The little bubble of Christianity that I inhabit is evangelical, reformed, baptistic, and 9Marksy. We love doctrine and theology, are ruthlessly committed to the five solas of the Reformation, are passionate about the primacy of the local church, and so much more. I love my tribe.
And yet, no tribe is perfect. They all have their own strengths and weaknesses, and mine is no different. The point of this article is to lovingly but firmly address an issue I’m seeing in some of our circles. I call this weakness, “The Frankenstein sermon.”
A Frankenstein sermon is one where all of the constituent homiletic pieces of an expositional sermon may be present, but it’s lacking the vivifying force that should bring the sermon to life. In the same way that miracles and knowledge are dead when they lack love (1 Cor. 13:3), expositional preaching, no matter how homiletically astute, is dead when it lacks holy passion.
The mere fact that I’m calling for more passion in preaching might make some of my reformed brothers a little nervous. “More passion,” the thought goes, “might lead to less precision.” But this is not an either/or situation. We don’t have to choose between passion
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