What are the Benefits of Expositional Preaching?
The Benefits Package
Benefits for the Pastor
- Releases the pastor from Saturday Night Fever - the dreaded dilemma of what text to preach tomorrow morning.
- Increases the likelihood of the pastor preaching the whole counsel of God over time.
- Increases the pastor's command of the Word by forcing him to study difficult or often-neglected texts for himself.
- Increases the Word's command of the pastor by giving him a broader exposure to the probing sword of Scripture, deepening his continued repentance and faith, incrementally increasing his knowledge of God, and therefore enhancing his Spirit-produced ability to please God in every way (Heb 11:6; Col 1:9-12).
- Increases the pastor's God-given prophetic authority in the pulpit by grounding his preaching in the divinely intended meaning of the text.
- Increases the pastor's God-given blessing in the pulpit by remaining faithful to the intention of the One who sent him to preach a specific message.
- Increases the trustworthiness of the pastor's preaching in the eyes of the congregation.
