Rynhardt Gerber

Student Nr : 43248802
CGM1502
Assignment 2

Table of content.

1.Problems in communication and preaching

2. The dialogical power of sermon.

Problems in communication and preaching.

1.Economical influences: Make people think about their economical health constantly
2.The Spoken Language: Understanding and interpretation.
3.Transmission: We tend to think people know what we are speaking about.
4.Contact: Does the congregation hear the message.
5.Feedback: Can the listener give feed back to the preacher, do they fully understand the message
6.Comprehension: Do the people of the congregation comprehend the message that the preacher upholds to them.
7.Acceptance: Do the people in the congregation see all the people or even messages told by others as acceptable.
For instance accepting people from a other race.
8.Internalisation: Do the people in the congregation understand the whole of the message not only intellectually
but also wholeheartedly.
9.Action: Does the congregation find the message of the preacher substantial enough to give them a sense of
direction.
10. Personal views and experiences: Listeners pay attention to certain things a preacher says if it is to do with their
personal experience.
11. Filtered listening: Listeners tend to make their own conclusion on what is said.
12.Reduction of the message: People seem to filter out only that which the find relevant to themselves.

The dialogical power of sermon.

1. In structuring a dialogical sermon a person makes use of listener interaction.

2. Some points to be looked at are: Phrasing, sermon forms, discussion of sermons, preaching workshops,
and all the latter with opinion leaders.
 Phrasing: Is the phrasing so that it can be answered by anyone, is it put in a rhetorical way.
Sermon forms: Can be dealt with in textual form where a text is discussed, Narrative sermons where a story is
told, Homilies where a text out of the bible is discussed and dealt with.
3. Extensive dialog and communication over the bible texts are dealt with in Sermon workshops
4. Opinion leaders: People to spot the need for innovation and then present it to a holistic community so
that all of them may also share in the fruits of their opinion.

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