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Help with a Question on Canned Plan Communication

February 7th, 2016

I’m googling, but does anyone have insight to ‘canned plan communication’? Basic definition from what I found: “Canned plans are mental library of scripts to draw on when creating certain types
of messages and that informs an understanding of what others say.”

“How should Christian`s view the concept of a canned plan, which is a mental library of scripts each of us draws from to create messages based on what work for us? It’s something I’m learning in Communication class (you can look it up online: canned plan communication). You’re basically drawing stuff from your mind; maybe an experience from the past, and you’re using it to relate with someone who may be going through a similar situation. I wonder, does that kind of relate with ministry?”

It looks like it could be a useful concept to any situation, really. I know of no red flags, or ties to nefarious post-modernist thought. Do any of you?

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Ed Chait
Ed Chait Seems like it lines up with:

(2 Corinthians 1:4) who comforts us in all our affliction, so that we may be able to comfort those who are in any affliction, with the comfort with which we ourselves are comforted by God. Aren’t our memories a sort of mental library of scripts?

Tim White
Tim White If I understand, that sounds close to walking in the flesh, preprogrammed responses that are learned, instead of emptying of self and allowing the Spirit shape our answers.

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Ed Chait
Ed Chait I guess there needs to be a balance where we draw from our experience while remaining open to the Holy Spirit’s leading.

Tim White
Tim White Yes, and those memories are usable by the Holy Spirit. When He leads, they are words of life. When not, they are words of death. If I understood the question, this is the person reverting to a tantrum because in their programming, that is filed as something that has worked from a very young age. Or silent pouting. Or turning on self. But I am not positive that is what this is asking.

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Christopher Dupre
Christopher Dupre From what I’ve read, I don’t believe the concept addresses motive as much as fostering good communication. If you’re prepped by drawing on your past experiences to not only present your view, but understand the recipient’s view, then you can go into a situation with more effective communication, it seems. Of course, one’s world view will inform how this plays out.

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