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REDISCOVERING EXPOSITORY PREACHING
Richard L. Mayhue
Vice President and Dean
Professor of Pastoral Ministries
The Master's Seminary
Biblical preaching's authenticity is significantly tarnished by
contemporary communicators' being more concerned with personal relevance
than God's revelation. Scripture unmistakably requires a proclamation
focused on God's will and mankind's obligation to obey. With men wholly
committed to God's Word, the expository method commends itself as
preaching that is true to the Bible. The method presupposes an exegetical
process to extract the God-intended meaning of Scripture and an explanation
of that meaning in a contemporary understandable way. The biblical essence
and apostolic spirit of expository preaching needs to be recaptured in the
training of men newly committed to "preaching the Word."
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The Master's Seminary joins with others1 in accepting the
urgent responsibility for transmitting the Pauline legacy to "preach the
Word" (2 Tim 4:2). The current series of articles in The Master's
Seminary Journal signal an effort to instill in twenty-first century
preachers a pattern of biblical preaching inherited from their
predecessors.2
Every generation shares the kind of dire circumstances that
Amos prophesied for Israel: "`Behold, days are coming,' declares the