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Expository Preaching (A definition of expository preaching) (02)
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Paul Jang
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2008-03-24 12:49:22, hit : 2,514 |
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Expository Preaching (A definition of expository preaching) (02)
What about the "perspicuity of Scripture? It is very important for the preacher to preach the words of God to his congregation. If he does preach the words of the Scriptures without its perspicuity, his preaching will be failed to get the people.
The preacher, therefore, should perspicuously exposit the textual words of the Scriptures. In so doing, he must exactly know the languages of the Bible for it has been written by the human languages. God condescended to speak to men in human languages. Of course, the original text of the Bible had been written in Hebrew and Aramaean by the authors of the Scriptures (Old Testament) and in Greek(New Testament) at those times. Today's Bible has been translated by the linguistic scholars of the Bible into so many languages.
Nevertheless, it is a living text because the voice of God has been told to His people through the Scriptures. God is saying today for His people to return to Him and to protect them from the temptation of Satan as well as to save from their sins. Bible says, "For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life. For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through him. Whoever believes in him is not condemned, but whoever does not believe stands condemned already because he has not believed in the name of God's one and only Son"(John 3:16-18).
God still speaks through what He has spoken. J. I Packer said as following: "Holy Scripture.....may truely be described as God preaching－preaching, that is, in the sense of the instructing, rebuking, correcting, and directing every reader and hearer for the furthering of faith, praise, holiness, and spiritual growth. God does preach thus in and through all the various stories, sermons, soliloquies, schedules, statistics, songs, and supplications that make up the individual books of the canon.
All that the Bible writers tell us about God and man, God himself tells us; for the sacred text is not just man's witmess to God, but is also, and indeed primarily, God's own witness to himself, given us in this human form.......Only as God himself is perceived to be preaching in our sermons can they have genuine spiritual significance, and God will be perceived to speak through us only as we are enabled to make plain the fact that it is really the Bible that is doing the talking."(J. I. Packer, Speaking for God, Inside the Sermon, Richard Allen Body, ed. p. 186).
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Introduction
Ministry 