Faith Experience

Plan and Prepare

• Use visual and audio aids
• Practice with family or friends.
• Ask them for feedback

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• Breath deeply and slowly
• Breathing exercises

Assignment

• Choose a faith experience of a close friend or relative and describe what happened (or your own experience).
• The challenge is making the audience RELIVE the experience with you
• If it was sad, the audience should feel sad. If it was funny, the audience should laugh. Make the audience feel what you felt.

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Questions to Address

• What type of experience was it?
• Where was it?
• Who was there?
• What happened?
• Why were they there?
• How did they feel?
• What was the goal?
• How did they react?
• How did the story end?
• Why is this experience so memorable for your faith?

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Questions to Address

• What type of experience was it? Embarrassing, silly, taboo
• Where was it? Chicago, in an alley behind Dunkin’ Donuts
• When were you/they there? During winter break 2 weeks ago
• Who was there? Sam and Fede, college friends
• What happened? Guy in the alley, car driving by
• Why were they/you there? To get donuts
• How did they/you feel? Nervous, anxious, goofy
• What was the goal? To get them out of the dumpster and eat them
• How did they/you react? We laughed a lot
• How did the story end? We got the donuts
• Why is this experience so memorable? Because I think part of faith is having the courage to do what other people frown upon.

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Outline

• Introduction: Why live the life that is expected of us? Why conform to societal conventions? I believe Jesus teaches us to be different. He teaches us to do strange things.
• Body
• In the freezing cold went to Dunkin Donuts to get the old donuts
• Feeling: goofy, silly, rebellious, aloof
• With Samuel and Federico
• Man in the wheelchair
• Cars driving by
• We did not need the food/others do
• Stand on “DUMPSTER DIVING” and “FOOD RULES”

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Outline Cont.

• Body Cont.
• Coffee grounds
• Cinnamon, chocolate, blueberry
• Full stomach

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• Conclusion
• Summarize introduction. Jesus did not do things that were normal. He spit to heal people, he hung out with sinners, he had no home.
• Answer this question: Why was the story important? I do not live life to please others, I live life for God.

Written Speech

• Introduction – ask a bold question. Make a statement. Go from general to specific…draw your reader in.

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• Body – support your main points with specific concrete details

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• Conclusion – forcefully assert your main points and premises

My Speech

• Intro
• Why live the life that is expected of us? Why conform to societal conventions? I believe Jesus teaches us to be different. He teaches us to do strange things. What is normal for me can be absurd to others. That is why I feel no shame when doing something peculiar.

My Speech pt. 2

• Body

Last month, Federico, Samuel, and I hurried down the sidewalk in Chicago. We wanted to get some donuts from behind Dunkin’ Donuts, and we were willing to endure the freezing cold; a cold that froze my eyes open and numbed my hands. We laughed and reminisced of the “old days,” as we made our way to the store past the dimly cast shadows. Dunkin Donuts throws out their “old’ donuts at the end of the day, and the old donuts become our ‘new’ snack. Dunkin’ Donuts leftovers was somewhat of a tradition in college. Who doesn’t want free donuts?

My Speech pt. 3

• Body pt. 2
• Sauntering up the alley, we saw an empty wheelchair and a man crouched behind a garbage can nearby. “Is he pooping?” said Sam. “No, but I know that guy from somewhere” replied Federico. We passed the man, and walked straight ahead. At the garbage cans, behind Dunkin’ Donuts sat two huge plastic bags. I eagerly reached into one. “Gross, there are coffee grounds.” “Look in here” came Sam’s reply, “He pulled a cinnamon muffin, a asiago cheese pastry, and a glazed donut. We chowed down. A car drove by and driver gave us the evil eye. Who cares? We stuffed our faces. “These are good” chucked Federico. After I my stomach was full and my teeth were chattering we moved on laughing , “Soooo good.”

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My Speech pt. 4

• Conclusion
• To me dumpster diving, taking someone else's old food and eating it, is a resourceful way of living. It might not be considered sanitary, but if I’m hungry, or someone else needs something to eat I’m willing to get some day old donuts right out of the trash can I do not care about the judgment of others. I think food is a valuable resource and if it is safe to eat, it should be eaten. I do not live life to please others, I live life for God.