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Practical advice for connecting with unknown audience members, especially your digital listeners.
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Guest: Dr. David Schmitt is a pastor and teacher. He currently teaches preaching to future pastors.
Introduction: Explore ways to best connect with the growing online audiences and to avoid the pitfalls of this new experience.
Summary:
- How to connect
- Consider common contact points with those unknown people—help them find a connection
- Cultural experience, events in the world
- Self—if authentic, passionate, and sincere
- Community of faith
- Foundational truths, basic teachings
- Message of a sermon
- Check your assumptions
- Helpful practices
- Welcome and acknowledge online visitors
- Speak TO not ABOUT
- “Backing into theology”
- Start with the human experience, a story
- Then explain those theological terms
- “Rhetorical spaces”: help listeners identify with your examples
- Dangers to avoid
- Missing what God calls us to do
- Reducing faith to reason rather than relationship
- Value in doing it?
- Fulfills the Great Commission
- Models how we want listeners to speak—what and how to speak
- Follow-up
- Recognize online potential
- Curate the resources
- Invest in organization
- Additional info, resources
- Contact points
- Connections with people
- Consider common contact points with those unknown people—help them find a connection
