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Preaching involves the whole person of the preacher. Emotions cannot be left at the door. I think there are appropriate times when the preacher should have a raised voice. Sometimes it will take that to grab the audience's attention. The Holy Spirit can use that just as He can the plain words. The Holy Spirit uses the whole preacher. However, love needs to contextualize any use of the raised voice. And the text being preached had better justify the raised voice as well. The woe passages of Matthew 23 come to mind, as well as some of the more denunciatory passages in the prophets. Yelling just to put on an act is not honoring to God, in my opinion. Yelling to manipulate people's emotions is not right either. The level of emotion should match the text.
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