Expository Preaching

At FPC, we like our pastors and elders.  We think that they’re nice, well-intentioned, called people.  But the key word there is people.  They are sinners as much as the rest of us, with no more of a pipeline to God than the rest of us.  Therefore we don’t think that they, out of their own wisdom, have any ability to stand before us and wax on about politics, morals, our marriages, our bank accounts, or anything!  Therefore, we are committed to expository preaching.

What in the world is that?  It just means that we seek to take out (exposit) of a particular passage of the Bible what it says, rather than trying to put into (deposit) a passage our own ideas or themes.  Our practice is to go through books of the Bible, since this helps us to keep passages in context and protects us from making them mean what we want them to mean, rather than what they actually mean.

We don’t think that this style is inherently better than every other style, but we do think that it reflects well our core conviction - God is faithful and powerful to speak by His Spirt through His Word in a way that will be far more valuable and powerful than anything our preachers could ever dream of doing.

For more on our take on preaching, check this out: http://www.desiringgod.org/Blog/1792_What_I_Mean_by_Preaching/.