Expository preaching is becoming increasingly popular and we can only rejoice in this trend. Expository preaching is often defined as "going through a book of the Bible verse-by-verse" but it is much more than this. Some think expository preaching is doing a line-by-line verbal commentary on a passage with a few points of application tacked on to the end of the message. Again, it is much more than that. Expository preaching (or expositional preaching) is "preaching that takes for the point of the sermon the point of a particular passage of Scripture." Effective expository preaching makes clear and compelling the one thing that the text makes most central. In expository preaching, the passage governs the sermon. This type of preaching is preaching in service to the Word, not putting the Bible in subjection to the preaching event. It presumes a dependant belief in the authority of God's Word and a deep desire to hear from God's Word.

Why are we committed to expository preaching? Why is expository preaching a necessary component of every healthy church? The answer to both questions is the same: preaching should always (or almost always) be expositional preaching because the Word of God must be at the very center of the sermon, the worship service, and the church. This centrality of the Word is the pattern set forth in Scripture and in God's ordination of the church's history. A healthy church is a church that hears the Word of God and continues to hear the Word of God and is constantly growing and changing because of the Word of God. We must be shaped by the Word and not our own selfish desires and personal agendas. For this reason, the preaching of God's Word (ALL OF IT) must be central in the life of the pastor and the church.

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