Student Alec Cross
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This helps the audience connect what you are speaking on and sharing with them into their every day lives. This paints a picture for them and helps them see where in the next 24 hours this connects to their lives and who they are. It’s useful in preparation because you want to connect what you are saying with your audiences real life, this connection for the speaker is key for better understanding and sharing with the audience as well.
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“Explain” is the of connecting the bridge with the audience and your topic, sharing with them why it matters and how it connects broadly to them. “Prove” is sharing the why it matters to them specifically and draws them into the topic or idea no longer in a broad way, but in a personal and thoughtful way. “Apply” is what the audience will do with this information or idea, how it will make it’s way into their own lives.
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I don’t mind public speaking as a whole if I am prepared and well practiced. I don’t like unprepared public speaking even if it’s sharing your name and something about yourself. My big fear or concerned is to not know where I myself am going in speaking or leading a conversation/topic. If I don’t know where I seem to be leading then the audience really won’t know or understand well.
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Yes, I think this shapes our individualistic western approach into more wholistic and Jewish reading of scripture. All scripture is meditation literature and that is shaped better when we understand the above truth about what Scripture is and is not.
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I think humility is the largest one I need to keep in mind. I have grown up reading the Bible and being taught things from the Bible all my life in church and christian school. I think this pre-assumption I have that I know the Bible well already, becomes a crutch where I then forget to pause and do needed interpretation steps before seeking to understand it. It can be helpful sometimes because I do come to a passage or book with more insight at times, but also still need to pause and use other steps of interpretation without rushing to a pre-made conclusion.
