![]() It is shaped by units of meaning rather than verse or chapter numbers.Ĩ. God’s power works in the inspired Bible, the preacher, and the hearers.ħ. It communicates confidence in the power, inspiration, truth, sufficiency, and authority of the Bible and its power to convert, teach, transform, encourage, and mature. The expository method by itself may be merely moralistic or superficial, or may be dominated by other sources so that the Bible’s words are marginalized or distorted.Ħ. It is shaped by Augustinian, Reformation, and evangelical theology. The length of passage it uses fits the literary style of the chapter or book and the capacity of the congregation.ĥ. It recognizes the literary style of the book as a whole and the literary features of the passage to be preached. It recognizes the historical context of the book, its place in salvation history, in biblical theology, and its canonical context.Ĥ. It takes into account the communicative and persuasive purpose of the book as a whole, and recognizes how each part of the book serves that purpose.ģ. In preaching from a book, it will further the theological and pastoral purpose of the whole book. ![]() Expository preaching is sequential preaching, based on sequential reading, the obvious way to read a book!Ģ. It recognizes that the units of biblical verbal revelation are the books of the Bible. Here I take a narrower view, that expository preaching expounds books of the Bible because this way of preaching most closely reflects God’s method of verbal revelation. Stott claims that the “text in question could be a verse, or a sentence, or even a single word.” All of these, when well done, can rightly and usefully expound the Bible in different ways. It aims to expose what is there, rather than imposing ideas on the Bible passage, using it superficially to serve another agenda or to raise a question, then finding the answer elsewhere than in the Bible.Ī broad view of expository preaching includes the exposition of individual texts, passages of the Bible, biblical themes, or biblical characters. It is always the Bible is being expounded, explained, or revealed. Peter Adam explores 20 features of expository preaching-and why he believes it most closely reflects God’s method of verbal revelation-in this excerpt adapted from Theology Is for Preaching: Biblical Foundations, Method, and Practice (just one volume in the Studies in Historical Systematic Theology series).Įxpository preaching is biblical preaching. ![]() Facebook Twitter Reddit Pinterest Email LinkedIn
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