Expositional Preaching

Biblical Expository Preaching is a verse by verse system of communication that carefully works through a book of the Bible explaining what each word, sentence, and paragraph meant to the original audience, explaining linguistic, historical, and cultural issues as they arise, and then bridging the text and its theological significance to the current listening audience.  After the sermon, the hearers should better understand what the passage of Scripture meant to the original audience, and how to apply it to their own lives.  In Biblical Expository Preaching the message is driven by the text itself, thus liberating the preacher from any personal agendas he might be tempted to follow.  The sermon is authoritative only to the degree that it accurately communicates the biblical text.