Persuasion

One talk that I really enjoyed was from Saturday by one of the Seventy. Gerald Causse's talk about approaching the gospel from a simplified and child-like standpoint instead of analyzing the doctrine too much and trying to understand everything from an intellectual standpoint. He used many different rhetorical tools to get his point across. He started his talk with a personal story, this is pathos, allowing the audience to connect to him because he, like everyone else, has a life outside of his church calling. For credibility he quoted Joseph Smith, the scriptures (e.g. Elisha and Naaman and Jacob's chastisment), and secular literature (e.g. The Little Prince). He also used many examples of Jesus' life to display what we should do.