Preaching as conversation

If greater attention is to be given to the sound of the sermon by preachers and trainee preachers, then students will need to be alerted to the different 'languages' they are learning during theological study, and the particular purpose of each. Furthermore, students should be encouraged, in the great Reformed tradition, to speak in the vernacular to their audiences, or perhaps more appropriately, in a style sometimes termed 'high conversataion'. The goal is for 'natural, honest, enlivened speech'.

(Keith Weller ed, Please no more boring sermons, Acorn Press, 2007, pp 57)