Amen, brother Steve.

Your comment that "if you jump around from passage to passage you are
going to miss a lot of other important doctrine" was what I was
getting at a while back when I suggested that "topical preaching is a
de facto denial of inerrancy."  If we believe that it is all inspired
than we will preach all of it and not jump around to the bits we like
best.  Interesting that this is the opposite conclusion that Hymers
reaches.



On 12/10/05, Steven G. Rockhill <revrock@...> wrote:
> I am not sure why he praises the likes of Criswell, Spurgeon, Whitefield,
> Wesley, Edwards and Nettleton (all whom he calls expository preachers) but
> then criticizes expository preaching.  I think what he means to criticize is
> the 'systematic' exposition of scripture rather than jumping around from
> passage to passage each week.  I am not going to repeat my lengthy post I
> made on pastormail on this subject this past week - but suffice it to say if
> you went from book to book verse to verse - you would hit on these great
> themes over and over again.  Ever notice how in Scripture God seems to be
> repititve.  For good reason - we need the constant reminders.  But if you
> jump around from passage to passage you are going to miss a lot of other
> important doctrine.  Besides revival doesn't come from preaching a
> particular topic - it comes when the Spirit of God desires it to come.
> There are a lot of preachers who just preach on these topics he mentions and
> yet are they under 'revival' I think not - otherwise he wouldn't have
> written the article.
>
> Peace,
> sTeve
>


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