Priscilla Shirer
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411 appearances
3 recordings
2 series
first heard May 2026
last heard 26 Aug
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So I have to recognize the fact that I was in a masterclass my whole life and my father is um he never preaches without illustration.
Mm.
And so I've I just thought this was a normal part of how you communicate and to make sure your audience is absorbing what you're saying.
Right.
Because the reality is your audience is only going to remember ten percent of what you've said.
So if you spend your time saying too much of anything, they actually are only going to remember this teeny small sliver.
So what is better use of your time is to make sure that you're making a solid point and then use the rest of the 30 minutes, if you have 30 minutes or 20 minutes, to make sure you are just emphasizing that point with illustration, with application, and with observations from the text.
You can't say everything you
You know, you have to say what is the point.
And then anything that does not undergur undergird that point is for another message.
It's not for this message.
Because the 10% they absorb, you want that to be the point that you were trying to make.
And illustration is one of the most important ways to make sure that a message basically illustrations are incubat incubators that house the principle that you are trying to communicate to an audience.
And so to the extent that this incubator is created, that is the extent to which you can really cultivate this idea.
or theme or biblical principle that you want to take root in their souls.
Great.
So for me, um, and this again is something that a preacher that I admire so much, who's in his 70s now, he said to me many, many years ago that he would keep, I wish I had it with me.
He would keep a little black book with him, which I got one of, I still have, but now most of the time, instead of writing in a little black book, I use the notes section on my phone.
And I just have a file that says illustrations in the notes section of my phone.
And it is filled with things that happen in regular everyday life that occurred to me that they are shimmering with the possibility of illustration.
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