Legacy Youth Ministry Resources

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Teaching Pigs to Sing

Jesus said to not throw your pearls before swine. Mark Twain put it this way, ?Never try to teach a pig to sing. It just wastes your time and annoys the pig.? Mark Twain

Aesop Dies

The most unrewarding task in the world is trying to tell people the truth about themselves before they are ready to hear it; and even Aesop, who cast such truths in fable form, was eventually thrown off a cliff because his morals struck too close to home.? (Syndey Harris)

Lincoln on Getting Ready to Reason

When I?m getting ready to reason with a man, I spend one-third of my time thinking about myself and what I am going to say ? and two-thirds thinking about him and what he is going to say. Abraham Lincoln

Learning Good Behavior by Watching

It?s easier to learn good behavior by watching it than by hearing about it. (Frank A. Clark)

Understanding Your Audience

The great challenge in communicating is to understand the mind, the background, and the thinking process of your audience. Wayne Pennington

Communicating by Getting Close to People

In order to communicate God we need to get close to people, understand their needs and fears and hopes and dreams, and then start at that point and preach Jesus to them, putting the story into words and illustrations they can understand. Leighton Ford

People Convinced By Their Own Reasons

People are usually more convinced by reasons they discovered themselves than by those found by others. Pascal

Dogmatism Where God is Silent

Don?t be too dogmatic about a subject on which God?s Word is silent. Henry Jacobsen

Experts Present Well

An expert is someone who knows no more than you do, but who has it better organized and uses slides. Crumbley (Change "slides" to "powerpoint" for this generation!)

Teach to an Audience of One

Marketing gurus speak of "1:1 Marketing," imagining that you're marketing your product to one person, rather than a glob of humanity. When you prepare a meeting, do you do it with an individual in mind? An old time radio host named Arthur Godfrey was said to actually pin a picture of a face on his microphone and talk to that face during his broadcasts. Is it no wonder that listeners said they felt he was talking right to them?

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