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| Communicating for a Change: Seven Keys to Irresistible Communication | 
 enlarge | Authors: Andy Stanley, Lane Jones
Publisher: Multnomah Books
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  60 reviews
Sales Rank: 10008
Media: Hardcover
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 208
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.8
Dimensions (in): 8.5 x 5.5 x 1
ISBN: 1590525140
Dewey Decimal Number: 251
EAN: 9781590525142
ASIN: 1590525140
Publication Date: June 1, 2006
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 Great for pasters and youth communicators August 14, 2006
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
This book encourages communicators to have a single point when they go to present a sermon.
The listeners of sermons and teaching will be the ones who gain from communicators who read this book.
Just the book today's preachers have been waiting for! August 8, 2006
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
If you're a preacher, teacher, or some other kind of communicator, this book will rock your world. With this tool, I think anyone could be an excellent communicator. Pastor Stanley's teaching is so practical, applicable, and easy to grasp. I'm really looking forward to my next message so I can apply the seven imperatives described in this book. If you're a preacher, please do your church (and yourself) a huge favor and read and apply this book! As much I enjoyed reading "Communicating for a Change," it is not a book to be read and placed on the shelf--it's a tool to be used every time a communicator prepares a message. This book is worth its weight in gold!
Preaching to Post Moderns July 31, 2006
20 out of 20 found this review helpful
A casual reader might glance through this book and think Stanley is suggesting watering down the gospel in an effort to be pragmatic. This is not accurate. This is not a book about Biblical exegesis or scholarship. This style of preaching does not preclude in depth study. Study for sermon preparation simply is not what this book is all about.
This is a book about delivery. About half of all younger Christians today attend the top 10% of churches. These churches have learned to communicate in ways that are simple and relational. We pastors need to speak in a language that people can understand.
I went through this book and applied its communication principles to a "test" sermon. My preparation was no different than I might have done at any other time, except my delivery intentionally followed patterns laid down in this book. The results were electric. People were engaged. They didn't want to leave after the message, and conversation continued as people slowly left for home.
These principles will not be comfortable for everyone, but they are still worth wrestling with. We pastors spend the largest portion of our lives preparing for or communicating publicly. We must constantly stretch and learn new methods. Buy the book. Read the book. If these principles do not fit your communication style, fine. But make sure you know why they don't fit and that you are correct. Don't refuse to consider them just because they are new and novel.
The best tool one can have for communicating July 17, 2006
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
Every communicator, teacher, or preacher wants to better effectively communicate, especially when dealing with issues that affect our daily lives and eternity i.e leading others into a growing relationship with Jesus Christ. I am ashamed that many preachers have succesfully communicated a boring gospel in the churches all over the globe. Many un-churched are looking for reasons not to go to church who may give church one chance; in that very moment, ministers should prepare themselves to create an irresistable environment that will promote life change in the hearts of hearers in a relevant and insightful way. Andy Stanley and Lane Jones brilliantly share strategies that are Biblically sound and practically effective to create such an environment of life change in a revolutionary style of Biblical communication. It's no wonder people flock to hear Andy speak week after week. I certainly would if I lived in Alpharetta!
Life Changing July 8, 2006
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
This book teaches us all the things we wish they had taught us in seminary! Once again, Andy shows us how to get more accomplished by doing less. I still don't know how he memorizes it all, but I am now using the me-we-God-you-we approach w/ great feedback.
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