Reconstituting the Word

Why is it that some people are so interesting when they speak in person but seem so dry when you only read their material, while others are just the opposite; their writing seems powerful but in person they seem unimpressive?

In the first case I think that maybe it is the spirit within yourself that is used to reconstitute the writing. To reduce expression to writing is to lose much of the passion, emotion and meaning that can only be communicated via other right-brain oriented means like facial expressions, tone of voice, body language and other sensory stimulations. Written words by necessity often have most of the passion missing that must be re-introduced by the reader to correctly understand its true meaning. But a big problem lies in that there are different kinds and nuances of passion and if the wrong emotion is used to reconstitute written words a completely different construct is given to its meaning. Or, if one insists that the words never had any other substance to them than the driest, simplest reading provides, then their original intent is all but lost.

God's Word must be reconstituted with God's Spirit – the revelation of His passion – or we will never begin to understand its meaning. And when we use our own passion, which is inherently from Satan, to understand God's written Word, we end up with all the myriads of false ideas about God, religion and ourselves that now fills the church and the world.