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| OMG he posted a new entry. Don't get excited! geez
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| Spring Break was amazing!!!!!!...I'll type more later
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| An interesting point was brought to my attention recently: when you're talking to an audience and you want to get a message across, leave them with questions or unanswered portions of what you have to say. This sounded wrong to me at first, but then I started thinking on it. If you tell someone everything they need to know in a talk, they're not gonna dig into it after your done. If you leave blanks in what you say though, people want to know the answer so they'll go look into it to figure it out. Another point that was made that I've never really heard put into words like these is that if the point of the message is application, then applications should be your points. Many times I don't know what points to make or how to key in on the "this is what you should remember" stuff. It's simple though. Take the key applications in what you're saying, put verbs behind each one and then there ya go. Instant points to be made. Anyways, I'm getting a lot of interesting information from class and I'm starting to see how it all fits together for a good, powerful message. The end goal is really to get up in front of an audience and say something that makes an impact on some of them. That's where I'm headed.
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| Recently in class I've noticed something about myself. Sitting
through a lot of my business classes I have on 1 mindset as to what is
expected and then sitting through Ministry of Bible classes I have a
completely different mindset. When I first changed majors from
engineering to Business with a Christian Ministry minor, I kind of had
it in the back of my mind, or maybe my parents put it there that a
strictly business type of job was what I wanted. Now I'm more in
the mindset that youth ministry is the best thing I see myself fitting
in. Now I'm not trying to knock business majors or make them seem
inferior because they're not, it's just that my mind soaks up every
little piece of information that involves ministry. I don't know
why it interests me so much, but it's seriously the 1 subject that
completely steals my attention and completely takes hold of me.
Now the temptation to do something strictly business is gone. I
have to do something ministry related. I mean it could be
administration in a church or the like, but I don't think getting out
there in the strictly business world is where I fit. I guess
that's what going through the actual curriculum courses does to
ya...helps you figure out where you fit and want to be the most.
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| Lately in class we've been working on crafting
messages and giving talks without any help from powerpoint or media. That’s
a lot harder to do than with all that stuff.
These days, a speaker without powerpoint is rare. At my church, they’ve had the powerpoint
addition to the sermon and the lyrics to the songs we’re singing for what seems
like forever. I think learning to give
talks without media is great though.
After all the talk is what’s the most important out of any sermon. We were also talking about how to make your
talk interesting or exciting. I really
dig into all the material on this stuff because I feel like this is the area I
need to work on the most. It’s hard to
be an interesting speaker at times because some material that can be covered
from the Bible is pretty uninteresting.
I think that comedy and adventurous stories spice up a talk though…a
lot. When I think back to the most
interesting speakers I’ve heard, I remember their stories. This is really an area that I have to
improve. I need to work on ways to
capture the audience by using more fun stuff in the talks, and by that I don’t mean
replacing the actual sermon with stories, but rather incorporating the stories
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