CNLP 664 | The Sermon Impact Matrix: What Separates Preachers and Communication in Dying, Stagnant, Shallow, and Growing Churches
The Carey Nieuwhof Leadership Podcast
Carey Nieuwhof
4.8 • 2.2K Ratings
🗓️ 18 July 2024
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Summary
In this episode, Carey Nieuwhof breaks down four distinct communication styles typical of dying, stagnant, shallow, and growing churches. He also gives you the tools you need to break out of a rut to become a more powerful and effective communicator.
The #1 factor people look for in a church is the quality of the preaching.
In fact, 86% of people choose a church based on that.
So, what separates preachers and communication in dying, stagnant, shallow, and growing churches? That’s what we’re discussing in this podcast episode.
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TIMESTAMPS:
Quality of Preaching and Communication (00:03:30)
Factors of Great Communication (00:06:05)
Expressing a Compelling Idea (00:07:02)
Elements of Great Delivery (00:09:12)
Sermon Impact Matrix (00:13:55)
Irrelevant Talks (00:14:58)
Academic Messages (00:16:09)
Trivial Messages (00:17:14)
Powerful Messages (00:19:13)
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| 0:00.0 | The Art of Leadership Network. |
| 0:02.6 | Ultimately, the effectiveness of your communication is directly tied to your organization's |
| 0:09.2 | growth. |
| 0:10.2 | Welcome to the Carrie New Hop Leadership Podcast. Today a teaching episode, no guest, just me and a little bit shorter. |
| 0:21.0 | And as usual, I hope it helps you thrive in life and leadership and in this |
| 0:24.4 | episode I want to help you improve your communication skills and I want to |
| 0:29.1 | introduce you to the sermon impact matrix now that's going to help you assess where you're |
| 0:34.4 | preaching lands and how to make it better over time. Now I know some of you are |
| 0:39.2 | probably thinking well I'm not a preacher, I'm a business leader, I'm a CEO, I'm a junior in a company, I'm not a preacher I'm a business leader I'm a CEO I'm a junior in a company I'm an intern and I don't preach so this doesn't apply to me right well let me challenge you on that if you're a leader great communication is a key to great leadership. Think about this. |
| 0:56.0 | The clearer you are, the better your ideas, the better your leadership. |
| 1:01.0 | Now that's true if you're contributing to a meeting if you're just like |
| 1:04.0 | chatting in a meeting or if you're presenting a slide deck or if you're doing any kind of private or public |
| 1:10.4 | communication as a rule the better you, the better a leader you become. |
| 1:15.5 | Now, this episode is a little bit visual, particularly toward the end, and you may want to get |
| 1:20.1 | the show notes for it. So all you can do to do that is click the link in the description of your podcast player or go to |
| 1:26.8 | carry newhoff.com slash episode 664 you'll see the visual for the sermon |
| 1:30.9 | impact matrix in the show notes. |
| 1:34.0 | Now, one quick note to kick things off today before we get started. |
| 1:37.4 | Every month, I do a live Zoom call with leaders inside my Art of Leadership Academy, |
| 1:42.4 | and I'd love for you to join me. |
| 1:45.0 | Now what we do, we do a live Q&A, usually I do a little bit of teaching and then it's an |
| 1:49.8 | ask me anything and in just a few weeks it's not going to be just me. Patrick |
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