Finding Humour in the Bible

In my last blog What Youth & Young Adults Want You To Know About Your Talks, the number one feedback from students regarding your speaking is that they wish you would use MORE HUMOUR. This blog is dedicated to helping you add more humour in your talk.

Your students are not looking for a stand up comedian examining how many laughs a minute you are able to get in. They want to be entertained and get value out of the message. In adding humour you don’t have to worry about compromising your message by getting a few laughs from SketchyJokes.com. Humour is everywhere waiting to be discovered all it takes is someone who is willing to take the time to reveal the humour in a story. 

Finding Humour

Where do you look?  Humour can often be found in moments of pain or struggle. I attended a workshop with a lady that was featured on Oprah as one of the funniest women around, Judy Carter. Judy knows how to teach funny. I’ve attended workshops on adding humour but they didn’t impact me until I attended her workshop. I marvelled at how this lady could take somebody’s pain and tragedy then  turn it into humour story with a lesson. She would listen and then translate. How did she do it?  It’s all about perspective.

“Your son wasn’t arrested on the TV show ‘Cops’ -- you have a relative in show business.” – Judy Carter

Look Harder (Fade in Rafiki’s Voice in the background: Lion King)   

Examine the pains and the struggles of different people or verses in the bible and find the humour in it all.

Biblical dilemma. Genesis Chapter two, Adam was lonely and he could find no suitable partner so God made woman. Where’s the Humour? 

Adam was feeling pretty lonely so the animals tried to hook him up with a date for Saturday night. He was about to go out with the hyena because she made him feel special, until he found out she laughed at everybody’s jokes.  The Praying Mantis asked him out, but God intervened so he wouldn’t get eaten alive. Adam said yes to the Giraffe but the relationship didn’t last due to it being a long distance relationship. So God made Adam a suitable companion, woman.

Main Message... We need each other.

Solomon asks for wisdom. (1 Kings 3:10) Imagine what would life be like if Solomon asked,  “God I want to have x-ray vision, or the ability to be invisible, or no I change my mind, I want the ability to fly!” Personally I would have asked for the ability to read people’s minds.

Main Message...The overlooked Super Powers: The Gifts of the Spirit.

Zacchaeus wasn’t a wee little man. He was a Champion Tree Climber!

Main Message...Don’t overlook your strengths by focusing on your weaknesses.

There is humour throughout the bible waiting to be revealed. Spend some time reading next week’s lesson and look for the humour in the midst of the pain. 

With Halloween coming up find the humour and the powerful message in this story and post it as a comment.

Acts 19:13-20 NLT

¹³ A group of Jews was traveling from town to town casting out evil spirits. They tried to use the name of the Lord Jesus in their incantation, saying, “I command you in the name of Jesus, whom Paul preaches, to come out!” ¹⁴ Seven sons of Sceva, a leading priest, were doing this. ¹⁵ But one time when they tried it, the evil spirit replied, “I know Jesus, and I know Paul, but who are you?” ¹⁶ Then the man with the evil spirit leaped on them, overpowered them, and attacked them with such violence that they fled from the house, naked and battered.
¹⁷ The story of what happened spread quickly all through Ephesus, to Jews and Greeks alike. A solemn fear descended on the city, and the name of the Lord Jesus was greatly honored. ¹⁸ Many who became believers confessed their sinful practices. ¹⁹ A number of them who had been practicing sorcery brought their incantation books and burned them at a public bonfire. The value of the books was several million dollars. ²⁰ So the message about the Lord spread widely and had a powerful effect.

  

A member of the Canadian Association of Professional Speakers (CAPS) Alison has dedicated her time to developing her gift of Public Speaking so that her listeners would believe the truth that she shares and to raise up other strong youth communicator’s in Canada. She has been speaking full time for four years and is currently enrolled in Youth Speakers University.

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