More Than Words Week 2 – The Right Tone The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place. - George Bernard Shaw Proverbs 18:21

Death and life are in the power of the tongue, and those who love it will eat its fruits.

Key Point: Even the most loving message can’t be heard if it’s given in the wrong tone.

1 Corinthians 13:1 If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels,

but have not love, I am a noisy gong or a

clanging cymbal… Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant or rude.

1 Kings 19:11-13 Then a great and powerful wind tore the mountains apart and shattered the rocks before the Lord, but the Lord was not in the wind. After the wind there was an earthquake, but the Lord was not in the earthquake. After the earthquake came a fire, but the Lord was not in the fire. And after the fire came a gentle whisper.

Ephesians 4:15 Instead, speaking the truth in love, we will grow to become in every respect the mature body of him who is the head, that is, Christ.