It is heart-breaking and soul-sapping to see not only so few men trained to be able to do expository preaching but also so few churches demanding expositors in the pulpit.
What do you mean by a church "DEMANDING" expositors? And 2ndly, you ARE aware I trust, that expository preaching is NOT the only method to deliver the truths of God, aren't you?
@@TheoFaith Let's be honest...e/one runs with those in their own circles, & Calvinists wouldn't "look for" s/one who doesn't adhere to the teachings, and visa versa. *PS* Rhetorical question, but thx!
@@Kman. You may object to Calvinist theology, but do you think that only Calvinists are advocates of expository preaching? I think you will find men from a variety of theological perspectives who agree that preaching from the text of scripture not only honors that God who inspired and preserved scripture but also guards the preacher and the congregation from error.
I attend church to not only hear my Pastor (who along w his assistant are grads from Masters) preach expositorily but to give praise to God in prayer and singing hymns - NOT to be entertained and NOT to be in some "social club" to socialize. Praise God there are still a few churches with pastors who preach directly and rightly from His Word!
As long as one has acquired a worldly education about God, that automatically diaqualifies them as true preachers. One easy way to tell a false preacher is if what they preach is from some college.
@@masimba5000 That's a presupposition that there is no educational institution that offers anything of theological value to it's students. Moreover, it's a positive claim that such an education is a disqualification for ministry. Have you a Bible verse to support this assertion? By that logic the Apostle Paul was disqualified according to you.
@@codyvandal2860 Cody, you are starting at the wrong place. You need a bible verse to support your position. What verse/s allows you to start or attend a bible college.
@@codyvandal2860 What is the name of the college that Jesus started before going back to heaven? Which of the apostles attended? What are the names of the bible schools established by the bible apostles?
I wish I had good teaching when I came to Christ, and mentoring. I would have been an expository preacher. I didn’t have the character or family stability. So happy God raised up John MacArthur and all of you men
"Exposition is the teaching part, the preaching part is to come with force, energy, passion to come with the truth and the Holy Spirit. Preaching is to Herald as a mouthpiece."
And how I would love to sit in one of your classes in the Masters’ Seminary, Dr. Lawson! Oh, not for any other purpose than to dig deep and deeper into the Holy Scripture! To discover the beauty of God‘s goodness, His mercy and justice over all the generations since Genesis - can there be a more fulfilling purpose in life than to herald God‘s intimate love-message to all of His creation? No, no, definitely not! Why? I have had the privilege of listening to „expository preaching“ for just 15 months. This has however become the richest of time in my entire life. For the LORD has opened my ears to HEAR with a „tremble“ at His word! Be encouraged all who teach, study and preach the Word with your utmost for your Highest!
Love, Macarthur, love Dr. Lawson his passion, his preaching. I'm sure the Master's Seminary is a great institution but Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary is too! (Ft. Worth, TX) Lol Solid! I do appreciate you guys and all you do. Thank you Benjamin as well. Blessings. First time hearing about The Expositor" magazine and I immediately subscribed.
All Calvinistic, so sure...if s/one is willing to be instructed by those who subscribe to that position, sure...great schools. But I guess if s/one is NOT Calvinistic, they certainly have to have deep roots in their beliefs before they would enroll.
Haha.. great intro. True Preacher are need everywhere. I'm from Singapore. Our God is universal. The Holy Spirit is the same everywhere. The message is of God, just like the prophet, we are the messenger of God.
Expository preaching is one way to divide the word. The accuracy comes from the Holy Spirit and the preacher’s yieldedness to the comforter. Interpretation must be subject to Holy Spirit revelation. The knowledge of the preacher is merely the character of the conduit. Error lies in relying on the mind without the spirit.
The unfaithfulness of the church during the covid tyranny drove us to find a new church and Providence brought us to one of the remnant churches which takes the whole council of God seriously and is more concerned with God's opinion than the opinions of men. I am convinced that their dedication to the sequential exposition of the word is a primary factor in that faithfulness. There is a difference between preaching from the word and preaching the word. When you let God's word set the agenda and fulfill it there is no room for men's hobby horses nor allowing culture or government to lead you around by the nose.
QUESTION? What school or university did Jesus acquire his "degree?". What about the apostle who was given keys, apostle Peter? What college was he educated? What about the other apostles? The evangelists: like Philip and Timothy? What about deacon Stephen? Where did all these men, whose acts are recorded in the bible, acquire their "masters in expository preaching?"
@wing nut Yes, you got that right. That is exactly the point I was making. Even in Jesus' time, these educated men existed: the Pharisees and the Sadducees. LAW-yers. That is to say, men who had studied the LAW of Moses and then became self-appointed teachers of the Law. Jesus called them HYPOCRITES!
@@masimba5000 I wholeheartedly agree..my only desire to go to a seminary was to deepen my understanding of God's word..it was always puzzling to me when larger churches wanted highly educated seminary grads who honestly cared nothing for truthful exegesis and exposition
This is a RETORICAL QUESTION. "Why we need so many EXPOSITORY PREACHERS? IF people in churches do NOT enjoy that." Most of the times we got a "FINANCIAL DEBT" in order to SERVE better, when people like Joel Osteen with no Theological education is so appreciated.
Joel is appreciated because SO MANY preachers = modern Pharisee, critical bullies ragging on audiences stealing hope and teaching shallow fantasy theological fiction like ONCE SAVED ALWAYS SAVED you despicable, depraved, pathetic perverted constant sinning worldly Laodicean hypocrites!
Glad to help James. The term "pastor" is an English translation for the Greek word ποιμήν, which can also be translated as "shepherd." This Greek noun is used in Ephesians 4:11 as part of the different offices/roles that Paul lists as having been given by Jesus to the church for leadership.
Because a Preacher should also care for the congregation. This helps ground the preacher in everyday needs & wants of the congregation and helps shape the sermons.
Hello Dave, This is an honest question that you ask. I would venture to make somewhat of a feeble attempt to to give you at least one sort of preaching that expositional preaching is not. I say this from my own experience over the years, having just come to a better understanding of this in the last few years. In times past, it would be common for me to sense or feel a leading concerning a certain message that the Lord had put on my heart. I believe this is good and right, and that the ‘preacher’ carries a certain burden on his heart concerning the church. This burden or ‘message’ is an ongoing ‘sigh and a cry’ that the Lord gifts to such called men. It has become quite common in our cavalier and ‘shoot from the hip culture’ that we live in these days, for a called man of this nature to ‘sense’ this message that has been placed in his heart, but yet not know how it is that the message is to be delivered. And so, it is quite common these days for the preacher to go to the Bible with the help of his concordance and ‘find’ some really good scriptures that back up or ‘prove’ the validity of his message. We call these ‘proof-texts’. While I wouldn’t go as far to say that this in and of itself is all bad, the problem with this method is that there are many tendencies for the ‘preacher’ to be out in front with the scriptures being used to back him up. This must be reversed. The scriptures with their context, setting and correct interpretation must lead the way and be preeminent. The tail should not wag the dog. This is backwards. The messenger must we willing to become lost in his message. The tendency for a preacher who steps into the pulpit with the scriptures following behind is that many times his hearers come away having heard the preacher, and not the scriptures. John 1:37 shows us the proper order here. ‘After speaking, they followed Jesus’. Not much of John there, the messenger was lost, or faded into the background. This, to me is the primary difference between ‘expository’ preaching, and a man, even a gifted man getting up there and speaking with the scriptures backing him up. The emphasis must be on scriptures and it’s accurate proclamation. His goal must always be for his hearers to come away having ‘heard’ the scriptures and not the man.
@@lawtonfloorcovering728 thank you for taking so much time and effort to explain that. It was very helpful. It would good for those in these videos to explain what they are talking about.
need for preachers? but where/who? a sad reality is a lot of graduates don't end up in a preaching vocation because many churches have no need of them.
GOOD NEWS; There is Resurrection, Eternal life and forgiveness of ALL previously committed sins in Jesus Christ. It is witnessed and recorded that "Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures, that he was buried, that he was raised on the third day according to the Scriptures" (1 Corinthians 15:3-4) AND "If you declare with your mouth, “Jesus is Lord,” and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved. For it is with your heart that you believe and are justified, and it is with your mouth that you profess your faith and are saved. As Scripture says, “Anyone who believes in him will never be put to shame." (Romans 10:9-11) TURN AWAY FROM WRONG DOING AND BELIEVE THE GOOD NEWS.
Did Jesus practice "expository preaching"? We need pastors (the word is mentioned ONCE) in Scripture who teach people how to be the Body of Christ and not to put men up on pedestals expecting them to perform like monkeys every Sunday, while other gifted men who have heard from God have sit like statues in the pew with never the chance to have any input at all. It is a sad, sick unbalanced system that emasculates men, and is a million miles from the New Testament Ekklesia.
So sad to see all these "Christians" coming here to beat each other up and demonstrate their expertise. Apparently all the "righteous" are here, instead of in the pulpit where they clearly belong. With all this surety it is a wonder that the entire world hasn't been saved already.
I preached in 9 churches and presented expository sermon on JUDE in 3 of them... HEY !!! READ THIS!! --Almost ALL preachers present NON FAT DRY MILK , TYPICAL >> TOPICAL
You need no one to teach you, no human can save anyone from the lake of fire only Jesus can do that so you need to hand over your will, your thinking to Jesus and that means daily Bible study for a tenth of your time, tutored by your guardian angel.
Is this concern based on the non-Biblical model of one guy getting up there every week and preaching to the congregation while the rest of us look after our own interests and not those of Jesus Christ? The problem isn’t only with the preachers. The whole body is sick.
Yes, Tim. 1 Cor. 14:26 gives us a little insight into the way the earliest believers interacted with each other in a community expression of their new understanding. “ What then, brethren? When you come together, each one has a hymn, a lesson, a revelation, a tongue, or an interpretation. Let all things be done for edification.” In the early Church everyone was an active participant in the communal gatherings. It wasn’t a formalized ritual that they performed when they got together. Just imagine a group of like minded people who now understand a different reality than the one they had grown up with and which everyone else was participating in socially. Today’s “church” setting and format is something that has developed over 20 centuries and has been influenced by such things as the Roman Catholic Church and guys like Charles Finney, etc. Well intentioned, I’m sure but it’s no longer an organic expression of a lived out faith but, rather, a formalized set of rote procedures that has little to do with where each individual is at and has little to no eternal value nor does it address the individual needs or gifts that each believer has been presented with. I’ll give you an idea of how this hinders real bodily edification: there is a brother in our congregation (I dislike the term but that’s what it is - I would rather say “our community” but it is not at that level) who has a degree in Apolgetics. Meanwhile, I have been a believer for 48 years and have actually been used of God to lead at least 8 people to Him, all of whom are still faithful at some level, but because of the structure that has been developed over the centuries, he and I are relegated to sit in the pews while a 27 year old guy, genuine no doubt, gives the teaching. Technically, what he gives is correct but there is not the gravitas nor the depth that would come if he was coming from his experience of a number of years rather than learned hear knowledge. Does that make sense to you? Or do you need more explanation or clarification. There’s so much more but this forum is somewhat limited. Read David Wells’s book “ No Place For Truth”. It might help.
Strongly agree, the traditional tier type church structure, the three songs, a prayer and a three part sermon way of worship isn’t 1st Century Christian which was group worship, circular, equal. Traditional worship of the West borrows a lot of its form from the non Christian world, particularly the Greeks and Romans. Christ stated in John, the 4th chapter, that a day was coming when people would not worship in a designated place ( V21) and the true worshipers would worship “in spirit and in truth.” (V23-24).
Scripture says be not many of you Teachers or masters Leave it to the holy spirit to teach and guide The elect will not be deceived by False teachers and evangelists!
@@michaelmaharlika8569 Jesus did warn of false teachers If it were possible the very elect would be deceived However the only infallible teacher is the holy spirit So many different interpretation of scripture Also so many denominations and sects and cults have been established in the last 2.000 years We certainly need the spirits guidance
