Being Loud May Be OK

This morning Russ and I ran the inquirers class at church. Really Russ ran it because I have been away working the last two Sundays and I will be away next Sunday. Thank goodness he is fully capable of doing that job without me.

So this was my first time to meet this group of folks. I spoke a little during the class and at the end one of them spoke up and said, “You are the voice of God.” And another, “I love when you lector. I recognized your voice immediately.”

I told them I was just the reader, not the actual voice of God. Although I do have a specific voice I use when I am reading what God says.

I told the class that I had to leave Russ to clean up as I was the lector today and I had a lot of “God’s Words,” to read.

At the end of the service I walked out with the four ministers and had a number of nice conversations with mainly older church members who all said the same this. “I love when you lector because I can hear you.”

I am loud. We have microphones, but I notice that I sometimes have trouble hearing what a quiet minister might be saying. I have a microphone, but everyone knows I don’t need it. I am my own back up AV system.

I need to let the ministers know that people are not hearing them because they so often comment on how well they can hear me. Maybe they are just hearing God.