This is the on preaching podcast with H.B. Charles Jr.

The podcast dedicated to helping you preach faithfully, clearly, and better.

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In this episode, I want to talk to you about a process for text-driven preaching.

A process for text driven preaching.

I am a student and an advocate of expositional preaching.

Expositional preaching is that preaching in which the point of the sermon is rooted in, flows from, and aligns with the message of the text. Every passage of scripture has a God intended meaning. It is the interpretive principle of authorial intent. is a specific reason purpose and occasion for which

god moved moses to write that text in exodus or david to write that song or mark that gospel narrative or Paul that letter.

There is a God intended message in the text.

And the point of faithful preaching,

the goal of faithful preaching is to end your personal word work,

discover and discern the God intended meaning of that text.

And then expositional preaching is when you build a sermon, you craft a sermon based upon

the meaning of the text. Expositional preaching, to say it another way, is preaching in which

the sermon is shaped by, governed by the content and the intent of the text. In recent years,

expositional preaching has also been referred to as text

driven preaching. There is no need in my estimation for new terminology, but I am admittedly a little

fond of the notion of text driven preaching because it

acknowledges that there is something that drives every sermon. I want to say that again.

There is something in the driver's seat of every sermon. Just listen to the sermon and think to yourself as you hear. Of course, we as

preachers listen to every sermon. We should listen to every sermon as both sinners and students.

But as a student, listen to the sermon and ask yourself, what's in the driver's seat of this

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