ArticleBlog | Stand and deliver SKILLS FOR EFFECTIVE COMMUNICATION MAKING THE CONNECTION
Stand and deliver SKILLS FOR EFFECTIVE COMMUNICATION MAKING THE CONNECTION
Author: Andy PeckPost Date: 09.06.15
For preaching to be effective, it needs to connect with the listeners. There will always be people who wilfully disengage, whether through resistance to God, fatigue, a noisy inner monologue or any number of other reasons outside the preacher’s control. If we have someone in the third row taking a power nap and a couple of people at the back playing Candy Crush, it isn’t necessarily our fault.
But there are things we can do to make what we say more or less likely to connect; it makes sense for us to do everything within our power to maximise the impact of our sermon. When the Israelites returned from their Babylonian exile, their priests and prophets reintroduced them to the Law. We are told that Ezra and the other teachers stood high up on a wooden platform where they were clearly visible to the crowd and ‘they read from the Book of the Law of God,
