What is expository preaching?
Here is a good explanation: “Application is necessary in our preaching; of course it is. As J.I. Packer has put it so well: ‘Preaching is teaching plus application (invitation, direction, summons); where the plus is lacking, something less than preaching occurs.’ “But it is just as true to say that where the teaching is lacking, and the sermon is mere invitation, or direction, or summons, then something less than preaching occurs. And furthermore, exhortatory or devotional utterances of this kind are inevitably lacking in authority, because the link between the message being given and the Scripture that has been read is far from clear. In reality, the authority rests upon the reputation of the preacher himself, and his own attainment of learning in the eyes of the congregation. “By contrast, when the application can be seen to flow clearly and unmistakably from the text in front of them, the hearers cannot help but see plainly that this is a word not from man, but from God, and that th
