A Passionless Message is a Lecture (Not a Sermon)

All preaching involves teaching, but not all teaching is preaching.  "Without passion there is no preaching.  Without passion you are simply a lecturer."

Paul commanded Timothy to "PREACH the Word, in season and out!"  Therefore, let us implore men, as if God were entreating through us, "Be reconciled to God!"

Theology on Fire!

Maintaining Balance

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Expository Preaching 

        

 

       

         These extremes need to be avoided like the plague.

 

1.      1.  All Exposition, No Preaching  (EG. all information, no exhortation, and very little transformation; this kind of preaching produces tadpole Christians with big heads and little bodies. Cerebral preaching-produces full heads/empty hearts; or all hearing but little doing; or enlarged brains but paralyzed feet/hands)  

 

2.            All Preaching, No Exposition  (all theatrics and no theology; this preacher fills the building and the building is full but the preacher never fills the pulpit).

 

B.           Merging Together Exposition and Preaching (a perfect marriage)

1.            Paul: “Preach the Word”

“Preach the Word” (2 Timothy 4:2).   Biblical preaching involves teaching but it is not just teaching.  We are called to herald the word.  We have a message from the King!  Do a word study on the Greek word kerusso if you are still confused. 

2.            The Puritans: “Fire in the Pulpit”