If you haven’t read Expositional Preaching by David Helm, pause for a minute and order it. I wholeheartedly agree with Mark Dever’s endorsement, “If I were teaching a preaching class and could assign the students only one book, this might be the one.” And guess what? The book is about 100 pages and no bigger than your hand! I like quick and insightful reads. Here’s how Helm defines expository preaching:
It is empowered preaching that rightfully submits the shape and emphasis of the sermon to the shape and emphasis of a biblical text. In that way it brings out of the text what the Holy Spirit put there . . . and does not put into the text what the preacher thinks might be there.
My assignment is to explain how not to do that when preaching through epistles. Before I begin, let me confess that some of what I will share will be from my own personal failures as a preacher, and if you’re a preacher I’m sure some of what I write will expose some of yours. It’s really easy to deceive ourselves into thinking we are faithfully preaching the Word when we actually are preaching our own
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