Mark 4:21-25

TITLE: Audio, Visual or Kinetic TEXT: Mark 4:21-25 PROPOSITION: We have three primary ways to learn and receive information. QUESTION: How? KEY WORD: Methods SCRIPTURE READING: Same INTRODUCTION:

1. Have you noticed - people learn in different ways

2. To communicate the gospel - we must teach in three ways.

People are:

1. Audio (hearing) - hear a lecture & understand

2. Visual (seeing) - see a demonstration & understand

3. Kinetic (touching)- hands on, actual doing it & understand

4. Illustration of repairing my car - read manual, see photos, under the hood

How to tell which you are:

1. Terms - “I see” - “I hear you” - “I get it”

2. Questions - Do you hear? Do you see what I am saying? Got a handle on it?

3. We are a mixture - but usually one will be dominant

In my sermons:

1. Talk - lecture, explain

2. Body language, motion, walk, wave arms, facial expressions

3. Action - turn to passage, look up, nod your head

In our text:

1. Audio - (23-24a) - How you hear [ Luke 8:18 - What you hear]

2. Visual - (21-22) - Candle under a basket

3. Kinetic - (24b-25) - physical, material (he that has, has not, taken from him)

In Jesus ministry:

1. Audio - preaching, teaching, sermons

2. Visual - parables - painted pictures of sound and motion

3. Kinetic - miracles touched lives, touched, sat child on lap, baptized

In our homes (training our children):

1. Tell, talk, lecture

2. Show, set example, let them see

3. Do - guide them step by step

In Evangelism:

1. Audio - Talk, study, tape of a sermon

2. Visual - Show them your life, example

3. Kinetic - Take them

Application:

1. Audio - We must TELL people about Jesus

2. Visual - We must let them SEE Jesus in us

3. Kinetic - We must allow them to EXPIERENCE Jesus in their life