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Crisis Management: Public Relations in the Church

  How forcible are right words! but what doth your arguing reprove? Job 6:25 It is my nature, as it is with many others, to lash out and criticize things contrary to my will and opinion. When difficulties arise from dissenting opinion, my flesh wants to use words in a bitter fashion to persuade them to the truth as I see it. God, however, is not pleased with that reaction. What He wants is for us to use our words rightly (Pr. 15:26) -- to bring glory and honor to Him. Call it holy public relations if you will. Crisis management was just one of the many topics covered while studying the role of a public relations worker as a college student. Although a position in PR/Communications was not one I desired after graduation, I'm certainly glad I had the opportunity to learn effective ways of maintaining a positive outlook for an organization. During my time in college, I had the opportunity to intern under my university's public relations director and its assistant PR dire