__A Practical Guide for Communicating in a Modern World__ Communications expert Quentin Schultze offers an engaging and practical guide to help Christians interact effectively at home, work, church, school, and beyond.  
  
"Schultze reveals the basics of truly good communication practices, making them accessible and showing why understanding communication is vitally important for the Christian life. He digs into his years of experience--as a professional communicator, a Christian leader, and as a human who has had to struggle with his own weaknesses--to reveal deep insights into how communication skills are an important aspect of serving God."  
--__Steve Perry__, Regent University  
  
"Schultze's remarkable ability to help others form, nurture, and repair relationships takes center stage in this splendid book. He emphasizes our need for gratitude since our communication is a gift from God. Such gratefulness informs our attitudes toward others and leads us to flourish relationally with virtue, grace, and beauty. I thank him for such a heart-forming book for all of us who teach, mentor, and serve others."  
--__Stephanie Bennett__, Palm Beach Atlantic University  
  
"A truly unique work that marries academic principles with practical applications for spiritual formation. This book will be right at home in a Bible study, freshman orientation, or a university course."  
--__Tom Carmody__, Vanguard University  
  
"A rare book--a wealth of practical, biblical truths for communicating faithfully as we accept and embrace our own fragile and broken selves. Schultze's heart-rending and heartwarming stories demonstrate how brokenness is an integral part of communicating with grace and virtue."  
--__Diane M. Badzinski__, Colorado Christian University  
  
"I can envision this book helping me to connect with my students and helping my students to connect with God and themselves so they can be wise and faithful servant communicators. I love it."  
--__Bob Gustafson__, Moody Bible Institute

__Quentin J. Schultze__ (PhD, University of Illinois) is a speaker, mentor, consultant, and professor of communication emeritus at Calvin University in Grand Rapids, Michigan. His many books include An Essential Guide to Public Speaking and An Essential Guide to Interpersonal Communication. Visit his website at www.quentinschultze.com.

Communications expert Quentin Schultze offers an engaging and practical guide to help Christians interact effectively at home, work, church, school, and beyond. Based on solid biblical principles and drawn from Schultze's own remarkable experiences, this book shows how to practice "servant communication" for a rich and rewarding life. Topics include how to overcome common mistakes, be a more grateful and virtuous communicator, tell stories effectively, reduce conflicts, overcome fears, and communicate well in a high-tech world. Helpful sidebars and text boxes are included.

Communications expert Quentin Schultze offers an engaging and practical guide to communication that helps Christians listen, speak, text, and interact effectively at home, work, church, school, and beyond.

__Contents__   
Introduction  
__1. Accept the Call__ Communicating for Life  
Communicating in Culture  
Learning Great Communication  
Communicating Courageously  
Examining Our Motives  
Conclusion __2. Offer Thanks__ Engaging Our Hearts  
Receiving Gratitude  
Using Symbols  
Employing Verbal and Nonverbal Language  
Sending and Receiving "Texts"  
Sharing Understanding  
Contextualizing Communication  
Doing Communication  
Understanding with Discernment  
Conclusion __3. Be Responsible__ Communicating Responsibly in God's Name  
Listening Obediently  
Listening Intimately  
Listening Actively  
Listening Dialogically  
Listening Vertically  
Communicating with Excellence and Compassion  
Communicating "Christianly"  
Embracing Confusion  
Conclusion __4. Address Brokenness__ Accepting Imperfection  
Being Vulnerable  
Sharing Appropriately  
Sharing Healing  
Identifying Our Biases  
Blaming Others  
Releasing Control  
Sinning by Omission  
Sinning by Commission  
Confessing Regularly  
Conclusion __5. Embrace Community__ Growing Together  
Knowing Ourselves in Community  
Nurturing Shalom  
Embracing Diversities  
Questioning Stereotypes  
Nurturing Trust  
Seeking Truth Together  
Forming Truth-Loving Communities  
Conclusion __6. Be Virtuous__ Being Genuine  
Seeking Integrity  
Being Joyful  
Embracing Peace  
Being Patient  
Being Kind  
Being Good  
Being Gentle  
Being Self-Controlled  
Conclusion __7. Tell Stories__ How Stories Work  
Communicating Indirectly  
Capturing Metaphors  
Mapping Life  
Engaging Comedies and Tragedies  
Interpreting Stories through the Biblical Metanarrative  
Critiquing Media Mythologies  
Conclusion __8. Discern Media__ Defining Technology  
Communicating with Media Technologies  
Jesus Broadcasts His Message  
Elevating the Spoken Word  
Fitting Medium to Message  
Rejecting Communication Technology  
Adapting Communication Technologies  
Creating Communication Technologies  
Conclusion Closing Thoughts

Schultze, Quentin J.

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