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Isn't there only one kind of expositional sermon?
Ditch the disposable; Invest in Telephoto
Telephoto Preaching
- Our preaching often becomes like taking pictures with a disposable
camera - no zooming, no panning, focus isn't guaranteed, and
panoramics are unlikely.
- Expositional preaching is like graduating to a telephoto lens - it
gives you the ability to take a wider diversity of Scriptural
snapshots from new angles and more perspectives with higher
resolution, richer texture, and variable scope.
- Since an expositional sermon is one in which the point of the
passage is taken as the point of the sermon, we are just as free to
ask "what is the point of Romans?" in one expositional sermon as we are
to ask "what is the point of Romans 8:1a?" in another.
- Proceeding from panoramic to microscopic, then, we may legitimately
preach a single expositional sermon on the whole Bible, a whole
testament, a whole book, a whole narrative or parable, one paragraph,
one phrase, or a single word - as long as we are preaching the
intended point of the selected meaning unit.
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