How to Read the Bible — and Preach It

Ask Pastor John

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John Piper, Unknown, 163859, Pastor, Ask, Theology, Desiring God, Religion & Spirituality/christianity, Christianity, Religion & Spirituality, Questions

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🗓️ 14 May 2018

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Summary

Good sermons and good Bible reading push into a writer’s words, grammar, and logic to embrace all the glorious realities behind them.

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0:00.0	Welcome back to the Ask Pastor John podcast.
0:07.4	On Friday, Pastor John, we talked about how you write books, which is a really interesting
0:12.0	episode.
0:13.0	And this week, we're going to talk about preaching to celebrate your new book on preaching titled
0:17.2	Expository Exaltation.
0:20.1	And today's question is a question from a preacher named Brad.
0:24.0	Hello, Pastor John.
0:25.0	How do you define expositional preaching?
0:27.5	I ask because many preachers in my neck of the woods, to them expositional preaching
0:32.9	is opening the Bible, reading a text, and then proceeding to say a lot of true things
0:37.9	about that text.
0:39.8	While this approach is certainly better than many alternatives, often what seems to be missed
0:44.1	is the main point of the text.
0:47.2	The Skod's agenda in the text is sometimes lost for what the preacher finds, most interesting
0:52.6	curious or personally uplifting.
0:55.7	What would you say to preachers into congregants looking for expositional preaching?
0:59.7	What exactly is it?
1:01.6	Well, I totally agree with Brad.
1:05.2	If you don't tell people the main point, the author, the biblical author is trying to communicate
1:12.8	in the text, you're not doing faithful exposition.
1:17.2	No matter how many good things you say about the text, no matter how many interesting things
1:23.3	or true things, or how much application you give, exposition, so here's my definition,
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