I never used to like expositional preaching - walking through a book or passage of the Bible. I know. I'm ashamed of that now.
A few weeks ago a friend and mentor told me about how he had started to tackle some issue like tithing and communion by just exposing the truth of scripture - and people ate it up. That's the wrong termanology. People were rocked. It got me thinking. I usually would find scripture to support my topic and show what God wanted to. But I thought I'd try something different. I waited on God to point me to the right passage and then in the "God" part of my message (me, we, god, you, we - thanks Andy Stanley) I just walked through the passage. The difference from before came in two chunks. (1) There was more scripture. In stead of a verse or two, it was 5 or 10. (2) I was learning.
The last three messages I've preached - two during our Exposed: The truth about sex series at Ignite, and one this past Sunday AM about service, have been the most powerful I've preached in years. Not because of me, because of the power of The Word.
We lose that supernatural power sometimes and get in the way. Let the Word speak and expose the truth it says.
A few weeks ago a friend and mentor told me about how he had started to tackle some issue like tithing and communion by just exposing the truth of scripture - and people ate it up. That's the wrong termanology. People were rocked. It got me thinking. I usually would find scripture to support my topic and show what God wanted to. But I thought I'd try something different. I waited on God to point me to the right passage and then in the "God" part of my message (me, we, god, you, we - thanks Andy Stanley) I just walked through the passage. The difference from before came in two chunks. (1) There was more scripture. In stead of a verse or two, it was 5 or 10. (2) I was learning.
The last three messages I've preached - two during our Exposed: The truth about sex series at Ignite, and one this past Sunday AM about service, have been the most powerful I've preached in years. Not because of me, because of the power of The Word.
We lose that supernatural power sometimes and get in the way. Let the Word speak and expose the truth it says.
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