Week 7: Chapter VI — The Speaking Voice

1.Tozer argues that "self-expression is inherent in the Godhead" — that God is by nature continuously communicating. He says "God is speaking," not "God spoke." What difference does the present tense make? How does it change the way you read the Bible or move through an ordinary day?

2.He distinguishes between the written Word of God (the Bible, confined by ink and paper) and the living Voice of God that fills the universe and gives the written Word its power. This is not a demotion of Scripture but an elevation of it — the Bible is powerful because it *corresponds* to a Voice that is still speaking. How does this help you read the Bible differently?

3.Tozer proposes that the "universal Voice of God" may be the hidden source of humanity's restless conscience, its longing for immortality, its moral intuitions. He suggests that great artists, poets, and moral philosophers may have been "haunted by the speaking Voice, laboring and striving like one possessed." Do you find this a compelling or a troubling idea? Why?