Are You Committed to Only Preaching Expositionally?

Ask the Pastor with J.D. Greear

J.D. Greear

Christianity, Religion & Spirituality

4.9 • 624 Ratings

🗓️ 24 February 2025

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Summary

This week on Ask the Pastor, Pastor J.D.pauses his "Why Does It Matter" series to answer a listener question who asked, "Are You Committed to Only Preaching Expositionally?"Pastor J.D. addresses some common questions and emphasizes the importance of grounding sermons in Scripture, the role of the preacher as a steward of God's word, and the overarching goal of discipleship in ministry.

A glimpse inside this episode:

* Expositional preaching is essential for the life of the church.
* The message should find its source in Scripture through careful exegesis.
* Preachers are stewards of God's word, responsible for delivering it faithfully.
* Discipleship is the primary goal of preaching.
* Feedback from the congregation is valuable and should be welcomed.
* Expositional preaching can still address topical issues when grounded in Scripture.
* A balanced diet of Scripture is important for congregational growth.
* Preaching should not be driven solely by personal preferences.
* Understanding the definitions of preaching styles helps clarify expectations.
* The focus should always be on the word of God, not personal opinions.

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0:00.0	Hey everybody, welcome to Ask the Pastor.
0:09.4	I am Matt Love.
0:10.6	I am here with Pastor J.D. Greer.
0:12.5	And we have a great little special bonus episode today.
0:16.2	So as we work to our current series,
0:18.3	where, yeah, a little bonus episode in the midst of this series.
0:21.3	And we always, you know, we feel like we have a good question.
0:23.7	We have an opportunity to add some extra content that could maybe answer questions we're getting.
0:29.6	We always want to kind of hop out of a series to do that if we can.
0:32.1	So, JD, I know this is a question you get asked a lot.
0:35.5	I honestly feel like a lot of our bonus
0:37.7	episodes always have a little bit of heat to him, too, Jaddy. Let's go a little bit of heat, you know?
0:41.7	And this is a question you get asked a lot. So, Jady, are you committed to only preaching expositionally?
0:47.9	That's the question. Yeah. So, yes, but I want to give a slightly nuanced answer to that. And actually where this question comes from is it actually came recently in our church because
0:57.7	there were some just some questions like, hey, some of the stuff we've done this year,
1:02.0	you know, my preference, people have said this is really what, you know, I really like to
1:05.9	work through the Bible straight to the Bible.
1:08.6	And that's, and I definitely believe that.
1:10.3	But let me, first of all, let me just kind of, I would like to answer this question a little nuance, because it's actually very important to me.
1:16.5	This is my calling and commission as a pastor. I think the word of God is the life of the church. And I think that we cannot improve on it. And certainly J.D. Greer's thoughts should not be at all substituted ever for just exposing. That's where the
1:28.9	word comes from, expounding God's word to people. But I do think we have to be careful. We want to
1:33.8	define exposition. There's a great gospel coalition article that actually's got several of the
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