Vox Viva is an extensive exposition and application website and app. It aims to be a useful tool in sermon preparation, Bible study, and finding general biblical guidance. Vox Viva means: the Living Voice (of God). We believe that through the faithful exposition and application of the Word of God, we hear the living voice of God today.
Each Sunday, millions of unqualified or underqualified preachers bring the gospel, especially in the Majority World. They also often have to do this work without good resources guiding them in the understanding and the application of the Scripture passage. Through our years of working with these pastors we have seen that they quickly take over (unscriptural) ideas because they do not understand the Scripture passage well enough or have difficulty formulating a message for the church from the Scripture passage.
And so, in 2012 we started planning for a tool that can guide the pastor through all the steps of sermon making. Vox Viva wants to provide the building blocks for the millions of lay preachers and underqualified preachers to make and preach good, biblical sermons on Sundays. It wants to be extensive in the help it gives, so that it clearly guides the preacher from the Scripture passage to the application. In the end it is very important that the pastor sees and knows the heart of God (understands Scripture), and preaches from his own heart and conviction (as an instrument of God) to the hearts of the people of God (providing appropriate application). There is no shortcut in this process! With the Vox Viva project we want to honour all these principles and help with this majestic task!
As this is a public website and app, we believe it can of course also be a helpful tool to the church of the Lord in general.
This project started off as sermon outlines, and this remains an important subsection of this project after the Vox Viva tool went public. This subsection is called Living Word.
This project is also being done in French in cooperation with Église Chrétienne Réformée de Beauce in Canada.
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