Obama shows his heart through his speeches.

I want to begin by congratulating Obama on being the new President of the USA. In listening to Cape Talk radio (South African talk radio) I could not help noticing the number of callers who were drawn to Obamas authenticity in the delivery of his speeches. On more than one occasion people phoned in raving about having found a man who was just real with them. This seems to be a growing point of importance when it comes to public speaking in our day. I wonder if this is not something we should be considering in terms of sermon delivery during church gatherings. I have been in plenty of churches where sermons are generally read so as to provide the audience with precision and accuracy in thought. I have no doubt that the preacher was convicted in his preparations. But it does seem to affect audience perception of that conviction. It seems that the everyday guy on the street wants authenticity and conviction over precision and accuracy of truth. This could be because in our day truth is not as great a point of reference as conviction is. I’m not suggesting that precision of truth is not important. But rather that we analyse peoples receptivity of our method of public speaking.

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