How Jesus Communicates

Text: Col. 4:6

Intro: Communication is the bedrock of civilizations, unity in the church, and happiness in the home. How we communicate with one another influences how you are perceived, understood, or misunderstood. When we speak to someone in a conversation, whether that is for evangelistic purposes, church edification, or the continual building of the marriage relationship, your words, and how they are spoken, matter. I am fairly comfortable in saying that a good portion of debates and disagreements in human history have come down to a lack of communication. Someone inst being heard, someones being a jerk, someone isn’t able to adequately communicate what they mean, or someone inst accurately representing the other side of an argument, sometimes on purpose. Today, I want to take you to the master of all communication and I want us to observe how he communicates in certain passages. I want us to take some of these tactics and implement them in our lives, because following Jesus inst just done in what we do but what we say and how we say it. A little disclaimer though, these tactics that Jesus uses, are not meant to help you formulate conversations so that you never disagree with whoever your talking to. Sometimes its good to disagree. these tactics rather are meant to show you how to respond, regardless of the outcome of whatever conversation you find yourself in, or so that you can quickly conclude if you're talking to a brick wall or not.

Asking Questions

Asking questions was a big way that Jesus taught. He asked 307 questions recorded in His ministry

To Gather Information for yourself

One of the most respectful things you can do to someone in a conversation is ask genuine questions

Reflective listen

you must fully understand a position to refute it

The most important thing in communication is to hear what isn’t being said.

Peter F. Drucker; Peter Drucker

To Get The Other Person To Think About Their Position

Sometimes, questions must be asked to get the other person to think

Matthew 16:15.

this presupposes that someone cares about the logic of their argument.

To Show Someone The Foolishness of What They Are Saying

sarcastic questions or questions that show the other person their true position

Matt. 21:25.

this, of course, presupposes that someone will care about sounding foolish.

Not A Conversational Narcissist

What Is That?

Someone who constantly turns the conversation toward themselves and steps away when the conversation is no longer about them.

its annoying when someone makes the conversation about them

“I am a sinful man.” Luke 5:8.

Like you have it so bad Peter, you wanna know whats gonna happen to me?

someone trying to confide in you and you turn it around on yourself to talk about your problems.

they wont confide in you again.

“If you had been here, my brother would not have died” John 11:21-22

At Least his problems are over. Wanna know what I've been dealing with?

In Love

Love Has Compassion

Good and useful conversations must have compassion

Luke 7:13

Love Sticks With The Truth

Luke 13:3

Love Rebukes

Mark 8:33