Table of Contents
Introduction 1
KEY ONE:
Building a Speaker-Listener Relationship 11
KEY TWO:
Stepping Over the Ego Barrier 41
KEY THREE:
Promising Your Hearers Usable Information and Keeping Your Promise with Content 75
KEY FOUR:
Creating Tension and Resolution:
Building Attention with Story and
Finishing with a Happy Ending 107
KEY FIVE:
Constructing a Pyramid of Priorities 133
KEY SIX:
Making Sure They Hear
Through a Trinity of Audio Values 159
KEY SEVEN:
Killing Interest-Lag
Through the Six Values of Mobility 187
Chapter Outlines 207
Endnotes 215
Glossary 219

For preachers and Christian speakers in the age of MTV and
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The Empowered Communicator shows you how to reach out to an audience—how to develop and deliver Christian messages that grab their attention, hold their interest, and inspire them to act. Written in a conversational, non-technical style, this book is spiced with real-life anecdotes recounting the trials and triumphs of preaching and teaching the Word, from riveting sermons to showstopping slips of the tongue. It is also tightly organized and carefully researched, with references for further study after every chapter.
For newly minted speakers and seasoned professionals alike,
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