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Expository Preaching (A definition of expository preaching) (04)
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Paul Jang
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2008-03-24 12:52:25, hit : 3,394 |
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Expository Preaching (A definition of expository preaching) (04)
Expository preaching at its core is more a philosophy than a method. Whether or not a man can be called an expositor starts with his purpose and with his honest answer to the question: "Do you, as a preacher, endeavour to bend your thought to the Scriptures, or do you use the Scripure to support your thought?"(Haddon Robinson, Biblical Preaching, p. 20)
Preacher must determine what the text meant. This is the first and number one task of him to make his sermon. John Calvin said that it is the first business of an interpreter to let his author say what he does say, instead of attributing to him what we think he ought to say(John Calvin, preface to the ommentary on Romans). Many preachers would often be wandering around the text given for the sermon during his preaching.
This requires careful and diligent exegesis. Exegesis is a little different from exposition. The one is explanation of the words of God faithful to the Bible text, the other illustration of it for the purpose of applying to the context of the people. Speaking the priority of them, it can be said "the Bible text-exegesis-exposition."
Speaking the priority in the degree of its perfectionism, the above priority must be as well. Because the exegesis must be dealt carefully and diligently. But preaching must be expository because it has to consider the context of his audiences. In the view point of this dimension, there is a little different between exegesis and exposition. The opposite of ex-position is im-position.
Preacher must consider the sensitivity to the needs of the listeners because the preaching is a message of God through which they can be changed in their lives as well as their soul. Whatever it may be good, the preaching is of no use without good application to the listeners. It is, therefore very important to be sensitive to the listeners.
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Introduction
Ministry 