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Last friday during school chapel, I heard the sermon addressed by Jeremiah. It is a very interesting topic,it told us how will what we said affect other people, and how does it related to our faith inside of our heart. The speaker tried to persuade us to think whether it is appropriate to speak that way before we talk badly about other people, because it will hurt them; to believe that what we said is actually come out from our hearts, that if we talk mean to people, it means inside of our hearts are full of mean things; and to make us to control our tongue, control our body, so that we can control the faith inside.

Logos is used throughout the whole sermon, the sermon follows the logical order, points and reasons at first and the conclusion in the end. The speaker also used ethos, he quoted from Martin Luther King to support the point that our faith will be affected if we curse or make fun of people and faith can affect our action as well. In the middle of the sermons, there was a meaningful and lucid metaphor he used. He shaked the opened water bottle and it spilled. In this case, the water bottle represented our hearts, and the water represented what we think, it is similar to the main point, what we talk is actually come from our heart. And I think this metaphor really convince me to think before talking, because sometimes, myself is like that unclosed water bottle, can’t control what to say, just let everything come out of my mouse, and as time past, I will be used to stay in that kind of mood, it really bothered people around me a lot. Overall, the sermon is really persuasive to me, all of the rhetoric technique it used made me to think about myself and to avoid the same thing happen on me.
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  1. UnknownMarch 29, 2016 at 7:41 AM

    Jeremiah did a good job on this speech, and you understood his speech . It would hurt people if we could not control our tongues. Hope we should avoid the same thing happens on us.

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  2. AnonymousMarch 30, 2016 at 7:09 PM

    That topic was great and very attractive. It is very close to us , so it can make us to think about how to communicate with other people without misunderstand.

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  3. Rachel HaferMarch 31, 2016 at 7:29 PM

    This topic Jeremiah spoke about was very meaningful, because you talk to others everyday and don't think about if it hurts them or not.

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