,
wouldn't be very comfortable with it.
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And there were some things that we were
glad were there together.
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And it's like,
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and yet as we looked around in our,
in our Anabaptist circles,
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we weren't offering this,
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in fact, I think the only opportunities
there are is maybe at Faith
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builders, you'll get a class, a two week
class, and a winter term.
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Or maybe at SMBI you could take a term.
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Or maybe in high school
you got a little bit.
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But to get in-depth teaching and
then coaching, like where do we get that?
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And so out of seeing that,
that lack of, of
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of opportunity
that need in our conservative
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Baptist circles, Darrell Weaver
and I set to work together and developed
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the Impact Communication conference
where we we do this,
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three
and a half day training on communication.
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Everybody's in a speech group
where they get that feedback
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and that enables you
to get that honest feedback.
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And while you can set up your own group
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and do this and we encourage people to go
from the conference to do this, you know,
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a couple of your friends were here
or your whole leadership team was here.
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Your work team was here.
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What you've learned now,
you help each other
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but if you're going to try doing that
completely
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on your own, like,
what are you looking for?
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You've got to understand
good communication.
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You got to have a basis to go on before
you can start.
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So, so what we should do
here is just underline
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what is effective communication.
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yeah. So yeah.
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Which,
which was where I was going to go with
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that is could you give us
some fundamental principles I suppose. Or
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yeah.
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Principles at the base of effective
communication.
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And I would assume we could apply this to
not just public speaking, maybe writing,
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whatever the case may be, but yeah,
give us some of those principles.
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So, so this is to me this is foundational.
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Effective communication
is always going to do three things for us.
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The first thing we're going to connect
as a communicator
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effective communication happen
if I connect with my audience,
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if I condense my message,
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it's not this dump load of information.
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12 points said, you know, on whatever
it may be in two days, I won't forget it.
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No, that's not being effective.
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So I'm going to condense my message.
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And then thirdly,
I'm going to compel to action.
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So three C's of effective communication
connect condense compel
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connect
means you've got to know your audience.
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Who am I speaking to?
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Know your people condense.
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You got to know your point.
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Why am I talking this morning?
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Why this meeting?
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Why this sermon?
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What's my point?
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So to condense,
you got to know your point.
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Then everything points at that.
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Okay, then to compel,
you know, your purpose.
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Why do they need to hear this?
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Okay.
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And to compel
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it, it takes away the,
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this idea that we can just have
informational meetings
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or informational, you know, times,
sometimes we'll call them that.
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Maybe a business or church.
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We have an informational meeting.
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If you're having a meeting,
and it's simply to give them information,
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but you do not want them to do anything
about it.
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Cancel those meetings.
Let people have an evening at home.
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You know, if you're a business.
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We have an informational meeting
for all our staff.
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Let them stay at work. Okay.
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But we get some resistance like,
no, no, no, they need this information.
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They need the data.
They need to see the figures. Okay. Why?
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There's a reason you want them to know
the information.
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So figure that out
and then compel them to the action.
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Yeah, that makes sense because then you.
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Yeah. Communicating without a why.
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That's just seems like that.
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That's confusion Yes for sure for sure.
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So let me
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where I get the connect convince compel.
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Straight out scripture.
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God's a great communicator and Scripture
is full of great communicators.
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So here's one for us.
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If I were to ask you, Reagan,
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who is known as a man after
God's own heart, who who comes to mind?
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David. Right.
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So that's what we know, right?
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There was a time in David's life
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when a man after God's own heart
would have not been a title for him.
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After his sin with Bathsheba.
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He was an adulterer.
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He was a murderer.
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He had her husband, Uriah the Hittite,
who was one of his top 30 men.
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He had him killed in battle
to cover what he'd done.
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And then so he could marry Bathsheba.
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So he's a adulterer, a murderer
and a liar.
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And he's just acting
like everything's okay
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and it's not okay.
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What's going to change
the course of David's life?
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You know what
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pushes me to keep going as a communicator,
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is God's not coming down here himself
to do the work.
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He's not sending his angels to do
the work.
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He's using us
as human beings to be the messengers.
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So I want to do it well.
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God needs somebody to go to David
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and say, David, you've sinned.
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Who's going to do that?
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Nathan the prophet.
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Nathan comes to David
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knowing that
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he's he's
the most powerful ruler in the country.
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He's just killed one of his best men
to cover his sin.
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And Nathan is going to come in and say,
you have sinned.
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What's going to keep David from saying,
I don't want to hear that from you?
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I'm throwing you in prison.
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I'm taking your head off. Whatever.
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Like that's a pretty high stakes
message, right?
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When you look at that story,
it's easy to say
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that was probably a five minute speech
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that Nathan gave to David.
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Look at what Nathan did
in that five minutes.
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And we're going to see the connect
condense compel.
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Nathan comes to David.
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And so he's going to confront him
about his sin.
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He comes in and he says, David,
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he said there once
two guys, two men, lived in a city.
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One is wealthy.
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He has flocks of sheep, one very poor.
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He doesn't have flocks.
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He doesn't have a flock.
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He has one ewe lamb.
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It was the only one he had.
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So it stayed in his house
it ate from his table, slept in his bosom
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like I don't know
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what all that,
but it's very poor, special lamb.
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Nathan then says, the rich man
who has the flocks of sheep
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has a guest come from afar,
and so he wants to treat him well.
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And rather than take one of his many sheep
and serve it to this guest,
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he goes to his poor neighbor,
he steals his only lamb
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and offers that for a gift for his friend.
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David interrupts this story
and he's angry.
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It's touched his heart.
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His emotions are involved.
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He says that man should die for this.
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And then Nathan says, David,
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you're the man.
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And when Nathan is done speaking to David,
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David's no longer angry.
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He's no longer trying to cover his sin.
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David's response is, I've sinned.
482
00:23:58,061 --> 00:24:01,606
And Psalm 51 create in me
a clean heart o God.
483
00:24:01,815 --> 00:24:05,068
It comes out of David hearing
484
00:24:05,402 --> 00:24:10,949
Nathan deliver a very important message,
and he delivered it well.
485
00:24:11,241 --> 00:24:13,076
So why did David receive that?
486
00:24:13,076 --> 00:24:15,954
Look what Nathan did.
He connected with him.
487
00:24:15,954 --> 00:24:18,498
Okay. How did he connect with him?
488
00:24:18,498 --> 00:24:20,000
He used a story.
489
00:24:20,000 --> 00:24:21,293
Jesus use stories.
490
00:24:21,293 --> 00:24:24,212
So that's always a great way to connect
so we can learn from that.
491
00:24:24,212 --> 00:24:27,215
But his story used sheep.
492
00:24:27,883 --> 00:24:29,718
David's a shepherd, David, so he gets it.
493
00:24:29,718 --> 00:24:32,721
Okay, so when when Nathan was preparing
494
00:24:32,721 --> 00:24:35,765
for this five minutes with the king,
who's he thinking about?
495
00:24:35,807 --> 00:24:37,142
He's thinking about his audience.
496
00:24:37,142 --> 00:24:39,019
Always important as a communicator.
497
00:24:39,019 --> 00:24:41,313
Our focus is always about the audience.
498
00:24:41,313 --> 00:24:43,398
What do they need to hear? It's not.
499
00:24:43,398 --> 00:24:45,484
What do I want to tell them?
500
00:24:45,484 --> 00:24:47,736
It's what do they need to hear?
501
00:24:47,736 --> 00:24:49,196
Okay, so.
502
00:24:49,196 --> 00:24:50,405
So he's thinking about David.
503
00:24:50,405 --> 00:24:51,823
David grew up a shepherd boy.
504
00:24:51,823 --> 00:24:53,533
David grew up poor.
505
00:24:53,533 --> 00:24:56,703
David would connect
with a pet little lamb.
506
00:24:57,579 --> 00:24:59,915
David's very wealthy now he's the king.
507
00:24:59,915 --> 00:25:02,209
He connects with having lots.
508
00:25:02,209 --> 00:25:03,627
He connected.
509
00:25:03,627 --> 00:25:06,713
Nathan connected
with David through this story.
510
00:25:07,088 --> 00:25:09,007
Okay, that's the first part of effect.
511
00:25:09,007 --> 00:25:10,425
Communication is where you connect.
512
00:25:10,425 --> 00:25:12,219
When you connect with your audience.
513
00:25:12,219 --> 00:25:13,678
Okay, I get it.
514
00:25:13,678 --> 00:25:14,888
There's buy in there. Okay.
515
00:25:14,888 --> 00:25:17,307
So he connected to connect.
516
00:25:17,307 --> 00:25:17,974
Know your people.
517
00:25:17,974 --> 00:25:20,018
Who am I talking to? Nathan did that.
518
00:25:20,018 --> 00:25:21,978
Secondly, condense.
519
00:25:23,563 --> 00:25:24,147
How many
520
00:25:24,147 --> 00:25:27,901
points was Nathan bringing to David
that day?
521
00:25:28,109 --> 00:25:32,197
Like he could have talked to him about,
about his leadership as a king.
522
00:25:32,197 --> 00:25:33,990
He could talk to him about being a father.
523
00:25:33,990 --> 00:25:35,700
You know, you got one kid run around
that's a rebel.
524
00:25:35,700 --> 00:25:38,662
He's probably gonna overthrow you someday,
you know, work on your parenting skills.
525
00:25:38,662 --> 00:25:41,665
He could have talked
about a whole bunch of different things.
526
00:25:41,873 --> 00:25:45,043
No, there's one point today
that you need to hear.
527
00:25:45,877 --> 00:25:47,087
You've sinned.
528
00:25:47,087 --> 00:25:50,757
He condensed his message
to a crystal clear focus.
529
00:25:50,757 --> 00:25:53,552
And David got it, and he remembered it.
530
00:25:53,552 --> 00:25:55,303
And we as communicators need to do that.
531
00:25:55,303 --> 00:25:58,306
If I've got 12 points that I want to give,
532
00:25:58,557 --> 00:26:01,560
will I remember these 12 points
without looking at notes?
533
00:26:01,810 --> 00:26:04,563
If I won't, then
why am I going to put that on my audience?
534
00:26:04,563 --> 00:26:05,647
They don't even have my notes.
535
00:26:05,647 --> 00:26:07,816
They haven't had the time to study.
That's not even realistic.
536
00:26:07,816 --> 00:26:09,109
Don't waste their time.
537
00:26:09,109 --> 00:26:12,112
Cancel that message or let's condense it.
538
00:26:12,237 --> 00:26:14,281
Do these 12 points.
539
00:26:14,281 --> 00:26:17,158
First of all, are they 12 points
that my audience needs to hear?
540
00:26:17,158 --> 00:26:20,495
And if so, then let's take one
and let's develop it well.
541
00:26:20,495 --> 00:26:22,914
Let's teach it
well so that they get it. Okay.
542
00:26:24,124 --> 00:26:24,499
I'm not
543
00:26:24,499 --> 00:26:27,502
saying that a message
can't have more than one point to it.
544
00:26:27,627 --> 00:26:32,841
It can have multiple points that are
all pointing to the point of the message.
545
00:26:33,216 --> 00:26:34,009
That's the key.
546
00:26:34,009 --> 00:26:38,638
So Nathan condensed his message to David.
547
00:26:38,847 --> 00:26:40,890
You're the man. You’ve sinned. Okay?
548
00:26:40,890 --> 00:26:46,646
So he condensed it to that and
then it wasn't an informational meeting.
549
00:26:47,355 --> 00:26:48,398
Okay.
550
00:26:48,398 --> 00:26:53,069
You know, when he was done, David didn’t
look at him and say, that's a cool story.
551
00:26:53,778 --> 00:26:54,487
Thanks, man.
552
00:26:54,487 --> 00:26:57,449
Like, what do I do with this? No.
553
00:26:57,490 --> 00:26:58,867
What did he say?
554
00:26:58,867 --> 00:26:59,868
I've sinned.
555
00:26:59,868 --> 00:27:01,995
He was compelled to action.
556
00:27:01,995 --> 00:27:04,539
He knew what he needed to do.
557
00:27:04,539 --> 00:27:06,666
He needed to repent.
558
00:27:06,666 --> 00:27:08,877
And when we communicate, we're never
559
00:27:08,877 --> 00:27:11,880
communicating
just for the sake of communicating.
560
00:27:12,756 --> 00:27:14,257
There's a reason to it.
561
00:27:14,257 --> 00:27:17,260
Why am I having this meeting? Why?
562
00:27:17,594 --> 00:27:20,639
Why am I, meeting with this customer?
563
00:27:20,639 --> 00:27:22,891
Why am I speaking to this class?
564
00:27:22,891 --> 00:27:25,769
Why to this congregation?
565
00:27:25,769 --> 00:27:28,563
And I want to compel them to action.
566
00:27:28,563 --> 00:27:31,566
So we've all probably sat under
567
00:27:32,192 --> 00:27:36,488
under a message or teaching where
we've come away saying that
568
00:27:36,613 --> 00:27:39,616
that was really good, but I don't know,
what am I supposed to do with this?
569
00:27:40,450 --> 00:27:43,411
And as a communicator,
it's our responsibility to say, okay,
570
00:27:43,411 --> 00:27:44,704
I'm not just going to tell you,
571
00:27:45,914 --> 00:27:46,831
here's truth.
572
00:27:46,831 --> 00:27:50,001
Here's something good for you to
to think about.
573
00:27:50,877 --> 00:27:51,711
What do you do with this?
574
00:27:51,711 --> 00:27:54,172
I'm going to say, here's
what here's how you apply this.
575
00:27:54,172 --> 00:27:56,549
In fact,
576
00:27:56,549 --> 00:27:59,177
we see that with Nathan in this one.
577
00:27:59,177 --> 00:28:01,346
Let me give an illustration.
578
00:28:01,346 --> 00:28:04,349
And this is from Jesus,
the master teacher.
579
00:28:04,474 --> 00:28:06,893
Jesus was asked a question.
580
00:28:06,893 --> 00:28:09,896
One day,
a teacher of the law came to him and said,
581
00:28:10,980 --> 00:28:13,983
master,
what do I need to do to get eternal life?
582
00:28:14,859 --> 00:28:17,862
And Jesus, knowing his people,
583
00:28:18,321 --> 00:28:20,907
the people that he's speaking to,
you knowing his audience,
584
00:28:20,907 --> 00:28:23,952
he said, well, you know,
the reading of the law, what's it say?
585
00:28:23,993 --> 00:28:25,370
You know,
586
00:28:25,370 --> 00:28:28,289
said, well, you know, you love Lord
to God through your whole heart,
587
00:28:28,289 --> 00:28:30,333
soul, mind, strength,
love your neighbor as yourself.
588
00:28:30,333 --> 00:28:33,712
Jesus said, you've answered,
well, do that, and you live
589
00:28:34,295 --> 00:28:37,298
and then it says that
this teacher of the law
590
00:28:37,549 --> 00:28:40,927
saying, wanting to justify himself,
says, well, who's my neighbor?
591
00:28:41,845 --> 00:28:43,138
So here's the question.
592
00:28:44,139 --> 00:28:46,641
And what is Jesus, the master teacher
communicator?
593
00:28:46,641 --> 00:28:48,518
What does he do?
594
00:28:48,518 --> 00:28:50,770
He could have said, well, your neighbor
595
00:28:50,770 --> 00:28:53,773
is anybody you come in contact with,
596
00:28:53,982 --> 00:28:56,359
End of discussion,
end of teaching session.
597
00:28:56,359 --> 00:28:58,778
How many people would remember that?
598
00:28:58,778 --> 00:28:59,654
Not very many.
599
00:28:59,654 --> 00:29:01,030
You know how Jesus answered that question.
600
00:29:01,030 --> 00:29:02,824
And who's my neighbor?
601
00:29:02,824 --> 00:29:05,827
He answered it with a story.
602
00:29:06,202 --> 00:29:08,580
The story
603
00:29:08,580 --> 00:29:11,541
is what all of us know
as the Good Samaritan.
604
00:29:12,333 --> 00:29:15,295
Jesus tells this story
605
00:29:15,295 --> 00:29:18,298
in a way that connected with his audience.
606
00:29:18,298 --> 00:29:19,424
They get it.
607
00:29:19,424 --> 00:29:21,426
He lists places. It's a real place.
608
00:29:21,426 --> 00:29:24,262
Pass from, Jerusalem to Jericho.
609
00:29:24,262 --> 00:29:26,973
They've traveled that road, fell
among the thieves.
610
00:29:26,973 --> 00:29:29,392
They probably pictured the,
you know, the place where that can happen
611
00:29:29,392 --> 00:29:32,771
or, you know, on these roads, whatever
fell among the thieves, a priest comes by.
612
00:29:32,812 --> 00:29:34,105
They know who a priest is.
613
00:29:34,105 --> 00:29:36,983
So he's using a story
that his audience connects with.
614
00:29:36,983 --> 00:29:39,486
Okay, a priest goes by,
priest is a good guy.
615
00:29:39,486 --> 00:29:42,113
Sees the man lying there half dead.
616
00:29:42,113 --> 00:29:43,281
Passes by on the other side.
617
00:29:44,574 --> 00:29:46,284
Well, that's not very nice.
618
00:29:46,284 --> 00:29:47,368
How does this answer the question?
619
00:29:47,368 --> 00:29:47,994
Who's my neighbor?
620
00:29:47,994 --> 00:29:50,580
You got curiosity in your audience.
621
00:29:50,580 --> 00:29:51,790
That's a good thing.
622
00:29:51,790 --> 00:29:53,792
You want, you want.
There's going to be some tension.
623
00:29:53,792 --> 00:29:55,502
Like why is he saying this?
624
00:29:55,502 --> 00:29:57,670
Or how does this apply? So Jesus has that.
625
00:29:57,670 --> 00:30:00,006
Okay. The priest, he went by over there
okay.
626
00:30:00,006 --> 00:30:03,134
Next a Levite comes
by, sees the man in the ditch,
627
00:30:03,134 --> 00:30:06,805
half dead, passes by this side,
and they're like a Levite.
628
00:30:06,805 --> 00:30:08,640
That's a good guy.
629
00:30:08,640 --> 00:30:09,516
Not really. Like.
630
00:30:09,516 --> 00:30:12,519
So what Jesus doing a priest Levite,
good guys.
631
00:30:12,560 --> 00:30:14,479
they’re the bad guys in the story.
632
00:30:14,479 --> 00:30:17,398
Jesus says, then a Samaritan come by
and I can almost hear these guys groaning
633
00:30:17,398 --> 00:30:21,569
like, oh, brother, that they hated
the Samaritans, the other bad guys.
634
00:30:21,569 --> 00:30:22,445
We don't like them.
635
00:30:22,445 --> 00:30:24,948
Jesus is probably gonna make the Samaritan
be the good guy. And he does.
636
00:30:24,948 --> 00:30:27,325
The Samaritan comes by,
he sees the guy there.
637
00:30:27,325 --> 00:30:28,701
He gets off his donkey.
638
00:30:28,701 --> 00:30:31,162
He bandaged his wounds.
He puts him on the donkey.
639
00:30:31,162 --> 00:30:33,832
He takes him to an inn,
says here, take care of him.
640
00:30:33,832 --> 00:30:34,707
I'm paying the bill.
641
00:30:34,707 --> 00:30:37,669
And if there's more out,
I check back and I'll take care of it.
642
00:30:37,794 --> 00:30:41,130
When Jesus done,
he turns back to this lawyer
643
00:30:41,130 --> 00:30:42,632
teacher of the law
who's asked this question.
644
00:30:42,632 --> 00:30:48,096
And he said, So, who was neighbor to
him that fell among thieves?
645
00:30:49,597 --> 00:30:52,350
Now the man asking that question.
646
00:30:52,350 --> 00:30:54,060
And that audience did not go.
647
00:30:54,060 --> 00:30:56,312
I know it was the Good Samaritan.
648
00:30:56,312 --> 00:30:59,107
You could call the story
the story of the Good Samaritan.
649
00:30:59,107 --> 00:31:00,984
Not at all. You know what he did?
650
00:31:00,984 --> 00:31:03,653
He wouldn't even say the words
he just said.
651
00:31:03,653 --> 00:31:06,656
The one that showed mercy on him.
652
00:31:06,948 --> 00:31:08,491
But he got it. He got the point.
653
00:31:08,491 --> 00:31:10,285
And then Jesus said, go and do likewise.
654
00:31:10,285 --> 00:31:11,911
He compelled him to action.
655
00:31:11,911 --> 00:31:14,956
So in that story that we have there,
what did Jesus do?
656
00:31:14,998 --> 00:31:15,957
He connected.
657
00:31:15,957 --> 00:31:19,836
He connected with them through a story
that they understood.
658
00:31:19,836 --> 00:31:22,505
They understood the place.
They understood the people. He connected.
659
00:31:22,505 --> 00:31:23,673
He condensed it.
660
00:31:23,673 --> 00:31:28,261
How many topics could Jesus preached to
the to the religious leaders of that day?
661
00:31:28,636 --> 00:31:31,055
You know, he could have hammered
a whole lot of things.
662
00:31:31,055 --> 00:31:33,266
The pride in your heart
that's why you look down.
663
00:31:33,266 --> 00:31:34,893
No, no, no, no.
664
00:31:34,893 --> 00:31:35,560
Your neighbor is
665
00:31:35,560 --> 00:31:38,938
anybody come in contact, go and do like
he condensed it to one point.
666
00:31:39,731 --> 00:31:42,275
He compelled him to go and do likewise.
667
00:31:42,275 --> 00:31:47,280
So to me, good communication
will always do those three things.
668
00:31:47,655 --> 00:31:50,658
I'm going to connect, I'm
going to condense,
669
00:31:51,200 --> 00:31:54,871
and I'm going to compel that to me
as effective communication.
670
00:31:55,622 --> 00:31:56,581
that's incredible.
671
00:31:56,581 --> 00:32:01,085
I've never thought of that story
with Nathan the prophet and David.
672
00:32:01,210 --> 00:32:03,421
That is powerful right.
673
00:32:03,421 --> 00:32:05,423
Like how he connected with David
in that way.
674
00:32:05,423 --> 00:32:08,426
It just it makes so much sense
when you describe it like that.
675
00:32:08,551 --> 00:32:09,093
Yeah.
676
00:32:09,093 --> 00:32:15,016
to me,
you look at how pivotal that moment was
677
00:32:15,683 --> 00:32:21,147
and and here's to me, this is why
I want to grow myself as a communicator.
678
00:32:22,482 --> 00:32:24,734
How many lives
679
00:32:24,734 --> 00:32:27,570
am I going to come in contact with?
680
00:32:27,570 --> 00:32:30,573
That it is a pivotal moment.
681
00:32:30,573 --> 00:32:32,700
And if I
682
00:32:32,700 --> 00:32:35,453
deliver, well, a message
they need to hear that
683
00:32:35,453 --> 00:32:37,080
it could be a good moment in their life.
684
00:32:37,080 --> 00:32:40,083
What if Nathan would have done this?
685
00:32:40,708 --> 00:32:41,751
Okay. God.
686
00:32:41,751 --> 00:32:44,504
You want me to go talk to David?
687
00:32:44,504 --> 00:32:46,047
He's committed adultery.
688
00:32:46,047 --> 00:32:49,050
Murder, and he's lied.
689
00:32:49,676 --> 00:32:52,303
You just got to tell me what to speak,
okay?
690
00:32:52,303 --> 00:32:54,472
Nowadays, like, okay,
I'll just rely on the Holy Spirit.
691
00:32:54,472 --> 00:32:56,307
I don't know if I would have said that,
but we'll just do that, okay?
692
00:32:56,307 --> 00:32:58,184
I'm just to rely on Holy Spirit.
I'm going to go.
693
00:32:58,184 --> 00:33:00,269
So he comes in to David.
694
00:33:00,269 --> 00:33:02,522
Well, David,
695
00:33:02,522 --> 00:33:04,065
you've sinned.
696
00:33:04,065 --> 00:33:05,942
I don't think it would have went over.
697
00:33:05,942 --> 00:33:08,486
When I look at that story
698
00:33:08,486 --> 00:33:11,531
he prepared,
he thought about who am I speaking to.
699
00:33:11,823 --> 00:33:13,157
What does he need to hear.
700
00:33:13,157 --> 00:33:14,867
Why does he need to hear it.
701
00:33:14,867 --> 00:33:16,494
He answered those questions.
702
00:33:16,494 --> 00:33:19,288
He prepared well for that.
703
00:33:19,288 --> 00:33:22,041
And when he went in there he delivered it.
704
00:33:22,041 --> 00:33:25,044
Well. And when he was done
705
00:33:25,253 --> 00:33:28,631
David didn't say, wow, Nathan,
you are an amazing storyteller.
706
00:33:29,757 --> 00:33:31,134
Not at all.
707
00:33:31,134 --> 00:33:33,469
This is one of the misconceptions
that people have
708
00:33:33,469 --> 00:33:36,472
in getting trained for communication.
709
00:33:36,764 --> 00:33:40,435
If you become good at it,
you'll get proud.
710
00:33:41,936 --> 00:33:46,315
Okay, the goal
in growing yourself as a communicator
711
00:33:46,941 --> 00:33:49,944
is so that you're not a distraction
to the message.
712
00:33:50,069 --> 00:33:53,573
To me, the highest compliment
I can receive as a communicator
713
00:33:53,781 --> 00:33:58,244
is for people to say, I was so taken in
by the message, I didn't think about you.
714
00:33:58,911 --> 00:34:00,538
I don't want people to think about me.
715
00:34:00,538 --> 00:34:03,082
I don't want to be a distraction.
716
00:34:03,082 --> 00:34:05,752
Nathan gave that message
717
00:34:05,752 --> 00:34:08,755
in a way that David connected with it.
718
00:34:09,088 --> 00:34:13,926
He understood it, and in the end it wasn’t
like, wow, Nathan, you're really good.
719
00:34:14,677 --> 00:34:17,305
I have, you know, have you come back in
story time with Nathan?
720
00:34:17,305 --> 00:34:18,723
No, it wasn't anything about that.
721
00:34:18,723 --> 00:34:20,516
The message hit home.
722
00:34:20,516 --> 00:34:22,477
You want to grow your self
as a communicator?
723
00:34:22,477 --> 00:34:23,227
Not so. People say.
724
00:34:23,227 --> 00:34:27,565
Wow, but so people get the message comes
back to this foundational belief I have.
725
00:34:27,565 --> 00:34:31,903
The greater the value of the message,
the greater the need to deliver well.
726
00:34:32,070 --> 00:34:35,031
So for Nathan to say, well,
I'll just rely on God, he's gotta lead me.
727
00:34:35,031 --> 00:34:36,657
That's being lazy.
728
00:34:36,657 --> 00:34:39,869
Okay, now,
I believe we rely on the Holy Spirit
729
00:34:39,869 --> 00:34:42,997
to help us, but to say, I'm
not going to prepare because of that.
730
00:34:43,164 --> 00:34:46,167
There's one time when Scripture
gives us permission to do that.
731
00:34:46,501 --> 00:34:49,837
That's when we're brought before kings
and governors for our faith.
732
00:34:49,837 --> 00:34:51,214
And it says, don't study ahead of time.
733
00:34:51,214 --> 00:34:52,590
Don't worry
about what you're going to say.
734
00:34:52,590 --> 00:34:54,717
The Holy Spirit will give you what to say
in that moment
735
00:34:54,717 --> 00:34:57,804
when I'm on trial for my faith,
I don't need to sweat it out.
736
00:34:57,929 --> 00:34:59,472
God's going to give me words to speak,
737
00:34:59,472 --> 00:35:01,307
But when I've been asked to teach
Sunday school,
738
00:35:01,307 --> 00:35:04,352
when I've been asked to preach a sermon,
when I've been asked to address
739
00:35:04,352 --> 00:35:07,355
a topic for me to say, well,
I'm just going to rely on the Holy Spirit
740
00:35:07,355 --> 00:35:10,399
that is not studying to show myself
to be approved unto God.
741
00:35:10,483 --> 00:35:13,486
That is not being a good steward
of the responsibilities.
742
00:35:13,569 --> 00:35:16,572
I need to work hard in preparing fact.
743
00:35:16,614 --> 00:35:19,117
That's where most of the work of effective
communication is.
744
00:35:19,117 --> 00:35:22,870
It's ahead of time
and we need to stop and say this.
745
00:35:23,579 --> 00:35:27,250
It's not do I work hard
or do I depend on the Holy Spirit?
746
00:35:27,250 --> 00:35:29,001
I think we do both.
747
00:35:29,001 --> 00:35:32,421
Like where do we get this idea
that depending on the Holy Spirit
748
00:35:32,421 --> 00:35:36,384
means I don't work, and that the only time
the spirit leads is behind the pulpit?
749
00:35:37,426 --> 00:35:39,178
I'm teaching Sunday school
750
00:35:39,178 --> 00:35:41,889
spirit just gonna have to lead
because I don't have time to study.
751
00:35:41,889 --> 00:35:43,015
That's laziness.
752
00:35:43,015 --> 00:35:45,810
Okay, that shows
my priorities aren't where they should be.
753
00:35:45,810 --> 00:35:49,564
If I've accepted responsibility to teach
this class, I need to put myself into it.
754
00:35:49,772 --> 00:35:52,400
And I want the spirit to lead me
while I study.
755
00:35:52,400 --> 00:35:55,736
And while I present to see
I don't need to prep.
756
00:35:55,862 --> 00:35:59,490
The Holy Spirit will lead me
that saying the study is all our own work.
757
00:35:59,490 --> 00:36:03,494
No amazing things happen
when we're working hard in the study.
758
00:36:04,203 --> 00:36:07,165
There will be times when we may study
759
00:36:07,165 --> 00:36:10,376
well and we get up to present and God's
Spirit will say, you know what?
760
00:36:10,376 --> 00:36:12,211
That's not the message.
I want you to do this.
761
00:36:12,211 --> 00:36:14,797
There'll be some times for that,
it can be.
762
00:36:14,797 --> 00:36:17,258
And then you, you follow
what God's Spirit leading to do
763
00:36:18,593 --> 00:36:20,344
but to use
764
00:36:20,344 --> 00:36:23,347
the excuse to be lazy in our preparation.
765
00:36:23,431 --> 00:36:25,683
So the Holy Spirit leads me.
766
00:36:25,683 --> 00:36:27,768
That is not honoring to God.
767
00:36:27,768 --> 00:36:29,437
Nathan didn't do that.
768
00:36:29,437 --> 00:36:30,813
I'm confident of that.
769
00:36:30,813 --> 00:36:33,191
Now, maybe Jesus could do that, right.
770
00:36:33,191 --> 00:36:34,317
He could, you know, come to him.
771
00:36:34,317 --> 00:36:36,819
But none of us can do that. So.
772
00:36:36,819 --> 00:36:39,238
So the whole idea that I don't
773
00:36:39,238 --> 00:36:41,240
I don't need to prepare
well because the Holy Spirit lead me.
774
00:36:41,240 --> 00:36:43,159
No, you need the Holy Spirit to lead you.
775
00:36:43,159 --> 00:36:46,537
And he can lead you in your study,
and he will lead you up there.
776
00:36:46,579 --> 00:36:50,416
Another question that can come along with
that is so how much notes do you take?
777
00:36:51,083 --> 00:36:53,878
I will yes. Okay. So what. Okay.
778
00:36:53,878 --> 00:36:55,922
To rewind a little bit I think you made a
779
00:36:57,381 --> 00:36:58,132
there's two things
780
00:36:58,132 --> 00:37:00,968
that's sticking out to me
when Nathan comes to David.
781
00:37:00,968 --> 00:37:04,972
That package that he delivered
so essentially had
782
00:37:04,972 --> 00:37:06,766
an incredible level of potency.
783
00:37:06,766 --> 00:37:09,310
You know,
he didn't need a 45 minute sermon, right?
784
00:37:09,310 --> 00:37:10,645
It's like five minutes. Boom.
785
00:37:10,645 --> 00:37:14,815
You know, so you have that and
just want to grab that as it passes by.
786
00:37:14,815 --> 00:37:18,277
Because that really affirms
what you're saying about the investment
787
00:37:18,277 --> 00:37:21,280
in time to hone that in
and make it potent.
788
00:37:21,656 --> 00:37:24,742
The other one is proper
789
00:37:24,742 --> 00:37:27,745
communication
or good communication effective?
790
00:37:27,787 --> 00:37:31,123
Actually lowers
like it's not about you, right?
791
00:37:31,123 --> 00:37:32,458
The person presenting it.
792
00:37:32,458 --> 00:37:33,793
That's kind of a new thought for me.
793
00:37:33,793 --> 00:37:37,964
And I wonder if that has a lot to do
with what people hesitate
794
00:37:37,964 --> 00:37:39,674
with because like, well,
I don't want to be proud.
795
00:37:39,674 --> 00:37:40,466
I don't want to be.
796
00:37:40,466 --> 00:37:45,054
It's almost like if I'm too good at this,
then then that lifts me up.
797
00:37:45,471 --> 00:37:48,516
And I think you make I think you're making
a really good point there.
798
00:37:49,141 --> 00:37:49,558
I don't know.
799
00:37:49,558 --> 00:37:54,272
And then back to so there's that piece
and then the whole preparing and study
800
00:37:54,272 --> 00:37:55,815
and then of course
the question about notes,
801
00:37:55,815 --> 00:37:57,608
you know, do you use notes, all of that
anyway, do
802
00:37:57,608 --> 00:37:59,652
you have more responses
to what I just showed there?
803
00:37:59,652 --> 00:38:01,946
So let me go back
before the notes. Let's come back to that.
804
00:38:01,946 --> 00:38:06,033
But the whole thing of if I do good,
you know, people think I'm proud.
805
00:38:06,075 --> 00:38:06,450
Whatever.
806
00:38:07,994 --> 00:38:10,246
We believe
807
00:38:10,246 --> 00:38:12,248
as Anabaptists, we believe that we can do
808
00:38:12,248 --> 00:38:15,251
business really well and not be proud.
809
00:38:16,335 --> 00:38:19,880
We believe that our wives can cook
810
00:38:19,880 --> 00:38:22,883
really good meals, and not be proud.
811
00:38:23,759 --> 00:38:26,387
And we actually,
812
00:38:26,387 --> 00:38:29,765
we want our wives to cook
good meals and stay humble.
813
00:38:30,391 --> 00:38:33,394
What I don't want to do
is go home tonight for supper
814
00:38:34,478 --> 00:38:35,521
and come inside.
815
00:38:35,521 --> 00:38:38,983
There's a fog of smoke and my wife pulls,
you know, some burnt
816
00:38:38,983 --> 00:38:41,360
offering out of the oven and is like,
you know what, honey?
817
00:38:41,360 --> 00:38:44,363
I burnt this one on purpose
to stay humble.
818
00:38:44,572 --> 00:38:46,365
Like, don't make us suffer, honey.
819
00:38:46,365 --> 00:38:48,075
Stay humble and keep cooking good, right?
820
00:38:48,075 --> 00:38:52,455
So somehow we had this foundational belief
that we can do business well,
821
00:38:52,455 --> 00:38:53,414
we can cook well.
822
00:38:53,414 --> 00:38:55,333
We can do these things well and stay.
823
00:38:55,333 --> 00:38:56,876
Stay humble.
824
00:38:56,876 --> 00:39:01,005
Why do we think that if I get good
at communicating, I'll become proud?
825
00:39:01,464 --> 00:39:02,631
I don't think it should be that way.
826
00:39:02,631 --> 00:39:04,008
And I think part of that can come from
827
00:39:04,008 --> 00:39:07,553
is we think about communication
as about the communicator.
828
00:39:07,845 --> 00:39:09,764
And what we need to do is switch
the focus.
829
00:39:09,764 --> 00:39:11,182
It always should be.
830
00:39:11,182 --> 00:39:15,686
Receiver oriented
or we need to think is the receiver.
831
00:39:15,978 --> 00:39:19,648
That's what effective communication
the focus is on the receiver.
832
00:39:19,648 --> 00:39:20,608
It's not about me.
833
00:39:20,608 --> 00:39:23,235
So what do they need to hear?
834
00:39:23,235 --> 00:39:24,653
You know, what's their need?
835
00:39:24,653 --> 00:39:26,739
Why do they need to hear this?
836
00:39:26,739 --> 00:39:29,575
How will this help them?
What do they need to do with this?
837
00:39:29,575 --> 00:39:31,369
How can I present
in a way that they get it?
838
00:39:31,369 --> 00:39:34,663
It's all about them
and all we are as a communicator.
839
00:39:34,663 --> 00:39:35,998
We're just the messenger.
840
00:39:37,041 --> 00:39:38,751
So our job is just to deliver it.
841
00:39:38,751 --> 00:39:41,754
So all my preparation
is thinking about them.
842
00:39:42,046 --> 00:39:44,173
What do they need to hear?
None of it's about me.
843
00:39:44,173 --> 00:39:47,176
And so it's getting the focus off of me,
which again, is in line with
844
00:39:47,593 --> 00:39:50,596
with being a Christian. It's about God.
845
00:39:50,721 --> 00:39:53,724
I really think that might might be
one of the most key pieces
846
00:39:53,933 --> 00:39:55,101
that that you have here.
847
00:39:55,101 --> 00:39:59,897
Because there's if there's
a foundational belief that, oh, what?
848
00:39:59,939 --> 00:40:03,359
You're proud if you're good at this or,
oh, I don't want to be in the spotlight
849
00:40:03,359 --> 00:40:05,611
because because, you know, hey,
if you're if you're giving a sermon
850
00:40:05,611 --> 00:40:07,530
or a devotional in church
when there's a lot of people
851
00:40:07,530 --> 00:40:09,782
looking at you,
you know, it's a public thing, right?
852
00:40:09,782 --> 00:40:13,994
And so it oh, he, you know, it gets we get
kind of nervous about that and okay.
853
00:40:13,994 --> 00:40:18,916
But maybe we've got the more
maybe misaligned there or mis oriented.
854
00:40:18,916 --> 00:40:22,711
I think you're really on something
there that can we not
855
00:40:23,796 --> 00:40:26,340
keeping the focus on what's the message.
856
00:40:26,340 --> 00:40:28,050
And who are the people
that need to receive it.
857
00:40:28,050 --> 00:40:29,885
That's, that's that's a really key piece.
858
00:40:29,885 --> 00:40:33,305
I think it's it's in line
with the principles of Scripture.
859
00:40:33,639 --> 00:40:36,267
It's about the message.
860
00:40:36,267 --> 00:40:37,351
It's not about the messenger.
861
00:40:37,351 --> 00:40:40,479
Paul said in Galatians when,
when he heard the church
862
00:40:40,771 --> 00:40:44,483
there was was being deceived
by the Judaizers.
863
00:40:44,483 --> 00:40:47,987
He said,
it doesn't matter who preaches this,
864
00:40:47,987 --> 00:40:52,324
even if an angel comes, if it's any
what what matters is the message.
865
00:40:52,324 --> 00:40:54,910
If it's any, then what is truth?
866
00:40:54,910 --> 00:40:55,578
It's wrong.
867
00:40:55,578 --> 00:40:57,496
That's a great point.
I never thought of that.
868
00:40:57,496 --> 00:40:58,789
It's about the message.
869
00:40:58,789 --> 00:41:02,334
We as communicators exist for the message.
870
00:41:03,043 --> 00:41:06,839
And when we make that, as I prepare,
871
00:41:07,465 --> 00:41:10,468
I'm thinking about,
okay, what's the message?
872
00:41:10,718 --> 00:41:12,261
How can I see in a way,
they understand it?
873
00:41:12,261 --> 00:41:14,513
Why do they need this?
It's all about them.
874
00:41:14,513 --> 00:41:16,390
We're really not even in the picture.
875
00:41:16,390 --> 00:41:17,975
Our job is just to deliver it.
876
00:41:17,975 --> 00:41:20,978
And we want to deliver in a way
that we're not a distraction.
877
00:41:21,187 --> 00:41:23,689
And when we do it well,
878
00:41:23,689 --> 00:41:26,692
our audience will say, I get it.
879
00:41:26,817 --> 00:41:27,943
It makes sense.
880
00:41:27,943 --> 00:41:29,570
And then God speaks to the heart.
881
00:41:29,570 --> 00:41:32,573
When I don't do it
well, I become a distraction.
882
00:41:32,698 --> 00:41:33,616
See that?
883
00:41:33,616 --> 00:41:37,036
It's this is really resonating
because I'm just thinking of like, okay,
884
00:41:38,370 --> 00:41:39,205
a high watermark
885
00:41:39,205 --> 00:41:42,208
for good public speaking is something
like Ted talks, for example, right?
886
00:41:42,291 --> 00:41:44,251
And there are some out there
that are just just phenomenal.
887
00:41:44,251 --> 00:41:45,336
And you learn a ton. Right.
888
00:41:45,336 --> 00:41:47,421
And I'm trying to think I'm like, yeah,
I've seen some.
889
00:41:47,421 --> 00:41:49,131
And I can tell you what the topic was.
890
00:41:49,131 --> 00:41:52,259
I couldn't tell you who the speaker was,
you know, because I'll remember.
891
00:41:52,259 --> 00:41:54,303
Oh man, I remember
I heard this on a Ted talk.
892
00:41:54,303 --> 00:41:58,140
And that idea just was really neat
and it was presented super great.
893
00:41:58,349 --> 00:42:00,684
No idea who that guy's name was.
894
00:42:00,684 --> 00:42:03,687
You take your favorite communicators,
895
00:42:03,687 --> 00:42:05,814
the ones that you like to listen to.
896
00:42:05,814 --> 00:42:08,651
And you know why we like them?
897
00:42:08,651 --> 00:42:11,487
Because they deliver well.
898
00:42:11,487 --> 00:42:14,823
If I think of my favorite speakers,
I like them.
899
00:42:14,823 --> 00:42:18,536
And I keep going back to to hearing them,
I know they deliver.
900
00:42:18,536 --> 00:42:20,704
I get a message.
901
00:42:20,704 --> 00:42:24,166
and so, again, along the line of why
we want to develop ourselves
902
00:42:24,166 --> 00:42:25,918
so we can deliver well, is,
903
00:42:28,128 --> 00:42:30,631
if I go to hear my favorite preacher
904
00:42:30,631 --> 00:42:34,426
and he doesn't give a message
905
00:42:34,426 --> 00:42:37,429
that connects, that makes sense.
906
00:42:38,389 --> 00:42:40,099
There's gonna come a time where, like,
907
00:42:40,099 --> 00:42:42,810
I don't really want to go hear him
speak anymore.
908
00:42:42,810 --> 00:42:46,564
What draws us to any communicator
is the message.
909
00:42:47,565 --> 00:42:50,568
You can take your favorite speaker,
your favorite podcast
910
00:42:50,568 --> 00:42:53,571
you listen to or whatever
it may be, your favorite communicator.
911
00:42:53,988 --> 00:42:57,700
If they stop delivering a message,
you're going to stop listening.
912
00:42:59,243 --> 00:43:03,455
But when we go back to places where
we know we're going to get a message.
913
00:43:03,497 --> 00:43:07,751
So really, while we may say
we have favorite speakers or authors,
914
00:43:08,043 --> 00:43:11,255
the reason we like them is because
the message they really are delivering.
915
00:43:11,505 --> 00:43:12,631
you know, like I learned something.
916
00:43:12,631 --> 00:43:14,508
This this actually mattered. Yeah.
917
00:43:14,508 --> 00:43:15,009
Right. Man.
918
00:43:15,009 --> 00:43:18,971
That's that's that's huge, though,
because I think I think that is a big
919
00:43:18,971 --> 00:43:20,889
stumbling block for people is like,
920
00:43:20,889 --> 00:43:23,058
oh, I don't want to lift myself up or
921
00:43:23,058 --> 00:43:24,977
like, I don't want to put myself forward
in this way.
922
00:43:24,977 --> 00:43:29,356
And and maybe I'm misconstruing this
or perhaps maybe not misconstruing it,
923
00:43:29,356 --> 00:43:33,402
but we're perceiving ourselves
incorrectly or something, you know?
924
00:43:33,902 --> 00:43:36,113
So yeah, let's,
let's hit a few practical things.
925
00:43:36,113 --> 00:43:38,657
So, so back to the notes thing.
926
00:43:38,657 --> 00:43:41,577
I'm curious, you do a lot of public
speaking, a lot of teaching and things.
927
00:43:41,577 --> 00:43:42,661
Do you use notes?
928
00:43:42,661 --> 00:43:45,664
You have notes right now, but or are you
the kind of person I'm going to wing it?
929
00:43:45,998 --> 00:43:48,500
You know, I, I have gone through
930
00:43:48,500 --> 00:43:52,004
different stages as a young preacher.
931
00:43:53,631 --> 00:43:54,214
There was a
932
00:43:54,214 --> 00:43:57,217
time when I only used three by five cards.
933
00:43:57,343 --> 00:43:59,803
You know, I, I just wanted it to flow.
934
00:43:59,803 --> 00:44:01,013
Okay.
935
00:44:01,013 --> 00:44:04,391
And I preached a few good sermons
from only a three by five card,
936
00:44:04,558 --> 00:44:07,478
and I preached some really lousy ones
from that.
937
00:44:07,478 --> 00:44:10,439
I have, ranged,
938
00:44:10,439 --> 00:44:12,650
in different, different aspects.
939
00:44:12,650 --> 00:44:15,653
To me, it's
not about how many notes you take down.
940
00:44:16,779 --> 00:44:19,782
Now, what I do is
I put a lot of notes down.
941
00:44:20,074 --> 00:44:21,241
Okay.
942
00:44:21,241 --> 00:44:26,038
Because it helps you process your message
by putting it down on paper.
943
00:44:26,830 --> 00:44:30,959
So. And, and if you're going to reuse it
in the future,
944
00:44:31,710 --> 00:44:33,003
then you have something to go back to.
945
00:44:33,003 --> 00:44:35,964
So I think you should put
a lot of notes down
946
00:44:36,048 --> 00:44:39,093
for the first goal is to make sure
you got your thoughts organized.
947
00:44:39,843 --> 00:44:41,345
Okay. So you see it there.
948
00:44:41,345 --> 00:44:43,681
Something happens when it goes.
949
00:44:43,681 --> 00:44:45,599
It goes from here down to the paper.
950
00:44:45,599 --> 00:44:47,017
Something happens within us.
951
00:44:47,017 --> 00:44:48,811
It helps us process, helps us get it.
952
00:44:48,811 --> 00:44:51,021
So, I take a lot of notes.
953
00:44:52,564 --> 00:44:54,316
And then
954
00:44:54,316 --> 00:44:58,987
I make sure that I've gone through them
enough that I can internalize it.
955
00:44:58,987 --> 00:45:01,990
And my goal is not to use them,
956
00:45:02,449 --> 00:45:05,452
but I will always take them with me.
957
00:45:05,911 --> 00:45:06,537
Okay.
958
00:45:06,537 --> 00:45:09,873
So, recently preaching at a wedding,
959
00:45:11,959 --> 00:45:12,710
a wedding.
960
00:45:12,710 --> 00:45:15,629
You don't want to be a distraction
as the preacher at the wedding, right?
961
00:45:15,629 --> 00:45:18,632
And, yeah.
962
00:45:19,049 --> 00:45:21,093
I had notes,
963
00:45:21,093 --> 00:45:24,096
but I internalize it,
so I don't need them.
964
00:45:24,680 --> 00:45:28,142
But I kept them with me, folded them
up, tucked them in my pocket,
965
00:45:28,851 --> 00:45:31,770
gave my message, internalize it
so I didn't need them.
966
00:45:31,770 --> 00:45:34,064
But if I lose my way,
I know they’re right there.
967
00:45:34,064 --> 00:45:34,606
I can get to them.
968
00:45:34,606 --> 00:45:37,276
Okay, so I always take notes with me.
969
00:45:37,276 --> 00:45:39,194
And sometimes I'll need them.
970
00:45:39,194 --> 00:45:44,116
Sometimes not, but I think it's it's
good to put a lot down on paper.
971
00:45:44,241 --> 00:45:45,951
So if you do lose your way.
972
00:45:45,951 --> 00:45:50,372
I was preaching,
and also a wedding, several years ago.
973
00:45:50,873 --> 00:45:55,377
And all of a sudden, my mind just went
blank, and it scared me, like, where am I?
974
00:45:55,586 --> 00:45:57,796
What am I saying here? Like,
I lost my place in the sermon.
975
00:45:57,796 --> 00:46:01,675
I was so glad that I had notes
that I could just pause, look back,
976
00:46:02,050 --> 00:46:03,802
okay, get back on track. Okay?
977
00:46:03,802 --> 00:46:05,179
Because that's going to happen to us.
978
00:46:05,179 --> 00:46:09,224
So take a lot of notes,
but then internalize it
979
00:46:09,475 --> 00:46:12,478
so that you can connect
with your audience.
980
00:46:12,770 --> 00:46:18,525
There's a difference between memorizing a
message or a speech and internalizing it.
981
00:46:19,568 --> 00:46:21,153
I was at a conference
982
00:46:21,153 --> 00:46:25,449
and, a leadership conference,
and they had a number of speakers
983
00:46:25,449 --> 00:46:28,952
throughout the day, and there were a few
that were really good.
984
00:46:29,828 --> 00:46:32,498
And after the day was done
985
00:46:32,498 --> 00:46:35,584
reflecting back, I'm like,
so why were those so impactful?
986
00:46:35,584 --> 00:46:38,462
Why did I really like them?
987
00:46:38,462 --> 00:46:41,465
A few of them weren't really dynamic,
988
00:46:42,007 --> 00:46:44,802
like they pretty much just talked
in their optimal voice the whole time.
989
00:46:44,802 --> 00:46:45,135
They, you know,
990
00:46:45,135 --> 00:46:46,970
they weren't all over the stage
or that type of thing,
991
00:46:46,970 --> 00:46:49,890
which sometimes we think goes
with being a good communicator.
992
00:46:49,890 --> 00:46:51,850
No. They
993
00:46:51,850 --> 00:46:53,477
but they really
it was like it was really good.
994
00:46:53,477 --> 00:46:57,439
And here's as I process
this, here's what every one of those
995
00:46:57,940 --> 00:47:00,901
communicators that really
that I really got some out of that day.
996
00:47:00,984 --> 00:47:02,694
Here's what they had in common.
997
00:47:02,694 --> 00:47:05,697
All of them had internalized
their message.
998
00:47:05,739 --> 00:47:09,117
So throughout their entire presentation,
they were connecting
999
00:47:09,243 --> 00:47:14,540
with us as an audience, and they weren't
continually in their notes, in the notes.
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They were just talking to me.
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And it's like, wow, I got it.
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00:47:18,752 --> 00:47:23,966
So there as a communicator,
part of internalizing is writing it down
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and then
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processing it, so that you can give it
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00:47:29,555 --> 00:47:32,182
it just comes from the inside out
and you can get it.
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00:47:32,182 --> 00:47:35,102
So back to the note taking question.
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I encourage people to take a lot of notes.
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So you have it there.
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But then you want to internalize it.
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and when you internalize it and you can
just stay connected with your audience,
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that's the best.
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Now, there are times when
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00:47:48,073 --> 00:47:51,493
maybe we're not able to internalize
it completely as we like.
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Will then have your notes there,
and have your notes
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in a way that you can easily
look down, find your spot.
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00:47:57,916 --> 00:48:01,461
And and know where you're at rather
than you've got to look through it.
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00:48:01,461 --> 00:48:03,505
You're,
you're digging around what you're doing.
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So the internalizing
piece feels significant. It,
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it feels like
if you if you did that properly, whatever
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you're presenting will come across
as very authentic and genuine.
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It's like you're not making stuff up.
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00:48:17,352 --> 00:48:19,313
You're not reading from
from a book or something.
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00:48:19,313 --> 00:48:22,107
You know, it's like, oh,
you actually believe this?
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You've got like, that's something
I know that speaker has really got it.
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00:48:26,612 --> 00:48:26,862
Yeah.
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That feels like that in itself
would add quite a bit of impact.
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00:48:31,241 --> 00:48:32,075
It does, it does.
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And the fact too, that,
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I'm looking at you
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and I'm, I'm not putting on a
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my preacher voice or my professional voice
or I'm not trying to be somebody else.
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I'm just being who I am in line
with the message.
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When you think about delivery,
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and when we teach at Impact
communication conference,
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we have one session out of eight.
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We have one on delivery.
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And it's
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fitting because most of your work
as a communicator is beforehand
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and in processing, developing, preparing.
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And then we do one on delivery
and in delivery.
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I'll just give you these real
real quickly.
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Two points for delivery.
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The Eminem's of delivery
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m the message.
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The second m, the messenger
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and what we need to do as the messenger.
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I need to deliver the message
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in a way that people get it at.
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I the messenger.
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Am I presenting the message?
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In a way they'll get it.
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There'll be some talks I give where I stay
right behind the podium.
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I stay right my seat.
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And I should.
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It would be a distraction if I was up
on my feet, if I raise my voice.
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Okay.
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There's there's some message
I give where I come down off the stage
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and I'm moving around and I get loud
and I, you know, all these type of things
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if it's in line with the message.
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00:50:00,747 --> 00:50:04,376
Okay, so when we think about delivery,
I, the messenger,
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I need to give it
in a way that they get it.
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And if I'm not myself,
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and if I'm not giving it in line
with the message,
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00:50:14,553 --> 00:50:16,179
it doesn't feel authentic.
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It's like, why is he all of a sudden
speaking in this voice
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00:50:19,307 --> 00:50:21,643
like I just talked to him beforehand.
That's not really him.
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00:50:21,643 --> 00:50:23,729
It makes people makes people question
that.
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Okay, if I'm telling
a personal illustration and I read it,
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people will be like, is that true?
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Did that really happen?
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All I have to do is pop my head up
and just tell them
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and they'll get it.
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It's like, that really happened.
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So when it comes to delivery,
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we make sure we're doing in line
with the message
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again, always our focus is on the message.
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So we've, we've went through some
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some critical pieces on the fundamentals
of effective communication.
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The why like why it's important.
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Answering some of the questions around it.
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Will this turn this into, you know,
will this turn into pride
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or where
we put the focus on the wrong thing.
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I think again, I think you had a
I think that was a really key piece.
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So very practically,
what is one thing people listening to
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this can do right now
to improve their communication skills?
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You want to understand
what makes for good communication.
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So to do that,
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I'm going to give you
the five laws of IMPAC communication.
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So now and you can take these laws.
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Each of them answers a question.
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And this is what you can use to
to help yourself understand communication.
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So when Daryl and I developed
the impact medication conference
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00:51:37,219 --> 00:51:41,556
we spelt impact IMPAC no t on the end.
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But we do know how to spell.
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00:51:43,058 --> 00:51:44,559
There's a reason it’s IMPAC okay.
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So each one's letter stands for a law
I is inspiration
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m motivation
P personalization a application
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and then C clarification
okay so the law of inspiration it states
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an audience is impacted
when a communicator can build content.
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00:52:02,911 --> 00:52:05,622
That's your action word
built content that's relevant to them.
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00:52:06,581 --> 00:52:09,584
Answers a question what do I want
my audience to know?
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00:52:09,793 --> 00:52:10,877
That's the law of inspiration.
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00:52:10,877 --> 00:52:12,379
What do I want my audience to know?
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00:52:12,379 --> 00:52:17,259
Okay, that's something that you need to,
you need to wrestle to.
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00:52:17,259 --> 00:52:19,970
So what do they need to know?
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00:52:19,970 --> 00:52:21,179
And again, how you know that?
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Who am I speaking to?
Am I speaking to one person?
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00:52:23,557 --> 00:52:24,933
Am I speaking to teenagers?
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00:52:24,933 --> 00:52:26,560
Am I speaking to a thousand people?
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00:52:26,560 --> 00:52:29,062
You know, by knowing who your speaking to.
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00:52:29,062 --> 00:52:30,605
So that's the law of inspiration.
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00:52:30,605 --> 00:52:32,649
Answer the question,
what do I need them to know?
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00:52:32,649 --> 00:52:35,652
The second law motivation.
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00:52:36,611 --> 00:52:40,031
That law states an audience is impacted
when a communicator
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00:52:40,031 --> 00:52:43,034
can articulate the value of a message.
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00:52:43,493 --> 00:52:46,496
Answers, why do they need to hear this?
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00:52:47,080 --> 00:52:49,416
Okay, so why do they need this?
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00:52:49,416 --> 00:52:52,419
We take law of inspiration,
law of motivation
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and combine them
to make what we call an I-M statement.
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00:52:56,590 --> 00:52:58,258
So I want my
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audience to know answers
the question what?
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00:53:01,511 --> 00:53:05,348
So that or because that answers
the question why?
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00:53:05,682 --> 00:53:08,226
And then that guides me
through everything.
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00:53:08,226 --> 00:53:09,311
I'm giving that presentation.
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00:53:09,311 --> 00:53:11,855
Everything's in line with that goal.
Your inspiration.
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00:53:11,855 --> 00:53:13,648
What do they need to know? The motivation?
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00:53:13,648 --> 00:53:15,275
Why do they need to know it?
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00:53:15,275 --> 00:53:17,611
That's foundational in our communication.
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00:53:17,611 --> 00:53:22,991
And that works as a preacher, as a teacher
in sales, it works in any culture.
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00:53:22,991 --> 00:53:25,952
It works in any type of communication
that works.
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00:53:25,952 --> 00:53:27,787
So that's the law of inspiration,
law of motivation.
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Then the third law,
the law of personalization
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00:53:30,123 --> 00:53:33,043
that one states an audience is impacted
when a communicator
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00:53:33,043 --> 00:53:36,046
can demonstrate experience
with the message,
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00:53:37,047 --> 00:53:40,425
answers the question,
how does their message impact their life?
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00:53:41,218 --> 00:53:45,597
Now I have heard some pushback
from people saying, well, I don't use
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00:53:45,597 --> 00:53:48,892
personal illustrations in my speaking
because I don't like to talk about myself.
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00:53:49,226 --> 00:53:50,268
And that sounds good, right?
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00:53:51,519 --> 00:53:54,147
So let's just let's just follow
that line of thought.
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00:53:54,147 --> 00:53:55,440
You're
not going to use person illustration
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00:53:55,440 --> 00:53:57,359
because you don't
want to talk about yourself.
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00:53:57,359 --> 00:54:00,278
So what illustrations
are you going to use.
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00:54:00,278 --> 00:54:01,988
You're going to borrow from somebody else,
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00:54:01,988 --> 00:54:05,200
you know, search online like...
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00:54:05,867 --> 00:54:07,577
person illustrations are powerful.
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00:54:07,577 --> 00:54:08,870
They're great.
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00:54:08,870 --> 00:54:10,872
We don't give them to talk about
ourselves.
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00:54:10,872 --> 00:54:14,000
What happens is we give person
illustrations because it shows
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00:54:14,000 --> 00:54:18,004
how we practice the message,
how we put it into place.
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00:54:18,004 --> 00:54:21,716
So the goal in personal
and using in the law of personalization
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00:54:22,217 --> 00:54:24,928
is to say, here's how I use the product,
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00:54:24,928 --> 00:54:28,306
here's how I practice the habit, here's
how I believe the truth,
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00:54:28,765 --> 00:54:33,019
and three key three words that guide us
in using personal illustrations.
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00:54:33,728 --> 00:54:35,814
Thinking about the law of personalization.
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00:54:35,814 --> 00:54:39,025
Three words you need to be humble.
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Don't just share your success stories.
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00:54:43,488 --> 00:54:44,614
In fact, there have been messages.
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00:54:44,614 --> 00:54:46,825
When I've look back at my illustration,
I'm like, you know what?
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00:54:46,825 --> 00:54:49,202
All my stories are success stories.
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00:54:49,202 --> 00:54:52,163
So I'll pull one out and say, okay,
how can I put a story
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00:54:52,163 --> 00:54:56,334
where it was a fail story
and I needed to learn from my mistake?
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00:54:56,584 --> 00:54:59,004
So don't make all these stories
your success stories, okay?
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00:54:59,004 --> 00:55:02,007
Or don't make you the hero
in all your stories.
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00:55:02,549 --> 00:55:03,675
Okay.
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00:55:03,675 --> 00:55:07,595
In fact, when I teach this session at
IMPAC, I have four stories that illustrate
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in this.
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00:55:09,264 --> 00:55:13,977
Of those four stories, in three of them,
the hero is somebody else.
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Okay.
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And in one of them,
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it is very clear my failures.
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00:55:20,942 --> 00:55:21,735
Okay.
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00:55:21,735 --> 00:55:26,489
Only only in one of the four stories
am I the hero or I did the success.
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00:55:26,614 --> 00:55:27,949
I think it's a pretty good ratio.
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00:55:27,949 --> 00:55:32,370
Only one of four where
as the communicator, it's success on me.
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So your three words
that guide you in the law personalization.
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00:55:36,708 --> 00:55:41,046
Humble, honest, like be honest,
be real in sharing,
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about your struggles and how you're
wrestling with presenting this truth.
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00:55:45,842 --> 00:55:46,259
Okay,
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00:55:48,386 --> 00:55:49,596
I've heard people say, well,
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00:55:49,596 --> 00:55:53,516
I don't teach on this
because I don't do it very well myself.
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00:55:54,351 --> 00:55:57,062
Okay,
that sounds good, but follow that through.
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00:55:57,062 --> 00:56:00,065
Does that mean everything you speak
on, you've got to perfect it.
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That's not going to come across very well.
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And so the law of personalization
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00:56:05,528 --> 00:56:08,531
doesn't state, an audience is impacted
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00:56:08,615 --> 00:56:11,618
when a communicator can demonstrate
perfection.
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00:56:11,618 --> 00:56:13,328
No, it's when we demonstrate experience.
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Here's how I do this.
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Here's how I failed.
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00:56:15,997 --> 00:56:18,041
And I should have, you know, so
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personal situations
are never to bring attention to yourself.
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It's to point to the message.
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00:56:22,045 --> 00:56:25,799
And when you tell a personal story,
it helps if people say, wow,
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00:56:25,799 --> 00:56:27,384
he wrestles with that too.
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Wow. He believes in what he's saying.
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So that's why we use the law
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of personalization answers the question
how does this message impact your life
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then the fourth law,
the law of application, that is an
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audience is impacted when a communicator
can identify change to put into practice,
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identify change because your
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action words answers a question
what do I want them to do?
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And like I said before, we don't do
such thing as informational speech, okay?
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We always
there's a reason they need to hear this.
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So what do I want them to do?
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That's as we present.
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So we've the inspiration. The motivation.
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Here's what I want you to know.
Motivation, why I want you to know.
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And we're going to teach that.
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Okay. Now, what do you do with it.
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So now let's get application.
So that's a lot of application.
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And then the fifth law
and I love this one.
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And this is the one that I think
is the most underused
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because I think people don't
think about it.
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The law of clarification
and this law is this.
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And audiences impacted when a communicator
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can package the
delivery in a memorable way,
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answers the question,
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how do I help them remember?
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When I have done the work
of preparing a presentation,
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I have my content down
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now. I was like, okay, let me go.
Give it to them.
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No, stop!
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How can I package this
in a way that they'll remember it?
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Okay.
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What are the three words that guide us
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in using, law of Personalization?
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They all start with H.
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No, I didn't change this or make it up.
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Okay, we're going to.
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I can remember that. Honest, humble.
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And I didn't give you the last H humor.
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That's good I said there's three H’s,
remind me to go back to
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so when we use a law personalization
also humor is a great way
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and people people connect with humor okay.
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So when when we give personal
personal illustrations,
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humble, honest and then use humor
and humor
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using your own stories,
if you can laugh at yourself,
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your audience can laugh with you.
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That's a great way to connect.
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Exaggeration can be a great form of humor.
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And it's not lying is not dishonest
if it doesn't deceive.
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Okay, so we talked about it,
living in northern Minnesota.
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so let me tell you some about Minnesota
that I learned after living there
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for eight years.
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They have four seasons in in Minnesota,
northern Minnesota,
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early winter, mid-winter,
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late winter And next winter
That's so true.
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Okay, I know that's exaggeration.
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Yeah, but what do you get out of that?
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Yeah, there's long winters. Right.
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Okay, here's here's what I like about
Minnesota too is the people
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Minnesota are really excited this year
because summer falls on the weekend.
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So yeah
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what that tells people is okay
it's really cold.
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It's really long.
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It's exaggeration, but it's humor.
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People here that they laugh, made a point.
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Those are good ways
to use personal illustrations.
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So but back to the law of clarification.
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Three H’s I can remember that. Okay.
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So when you have a message
you're ready to give,
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how can I package in a way
that they're going to get it?
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How can I deliver memorable
in a memorable way?
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What did Jesus do
when he answered the question, what?
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Who's my neighbor?
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What did he do?
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Told him a story.
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We know the we know that
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the story of the Good Samaritan
Jesus package in a way that he got it.
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What did Nathan do.
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When he went to David, he packaged it
in a way that David would remember it.
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And so when you know what they need
to hear, why they need to hear it,
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you put your personal illustrations
in, you've gotten the application.
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Now let's do one more thing.
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Use the law of clarification.
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How can I help them remember,
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and what you want is that
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two days later, a week later,
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a year later, or whatever it may be,
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I got it, I got it,
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and often that will be
because the communicator
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put the work the time
into packaging it in a memorable way.
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How you package delivery.
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Now, I'm grateful
that that's where God's Spirit,
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he will say things that sometimes
we don't even say that people need to say.
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And we we thank God for that.
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But again, we're not going to be lazy.
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We're going to do our part in saying,
I'm going to try to help you remember
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not I'm like, let's work
with the Holy Spirit
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and trying to give them
what they can hear, what they can
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remember, rather than just dump
a load of information on them.
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So those are the five laws
of of IMPAC communication.
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And our core values in this, which go
right along with what we're talking about.
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Here are four core values with IMPAC.
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Our first one is humility okay.
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Valuing the message
rather than promoting the messenger.
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So that's why you want to do it
well, you want them to get it okay.
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David
didn't say, wow, Nathan you're great.
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No, he said I've sinned. He got it.
And that's our goal.
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Our goal isn't to make ourselves
look good.
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So our first value is humility.
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Our second one is teach ability.
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And so you talked about this.
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If you've got people speaking into it,
if you're going to be a good communicator
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you've got to accept people
speaking into how you communicate.
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And if all they do is say, well, it's
a great sermon, what you know, way to go
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that doesn't help you anything.
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But if they say, you know what, you're too
intense.
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01:01:41,656 --> 01:01:44,617
It's hard for me to listen to you.
Oh. Okay.
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Now I've got something to work on. Okay.
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So we need to be teachable.
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That's a core value.
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And again, one of the things we do
at the IMPAC communication conferences,
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you have feedback
where you get commendations,
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where those in your speech group
and your coach say, this is really good.
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Keep doing that.
And then you have critiques.
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This was a distraction.
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Here's
some things you need to work on okay.
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And we do that three times
that you give three different speeches
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in your speech group
so that we work on things.
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You see themes that you need to work on.
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So second, core values teach ability.
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Third one is maturity valuing
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the growth that comes through feedback
rather than taking offense at it.
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If I want to grow myself as a communicator
and I become offended
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01:02:26,159 --> 01:02:28,703
when somebody says, you don't, Rick,
that was a really lousy message.
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01:02:28,703 --> 01:02:29,370
I'm not going to grow.
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01:02:30,455 --> 01:02:33,458
But when I can be curious
with what they say and say, okay, why?
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01:02:33,458 --> 01:02:36,878
Why do you say that was a lousy message
and I can really listen to it.
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They can help me out.
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So even if even if I don't agree
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with everything they said or even
it's like, no, I don't think I said no.
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Listen to them, listen to them.
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So the third value value, maturity value
and the feedback that comes
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and then our fourth value is clarity value
in a concise focus message
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rather than teaching broad amounts
of information.
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And again, we go back to Jesus for this
Jesus told the disciples, said,
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I've got many things to tell you,
but you can't bear them all right now.
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But I'm going to give it to you
anyways, right?
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No, that's not what he said.
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And yet
how many times do we as communicators
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say, okay,
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I got to hurry
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through this to this message here
because I've got so much information
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I want to cover.
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Okay, time out.
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Is your goal to cover
a lot of information,
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or is your goal
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01:03:27,512 --> 01:03:31,182
to give a message that impacts
to where they understand and they get it?
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01:03:32,266 --> 01:03:36,020
If we're trying to hurry through to cover,
like, I believe
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01:03:36,020 --> 01:03:39,232
it's the late Howard Hendrix that says,
you know, why are we trying to cover it?
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01:03:39,315 --> 01:03:42,318
Oh, let's get it out there
where they can see it and understand it.
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So our goal,
if I have so much information that I go,
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it's like I'm
putting myself ahead of my audience.
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I have so many things
I want to say to you, so listen well.
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Yeah. Oh,
I see that. You see what I'm doing.
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So then what I'm doing is I'm
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sacrificing the impact
of what this message needs to be for them.
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For the sake of
I just want to say all these things.
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That's so selfish.
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For me as a communicator,
what I need to do is say,
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how much time has I've been given?
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Especially in American culture.
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We're very time conscious.
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How much time have they given?
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Have they given me 30 minutes
and I have a 60 minute sermon.
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Then I better condense it
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to where I can give it in 30 minutes
what they've wanted me to give.
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And I can do it
in a way they'll remember it.
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And if I have more information
to give than what I have time for,
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then narrow it down.
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Maybe you have two sermons.
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You should. They should be broken into.
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Or maybe you're saying some things that
aren't really pointing to the main point.
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So the aspect of I'm
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going to make sure I'm
going to say, here's what you can handle.
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That's a,
that's a really important aspect.
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And, and that's valuing,
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clarity value in the concise message
rather than broad amounts information.
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So that's our core values.
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And I see that when we follow those,
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that's when people can that's
when people will get it.
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And we're not in the way.
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We're not a distraction.
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Not being a distraction and, and really,
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pushing in on clarity
or honing in on clarity.
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Yeah, that's key though,
because it's so easy to just,
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01:05:19,582 --> 01:05:22,585
for it to feel a little rambly sometimes,
like, you know, sometimes, like,
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that's easy to do, you know, a sermon
or a teaching session or something.
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01:05:26,172 --> 01:05:28,257
It can feel like,
oh, I'm starting to lose it a little bit.
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01:05:28,257 --> 01:05:29,717
You know, where, where is this going?
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01:05:29,717 --> 01:05:31,427
And really pushing in on clarity.
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01:05:33,095 --> 01:05:33,804
so as we,
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as we wrap all these pieces up,
there's a lot here.
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I think it's the big is the big one. Okay.
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So we've covered a lot of territory
and there's all these books and trainings
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and courses, all this stuff on this,
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01:05:44,482 --> 01:05:48,194
it can feel like a lot
and where to even start.
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01:05:48,194 --> 01:05:52,239
But I feel like you gave us a couple
really, really key pieces.
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The. Yeah,
the humility part and good communication
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done well,
shouldn't be focused on the presenter.
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It's about the message.
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01:05:59,872 --> 01:06:01,958
I still feel like that's that one's huge.
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And the, the outlines you've given us.
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Yeah.
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This is there's a lot here to think about.
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So as, as we wrap this up
and people listen to this and say, okay,
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I want to take this into my own life
and get better at communicating.
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01:06:18,015 --> 01:06:21,018
Is there any piece of advice
you'd want to leave us with?
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Yes. Two things. The first one is this.
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Remember, as a communicator,
your job is to deliver a message.
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It's about the message, it’s
not about you.
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This isn't about me.
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And that takes the focus off yourself.
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So to me, that's just foundational.
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It gives me freedom to put myself into it
because I'm putting myself into it.
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So they get it.
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01:06:44,917 --> 01:06:47,920
I'm putting myself into it
so they understand the message,
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and then I'm not a distraction.
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So it gives you freedom to do your job
well.
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And just like, you know,
you go home and your mom's cooked
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a good meal, you know, wow,
you're so enthralled with the meals.
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Not like your gaze and your mom saying,
wow, mom, you're awesome.
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No, you're it's like the meal is right.
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She delivered it, right.
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So you want to deliver a message
in a way that people get it.
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They're taken in by the message.
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It's about the message, not about you.
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And that just takes pressure
off of us, too.
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It's not about me. That's a good point.
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Yeah.
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So to me, the first thing I want to leave
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you with as audience
is it's about the message.
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Remember that.
And then the second thing is
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grow yourself as a communicator.
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Don't just say, I'm just going to keep
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do my best
because we can learn from others.
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I need to keep studying.
I need to keep listening.
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I need to keep having people critique
me so that I can grow as a communicator.
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So grow yourself
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in, in as you, as a communicator,
so that you can become more effective.
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Because it is a stewardship,
I believe when you have an opportunity
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to teach, to preach, to communicate,
you want to do it well.
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And I think
Nathan is a great example for us.
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He puts some sweat into it ahead of time.
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Let me quote, again, Howard Hendricks.
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When you get up to speak, somebody sweats.
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Either you sweat beforehand
or your audience sweats during.
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So what he's saying is put the sweat
in ahead of time,
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work, develop yourself, and then study
so that your audience can relax
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and they get it
rather than they're sweating
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because this guy doesn't have a clue
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he hasn't prepared well, or he doesn't
know how to do it, or he hasn't connected.
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So Wow.
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That's that's some powerful stuff to
to leave us with.
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And again, that sense of stewarding
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this message God has given us
and and presenting it well.
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Well, you've given us a lot
to think about today, Rick
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and I really appreciate your time
coming on the podcast today.
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Thank you.
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It's been a privilege
and honor to be here.
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Thank you.
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In this episode, Rick Rhodes
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outlined principles for good communication
and why that matters.
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And that really sums up
one of the main goals
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we have here at Anabaptist Perspectives,
where we want to have honest conversations
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about the things that matter most
to Christians and their walk with Christ.
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