This greatly expanded edition of Kraft's book Communicating the Gospel God's Way guides us in our attempt to understand how God seeks to communicate the gospel to unbelievers. Kraft shows that God desires His people to deliver His message through human life not merely formulaic explanations or printed words.

Words are powerful, very powerful! The words we use can uplift, encourage, comfort, teach, and guide the people around us and often will have long-lasting effects on your family, friends, and peers. How you use your words define you as a person, a leader, as a friend, coworker, etc. We speak about sixteen thousand words a day, almost six million words a year, enough to recite the Bible over seven times a year. How do we plan on using these sixteen thousand words every day? God tells us how to use these words to maximize our communication skills. The truth is, there are over seven billion people in the world and not one thinks that same way you do. Therefore, to communicate effectively, we must know the thoughts, attitudes, emotions, and spiritual levels of the people with whom we interact. We do this through caring and listening with a godly attitude. This book describes how we as Christians""and quite frankly non-Christians""can effectively communicate with virtually everyone they speak to. God has much to say about the words we use and how to use them, and we discuss these throughout the book. The Word says in James 1:26, "If anyone considers himself religious and yet does not keep a tight rein on his tongue deceives himself and his religion is worthless." Our religion is not worthless; through the Holy Spirit, it is our responsibility to use our words wisely. This book will help you build better relationships, be more a more effective communicator, and to further the Gospel of Christ by living and talking the way God wants you to. Use those sixteen thousand words you speak every day to help, guide, encourage, teach, comfort, edify, spread the Gospel, and improve the life of those around you. This book will help you do just that!

Discusses the impact of communicating effectively.

Suppose you could ask God any question and get an answer. What would it be? Young people all over the world have been asking those questions. So Neale Donald Walsch, author of the internationally bestselling Conversations with God series had another conversation. Conversations with God for Teens is a simple, clear, straight-to-the-point dialogue that answers teens questions about God, money, sex, love, and more. Conversations with God for Teens reads like a rap session at a church youth group, where teenagers discuss everything they ever wanted to know about life but were too afraid to ask God. Walsch acts as the verbal conduit, showing teenagers how easy it is to converse with the divine. When Claudia, age 16, from Perth, Australia, asks, "Why can't I just have sex with everybody? What's the big deal?", the answer God offers her is: "Nothing you do will ever be okay with everybody. 'Everybody' is a large word. The real question is can you have sex and have it be okay with you?" There's no doubt that the casual question-and-answer format will help make God feel welcoming and accessible to teens. Conversations with God for Teens is the perfect gift purchase for parents, grandparents, and anyone else who wants to provide accessible spiritual content for the teen(s) in their lives.

Communicating God's Word in a Complex World reaches out to the growing number of missionaries, pastors, Bible translators and teachers, mission and theological educators and students dealing with communicating the gospel. This is increasingly difficult in today's pluralist and global contexts. What was God's message, and how has spreading that message changed through the generations? The answer to that question requires a hermeneutical process that seeks to understand the biblical text and the context in which it was originally presented. R. Daniel Shaw and Charles Van Engen say that contemporary proclaimers of God's word can model their approach after that of the writers of scripture, who reinterpreted and restated their received texts for their audiences. Thus, Gospel communication is impacted by the way humans know God. This, in turn, is informed by contexts. Communicating God's Word in a Complex World draws lessons from the biblical authors themselves as a guide for how best to present God's message.

In this revision of a long-enduring classic, Kraft draws upon faith experience and the social sciences to make pastors, preachers, missionaries, and religious educators aware of the mystery of human communication in the service of God who calls all into communion. The question is how to communicate with these other cultures so that the message is effectively transmitted and received? How to we recognize the gaps--of language, tradition, life experience--that separate us and build bridges over them.

In an age exhausted by spin, hype and image, do you long for an authentic connection with others? Do you desire to rise above life's noise in a way that shapes and influences your home, workplace and community? Whether you're an executive, stay-at-home mom or even pastor, everyone has the opportunity to impact those around them through more effective communication. The Revolutionary Communicator looks at Jesus of Nazareth in a completely new light, revealing seven revolutionary ways to leave a lasting impact on others. Discover the greatest of all communicators in a manner even many lifelong followers never have -- and become a student of Jesus in a realm of utmost importance: the way you communicate. Book jacket.