The Voice – part 9

How often do we comment: “I always enjoy listening to this speaker.” But what about the content of what they are saying?

John the Baptist may have presented himself to people in an unprepossessing manner with his locusts, animal skins and all, but his voice was another matter altogether. People flocked to hear it. They were not so much captivated by the quality of his delivery, but rather the content of his message. It had the power to change them.

It was like that with Peter and the apostles. The quality of their delivery was one thing, but those who heard them were compelled by their doctrine – the substance of the message. In Acts 2:42 Luke says the newly converted Jews “devoted themselves to the apostles’ teaching and to the fellowship, to the breaking of bread and the prayers.”