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The Basic Principles of Godly and Effective Communication
Let me start with a confession. I have sat on this post for weeks. The reason is because effective and godly communication is a very complex business, at least it can be. What I want to say, what I think needs to be said here has so many caveats to it that the point could very easily be buried underneath them. Yesterday, I realised that I know what I want to say and that I do not not need to cover every single possible caveat, question or objection in order to say. So, I will say what I want to say, and try to be godly and effective as I communicate this point. So, here are the basic principles of godly and effective communication.
Once upon a time I cam across a diagram. The diagram was about Bible Teaching and replicate that diagram below for you. Whilst this is about teaching, the point behind applies to communication in general. So the diagram:
What the bible passages says -→ What you understand -→ What you intend to teach -→ What you actually teach -→ What the listener hears -→ What the listener understands
In teaching the Bible, the aim is to ensure that each and everyone of these stages is the same, so it could be re-drawn as:
What the bible passages says = What you understand = What you intend to teach = What you actually teach = What the listener hears = What…
