God: "I looked for someone to take a stand for me, and stand in the gap" (Ezekiel 22:30)
The Christian life is a positive allegiance to Jesus Christ. It is becoming so occupied with Him that the values and standards of the world around us have little influence.
Expository Preaching:
1. Emulates biblical preaching both in content and style.
2. Best achieves the biblical intent of preaching: delivering God’s message.
3. Promotes scripturally authoritative preaching.
4. Magnifies God’s Word.
5. Provides a storehouse of preaching material.
6. Develops the pastor as a man of God’s Word.
7. Ensures the highest level of biblical knowledge for the flock
8. Leads to thinking and living biblically.
9. Encourages both depth and comprehensiveness.
10. Forces treatment of hard-to-interpret texts.
11. Allows for handling broad theological themes.
12. Keeps preachers away from ruts and hobbyhorses.
13. Prevents the insertion of human ideas.
14. Guards against misinterpretation of the biblical text.
15. Imitates the preaching of Christ and the apostles.
16. Brings out the best in the expositor.
