In my last post, I mentioned that there are two issues that that
cause me to think that evangelicalism is being duped when it comes to
how we evaluate effective ministries and preaching. I discussed the
first of those two in my most recent post:
we make wrong assumptions about what it means to be a “gifted”
preacher.
In this post, I want to address how those faulty assumptions
about giftedness lead to an errant view of expository preaching.
Assumptions about Bible “Exposition”
This may step on a few toes, but I might as well say it plainly right up front: I just don’t think a number of the most widely-known preachers today are truly doing Bible exposition, even
though they define their preaching by those terms. Referring again to
the panel discussion video I watched, all the men on the panel are
considered expositors, yet only a few of them, in my view, are both
surrendered to the text and preach its full intent and implications.
For a sermon to be classified as
“expository,” it must derive its central message exclusively from the
biblical author’s intended message. The sermon’s principles, therefore,
must rise naturally from the structure and force of the text in light of the surrounding context. D.A. Carson’s explanation is important: Keep Reading >>>
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