2006-12-30 04:51:05 · 14 answers · asked by Premkumar S 1 in Education & Reference ➔ Other - Education
Just like other public speaking, except with one important difference.
You want to carefully think about your message ahead of time. Know what you want your listeners to do, think or believe. Craft your message appropriately.
Believe in your message. Think about it carefully, and make sure you've internalized what you want THEM to internalize.
Be careful not to appear to be selling. As far as you're concerned, you're presenting an immutable truth. Assertions are sold. Beliefs are sold. Contentions are sold. The truth need not be sold, for it is the truth. Present your truth.
I'm an atheist, but those are my two cents. Good luck.
2006-12-30 04:56:27 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
While you're working on improvements in your preaching, make the rest of the job easier. You're trying to improve delivery first. So, make the content simple and the length short. Leave them begging or praying for more.
Get familiar with the material, but don't memorize it. When you have to look at your notes, stop talking. Before you resume, look up from your notes and zoom in on the eyes of an audience member. Then speak. Don't worry about the gaps. Audience members need a lot more time than they usually get to process the information. They won't notice the pauses. The pauses are dramatic and give them the impression you are considering your words carefully. Gravitas. If something comes out of your mouth sounding awkward, don't worry about it. Of those few who will notice, they will not remember, especially if you seem confident.
Finally, look at the faces in your audience. Chances are they don't seem to be hanging onto you every word. So, you shouldn't either. Eventually those placid faces will be an incentive for you to climb onto the next plateau and get them excited. But for now, you just need to get past next Sunday, right?
2006-12-30 05:02:19 · answer #2 · answered by jackbutler5555 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Assuming you mean preaching on the Bible:
Study! Study! Study! Try to relate the situations to your life even. I love it when the person who delivers the sermon has a well planned outline to speak from. It's just more satisfying. Don't waste too much time with personal stories and personal background. And NEVER NEVER NEVER lie! Most people can tell immediately and then you have lost respect which you may never regain.
2006-12-30 05:01:33 · answer #3 · answered by k_ahhhhhs 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I knew an older preacher who use to practice in front of a mirror. I never really cared for his sermons though. He rambled a lot and I would loose my concentration while waiting on him to get to his point. I don't think he ever got to the point and I left church feeling empty which defeats the purpose of attending.
The best sermons I ever heard came from a preacher whom always preached something that I could comprehend and use for my daily life. I took his sermons home with me after church and applied them. (I wish he hadn't moved).
Another preacher that I liked was very passionate about his beliefs. He was a King's Kid and so were his listeners!!! He preached about a Super God...Pie in the Sky kinda stuff. That stuff never worked for me, but I kept going to church, because I liked the preacher. He was approachable, personable, charismatic (we were all special) and has been on Christian Television. If I lived in the same town, I would still attend church to hear his message (though I remember them all).
And still another preacher (this would be number four) came to town visiting one Sunday morn. What a mood he must've been in. He glared during the entire sermon. Preaching against people who didn't take their children to church. I sat there with my children in tow, but could not help but feel that I was under attack with every glower. I think he must've been a hillbilly preacher or something. I never attended the church again.
Whatever you preach, don't scatter your thoughts. 1-Make your point. 2-Preach sensibly for today's world. 3-Know and love your people (they are God's children). 4-Don't glare. God Bless You.
2006-12-30 08:15:19 · answer #4 · answered by honiebyrd 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Learn to be a good communicator and learn the material, I assume you're talking about Biblical issues, thoroughly so you not only get the attention of the people you're talking to, but you impart correct information that they're looking to hear.
2006-12-30 04:59:56 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
That's a good question for any speaker.
Speak about things you actually are passionate about.
Avoid topics that are "rote" or by the numbers.
People aren't stupid. They connect first with the speakers passion and then with the message and spirit of what is being said.
If you don't care, your audience won't either.
2006-12-30 04:54:24 · answer #6 · answered by JC 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Increase your study time
1 min preaching = 30 minutes of study and preparation
2006-12-30 04:53:08 · answer #7 · answered by tom4bucs 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Keep viewing TV shows on GOD channel.Listen to religious discourses,Read a lot on spiritual matters....Try practice regularly...
2006-12-30 05:04:19 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
study your subject matter and join organizations that routinely require speaking by members (Toastmasters comes to mind) for practice.
2006-12-30 04:57:45 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
join the rotary and speak and listen
2006-12-30 04:58:28 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋