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  Why is it important to surface a need for your audience right away? Can you think of an example of a speech or sermon you’ve heard that spoke to your needs? How did the speaker accomplish this?

  Posted by info on 02/25/2021 at 14:53

  Rebecca Crone replied 1 month, 3 weeks ago 42 Members · 42 Replies

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  Rebecca Crone

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  04/16/2025 at 16:08

  When speaking, the audience needs to know why they need to hear this information. If the need comes too late in the message, the audience has already given their attention elsewhere. A good way to address the needs of the audience is to make a connection with them. Ultimately, what they are hearing needs to be important and applicable to them. I am a teacher, so when I teach, I always try to connect with my students to something which they understand and can then apply it directly to the work that is expected. My pastor does a very good job of this, and the majority of his messages are very captivating to the audience, me included.

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  Lynda Park

  Member

  02/19/2025 at 10:40

  Showing your audience why they need the content of what you are speaking will get them invested in what you are saying. When I recently gave the devotional to the families of the young children in our church, I talked to them about how we as parents want our children to develop their own faith, so applying some of the strategies we use in Sunday School could also help them accomplish this at home.

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  Abraham Alier

  Member

  12/07/2024 at 02:25

  I believe people gather because their is something missing in each one them and want help to meet their needs. So people feel bore for anything not meet their need.

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  Stacy Colwell

  Member

  11/03/2024 at 16:01

  It is important to surface a need right away so that the audience feels connected to what you are saying. They will feel as though they will actually benefit from what you say, so it is worth their time. I am struggling to think of a recent example of when a speaker spoke to a need, but can think of a very recent instance when just the opposite was true. Just this morning I listened to a sermon in which the speaker assumed the entire audience fit into a certain category, and he was direct in insisting he was meeting a shared need that did not apply to me (in fairness, what he said was meeting a need of most of the people to whom he spoke, but it just happened to be the opposite for me as I was a bit of an outsider in the group as far as life experiences). The effect was that I had to make a conscious effort engage throughout the remainder of the sermon. I felt misunderstood and disconnected.

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  jedidiah Johnson

  Member

  09/03/2024 at 15:35

  It is important to attract the audience right away in order to get them comfortable with what could possibly be a challenging subject. I do think that my needs are spoken to on a weekly basis as I think pastors are normally if led by the Holy Spirit being told what the people need to hear.

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