Speaking with Two Voices

Posted on August 4, 2023 
Filed under Encouragement, Resources

“In John Bunyan’s classic, The Pilgrim’s Progress, there is a character Mr Facing Both Ways who lives in the village of Fair Speech. Bunyan is exposing one of the temptations in life which is to speak out of both sides of our mouth in the hope that everybody will appreciate us.

Yet there is a very real sense in which the Christian message does come with two voices; there is indeed a double-sidedness to the Christian life. …”

– Presbyterian Moderator-General, Peter Barnes, writes to encourage believers to sing two notes at once.