Speaking to Teenagers: How to Think About, Create, and Deliver Effective Messages
Doug Fields, Duffy Robbins
Language: English
Pages: 256
ISBN: 0310273765
Format: PDF / Kindle (mobi) / ePub
Get ready for a crash course in effective communication. More than just a book on how to ³do talks,² Speaking to Teenagers combines the experience and wisdom of two veteran youth ministry speakers, along with insightful research and practical tools, to help you develop messages that engage students with the love of Christ and the power of his Word. Whether you¹re crafting a five-minute devotional or a 30-minute sermon, Speaking to Teenagers is essential to understanding and preparing great messages. Together, Doug Fields and Duffy Robbins show you how they craft their own messages and give you the tools to do it yourself. They¹ll guide you, step-by-step, through the process of preparing and delivering meaningful messages that effectively communicate to your students. Fields and Robbins walk you through three dimensions of a message‹the speaker, the listener, and the message itself‹and introduce you to the concept and principles of inductive communication. You¹ll also get helpful tips on finding illustrations for your talk and using them for maximum impact, as well as insights on reading your audience and effective body language. As Speaking to Teenagers guides you toward becoming a more effective communicator, you¹ll find that this book¹s practical principles will positively impact the way you view, treat, and communicate to teenagers.
Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America
Political Ponerology (A Science on the Nature of Evil Adjusted for Political Purposes)
Mesa of Sorrows: A History of the Awat'ovi Massacre
Postindustrial Possibilities: A Critique of Economic Discourse
A Framework for Understanding Poverty
Teenagers is the most practical, comprehensive, and entertaining resource ever written and available for youth workers, teachers, and other caring adults who desire to speak in a way that invites and compels students to listen. Doug and Duffy have given us a great gift. I will recommend it to every novice and veteran youth worker I know.” —Rich Van Pelt, author, speaker, National Director of Ministry Relationships, Compassion International 0310273765_speaking_int.indd 3 11/13/07 4:16:42 PM “I.
Certainty, we have to recognize the influence of culture on our teenagers. That doesn’t mean we need to censor the Word of God. What it does mean is that we need to be sensitive about how we express it. In his book Preaching to a Postmodern World, Graham Johnston offers these suggestions: 1. Choose carefully and strategically what to say. Not every point should carry the same weight as in, “I’ll go to the Cross for this.” Be mindful not to allow salvation by faith to take an equal footing with.
Events around the country, and Doug is in the local church teaching the same teenagers each week. I’d describe Doug as a good-looking, somewhat-fit guy with thinning hair. (Sorry about somewhat, Doug.) His look is “Youth Ministry Meets Orange County.” Teenagers look at Doug and think, Hey, this is gonna be good! 10 0310273765_speaking_int.indd 10 11/13/07 4:16:43 PM I, on the other hand, look more like somebody’s weird Uncle Frank. No facial hair, only a few remaining square inches of scalp.
Conservative evangelicals. If you’ve read any of our books or heard us speak, you already know that. But when studying a passage, there is occasional value in knowing how those to your theological right or left would likely interpret the selected text. By doing this, you gather theological context. It might even be worthwhile to use their positions as points of discussion. 118 Speaking to Teenagers 0310273765_speaking_int.indd 118 11/13/07 4:16:55 PM And by knowing others’ theological.
Communication technique (a lot of people move stools when they know they’ll be speaking to a large audience). But there’s something about reading a story with a more intimate voice—or from a “storyteller’s setting”—that serves as a great way to deliver a solid illustration. A few simple suggestions: • Feel free to edit a story to meet the context and time constraints of your message. • Be very conscious of length. Although it doesn’t sound like a long time, an 8- to 10-minute story may push.