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He believes that many people are too proud to beg for souls to be saved.
He believes that many people are too proud to beg for souls to be saved.
True
John MacArthur is referred to as the Prince of Preachers.
John MacArthur is referred to as the Prince of Preachers.
False
The introduction in a sermon is often seen as important for reviewing previous messages.
The introduction in a sermon is often seen as important for reviewing previous messages.
True
He suggests that having multiple examples can hinder one's own preaching style.
He suggests that having multiple examples can hinder one's own preaching style.
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Understanding the historical background is deemed unnecessary for effective preaching.
Understanding the historical background is deemed unnecessary for effective preaching.
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The narrator expresses admiration for the command of language demonstrated by great preachers.
The narrator expresses admiration for the command of language demonstrated by great preachers.
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The meaning of the text can be altered to fit different interpretations.
The meaning of the text can be altered to fit different interpretations.
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He encourages preachers to completely abandon their personalities in favor of mimicry.
He encourages preachers to completely abandon their personalities in favor of mimicry.
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The narrator has a favorable view of rapid-fire questioning as a preaching technique.
The narrator has a favorable view of rapid-fire questioning as a preaching technique.
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The text suggests that the first and second sides of a cassette tape should be equally important.
The text suggests that the first and second sides of a cassette tape should be equally important.
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The narrator believes that people should never beg for souls to be saved.
The narrator believes that people should never beg for souls to be saved.
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John MacArthur is referred to as the Prince of Expositors in the passage.
John MacArthur is referred to as the Prince of Expositors in the passage.
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The narrator fast-forwarded the entire introduction of John MacArthur's sermon tapes.
The narrator fast-forwarded the entire introduction of John MacArthur's sermon tapes.
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The narrator advises preachers to find their own unique style and not mimic others.
The narrator advises preachers to find their own unique style and not mimic others.
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Dr. MacArthur's preaching style is characterized by a lack of historical background information.
Dr. MacArthur's preaching style is characterized by a lack of historical background information.
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The narrator believes that the meaning of the text is subjective and can be altered.
The narrator believes that the meaning of the text is subjective and can be altered.
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Rapid-fire staccato questions are used by Dr. MacArthur in his sermons.
Rapid-fire staccato questions are used by Dr. MacArthur in his sermons.
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The narrator discourages preachers from using cross-references to support their arguments.
The narrator discourages preachers from using cross-references to support their arguments.
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The narrator believes that there is no tolerance for deviation from the science of expository preaching.
The narrator believes that there is no tolerance for deviation from the science of expository preaching.
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The narrator is critical of preachers who use word studies in their sermons.
The narrator is critical of preachers who use word studies in their sermons.
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Study Notes
What Expository Preaching Is Not
- Not all preaching is expository; most preachers are not expositors due to various reasons such as lack of training, confidence in the Word of God, or difficulty in studying and digging out the truth from the Bible
- Crisis of preaching in modern times, where the Word of God has been denied the throne and replaced with human eloquence, philosophies, ethics, and social betterment
- Ichabod (the glory has departed) is written over the pulpit when exposition and authoritative declaration are abandoned
Characteristics of Non-Expository Preaching
- Seeker-sensitive preaching: begins with man's felt needs and works backward to find a few verses to support the message
- Emergent preaching: lacks certainty and conviction of truth, downplaying biblical authority and embracing mystery and skepticism
- Improvisational preaching: treats the pulpit as a stage, the congregation as an audience, and the message as a script, focusing on entertainment and casual atmosphere
- Imaginative preaching: looks beyond the Bible, imagining God in all things and tying together unrelated ideas and concepts
- Culture-driven preaching: begins with the culture and tries to transform it, neglecting individual regeneration and the power of the Word of God
- Moralistic preaching: focuses on application and exhortation without explaination or interpretation of the text
- Psychological preaching: uses secular psychology to diagnose spiritual problems, bypassing theology and the power of the Spirit
- Narrative preaching: tells stories without propositional truth, lacking theological substance and focusing on emotional content
- Text springboarding: reads the passage and departs from it, never to return again
- Data-dumping preaching: presents a lecture with disconnected observations, word studies, and headings, without exhortation, challenge, or passion
- Decisionistic preaching: focuses on getting people to make a decision, inviting them to walk an aisle or raise a hand, without aiming at the glory of God or growing believers
What Expository Preaching Is
- The only form of authentic Christian preaching, according to Al Mohler
- Definition: reading the text, explaining the text, reproving, rebuking, and exhorting directly from the text of Scripture
- Characteristics: biblical, exegetical, theological, doctrinal, cognitive, intelligent, profound, objective, and definitive
- Synonyms: informative, instructive, explanatory, descriptive, elucidatory, and explicatory
The Essential Elements of Expository Preaching
- Teaching-oriented, involving elements of motivation, declaration, proclamation, application, exhortation, confrontation, edification, persuasion, correction, invitation, and affirmation
- Involves moving the listener in a direction, with passion and unction, using the means of the Word of God and the work of the Holy Spirit
- Must have both elements of teaching and proclamation, marrying exposition and preaching together### Characteristics of Expository Preaching
- Expository preaching seeks to instruct the mind, ignite the heart, and impel the will.
- It starts with a text of Scripture, stays with a text of Scripture, supports with other texts of Scripture, and may even illustrate with other texts of Scripture.
- The preacher's job is to open up the text and get out of the way, letting the Word of God come forth.
- Expository preaching is Bible-centered preaching, rooted and grounded in the Bible.
Definitions of Expository Preaching
- According to Merle Unger, expository preaching is communicating the real and essential meaning of a passage of Scripture as it existed in the mind of the particular biblical author and as it exists in the light of the overall context of Scripture.
- According to Al Mohler, expository preaching is a mode of Christian preaching that takes as its central purpose the presentation and application of the text of the Bible.
- According to Philip Riken, expository preaching means making God's Word plain, where the preacher simply tries to explain what the Bible teaches.
- According to Murray, expository preaching presents a text, and then with that text in sight throughout, there is deduction, argument, and appeal, making up a message that bears the authority of Scripture itself.
Key Elements of Expository Preaching
- The central task is the explanation of the text in its context.
- The explanation of Scripture forms the dominant feature and the organizing principle of the message.
- The unfolding of principles and their application to the world of the hearers.
Importance of Expository Preaching
- It is the heart and soul of expository preaching, reading the Word of God and then explaining it to the people so that they understand it and are urged to live it.
- Expository preaching is theology on fire, which is what attracts people to come and hear the Word of God.
Approaches to Expository Preaching
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Different expositors have different personalities, temperaments, and approaches to expository preaching.
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Examples of different approaches include John Calvin, Charles Spurgeon, Martin Lloyd-Jones, and James Montgomery Boyce.
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Each approach has its own unique characteristics, but all share the common goal of explaining and applying the Word of God.### Characteristics of Effective Preaching
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Effective preachers take a passage or book in the Bible and work their way through it, giving great doctrinal care and concern.
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They provide a strong introduction and a strong evangelistic conclusion, calling the listener to search their own heart and soul.
Calvin and MacArthur's Preaching Style
- Calvin's preaching style is characterized by working through literary units and books of the Bible, giving great doctrinal care and concern.
- MacArthur's preaching style is sequential, with a structured outline, extensive introduction, and historical background.
Spurgeon's Evangelistic Urgency
- Spurgeon's sermons are characterized by great evangelistic urgency, persuading, pleading, reasoning, and begging his listeners to come to faith in Christ.
- His sermons often end with rapid-fire staccato questions that provoke thinking.
The Importance of Expository Preaching
- Expository preaching is the art and science of preaching, focusing on the meaning of the text.
- The meaning of the text is the text itself, and until you have the meaning, you don't have the text.
- Expository preaching requires a zero tolerance level on the science part, ensuring that the preacher does not show up with a different message or give a different meaning to the text.
What Expository Preaching Is Not
- Not all preaching is expository; most preachers are not expositors due to various reasons such as lack of training, confidence in the Word of God, or difficulty in studying and digging out the truth from the Bible
- Crisis of preaching in modern times, where the Word of God has been denied the throne and replaced with human eloquence, philosophies, ethics, and social betterment
- Ichabod (the glory has departed) is written over the pulpit when exposition and authoritative declaration are abandoned
Characteristics of Non-Expository Preaching
- Seeker-sensitive preaching: begins with man's felt needs and works backward to find a few verses to support the message
- Emergent preaching: lacks certainty and conviction of truth, downplaying biblical authority and embracing mystery and skepticism
- Improvisational preaching: treats the pulpit as a stage, the congregation as an audience, and the message as a script, focusing on entertainment and casual atmosphere
- Imaginative preaching: looks beyond the Bible, imagining God in all things and tying together unrelated ideas and concepts
- Culture-driven preaching: begins with the culture and tries to transform it, neglecting individual regeneration and the power of the Word of God
- Moralistic preaching: focuses on application and exhortation without explaination or interpretation of the text
- Psychological preaching: uses secular psychology to diagnose spiritual problems, bypassing theology and the power of the Spirit
- Narrative preaching: tells stories without propositional truth, lacking theological substance and focusing on emotional content
- Text springboarding: reads the passage and departs from it, never to return again
- Data-dumping preaching: presents a lecture with disconnected observations, word studies, and headings, without exhortation, challenge, or passion
- Decisionistic preaching: focuses on getting people to make a decision, inviting them to walk an aisle or raise a hand, without aiming at the glory of God or growing believers
What Expository Preaching Is
- The only form of authentic Christian preaching, according to Al Mohler
- Definition: reading the text, explaining the text, reproving, rebuking, and exhorting directly from the text of Scripture
- Characteristics: biblical, exegetical, theological, doctrinal, cognitive, intelligent, profound, objective, and definitive
- Synonyms: informative, instructive, explanatory, descriptive, elucidatory, and explicatory
The Essential Elements of Expository Preaching
- Teaching-oriented, involving elements of motivation, declaration, proclamation, application, exhortation, confrontation, edification, persuasion, correction, invitation, and affirmation
- Involves moving the listener in a direction, with passion and unction, using the means of the Word of God and the work of the Holy Spirit
- Must have both elements of teaching and proclamation, marrying exposition and preaching together### Characteristics of Expository Preaching
- Expository preaching seeks to instruct the mind, ignite the heart, and impel the will.
- It starts with a text of Scripture, stays with a text of Scripture, supports with other texts of Scripture, and may even illustrate with other texts of Scripture.
- The preacher's job is to open up the text and get out of the way, letting the Word of God come forth.
- Expository preaching is Bible-centered preaching, rooted and grounded in the Bible.
Definitions of Expository Preaching
- According to Merle Unger, expository preaching is communicating the real and essential meaning of a passage of Scripture as it existed in the mind of the particular biblical author and as it exists in the light of the overall context of Scripture.
- According to Al Mohler, expository preaching is a mode of Christian preaching that takes as its central purpose the presentation and application of the text of the Bible.
- According to Philip Riken, expository preaching means making God's Word plain, where the preacher simply tries to explain what the Bible teaches.
- According to Murray, expository preaching presents a text, and then with that text in sight throughout, there is deduction, argument, and appeal, making up a message that bears the authority of Scripture itself.
Key Elements of Expository Preaching
- The central task is the explanation of the text in its context.
- The explanation of Scripture forms the dominant feature and the organizing principle of the message.
- The unfolding of principles and their application to the world of the hearers.
Importance of Expository Preaching
- It is the heart and soul of expository preaching, reading the Word of God and then explaining it to the people so that they understand it and are urged to live it.
- Expository preaching is theology on fire, which is what attracts people to come and hear the Word of God.
Approaches to Expository Preaching
-
Different expositors have different personalities, temperaments, and approaches to expository preaching.
-
Examples of different approaches include John Calvin, Charles Spurgeon, Martin Lloyd-Jones, and James Montgomery Boyce.
-
Each approach has its own unique characteristics, but all share the common goal of explaining and applying the Word of God.### Characteristics of Effective Preaching
-
Effective preachers take a passage or book in the Bible and work their way through it, giving great doctrinal care and concern.
-
They provide a strong introduction and a strong evangelistic conclusion, calling the listener to search their own heart and soul.
Calvin and MacArthur's Preaching Style
- Calvin's preaching style is characterized by working through literary units and books of the Bible, giving great doctrinal care and concern.
- MacArthur's preaching style is sequential, with a structured outline, extensive introduction, and historical background.
Spurgeon's Evangelistic Urgency
- Spurgeon's sermons are characterized by great evangelistic urgency, persuading, pleading, reasoning, and begging his listeners to come to faith in Christ.
- His sermons often end with rapid-fire staccato questions that provoke thinking.
The Importance of Expository Preaching
- Expository preaching is the art and science of preaching, focusing on the meaning of the text.
- The meaning of the text is the text itself, and until you have the meaning, you don't have the text.
- Expository preaching requires a zero tolerance level on the science part, ensuring that the preacher does not show up with a different message or give a different meaning to the text.
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This quiz explores the characteristics that distinguish expository preaching from other forms of preaching, highlighting what it's not and why many preachers are not expositors.
