{"product_id":"at-the-table-of-table-talk-paperback","title":"At the Table of Table Talk - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eDennis Piearcy\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAt The Table Of Table Talk\u003cbr\u003eEverybody in the room got to talk.\u003cbr\u003eNobody was silenced. The process was followed. And the outcome was decided before anyone opened his mouth.\u003cbr\u003eMost of what we call conversation is a monologue with intermissions. We answer before we understand. We argue with a version of what he said that is easier to beat. We hold a word like love or respect and never once ask what the other person means by it. And when it goes badly, we replay it - and in the replay, we rewrite only our own lines.\u003cbr\u003eA neighborhood church offers a class on communication. Four people sign up, and every one of them comes for the same reason: they want a tool for handling somebody else. Warren answers questions nobody asked. Victor wins arguments and loses people. Gina takes the wheel out of everyone's hands and calls it help. Nev keeps the peace, and his family pays for it.\u003cbr\u003eNone of them expects to be the subject.\u003cbr\u003eOver twenty Tuesdays a pastor and a guest instructor take them through what Scripture says about the mouth - swift to hear, slow to speak; not many of you should become teachers; out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks. They study how Jesus actually spoke to the person in front of Him, reading the man before answering him, starting with what was already in his hands, asking more than He told. And they learn the harder half of it: that most of what crosses between two people is not the words at all, and that the hearer is carrying a life you know nothing about.\u003cbr\u003eThis is not a book of techniques. James says plainly that no man tames the tongue - and a proud man with better questions is simply a more effective proud man. The mouth is a gauge. You do not repair a gauge.\u003cbr\u003eBut God has a purpose for our words, and it is a good one. Words build. He made the world with them. And He tells us what ours are for: that they may impart grace to the hearers.\u003cbr\u003eYou already know the conversation you have been avoiding. You have known since the second chapter.\u003cbr\u003eThis book is about that one.\u003cbr\u003e* * *\u003cbr\u003eAlso includes a Quick Index for the moment before a hard conversation, a section on meetings, and nineteen dialogues with practical steps you can use the same day.\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 396\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.88 x 8.5 x 5.5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e September 26, 2026\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67869941923998,"sku":"9798237312331","price":35.78,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7748\/8030\/files\/1CgSnl4GJD9798237312331.webp?v=1793317859","url":"https:\/\/theword.com\/products\/at-the-table-of-table-talk-paperback","provider":"TheWord.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}