{"id":34634,"date":"2016-11-03T19:41:10","date_gmt":"2016-11-04T00:41:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/?p=34634"},"modified":"2016-11-10T20:03:05","modified_gmt":"2016-11-11T02:03:05","slug":"donald-trump-teaches-preaching","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/index.php\/2016\/11\/03\/donald-trump-teaches-preaching\/","title":{"rendered":"Donald Trump Teaches Preaching"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Editors&#8217; Note: This post originally appeared at the blog\u00a0<\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/liturgy.co.nz\/donald-trump-teaches-preaching\" target=\"_blank\">Liturgy<\/a><em> on May 23rd, 2016. Readers may also be interested \u00a0in a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.charismanews.com\/opinion\/the-flaming-herald\/52664-what-donald-trump-can-teach-preachers-today\" target=\"_blank\">similar post<\/a> that appeared on the charismatic evangelical website <\/em>CharismaNews<em>.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<section class=\"row row-1\">\n<section class=\"column column-1 grid-left-0 grid-width-19\">\n<header id=\"block-1\" class=\"block block-type-header block-fixed-height block-mirrored block-mirroring-bet53e0d85397988 block-original-38\" data-alias=\"\">\n<div class=\"block-content\"><\/div>\n<\/header>\n<\/section>\n<\/section>\n<section class=\"row row-3\">\n<section class=\"column column-1 grid-left-0 grid-width-13\">\n<div id=\"block-39\" class=\"block block-type-content block-fluid-height\" data-alias=\"\">\n<div class=\"block-content\">\n<div class=\"loop\">\n<article id=\"post-23621\" class=\"post-23621 post type-post status-publish format-standard hentry category-liturgy tag-sermon author-starcr055 default\">\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-23622\" src=\"http:\/\/liturgy.co.nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/DonaldTrump.jpg\" alt=\"Donald Trump\" width=\"451\" height=\"319\" \/><\/p>\n<p>We, who preach, can learn from great public speakers. I regularly watch clips of Barack Obama \u2013 he, I think, is a great public speaker. He clearly draws on the great African-American preaching tradition.<\/p>\n<p>A friend recently sent me an article on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.psephizo.com\/life-ministry\/what-can-donald-trump-teach-us-about-preaching\/\">What can Donald Trump teach us about preaching?<\/a> Analysis of the way Donald Trump speaks indicated:<\/p>\n<div class=\"fluid-width-video-wrapper\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" id=\"fitvid952314\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/_aFo_BV-UzI?rel=0&amp;controls=0&amp;showinfo=0\" width=\"300\" height=\"150\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<ul>\n<li>His vocabulary is very simple: 172 out of 220 words are one syllable\u2014that is 78%.<\/li>\n<li>He uses very simple sentence structures.<\/li>\n<li>He uses a few key words and repeats them all the time.<\/li>\n<li>He addresses people directly using second person plural verbs.<\/li>\n<li>He consistently ends sentence with strong punchy words\u2014and goes to some effort to do so<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I\u2019m not suggesting that preachers mimic Donald Trump\u2019s salesman-like speaking style (nor am I suggesting preachers mimic his content!) I\u2019m simply suggesting that reflecting on his speaking style is of value (as is reflecting on the speaking style of other communicators). Part of the problem with many sermons is that they are often simply theological texts read aloud. Preachers spend hours producing carefully-crafted texts which they then read aloud in the pulpit.<\/p>\n<p>Even putting those texts through something like a Flesch\u2013Kincaid readability test (or similar online tool) can give you an indication of the difficulty of the text you have produced. Donald Trump is understood by a 9 year old. My own preaching texts (I tend to use what I have as a basis for my preaching, rather than as a text I read aloud) tend to be at the 11-13-year age level.<\/p>\n<p>Drawing on another source \u2013 how does this compare to the Trinity Sunday sermon you heard (or gave)? Peter Sellers in Heavens above:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/video.php?href=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2F1743117635973158%2Fvideos%2Fvb.1743117635973158%2F1745381885746733%2F%3Ftype%3D3&amp;show_text=0&amp;width=560\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Rather more tongue in cheek \u2013 we can also learn liturgical gestures from Donald Trump.<\/p>\n<p>Here is orans:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-23625\" src=\"http:\/\/liturgy.co.nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/orans1.jpg\" alt=\"orans\" width=\"450\" height=\"253\" \/><\/p>\n<p>And here is orans after touching the consecrated bread:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-23626\" src=\"http:\/\/liturgy.co.nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/orans2.jpg\" alt=\"orans 2\" width=\"450\" height=\"272\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\u00a9\u00a0Rev. 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