What Is Expository Preaching?

G. N. Barkman

Last month, I introduced the concept of expository preaching, an issue which can no longer be restricted to discussions between preachers, or reserved for Seminaries and Bible College classrooms. Today, exposition has become an identity marker by which to evaluate churches. In his book, Nine Marks of a Healthy Church, Mark Dever lists expositional preaching as mark number one.

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Will most of the mega-churches crumble over the next decade?

Ed Vasicek

We heard about the Me Too movement catching up to Bill Hybels. Mark Driscoll’s ministry had quite an abrupt end. And now, one of the more doctrinally decent leaders, Jame MacDonald, has his potential scandals (though not of the same caliber as the above). Francis Chan has left the mega-church ministry for house churches. Meanwhile, Rick Warren seems to be without scandal, as do a number of other mega-church pastors.

Are these just fender-benders on the mega-church highway, or is the movement itself built upon leaders with issues and inevitably headed toward a crash?

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Should missionaries skip seminary?

Filings

“Although it is still common for some to suggest that missionaries don’t need a seminary education, my understanding of the task and my experience on mission fields leads me to a quite different conclusion.” - DBTS Blog

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