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Expository Preaching (Textual Eposition)
Paul Jang  2008-03-24 13:01:24, hit : 3,349


Expository Preaching (Textual Eposition)



Textual Eposition

A textual expository sermon is one in which both the theme and the main divisions are derives from a brief text(no more than three verses), but those divisions may be developed from elsewhere in Scripture. Of course, it may use a long passage more than three verses in case of having a plenty of time. Though most writers on homiletics use the criterion of the length of the text to distinuish between expository sermon(usually more than two verses) and textual sermons(fewer than three verses), that is really an artificial distinction.

John Stott said, "Whether it [the text] is long our short, our responsibility as expositors is to open it up in such a way that it speaks its message clearly, plainly, acurately, relevantly, without addition, substraction or falsification. In expository preaching the biblical text is neither a convenient peg on which to hand...miscellaneous thoughts, but a master which dictates and controls what is said."(John Stott, Between Two Worlds, p. 1251)

The chief danger of the textual preaching is that the text will be considered apart from its context. "A text without a context is a pretext." Let us examine with an example: Ezra 7:10, "For Ezra had devoted himself to the study and observance of the Law of the LORD, and to teaching its decrees and laws in Israel." In this passage, it has the very theme that if we want to successful in the ministry we must determine to be people of the Word.

The main divisions of the outline are relatively simple: to study the raw of God, obeying the Word, and teaching the Word. We can expand the outline and develop each of the main divisions more over. Let us examine the context. We must set our hearts on knowing the Word seeing that Ezra had set his heart to study the Law of the Lord.

Let us think of biblical ways to develop a point, even though they may go beyond what is actually said in the text and the context. We must basically set our hearts on obeying the Word, and practice it. Let us consider other passages beyond the immediate context that are closely related to the text. We must set our hearts on teaching the Word: to teach His statutes and ordinances in Israel.





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