When people evaluate churches, they might evaluate them on the basis of many things,

but there's only one that really sets the tone.

The single most important reason to choose the church is the nature and character of its preaching and teaching.

Welcome to Grace to you with John MacArthur. I'm your host Phil Johnson.

We obviously live in a soundbite society, but should that affect the way churches reach their audiences?

What is the pastor's most important role in the current culture?

John MacArthur answers those questions today as he begins a study titled

Why is preaching worth fighting for?

Now, John, before you launch this series,

let me mention that we're going to follow it up

with your message called

Why I Love the Church. Those two sermons go together so beautifully.

There's a clear connection between loving the church and preaching, but that connection

is often lost these days with some troubling results.

Yeah, preaching and by preaching I mean preaching the word.

Preaching the word rightly divided, handling the word of God accurately, which comes down to be an expository

preacher.

Expository preaching, we talk about that, people might not understand that word.

Expository simply means to explain something.

It doesn't mean to expose something. That's a different verb. It means

to explain the word of God. So the preaching that God honors is the preaching that explains

the word of God. What is the meaning of the word of God? So as a preacher

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