Much has been written on evangelistic preaching. And much has been written on expositional preaching. Often, though, we tend to think of the two as mutually exclusive, rather than as normally inseparable. We think that the converted need Bible teaching and the unconverted need evangelistic addresses.
This article intends to question that conclusion. Instead, I want to suggest another way that we should think of our obligations in preaching to both Christians and non-Christians. We will proceed with the conviction that the converted and the unconverted need preaching in which the fullness of God’s Word is exposed and the atoning work of Christ explored.
That a Christian sermon should both expound God’s Word and declare his good news is not surprising. In fact, just in writing that sentence (without using the normal words expositional and evangelistic) it seems absurd to think otherwise.
But many do. Perhaps we ourselves sometimes wonder how we can be better expositors, but we never consider our presentation of the gospel in our sermons. Or perhaps we want to be better evangelists, but we cannot see how that has anything to do with our preaching. It is the goal
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