Effective Sermon Delivery Techniques for Engaging Presentations

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Enhance your sermon delivery skills with insights from Dr. Rick Griffith and Ken Davis on the importance of non-verbal communication, proper gestures, audience-oriented movements, and dressing appropriately. Learn how to communicate effectively through both verbal and non-verbal cues for impactful preaching.

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Sermon Delivery How you say what you say Dr. Rick Griffith Jordan Evangelical Theological Seminary BibleStudyDownloads.org

95 Sermon effectiveness is due to What we say (content) How we say it (delivery)

95 The Importance of Delivery "In order of significance the ingredients making up a sermon are thought, arrangement, language, voice, and gesture. In priority of impressions, however, the order reverses. Gesture and voice emerge as the most obvious and determinative." Haddon Robinson, Biblical Preaching, 191

Non-verbal communication "They do it every time he finishes his sermon by noon."

1. Silent language communicates more than spoken language. 2. If nonverbal messages contradict the verbal, listeners will believe the silent message. 3. Effective delivery begins with desires. If you don t want to say it well, you won t! Non-verbal communication

Nonverbal Factors in Delivery

Never dress worse than your listeners! Ken Davis, Secrets of Dynamic Communication, 134

95 Movement & Gestures Spontaneous Definite Varied

Timing is key!

95 Movement & Gestures Spontaneous Definite Varied Properly Timed Audience Oriented Freedom of Movement

I don't know. It happens every time I start to speak. Use your arms and hands Ken Davis, Secrets of Dynamic Communication, 141

Sermon practice

Get Eye Contact Why did we ever design church buildings like this?

Vocal Delivery Pitch Punch Progress Pause Practice "Aaron Thorgwaller had a difficult time delivering his first sermon, due to the frog in his throat."