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To Podium or not to Podium? Good question

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Six Minutes, another great public speaking blog, talks about church speakers should or should not use a lectern.

It is a good question.

One reason to like lecterns: It grounds speakers. It prevents them from wandering around the stage, potentially distracting the audience.

One reason not to like lecterns: Some movement is good to keep an audience’s attention. When you stand behind a lectern, you tend to become a statue if you are not careful.

I have seen speakers use both in churches. Speakers use both effectively. My grandfather, who is a minister, begins his sermons from a lectern and move from the lectern when he ends his sermon. That’s how I could tell when he was finishing :)

Bottom line: Eye contact with audience matters more than where you speak from.

By the way, that is a good rule whether you are in a church or not.

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