COMMUNICATING EFFECTIVELY FOR EVANGELISM

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COMMUNICATING EFFECTIVELY FOR
EVANGELISM

• TELUGU CHRISTIAN CONGREGATION, KUWAIT

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• What is effectiveness in communication for
  Evangelism?
• It is speaking authoritatively using graceful
  words (Luke 4.32 They were amazed at his
  teaching, because his message had authority
• (Luke 4.22) All spoke well of him and were amazed
  at the gracious words that came from his lips.
  Isnt this Joseph son? They asked
• It is helping people connect the ancient Word to
  the contemporary world.

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• (Acts 14.1) At Iconium Paul and Barnabas went as
  usual into the Jewish synagogue. There they so
  spoke so effectively that a great number of Jews
  and Gentiles believed
• Effective Communication is a Life impacting and
  life transforming communication.
• Vision for Evangelism
• The will of God is that no one should perish and
  that everyone should have eternal life

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• The vision becomes a reality when we act upon
  using the following steps
• Personalize it
• Cherish it and share it with other
• Write and display it
• Pray for it
• Work for it in the power of the Holy Spirit
• Nearly 50 of the worlds population has not
  heard about our
• Lord Jesus Christ meaningfully

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• At the same time, every day 375,000,000,000 hours
  of personal evangelism is done the world over
• Also every year95 invitations per person are
  given to accept Jesus as their personal savior
  (David Barretts Annual Statistical table on
  global mission)
• Two fold approach for evangelism
• Christians must be challenged to obey the great
  commission. Every Christian must become an
  evangelist (Prof. Jayakar Chellaraj)

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• When we teach to some one, he would start a
  second cycle by starting at the first step Go .
  The multiplication effect this process triggers
  would make evangelization of the world complete
  in 33 years or less.
• Go preach make disciples baptize teach to
  observe
• People who respond positively to the great
  commission often feel inadequate to evangelize
  others. They have to be trained and equipped for
  evangelism

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• (Eph 4. 11, 12) It was he who gave some to be
  apostles, some to be prophets, some to be pastors
  and teachers to prepare Gods people for works of
  service, so that the body of Christ may be built
  up until we all reach unity in the faith and in
  the knowledge of the Son of God and become
  mature, attaining to the whole measure of the
  fullness of God.
• Definition for communication
• Communication is defined as an interaction. It is
  an interaction between the sender and the
  receiver. The verbals, non verbals, visuals etc
  used by the sender constitute the action. The
  responses of the receiver, are reactions.
• Communication which is an interaction is a
  combination of these two. Communication is a
  dynamic process in which the sender and the
  listener are actively involved.

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• Therefore, communication aims bringing changes,
  transformation, healing and growth in the
  listeners.
• Two types of communications
• Intra personal communication is the communication
  we have within ourselves. It includes our
  communication with God. The preparations we make
  for our sermons and presentations are example for
  intrapersonal communication.
• Interpersonal communication is the communication
  we have with others. Our sermons, lectures and
  talks come under this category
• Jays theory
• The quality of interpersonal communication
  depends on the quality of intrapersonal
  communication that precedes it.

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• Our objective is to enhance th4e quality of our
  interpersonal communication. According to this
  theory, if the quality of our sermons and talks
  has to improve, we have to first improved the
  quality of the preparations we do in advance.
• The success of our communication for evangelism
  depends on the quality of intrapersonal
  communication we have as preparation.
  Intrapersonal communication consists of two
  which is primary preparations and secondary
  preparations
• Primary preparations
• Communication for Evangelism is a Life changing
  and Life transforming communication. Human skills
  and human wisdom are not sufficient to change
  people. Primary preparations reach beyond the
  human domain and consist of the following

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• Reading the word of God and meditating upon it
  (Psa 1.2, 3) But his delight is in the law of the
  Lord and on his law he mediates days and night.
  He is like a treeplanted by streams of water
  which yields its fruit in the season and whose
  leaf does not wither. Whatever he does prospers
• (Psa 119. 99) I have more insight than all my
  teachers, for I meditate on your statues
• Acting on the word of God
• (Psa 119. 100) I have insight than all my
  teachers for I meditate on your statues
• (Mat 14. 28-30) Lord, if its you.. Peter
  replied, tell me to come to you on the water.
  Come he said. Then Peter got down out of the
  boat, walked on the water and came toward Jesus.

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• Repenting, confessing sins and obtaining
• forgiveness
• (Luke 5.8) When Simon Peter saw this, he fell
  at Jesus knees and said, go away from me Lord,
  I am a sinful man
• (Luke 5. 10) And so were James, and John, the
  sons of Zebedee, Simons partners.
• (Luke 22.62) And he went outside and wept
  bitterly.
• Obtaining inner peace
• (Mat 11. 28) Come to me, all you who are weary
  and burdened, and I will give you rest.
• (John 14. 27) Peace I leave with you my peace
  I give you. I do not give you as the world gives
• Getting empowered through intimacy with God
• (Mark 1. 35) Very early in the morning, while
  it was still dark, Jesus got up and left the
  house and went off to a solitary place

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• (John 8.1 ) Jesus went to the Mount Olives. At
  dawn he appeared again, in the temple courts,
  where all the people gathered around him and he
  sat down to teach them.
• (Mark 6.46) After leaving them he went up on a
  mountain side to pray (Afternoon)
• (Jer 33.3) Call to me and I will answer you
  and tell you great and unreachable things you do
  not know.
• Getting empowered through the anointment of
  the Holy Spirit
• (Acts 1.8) But you will receive power when the
  Holy Spirit comes on you and you will be my
  witnesses in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and
  Samaria and to the ends of the earth.

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• Successfully undergoing the wilderness
  experience
• Mark 1.13 And he was in the desert forty
  days, being tempted by Satan, He was with wild
  animals, and angels attending on him
• Secondary preparations
• Primary preparations are vital for
  effectiveness in communication. Secondary
  preparations are important. The secondary
  preparations consists of all the usual
  preparations that a communicator has to make so
  that communication becomes effective.

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• Specific observable outcomes of Learning (SOOL)
• The main purpose of communication is to bring
  about certain Specific observable outcomes in the
  learner.
• Communication can be effective and purposeful
  only if the communicator has clarity in his mind
  about these outcomes.
• Therefore, the first thing we must do before we
  prepare the sermon outline is to write statements
  of Specific observable outcomes of leering (SOOL)
• These things help us to visualize the result that
  we would like to see happening in our learners as
  a result of our teaching/preaching.

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• Level 1
• What shall the learner would remember at the end
  of the session. They should remember facts,
  concepts, theories, events, names, bible verses
  etc., which is a basic requirement in the
  learning process.
• Teaching activities that achieve this are,
  stating, repeating, explaining, using visuals
  etc.,
• Level 2
• What shall the learners would understand as a
  result of our communication and what they would
  be able to apply in their lives. Communication is
  effective only when learners understand what sis
  taught and apply their understanding in their
  personal and professional lives.

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• Collecting content - Collect from books,
  journals, experts and personal research
• Classifying content - Classify content in to
  theories, strategies, case studies, etc.,
• Choosing content - Choosing the right
  content for a sermon is a vital step. The content
  we choose must meet both the Real and the Felt
  needs of people
• Some felt needs - People want short and
  sweet sermons. They want sermons that are useful,
  inspiring, motivating, comfort and encouraging
• Some real needs - People need Jesus Christ
  in their lives. They need salvation. They need
  the fruit of the spirit

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• Charging content - The content we have chosen
  should be presented in a way that is interesting.
  The content should be organized logically and
  should be communicated at the feeling level. We
  can make the presentation interesting by using a
  variety of techniques, by involving people, by
  relating teaching to the lives and needs of
  people by using humor
• Preparation of process - The process used in
  communication must cause learing to take place in
  the listeners and is therefore very important

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• Three kinds of communication
• One to one communication Personal
  evangelism and counseling are examples of this
  type of communication
• One to small group communication In this
  type the sender communicates to a small group of
  people.
• One to large group communication It is also
  called mass communication. In visible mass
  communication, the audience is directly in front
  of communicator. In non visible mass
  communication, the audience is reached through
  media like radio, TV, newspapers, books,
  pamphlets etc.,

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• The word communication comes from the word
  Communis which means common. Before a message
  is communicated, the content of communication is
  known only to the sender. After communication is
  completed, this content becomes common to the
  sender and the receiver.
• In effective communication, the sender
  communicatges so that his experiences become the
  experiences of the receiver fully and completely.

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• Communication is establishing and enlarging
  commonality with listeners.
• The following steps helps us to do this
• State what they know
• State in the way they know
• State using words they know
• Pronounce words in the way they do
• State what they do not know
• State what they need to know
• Thus, Communication is sharing experiences
• Love, is a prerequisite for effective
  communication.
• An effective communicator desires deep in
  his heart that his experiences should become the
  experiences of the receivers. This is an attitude
  of love. Without love, effective communication is
  not possible.

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• Work Shop
• Read Acts 2. 1 Then Peter stood up with the
  eleven, raised his voice and addressed the crowd,
  fellow Jews and all of you who live in Jerusalem
  let me explain this to you Listen carefully to
  what I say.
• Why did Peter stand and speak?
• Why did he raise his voice? What are the
  suggestions you get from this for effective
  communication
• Why were eleven standing with Peter? What
  does that teach you in the context of effective
  communication?
• Peter was speaking in second person, in what
  way you think this way of speaking in
  significant? Do you think that this is the best
  way of speaking? Give reasons for your answer

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• Communication at the Encounter Level
• Levels of communication
• Cliché level or Surface level communication
• Communication at this level is very superficial.
  It consists of repetitive statements which are
  used for the sake of using. No meaning or purpose
  is intended. The communicator is just performing
  a duty and he has no vision or goals.

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• Fact level or Gossip level communication
• At this level, the communicator
  communicates ideas and theories of experts. He
  may explain the Greek, Latin and Hebrew origins
  of words. But, the communicator is not personally
  involved in the communication. He may talk a lot
  about the love of Jesus Christ as found in the
  Bible. But, when he has no personal relationship
  with Jesus Christ, his communication is reduced
  to mere gossip.

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• Judgment level communicating
• Communication at this level consists of
  facts and theories combined with a
  intellectual analysis of these. These merits and
  demerits of the ideas so discussed are explained.
  This level of communication is intellectually
  stimulating.
• One problem with this level of
  communication is that it emanates mostly from the
  mid of the communicator and not from his heart.
  In other words, the total person of the
  communicator is not involved in the
  communication. Since, the communication does not
  involve the affective domain it odes not reach
  those who labor and are heavy laden.

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• iv. Feeling level communication
• This level of communication uses fully the
  affective (feeling) and cognitive (thinking)
  domains of the communicator.
• When we communicate at the Feeling Level, our
  verbal which express our thoughts and non
  verbal which express our feelings flow freely,
  supplementing each other. This level of
  communication is powerful and it reaches both the
  mind and the heart of the listeners. A problem
  with this level of communication is that the
  communicator could be so focused on his own ideas
  and feelings that the might ignore the feelings
  of his listeners. This insensitiveness could take
  away the impact of the communication..

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• v. Encounter Level
• This the deepest and most effective level of
  communication. At this level the communicator not
  only express his ideas and feelings but also
  recognizes and respects the feelings of his
  listeners. It is a communication in which the
  communicator and listeners feel together, think
  together, search together, learn together and
  grow together.

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• Strategies to Enhance Effectiveness in
• Communication.
• Moving in Fulcrum?
• Look at the following diagram.
• a.
• b.
• c.

a. Output is less than input
b. Output equal than input
c. Output greater than input
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• In communication input is given by the
  communicator and the output takes place in the
  listeners. In order to increase the output,
  Effective Communicators move the fulcrum, i.e.,
  the centre of activity away from themselves so
  that it lies closer to the listeners. In other
  words, they involve the participants more and
  more in the learning process through carefully
  designed activities

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• 2. Games and Exercise
• Games and Exercise can be suitable designed to
  enable people look at their own lives and
  evaluate them on Biblical standards. When people
  find themselves wanting on these standards they
  can be helped to change. Personality Development
  Programmers. Are a big draw among the youth.
  Activities in these programs can be
• designed to lead people to make a commitment
  for the Lord.

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• 3. Three level teaching
• An effective method of communicating is
  making available a large set of facts to the
  listener, and enabling them to draw concepts
  out of these facts. Since these concepts where
  formulated by the learners themselves, it will be
  easy for them to apply these concepts in various
  situations.

Level 1
Applications
Level 2
Concepts
Facts
Level 3
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• 4. Lewins Theory of Groups
• All of us surround ourselves with a personal
  space. We would not like strangers to step into
  this space. Some people even build a wall of
  resistance around themselves because of insecure
  feelings. They do not normally allow the word of
  God to influence them. This wall gets opened only
  in a atmosphere of trust an atmosphere which a
  small group could provide.

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• When a person in the group makes an intimate
  sharing of a deep personal experience like the
  salvation experience, he is in fact, opening his
  personal wall and allowing others to enter his
  personal space. This kind of sharing by one
  person will motivate others in the group to open
  their walls of resistance so that new ideas can
  step inside this space. This process has helped
  many to allow the Lord Jesus Christ enter their
  lives.

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• 5. Confrontation
• When milk is churned, the cream comes to the
  top. Similarly, when people are confronted
  carefully and respectfully the best in these
  people surfaces and great changes take place in
  them. Paul Said .correct, rebuke and
  encourage.
• 2 Timothy 42

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• Read Acts 2 15-36.
• This passage contains the most powerful
  message that was ever given by a human being.
• Identify and list the salient features in
  this message. Why do you thin that these features
  made the communication effective?
• What are some strategies for effective
  communication that you learn from this passage?

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• Read Acts 2 37-41
• a. Identify in verse 37 the various responses of
  people for Peters message.
• b. Why do you think they felt that they were cut
  to their heart?
• c. What is the lesson you learn from this
  passage which you can use in your ministry?
• a. In verses 38-40, as you read Peters response
  to people, what aspects of his response impress
  you as significant
• b. What do you learn from this as lessons for
  your use?
• c. What is your reaction to verse 41 as an
  effective communicator?