Comments on: a plea for real exposition https://oxgoad.ca/2011/03/29/a-plea-for-real-exposition/ fundamentalism by blunt instrument Wed, 30 Mar 2011 21:40:36 +0000 hourly 1 By: Brian Ernsberger https://oxgoad.ca/2011/03/29/a-plea-for-real-exposition/comment-page-1/#comment-9948 Wed, 30 Mar 2011 21:40:36 +0000 http://oxgoad.ca/2011/03/29/a-plea-for-real-exposition/#comment-9948 (Wiping my brow) glad to hear this was not from the conference. I wasn’t expecting specifics on who, what, where, when. I get that this was just a reference point for the bigger issue of our preaching.
Would do us all good to pull out our preaching books (Lectures to my Students, On the Preparation and Delivery of Sermons, The Preacher His Life and Work, The Preacher and His Preaching, to name a few in my library) and read back through them to refresh ourselves. None of us have arrived at perfection, so we can always find areas to improve.
Again, a good reminder to us.

]]> By: ox https://oxgoad.ca/2011/03/29/a-plea-for-real-exposition/comment-page-1/#comment-9941 Wed, 30 Mar 2011 17:10:53 +0000 http://oxgoad.ca/2011/03/29/a-plea-for-real-exposition/#comment-9941 In reply to Brian Ernsberger.

No, the message I heard was from somewhere else far away. A very disappointing effort, to be sure, but I don’t want to talk about it. My mission isn’t to identify or bash the particular preacher involved. Just an appeal, for what its worth, for true exposition.

It seems to me that a lot of people who talk about expository preaching wouldn’t recognize it if they heard it. They certainly aren’t delivering it.

Maranatha!
Don Johnson
Jer 33.3

]]> By: Brian Ernsberger https://oxgoad.ca/2011/03/29/a-plea-for-real-exposition/comment-page-1/#comment-9940 Wed, 30 Mar 2011 17:06:12 +0000 http://oxgoad.ca/2011/03/29/a-plea-for-real-exposition/#comment-9940 Indeed, OUCH! I daresay, every preacher has been guilty of this at least once in his ministry, if not several times (myself included).
It is interesting that you call for us to be expositors (and we must), Broadus made the same call in his book, On the Preparation and Delivery of Sermons. It seems that regardless of which century or generation we all must work at the proper exposition of Scriptures.
Hopefully, you are not referencing a message from our recent conference.

]]> By: ox https://oxgoad.ca/2011/03/29/a-plea-for-real-exposition/comment-page-1/#comment-9936 Wed, 30 Mar 2011 15:58:38 +0000 http://oxgoad.ca/2011/03/29/a-plea-for-real-exposition/#comment-9936 In reply to Charles E. Whisnant.

Sure, Charles, feel free. Hope it is helpful.

Maranatha!
Don Johnson
Jer 33.3

]]> By: Charles E. Whisnant https://oxgoad.ca/2011/03/29/a-plea-for-real-exposition/comment-page-1/#comment-9929 Wed, 30 Mar 2011 12:04:58 +0000 http://oxgoad.ca/2011/03/29/a-plea-for-real-exposition/#comment-9929 Don, If you don’t mind I am going to put this post into our Wednesday night “FOCUS” Paper. I have tried to teach our members what exposition teaching is. Of course that is brave on my part. If they don’t know than they don’t judge. Nevertheless, we do try to show them. The challenge is to be faithful to the teaching of the Word, four times a week.

]]> By: Charles E. Whisnant https://oxgoad.ca/2011/03/29/a-plea-for-real-exposition/comment-page-1/#comment-9928 Wed, 30 Mar 2011 11:15:26 +0000 http://oxgoad.ca/2011/03/29/a-plea-for-real-exposition/#comment-9928 Ouch, I will have to do a better job next time.

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