6. End Result
The End Result module is a story that portrays the benefits of what the motivational speaker is proposing is his or her talk. It is evidence or proof that what the speaker is saying is true.
Here is an example:
Campanahua
Eugene Loos was a Bible translator among the Campanahua people of Peru. As he began learning the tribal language he began to realize that the Campanahuas lived under terrible oppression from their neighbors, the Cocamas. The Campanahuas believed that all the Cocama men were sorcerers and had the power to shoot invisible flaming arrows down their arms, out through their fingers and into the bodies of their enemies. Those invisible arrows would cause their enemies to get sick and die. Consequently, the Cocamas could come into Campanahua villages and demand anything they wanted, even the young daughters of Campanahua parents, and the parents would give them up for rape and abuse. They were that terrified!
To his horror, Eugene began to realize that what the villagers feared was true. He observed that anytime a Cocama man would flick his fingers at a Campanahua, that person really would get sick, and would really die.
One day, several years into the translation process, Eugene was translating in Ephesians and came to Chapter 6, including verse 16: “In addition to all this, take up the shield of faith, with which you can extinguish all the flaming arrows of the evil one.”
At this particular time he wasn’t thinking about the Cocama oppression at all. As was his practice, he tested his translation by reading the passage to a group of Campanahua villagers. One, woman, when she heard verse 16 stopped him and said, “What did you say? Did you say flaming arrows?”
“Yes, flaming arrows.” he said, and he read the verse again for her.
The lady didn’t say anything more to him.
About two weeks later a Cocama man came into the village, came to this lady’s house, and demanded that she sell him her chicken for only two soles. The chicken was worth about 20 soles.The lady refused. “You give 20 soles or you don’t get the chicken!”
The man was furious. He backed away from her house flicking his fingers at her. The villagers were horrified. They all watched her and waited. A day went by. Two days, a week, and she didn’t get sick. She didn’t die.
That one expression of confidence in one small verse of God’s Word was successful in breaking an oppression that had enslaved a whole community for countless generations.