Purpose: To help you feel more comfortable speaking to a camera, engaging in a formal interview, and expressing your thoughts verbally.
Method: Throughout the week, you will be participating in a number of interviews, only one of which, the formal interview, will count for honors.
Informal Interviews
– The informal interviews will be conducted as we go to different places.
– These interviews will focus on connecting the things we see and the people with whom we speak to the information learned in lectures.
– This is an opportunity for you to work on your public speaking in an informal, relaxed atmosphere.
– These interviews will be incorporated into our newscasts, which offer a way for your families and church members to see what is going on at LTIA.
– We will show these newscasts during meals, giving you an opportunity to evaluate yourself.
– Staff members will also evaluate your interviews and may give you feedback.
– How do you prepare? Be engaged at all times so that you think deeply about what you are learning and how everything connects. Be always ready to give an answer, and, because clarity in thought and speech is crucial to being an effective leader, work to make sure it is an articulate answer.
Formal Interview (counts for honors):
– As a requirement for honors, you are responsible for working this interview into your schedule. Interviews will be held during the evening meal on Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday. Make arrangements with Patricia for your preferred interview time.
– Please refer to the questions below to prepare your responses. The exact questions may be phrased differently and may come in a different order, but the substance of the interview will remain the same.
– How to prepare? Pay close attention to how you perform during the informal interviews and improve on the areas in which you had trouble. Practice your responses to the interview questions beforehand. The more prepared you are, the more comfortable you will be.
Formal Interview Questions:
1. What was the most important thing you learned this week? Please take a bit of time to describe it and why it’s important. How does it connect to the other things you learned this week? Make sure to provide the audience with enough information so that they would be adequately informed to understand what you are saying.
2. Why is understanding worldview warfare important? Why is it necessary for Christians to be engaged with a Biblical worldview in their communities and in society?
3. What will you do when you get home to your church and community to engage in the worldview warfare and to implement a Biblical worldview into your life?
4. How has LTIA equipped you to integrate a Biblical worldview into all areas of your life? Be specific and come up with some examples. If LTIA hasn’t done this, please explain why not and offer ways of how the program could be improved.
5. What would you tell others who are thinking about coming to LTIA? How interested would you be in returning to participate in the advanced program?
6. If a sponsor helped you to come to LTIA, what would you like say to that sponsor?
7. What is the greatest threat in the world today?
8. What do you think is the cause of most problems in the world today?
9. What do you think is the solution to our social problems? Why?
10. How do you propose that we implement those solutions?
11. Why do you think Christianity gets blamed for so problems in America?
12. Who do you think is responsible for the problems in America?
13. How have you changed and improved from what you have learned?
14. What changes have you made in the way you think and act; how have your goals changed?
15. What are the most important lessons you learned?
16. What makes those lessons so important?
17. What difference can you make in your home, church, community, world?
18. How will this week’s training make you a better Christian?
19. What is your life ambition?
20. How do you want to be remembered at the end of your life?
21. What are you doing now to achieve your life ambition?
22. How do you describe God? What do you think of God?
23. Do you think the word God should be removed from government property?
24. What about “in God we trust” on our money?
25. Who do you think Jesus Christ is?
26. What role should the Bible have in our culture?
27. How do you feel about the American founders quoting the Bible more often than any other writings to guide them and justify their conclusions on designing the American government?
28. How do you think legal gay marriages will impact our culture?
29. Should outspoken Christians be allowed to run for political office?
30. Why do you think some people don’t want creation science taught in the classroom?
31. What kinds of things would you consider immoral?
32. What about sex outside of marriage, taking illegal drugs, cursing, abortion, killing baby seals, stealing, cheating on tests, lying,….
Things to keep in mind:
– Look at the camera.
– Speak slowly, and enunciate your words.
– Speak loudly and confidently.
– Know what words you use and strive it make them as close as possible to the meaning you are trying to express.
-Pitfalls to avoid:
– Excessive filler words such as um, uh, like, etc.
– Not knowing what you actually want to say. In the training environment, it is better to stop, think about the meaning you are trying to convey and how best to do so, and begin again.