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    You Say: Discovering God's Plan for Our Communication
    You Say: Discovering God's Plan for Our Communication
    You Say: Discovering God's Plan for Our Communication
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    You Say: Discovering God's Plan for Our Communication

    By Ryan Bisel, PhD

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    PublisherWestBow Press
    Release dateApr 22, 2016
    ISBN9781512735246
    You Say: Discovering God's Plan for Our Communication
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    Ryan Bisel, PhD

    Ryan Bisel (Ph.D., University of Kansas) is an associate professor of communication at the University of Oklahoma. Bisel is a researcher, author, consultant, and teacher in the areas of behavioral ethics and organizational communication. Bisel and his wife have two children and enjoy co-leading a community group of young families at their local church.

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      You Say - Ryan Bisel, PhD

      Copyright © 2016 Ryan Bisel, Ph.D.

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      WestBow Press rev. date: 4/4/2016

      CONTENTS

      Chapter 1: God's Plan for our Communication

      Chapter 2: Talk is action

      Chapter 3: Talk-Belief-Sin

      Chapter 4: Talk that appears righteous can nonetheless be sinful

      Chapter 5: You Say

      Chapter 6: Zooming in: Godly speech is humble, not arrogant

      Chapter 7: Zooming-in: Godly speech is other-promoting, not other-harming

      Chapter 8: Zooming-in: Godly Speech is God-fearing

      Chapter 9: You Say in the Parable of the Prodigal Son

      Chapter 10: The Practices of Godly Communication

      Chapter 11: Who Do You Say I Am?

      Dedicated to Dorothy, Dee, Julie (2 Tim 1:5), and my dearest Adele (P&D!)

      Who open their mouths with wisdom, and teach kindness (Prov. 31:26)

      The author would like to thank Katherine M. Kelley and Stacie Wilson Mumpower for their helpful comments on earlier versions of this work.

      CHAPTER 1

      God's Plan for our Communication

      God spoke about how we speak. He commented on our commenting, I said to myself as I stared at a passage in Malachi, blinking, then smiling, then feeling a chill of sorrowful clarity that is sometimes attained by reading God's Word in a new way.

      While I am not proud of it, I must admit the day I realized this truth I was angry-reading the Bible. Have you ever done that? I was reading Malachi for it's famous passages about tithing and God's provision for those who tithe faithfully. Why was I angry? I need to take you back: My wife and I---on the strong recommendation from most everyone we trusted---bought a little, aging home in a college town. The standard advice was: Just get into the market however you can. It's the best investment. In a few years you can use the equity generated here to afford to make a down payment on a home you really want. So we bought a home in 2004. In 2008, we were ready to sell the home after God provided a career opportunity in another state.

      To us, every aspect of the career opportunity was a Godsend. We felt loved and nurtured. We felt affirmed. Every conceivable obstacle seemed to dissolve before us and a great future seemed in sight. However, when we went to sell our little house during the summer of 2008---yeah, 2008, the peak of the Great Recession---there were no takers, not even lookers. We rented eventually and felt a sense of relief; the outcome was not ideal according to us, but we thanked God anyway. In our unfortunate and earthly wisdom, we decided to try again in the summer of 2010. Surely the house will sell now, we thought. It didn't. For ten long months, we could neither sell the house nor rent it successfully. For ten months, we struggled to pay two mortgages. I prayed. I fasted. I bargained. I felt betrayed. I questioned myself. I sought out Godly advice. We wondered whether we were being punished. That's when I was rereading the passages in Malachi about tithing and God's blessing. We tithe, I thought. Were is our 'overflowing blessing (Mal. 3:10)?' As my eyes continued to read the passages that followed, my veins ran cold.

      You have spoken harsh words against me, says the LORD. Yet you say, 'How have we spoken against you?' You have said, "It is vain to serve God. What do we profit by keeping his command or by going about as mourners before the LORD of hosts? Now we count the arrogant

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