![]() ![]() While exposition is not the only valid mode of preaching, it is the best for teaching the plain sense of the Bible. He wrote, “The sermon is the text repeated more fully.” A sermon’s primary function is to present the text. Every word from the pulpit should amplify, elaborate on, or illustrate the text at hand, with a view towards clarity. Campbell Morgan, pastor of London’s Westminster Chapel and known as “the prince of expositors,” taught that a sermon is limited by the text it is covering. (See our article “ What is the difference between exegesis and eisegesis?”) Once the preacher understands the meaning of the passage, he then crafts a sermon to explain and apply it. In other words, the expositor is also an exegete-one who analyzes the text carefully and objectively. To prepare an expository sermon, the preacher starts with a passage of Scripture and then studies the grammar, the context, and the historical setting of that passage in order to understand the author’s intent. In expository sermons, the Bible passage is the topic, and support materials are used to explain and clarify it. ![]() In both topical and textual sermons, the Bible passage is used as support material for the topic. ![]() For example, someone could use Isaiah 66:7-13 to preach on motherhood, although motherhood is only peripheral in that text, being merely an illustration of the true theme, which is the restoration of Israel during the Millennial Kingdom. In a textual sermon, the preacher uses a text as a springboard for discussing a particular point. None of the passages is studied in depth instead, each is used to support the theme of laziness. For example, for the chosen topic of “Laziness,” the preacher might refer to Proverbs 15:19 and 18:9 and touch on Romans 12:11 and 2 Thessalonians 3:10. To prepare a topical sermon, the preacher starts with a topic and then finds a passage in the Bible that addresses that topic. The word exposition is related to the word expose-the expository preacher’s goal is simply to expose the meaning of the Bible, verse by verse.Īs a method, expository preaching differs from topical preaching and textual preaching. Military sense of "place occupied or to be occupied" is by 1781.Expository preaching involves the exposition, or comprehensive explanation, of the Scripture that is, expository preaching presents the meaning and intent of a biblical text, providing commentary and examples to make the passage clear and understandable. The meaning "manner in which some physical thing is arranged or posed, aggregate of the spatial relations of a body or figure to other such bodies or figures" is recorded by 1703 specifically in reference to dance steps, 1778, to sexual intercourse, 1883. The meaning "place occupied by a person or thing" especially a proper or appropriate place, is from 1540s hence "status, standing, social rank" (1832) "official station, employment" (1890). ![]() But de Vaan identifies it as from Proto-Italic *posine-, from PIE *tkine- "to build, live," from root *tkei- "to settle, dwell, be home" (see home (n.)). Late 14c., posicioun, as a term in logic and philosophy, "statement of belief, the laying down of a proposition or thesis," from Old French posicion "position, supposition" (Modern French position) and directly from Latin positionem (nominative positio) "act or fact of placing, situation, position, affirmation," noun of state from past-participle stem of ponere "put, place." Watkins tentatively identifies this as from PIE *po-s(i)nere, from *apo- "off, away" (see apo-) + *sinere "to leave, let" (see site). ![]()
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