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The point of starting to talk about the marks of a healthy church is where God begins with us, the way He speaks to us. This is where our own spiritual health came in, and this is how the health of our churches will also come. Commitment to explanatory preaching, one of the oldest methods of preaching, is particularly important for anyone who runs a church, but especially for the It is a preaching whose purpose is to expose what is said in a particular passage of the Bible, carefully explaining its meaning and applying it to the congregation (see Nehemiah 8:8). There are, of course, many other types of Today’s Sermons, for example, bring together everything the Bible teaches on a single topic, such as prayer or contribution. Biographical preaching addresses the life of someone in the Bible and presents it as a demonstration of God’s grace and as an example of hope and fidelity. But is explanatory preaching something different? An explanation and application of a particular part of God’s Word.
? (?) Today’s Christian preachers have the power to speak of God only if they proclaim His words.
The preaching of the exhibition involves believing in the authority of the Bible, but it is something else, a commitment to explanatory preaching is a commitment to listening to the Word of God, just as Old Testament prophets and New Testament apostles received not only the order to speak, but a specific message, today’s Christian preachers have the power to speak of God only if they proclaim His words. Therefore, the authority of the explanatory preacher begins and ends with the scriptures. Sometimes people can confuse, exhibition preaching with the style of a favorite exhibition preacher, but it’s not fundamentally a matter of style. As others have observed, explanatory preaching is not so much about how we say what we say, but about how we decide what to say. marked by a particular form, but by biblical content.
One can happily accept the authority of God’s Word and even profess a belief in the infallibility of the Bible; However, if in practice (on purpose or not) someone does not preach explicitly, they will never preach beyond what they already know. A preacher can take part in the scriptures and exhort the congregation on an issue that is important without actually preaching the point raised in the passage. When this happens, the preacher and congregation hear from the scriptures only what they already knew.
“As others have observed in explanatory preaching, it’s not so much about how we say what we say, it’s about how we decide what to say.
In contrast, when do we preach a scripture in context, explicitly?Take the point of the passage as the point of the message?we heard things from God that we didn’t intend to hear when we started. From the initial call to repentance to the area of our lives where the Spirit has recently condemned us, all our salvation is to listen to God in a way that, before we heard him, we would never have imagined. This extremely practical submission to the Word of God must be evident in the ministry of a preacher. Make no mistake: it is the congregation’s ultimate responsibility to ensure that things are like this (note the responsibility Jesus assigns to the congregation in Matthew 18, or Paul in 2 Timothy 4). A church can never appoint a person who does not demonstrate a clear commitment to listening to and teaching the Word of God as a spiritual supervisor of the flock. Doing so is inevitably hindering the growth of the church, practically encouraging it to grow only at the pastor’s level. If so, the church will slowly conform to its spirit, rather than conforming to the spirit of God.
God’s people have always been created by the Word of God. From creation in Genesis 1 to Abraham’s call in Genesis 12, from the vision of the valley of dry bones in Ezekiel 37 to the coming of the living Word, God has always created His people through His Word. As Paul wrote to the Romans, “Does faith come from preaching and preaching through the word of Christ?”(10:17). Or, as he writes to the Corinthians: “For, in the wisdom of God, the world did not know him by his own wisdom, did God please save those who believe through the madness of preaching?(1 Corinthians 1: 21).
? A church built on music? Is it a church built on sand?
Healthy and explicit preaching is often the source of a church’s growth; in Martin Luther’s experience, such attention to the Word of God was the principle of reform; we must also commit ourselves to being churches always reformed according to the Word of God.
Once, while teaching a London church seminar on Puritanism, I mentioned that Puritan sermons sometimes lasted two hours. Faced with this, a person asked, “How much time is left for worship?” Hearing the word of God preached was not supposed to be worship. I responded that many English Protestant Christians would have considered hearing God’s word in their own language and responding to it in their lives as an essential part of their worship. , it would be relatively a sower.
Our churches must regain the central place of the Word in our worship. Hearing and responding to God’s Word can include praise and thanksgiving, confession and proclamation, and any of these things can take the form of a song, but none of them. you do not need to take this form. A church built with music? what is the style? it is a church built on sand. Preaching is the fundamental component of the pastorate. Pray for your pastor to dedicate himself to studying the Bible with rigor, care and seriousness, and that God will lead him to understand the Word, to apply it to his own life and to apply it in the Church (see Luke 24:27; Acts 6: 4; Ephesians 6: 19-20). If you are a pastor, pray about these things for yourself. Pray also for others who preach and teach the Word of God. Finally, pray that our churches will commit to hearing God’s Word preached explicitly, so that the leadership of each church is increasingly shaped by God’s agenda as expressed in Scripture. Commitment to explanatory preaching is the hallmark of a healthy church.