Expository Preaching

“I have heard (and preached!) sermons that intend to be expositional, yet fall somewhat short. Below are a dozen pitfalls: five that don’t make the message of the passage the message of the sermon and thus abuse the text, five that fail to connect the text the congregation, and two that fail to recognise that preaching is ultimately God’s work.” - 9 Marks

“By inspiring some things hard to understand, God has unleashed in the world desperation which leads to supplication—the crying out to God for help.” - F&T

Two Kinds of Sermons that Seem Expositional But Really Aren’t

“Topical teaching is not bad, and it does have a place in our projects. I also believe, however, that expositional teaching – when done well with young people – covers all the topics that we’d want to cover anyway. I believe it does this with more healthy and specific applications, while also imparting skills in how to handle the Bible.” - Church Leaders

“The sheer number of fine-grained decisions that goes into the making of any Bible translation says to me that people are in special danger of committing the ‘insufficient sampling’ fallacy when evaluating them.” - Mark Ward

The preacher’s job is to minimize his own opinions, and to explain what the Bible says and apply it to people’s lives. The preacher’s job is to do that in a way that enables you to see in the Bible where his opinions come from.

Babylon Bee: The last message was a short, breezy, 1-hour exposition of Romans 16:27d, which reads, “Amen.”

Southern Seminary: When ethical and moral imperatives are proclaimed as sufficient, even abstracted from Jesus, the result is a crossless Christianity in which the central message becomes an exhortation to live according to God’s rules.