“People get used to the same tone or tenor of voice. It is far
more effective when a speaker can move from sweetness and sunshine to
clouds and thunder! Let the biblical text control you, not your
temperament. Learn to communicate ‘loud’ truth as loud; ‘hard’
truth as hard; ‘sweet’ truth as sweet.” Timothy Keller,
"Preaching: Communicating Faith in an Age of Skepticism",
p. 186.Monday, November 23, 2015
Pathos in Preaching
“People get used to the same tone or tenor of voice. It is far
more effective when a speaker can move from sweetness and sunshine to
clouds and thunder! Let the biblical text control you, not your
temperament. Learn to communicate ‘loud’ truth as loud; ‘hard’
truth as hard; ‘sweet’ truth as sweet.” Timothy Keller,
"Preaching: Communicating Faith in an Age of Skepticism",
p. 186.
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