Scripture reading is one of the most important tasks for any worship leader, pastor or volunteer reader on Sundays. This worship practice might seem easy enough when compared to the skill needed to play an instrument, but it is fraught with peril if taken lightly. In Christ-Centered Worship, Bryan Chapell writes,
“Readers can fail to group words or phrases properly, begin or end a selection in inappropriate contexts, speak in tones wholly foreign to the sentiment of the text, or, in short, by a myriad of variables fail to communicate what the text says...
“Readers should be concerned to make climactic what the writer intended to be the climax, to connote feelings appropriate for the sense of the passage … In this way oral reading becomes a type of exposition of Scripture, and its presentation becomes a tool for both communicating and discovering the truths within the text.”
With this in mind, here are five tips for liturgical readers.... Keep reading
Photo: St. Thomas More Catholic Church, Scranton
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