If you are ever tempted to scheme and commit a sin, just try to do this: fast forward your life and visualize the consequences of it. But if they are monotone and plain, like the beeeeep noise, they will sound lifeless, not to mention boring. What does this illustrate? If our talks have modulation, rhythm, and pace they will be animated and lively. But when it becomes flat with the sharp noise 'beeeeeep' then the patient is dead.
When a heart rate monitor makes the beep, beep, beep sound, it indicates that the patient is alive. Our talks need to have a proper conclusion. The pilot can not just jump off the plane and let the passengers land on their own. Taking off can be likened to the introduction, the body is the time spent in the air after climbing up, and the conclusion is like the landing. The antidote to overconfidence is to be humble and modest, acknowledging our limitations.ĭo you cook your congregation talks in the microwave or in a brick oven? This is important because, after all, we are ‘cooking’ for Jehovah. Later on, an older brother approached him and gave him this counsel: 'If you would have gone up like you came down, you would have came down like you went up.' Overconfidence is a manifestation of our treacherous heart. He came down the stage looking crestfallen and humiliated. A minute into his discourse, his voice turned shaky, started to sweat profusely, and he got stage fright. Sadly, his overconfidence made him neglect his preparation. That will be so raw! You have to cook it, develop it, bake it, roast it -but don’t burn it!- so that your audience can enjoy a delicious spiritual meal.Ī young brother went up to the platform to give a talk with a smirk on his face and an air of confidence. We should never read the outline line by line adding only connecting phrases and conjunctions when delivering a talk. They will try to make a delicious meal out of it! We can see the outline of a talk as that basket of ingredients. Have you ever seen a cooking show where the chefs get a basket of ingredients and they need to make a meal out of it? It's a given that they will never give the judges the raw ingredients as a meal. It cannot be used! So the question is: Do my talks have a handle? Are they practical or they just theory? If so, put a handle on it! It's like giving a friend a shovel without a handle. Instead of presenting many facts, it is better to make the facts practical to give the audience something they can use.
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