Chapter 1:

1. When is public speaking a call to serve others? Is everyone called?

2. When did you feel like you should speak up but then decided not to? Why?

Chapter 2:

3. How can we determine what our audience’s needs really are?

4. Suggest a couple of broad topics and then discuss how you might narrow down the topics for a short speech.

Chapter 3:

5. Which of the listed ways of defying panic might work the best for you? Why?

6. Which of the benefits of speech apprehension can you identify with? Can you think of any additional benefits?

Chapter 4:

7. What would be an example of a speech topic about a current event that would best be organized spatially?

8. When, if ever, should a servant speaker use a rhetorical question at the beginning of a speech?

Chapter 5:

9. Why might it be easier or more difficult for you to speak extemporaneously rather than to read a manuscript?

10. How would you mark up a one-page outline to make it easier to use for delivering a speech extemporaneously? Why?

Chapter 6:

11. What would you have done if you offended a group, such as with the joke about the world’s oldest profession?

12. How could you determine if a new idea that came to you while speaking might be from the Holy Spirit?

Chapter 7:

13. Identify and discuss one section of Scripture that might appropriately help guide your biblical thinking on the topics you identified in question 1 or 2 without proof-texting.

14. How would you answer the questions in “Questions to Discuss for Biblical Themes about Communication?

Chapter 8:

15. What do you think would be the most important thing to research about any audience’s receptivity to the gospel? Why?

16. How would you go about determining who the authorities are on a non-Christian faith?

Chapter 9:

17. How would you go about using the internet to begin researching a currently controversial news topic for an informative speech?

18. Can you think of any speech topics where the experts would not be scholars or researchers or where scholarly journals and prestigious university press books would not be helpful and credible sources?

Chapter 10:

19. When might it be unethical to alter the details of a “true” story in a speech in order to protect the subject’s privacy?

20. How can we make our language most precise when speaking to an audience from various cultural backgrounds?