Look after Your Voice: Taking Care of the Preacher’s Greatest Asset
Overview
As a hammer is to a carpenter, a scalpel to a surgeon, a trowel to a brick mason or a needle to a tailor—so the voice is to a preacher. Man’s voice is the primary means God uses to deliver His Word to mankind, yet how often we who are called to impart the most important truths in the world are apt to neglect, if not willfully abuse our all-vital ‘tool of the trade’. Can there be any more pitiful sight in all nature than a God-sent preacher who is forced to be silent? We are not thinking here however of a silence brought about by pressure from ungodly sources, but that which has been enforced because of the preacher’s own negligence concerning his voice. Mike Mellor’s goal is not to produce another speech book (of which a good number can be found, usually aimed at actors or singers) but that something of our high calling as God’s spokesmen may be re-kindled and as a consequence our desire to care for the frail vehicle God has designed to convey his Word may be increased.
Top Highlights
“If possible, get the sound engineer to have much more treble than bass. Too much bass makes the words sound muffled, whereas the treble enables the words to cut through clearly.” (Page 34)
“The rule is: when it is noisy, don’t speak more loudly, but articulate more clearly.” (Page 38)
“No matter how interesting and attractive a voice may sound, silence really is golden at times, and it would be good for us to remember what is often called ‘the power of the pause’ and trust that it will be of benefit both to hearer and to preacher!” (Page 19)
“Volume and passion are, in themselves alone, powerless when it comes to bringing spiritual change to an eternal soul, and we must ever beware of mistaking perspiration for inspiration!” (Pages 28–29)
“Voice is the basic ‘noise’ produced when the breath ‘plays’ the vocal cords in the throat; speech is the process of converting that sound into actual words.” (Page 16)
- Title: Look after Your Voice: Taking Care of the Preacher’s Greatest Asset
- Author: Mike Mellor
- Series: Ministering the Master’s Way
- Publisher: Day One
- Print Publication Date: 2008
- Logos Release Date: 2012
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Logos Research Edition
- Subjects: Voice › Care and hygiene; Voice culture; Liturgical preaching › Voice
- ISBNs: 9781846251252, 1846251257
- Resource ID: LLS:LOOKAFTRVOICE
- Resource Type: Monograph
- Metadata Last Updated: 2022-09-30T01:18:48Z