Communicating with Grace and Virtue: Learning to Listen, Speak, Text, and Interact as a Christian - Paperback

by Quentin J. Schultze (Author)

Communications expert Quentin Schultze offers an engaging and practical guide to help Christians interact effectively at home, work, church, school, and beyond. Based on solid biblical principles and drawn from Schultze's own remarkable experiences, this book shows how to practice "servant communication" for a rich and rewarding life. Topics include how to overcome common mistakes, be a more grateful and virtuous communicator, tell stories effectively, reduce conflicts, overcome fears, and communicate well in a high-tech world. Helpful sidebars and text boxes are included.

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A Practical Guide for Communicating in a Modern World

Communications expert Quentin Schultze offers an engaging and practical guide to help Christians interact effectively at home, work, church, school, and beyond.

"Schultze reveals the basics of truly good communication practices, making them accessible and showing why understanding communication is vitally important for the Christian life. He digs into his years of experience--as a professional communicator, a Christian leader, and as a human who has had to struggle with his own weaknesses--to reveal deep insights into how communication skills are an important aspect of serving God."
--Steve Perry, Regent University

"Schultze's remarkable ability to help others form, nurture, and repair relationships takes center stage in this splendid book. He emphasizes our need for gratitude since our communication is a gift from God. Such gratefulness informs our attitudes toward others and leads us to flourish relationally with virtue, grace, and beauty. I thank him for such a heart-forming book for all of us who teach, mentor, and serve others."
--Stephanie Bennett, Palm Beach Atlantic University

"A truly unique work that marries academic principles with practical applications for spiritual formation. This book will be right at home in a Bible study, freshman orientation, or a university course."
--Tom Carmody, Vanguard University

"A rare book--a wealth of practical, biblical truths for communicating faithfully as we accept and embrace our own fragile and broken selves. Schultze's heart-rending and heartwarming stories demonstrate how brokenness is an integral part of communicating with grace and virtue."
--Diane M. Badzinski, Colorado Christian University

"I can envision this book helping me to connect with my students and helping my students to connect with God and themselves so they can be wise and faithful servant communicators. I love it."
--Bob Gustafson, Moody Bible Institute

Author Biography

Quentin J. Schultze (PhD, University of Illinois) is a speaker, mentor, consultant, and professor of communication emeritus at Calvin University in Grand Rapids, Michigan. His many books include An Essential Guide to Public Speaking and An Essential Guide to Interpersonal Communication. Visit his website at www.quentinschultze.com.