What are the Benefits of Expositional Preaching?
The Benefits Package
Benefits for the Congregation
- The congregation is released from slavery to the preacher's hobbyhorse texts and topics.
- The applicational intention of the text is released to do its creating, convicting, converting, and conforming work in their lives.
- Increases their knowledge of God and His word by broadening their exposure to all the different parts of Scripture.
- Increases their trust in the inspiration, inerrancy, clarity, and sufficiency of Scripture.
- Increases their trust in the pastor's preaching and teaching.
- Decreases their likelihood of being deceived by false teaching.
- Functions for them as a responsible model of personal Bible study.
