Martinez United Methodist Church October 12, 2014

Definition com·mu·ni·ca·tion noun \k ə -myü-n ə -kā-sh ə n\ : the act or process of using words, sounds, signs, or behaviors to express or exchange information or to express your ideas, thoughts, feelings, etc., to someone else

What are some of the components of communication?

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What are some of the components of communication?  Message  Transmission

What are some of the components of communication?  Message  Transmission  Reception

What are some of the components of communication?  Message  Transmission  Reception  Interpretation

What are some of the components of communication?  Message  Transmission  Reception  Interpretation  Response

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 What do you want to communicate?  How urgent is it?  How important is it?  Who is your target audience?  Is it sensitive/private/personal?  Is it highly detailed and/or technical?  Are others communicating the same message?  What is its “lifespan?  Should it be communicated more than once?  Will it be forwarded by your audience? Christian Message

 What do you want to communicate? GOD LOVES YOU  How urgent is it?  How important is it?  Who is your target audience?  Is it sensitive/private/personal?  Is it highly detailed and/or technical?  Are others communicating the same message?  What is its “lifespan?  Should it be communicated more than once?  Will it be forwarded by your audience? Christian Message

 What do you want to communicate? GOD LOVES YOU  How urgent is it? IMMEDIATE  How important is it?  Who is your target audience?  Is it sensitive/private/personal?  Is it highly detailed and/or technical?  Are others communicating the same message?  What is its “lifespan?  Should it be communicated more than once?  Will it be forwarded by your audience? Christian Message

 What do you want to communicate? GOD LOVES YOU  How urgent is it? IMMEDIATE  How important is it? LIFE OR DEATH  Who is your target audience?  Is it sensitive/private/personal?  Is it highly detailed and/or technical?  Are others communicating the same message?  What is its “lifespan?  Should it be communicated more than once?  Will it be forwarded by your audience? Christian Message

 What do you want to communicate? GOD LOVES YOU  How urgent is it? IMMEDIATE  How important is it? LIFE OR DEATH  Who is your target audience? EVERYONE  Is it sensitive/private/personal?  Is it highly detailed and/or technical?  Are others communicating the same message?  What is its “lifespan?  Should it be communicated more than once?  Will it be forwarded by your audience? Christian Message

 What do you want to communicate? GOD LOVES YOU  How urgent is it? IMMEDIATE  How important is it? LIFE OR DEATH  Who is your target audience? EVERYONE  Is it sensitive/private/personal? ABSOLUTELY  Is it highly detailed and/or technical?  Are others communicating the same message?  What is its “lifespan?  Should it be communicated more than once?  Will it be forwarded by your audience? Christian Message

 What do you want to communicate? GOD LOVES YOU  How urgent is it? IMMEDIATE  How important is it? LIFE OR DEATH  Who is your target audience? EVERYONE  Is it sensitive/private/personal? ABSOLUTELY  Is it highly detailed and/or technical? NO  Are others communicating the same message?  What is its “lifespan?  Should it be communicated more than once?  Will it be forwarded by your audience? Christian Message

 What do you want to communicate? GOD LOVES YOU  How urgent is it? IMMEDIATE  How important is it? LIFE OR DEATH  Who is your target audience? EVERYONE  Is it sensitive/private/personal? ABSOLUTELY  Is it highly detailed and/or technical? NO  Are others communicating the same message? YES  What is its “lifespan?  Should it be communicated more than once?  Will it be forwarded by your audience? Christian Message

 What do you want to communicate? GOD LOVES YOU  How urgent is it? IMMEDIATE  How important is it? LIFE OR DEATH  Who is your target audience? EVERYONE  Is it sensitive/private/personal? ABSOLUTELY  Is it highly detailed and/or technical? NO  Are others communicating the same message? YES  What is its “lifespan? ETERNITY  Should it be communicated more than once?  Will it be forwarded by your audience? Christian Message

 What do you want to communicate? GOD LOVES YOU  How urgent is it? IMMEDIATE  How important is it? LIFE OR DEATH  Who is your target audience? EVERYONE  Is it sensitive/private/personal? ABSOLUTELY  Is it highly detailed and/or technical? NO  Are others communicating the same message? YES  What is its “lifespan? ETERNITY  Should it be communicated more than once? CERTAINLY  Will it be forwarded by your audience? Christian Message

 What do you want to communicate? GOD LOVES YOU  How urgent is it? IMMEDIATE  How important is it? LIFE OR DEATH  Who is your target audience? EVERYONE  Is it sensitive/private/personal? ABSOLUTELY  Is it highly detailed and/or technical? NO  Are others communicating the same message? YES  What is its “lifespan? ETERNITY  Should it be communicated more than once? CERTAINLY  Will it be forwarded by your audience? THAT IS THE HOPE Christian Message

Transmission How you transmit is dependent upon the message.  What do you want to communicate? GOD LOVES YOU  How urgent is it? IMMEDIATE  How important is it? LIFE OR DEATH  Who is your target audience? EVERYONE  Is it sensitive/private/personal? ABSOLUTELY  Is it highly detailed and/or technical? NO  Are others communicating the same message? YES  What is its “lifespan? ETERNITY  Should it be communicated more than once? CERTAINLY  Will it be forwarded by your audience? THAT IS THE HOPE

Transmission How you transmit is dependent upon the message.  Speaking face-to-face  Phone  Letter  Electronic media  Witness

Reception  Dependent upon transmission method

Interpretation How you interpret is dependent upon your comprehension.

Response Your interpretation of the message controls your response. FEEDBACK IS CRITICAL!!!!!!

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James 4 Living Bible (TLB) 11 Don’t criticize and speak evil about each other, dear brothers. If you do, you will be fighting against God’s law of loving one another, declaring it is wrong. But your job is not to decide whether this law is right or wrong, but to obey it. 12 Only he who made the law can rightly judge among us. He alone decides to save us or destroy. So what right do you have to judge or criticize others?

Witness Romans 1:26-32 (NIV) 26 Because of this, God gave them over to shameful lusts. Even their women exchanged natural sexual relations for unnatural ones. 27 In the same way the men also abandoned natural relations with women and were inflamed with lust for one another. Men committed shameful acts with other men, and received in themselves the due penalty for their error. 28 Furthermore, just as they did not think it worthwhile to retain the knowledge of God, so God gave them over to a depraved mind, so that they do what ought not to be done. 29 They have become filled with every kind of wickedness, evil, greed and depravity. They are full of envy, murder, strife, deceit and malice. They are gossips, 30 slanderers, God-haters, insolent, arrogant and boastful; they invent ways of doing evil; they disobey their parents; 31 they have no understanding, no fidelity, no love, no mercy. 32 Although they know God’s righteous decree that those who do such things deserve death, they not only continue to do these very things but also approve of those who practice them.

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9 th Commandment “You shall not bear false witness”

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Remember – You have only ONE life to live

Communicate LOVE