Strategically Timing a Message
BIOLA UNIVERSITY
STRATEGICALY TIMING A MESSAGE:
HOW TIMING AFFECTS THE INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION BETWEEN MEN AND THEIR CREATOR
TORREY HONORS INSTITUTE
DR. JAMIE CAMPBELL
MORGAN HOUSE
JUNIOR FALL
Second Submission
December 12 2012
BY
ISAIAH PEKARY
(Word Count: 3488)
Strategically Timing a Message:
How Timing Affects the Interpersonal Communication Between Men and Their Creator
The Christian experience of God is a personal relationship that is influenced by the timing of messages that build and sustain the relationship. It is impossible not to communicate. During interpersonal interactions, every movement of the hands, rolling of the eyes, or increase in vocal tone is a message that can be interpreted. Even silence can communicate many messages. Although we do not have a choice in the matter of deciding whether to communicate or not, we do have the ability to choose when to initiate verbal communication and how to communicate certain messages non-verbally. We also can manage the duration of our messages. These decisions of initiation and duration are vital to the success of an intended message in both its delivery and reception. Since the nature of communication between God and man is interpersonal, the timing of a message implies that the intentional messages of God must travel through the human method of interpretation and therefore must be strategically timed. Communication is a process through which people, acting together, create, sustain, and manage meanings through the use of verbal and nonverbal signs and symbols within a particular context. During intentional communication, the goal for the sender of a message is to create a certain meaning for the receptor. All messages have the potential to be controlled, intentionally constructed, and purposefully directed. However, it is only God who has the capacity to avoid the impulsive messages that humans often send void of thought or construction. To suggest that any of his
STRATEGICALY TIMING A MESSAGE:
HOW TIMING AFFECTS THE INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION BETWEEN MEN AND THEIR CREATOR
TORREY HONORS INSTITUTE
DR. JAMIE CAMPBELL
MORGAN HOUSE
JUNIOR FALL
Second Submission
December 12 2012
BY
ISAIAH PEKARY
(Word Count: 3488)
Strategically Timing a Message:
How Timing Affects the Interpersonal Communication Between Men and Their Creator
The Christian experience of God is a personal relationship that is influenced by the timing of messages that build and sustain the relationship. It is impossible not to communicate. During interpersonal interactions, every movement of the hands, rolling of the eyes, or increase in vocal tone is a message that can be interpreted. Even silence can communicate many messages. Although we do not have a choice in the matter of deciding whether to communicate or not, we do have the ability to choose when to initiate verbal communication and how to communicate certain messages non-verbally. We also can manage the duration of our messages. These decisions of initiation and duration are vital to the success of an intended message in both its delivery and reception. Since the nature of communication between God and man is interpersonal, the timing of a message implies that the intentional messages of God must travel through the human method of interpretation and therefore must be strategically timed. Communication is a process through which people, acting together, create, sustain, and manage meanings through the use of verbal and nonverbal signs and symbols within a particular context. During intentional communication, the goal for the sender of a message is to create a certain meaning for the receptor. All messages have the potential to be controlled, intentionally constructed, and purposefully directed. However, it is only God who has the capacity to avoid the impulsive messages that humans often send void of thought or construction. To suggest that any of his
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