It IS the Word of God.
It IS relevant.
It IS living
It IS active
It IS salvation
It IS important
It IS able to do so much more than we can imagine
Reading scripture out loud is something that happens every Sunday at thousands upon thousands of church around the world, and yet the word is not read out loud as it were living and active in out lives. It is read as though it is just an old fairy tale that has been told over and over again. As if people should know it and that it is not actually being listened to. Well, when it is read as such it will be listened to in the same way.
The Word of God is Him speaking directly to His people!
Why is it spoken in a monotone voice, with a voice of timidity, or stumbled through.
I am a firm believer that we need to learn how to read scripture.It has a lot of emotion, a lot of power, a lot of authority and needs to be given the power that is due it. Practise it, see the emotion, the setting, the true actual people who were living that story.
Sheet music tells a musician when the song is to rise and fall, when to be powerful and when to be soft. When to pause, the tempo to enter into, each note has a speed to follow. (I am not a musician by any means and am simply remembering my into to music class in my undergrad so forgive me for the wrong terms). Scripture does not have all of these same notations, but we need to include them when reading it. This is powerful stuff and often we set up our pastor for failure before he even gets up to preach simply by reading the Scripture in a way that does not engage people. They are not listening before the sermon even begins.
Allow the word to be living and active.
Not only on Sunday morning but in your own devotional time as well.
"For the Word of God is living and active, sharper than any two-edged sword"
-Hebrews 4:12
"So faith comes from hearing, and hearing through the Word of Christ"
-Romans 10:17
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