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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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Rating:  63 reviews
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Media: Hardcover
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Pages: 208
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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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Product Description
When You Talk, Are People Changed?
Whether you speak from the pulpit, podium, or the front of a classroom, you don’t need much more than blank stares and faraway looks to tell you you’re not connecting. Take heart before your audience takes leave! You can convey your message in the powerful, life-changing way it deserves to be told. An insightful, entertaining parable that’s an excellent guide for any speaker, Communicating for a Change takes a simple approach to delivering effectively. Join Pastor Ray as he discovers that the secrets to successful speaking are parallel to the lessons a trucker learns on the road. By knowing your destination before you leave (identifying the one basic premise of your message), using your blinkers (making transitions obvious), and implementing five other practical points, you’ll drive your message home every time!
“Long ago, in a galaxy far, far away?”
“Once upon a time?”
“In the beginning?”
Great stories capture and hold an audience’s attention from start to finish. Why should it be any different when you stand up to speak?
In Communicating for a Change, Andy Stanley and Lane Jones offer a unique strategy for communicators seeking to deliver captivating and practical messages. In this highly creative presentation, the authors unpack seven concepts that will empower you to engage and impact your audience in a way that leaves them wanting more.
“Whether you are a senior pastor with weekly teaching responsibilities or a student pastor who has bern charged with engaging the hearts and minds of high school students, this book is a must-read.”
Bill Hybels
Senior pastor, Willow Creak Community Church
“A very practical resource for every biblical communicator who wants to go from good to great.”
Ed Young
Senior pastor, Fellowship Church, Grapevine, Texas
“To communicate effectively, you have to connect. Andy has been connecting with people for years, and now he’s sharing his insights with the rest of us.”
Jeff Foxworthy
Comedian
INSIDE LEFT FLAP
In Communicating for a Change, Andy Stanley shares the seven imperatives that define his approach to challenging people’s minds in order to change their lives: Determine Your Goal Pick a Point Create a Map Internalize the Message Engage Your Audience Find Your Voice Start All Over
These seven concepts will simplify your approach to communication and transform your sermons, lessons, and presentations into powerful life-changing experiences for your listeners.
Story Behind the Book
Andy Stanley and Lane Jones are on staff at one of America ’s largest churches, North Point Community. Leaders of thousands of people, they regularly speak in front of large groups. They also listen to numerous speakers and know the disastrous effects of a poorly delivered message. This book is the result of their efforts to make public speaking?one of the most common fear-inducing activities known to mankind?simple, easy, and even enjoyable, so that God’s messages will readily produce the life-changing results they should.
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 Good in its central message, with some weaknesses December 24, 2008
Andy Stanley is an absolutely brilliant communicator. There are few church leaders I enjoy listening to more than Andy, but I think his books tend to fall pretty far short of his sermons.
The first half of this book (written by Lane Jones, I believe) will probably be too corny to stomach for the post-modern crowd. It makes a good attempt at making the communication principles in the book more relational and easy-to-remember, but I think its style just comes across pedantic and silly. I truly appreciate the effort to communicate within a relational context, and I think it underscores a great communication principle, but since the story and conversation is so unrealistic and didactic, I think it loses most of its didactic power in the process.
The second half of the book is much better, and Andy communicates some amazing thoughts, but I think he could have done better (and this is a usual critique of Andy that I have) to incorporate more Scripture or biblical example. It's interesting that in a book on effective communication in the church, he does very little to study Jesus' or any of the Apostles' methods, under the inspiration of the Spirit.
Not that every preacher should sound like Stephen or Paul today, but Andy never discusses elements of story and parable that Jesus uses to make difficult theological concepts very easy to understand. I thought that the book was lacking in, although not necessary, helpful biblical support. After a (somewhat) failed attempt to illustrate the helpfulness of story and and illustration in the first half of the book, I was hoping Andy was going to redeem the usefulness of this element of effective communicating, but it went unmentioned, and he seemed to assumed that most preachers have a firm grasp on how to create effective illustrations. He only seemed to focus on how to better incorporate this element of preaching, rather than how to better craft it.
Overall, this book is really practical and a great use to someone who isn't a natural communicator. Some of these concepts will seem very basic to the seasoned or naturally-talented communicator, but to the rest, this book offers some really great not-quite-intuitive insights.
Preaching for Transformation December 17, 2008
Andy Stanley wants to convince preachers to preach for change. Not just retention of information about the Bible, good though that may be. Stanley wants to empower preachers to target behavior that emerges from a changed heart. The best thing preachers can do to effect change in their listeners is FOCUS. I agree with Stanley: too many preachers are preaching too many points in their sermons. Sermons should, by and large, be about one thing - one main point that is explored in the sermon. Stanley's advise to focus on one thing actually echoes what Tom Long explores in greater detail in his book "The Witness of Preaching." Long's book had a significant impact on my own preaching development which took some of the punch out of Stanley's argument. Both are helpful and recommended.
Andy Stanley's "Communicating for a Change" is useful for those just exploring preaching and a good sharpening tool for veterans. Stanley's primary audience appears to be evangelical preachers who learned expositional preaching (i.e. verse by verse exegesis). However, as an evangelical Mainliner trained at a Mainline divinity school, I found his main points useful, too.
I would also recommend Adam Hamilton's "Unleashing the Word" and Rick Lischer's "Company of Preachers."
 Awesome December 12, 2008
This is a must-have for any Christian who wants to deliver effective, audience capturing sermons!
The College Student learning to Preach November 23, 2008
This book has transformed the way I view teaching. I am a college student learning to write and deliver talks, and this book is helping me lay the foundation for effective communication from the start. Communicating for Change's beginning parable is easy to read and quite revealing. I've found myself working on a specific talk as I read this book, and every chapter I read, I reevaluate and edit that talk. I know this book will have implications for me and for everyone who reads it.
best book November 12, 2008
This is a great book to have if you are in God's ministry. It teaches you how to communicate with purpose and to do it effectively.
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