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Expository Preaching (How to Apply the Sermon to the Listeners) (01)
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Paul Jang
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Expository Preaching (How to Apply the Sermon to the Listeners) (01)
HOW TO APPLY THE SERMON TO THE LISTENERS
The application of the sermon is very important because it has to the decisive effect upon the change of the soul and the lives of the people. The application is the life of the preaching . But the expository preaching does often neglect this preaching application because it would focus an concentrate on the exegesis of the Scriptural texts. But preachers do always keep the necessity for application in mind. In this matter, most preachers do insist this application of the preaching is the importance of all. J. I.Packer said, "The preacher's business is under God to change people, to change people through the Gospel......A lot of preachers have settled for a lot less.
They have been content to give people true notions that they did not have before--or to reinforce reactions, say negative reactions to the unbelief of the world around them, that they did feel before. They have turned preaching, in other words, into a confirmation of what people already are, without attempting to make preaching the means of renewal for the listeners--their conversion if they are not converted, their reinvigorating as Christians if they are..." (J. I. Packer, Interview in New Horizons magazine, January, 1987).
Charles Haddon Spurgeon said, "Where application begins, there the sermon begins." Regarding how the Word is to be preached, Scottish presbyterian Dictionary for Public Worship wrote "He[the preacher] is not to rest in general doctrine, although never so much cleared and confirmed, but to bring it home to special use, by application to his hearers...He is to endeavor to perform it in such a manner that his auditors may feel the Word of God to be quick and powerful and a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart, and that if any unbeliever or ignorant person be present, he may have the secret of his heart, and made manifest, and give glory to God."
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Introduction
Ministry 