Thursday, October 24, 2024

Tuned In Or Tuned Out

Bible Reading:  Ecclesiastes 5:1-8

Key Verse: Verse 7 - “For in the multitude of dreams and many words there are also divers vanities: but fear thou God.”

Key Words: For in the multitude of dreams and many words there are also divers vanities


How do we get people to hear us?  Let me suggest four things required to keep people tuned in.


First, be clear with your communication.


Second, be as brief as possible.  State the facts, but don’t fumble around with a lot of side issues.


Third, always be kind, speaking the truth in love.


Fourth, believe in what you are saying.  People need to know you are sincere.


Bill stopped in at Abie’s little general store, looking for a bottle of mustard. The shelves were loaded with salt—bags and bags of salt. Abie said he had some mustard, but that he would have to go down to the cellar to find it. Bill went down with him, and there to his surprise were still more bags of salt. Everywhere he looked he could see salt. 


“Say,” said Bill, “you must sell a lot of salt in this store!”


“Nah,” said Abie sourly. “I can’t sell no salt. But that feller who sells me salt—boy, can he sell salt!”

 

                                                                                                        Dr. Mike Rouse

What to do:

Be brief, my brother, be brief.  Remember, He that will love life, and see good days, let him refrain his tongue from evil.”  I Peter 3:10


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