PREACHING Sound Baptist Bible College April-June Instructor: Pastor Marvin McKenzie, Th.D.

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PREACHINGSound Baptist Bible CollegeApril-JuneI
nstructor Pastor Marvin McKenzie, Th.D.

• Lecture Five
• Types of Sermons

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Expository

• Most popular today
• Style most often employed by men such as Sam
  Davison and Paul Chappell
• Often those who employ this style express almost
  a disdain for any other style (although most use
  other styles from time to time.)

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Expository

• Strengths
• Avoids the danger of preaching things that are
  not really biblical
• Forces the preacher to study the Word of God
• Covers the whole counsel of God
• Protects the preacher from reactionary preaching
  against problems and etc.
• Is the most accepted style of preaching today

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Expository

• Weaknesses
• Often is merely teaching to the intellect not
  preaching to the heart
• Often done in a lazy and boring way
• Requires tremendous creativity and skill to
  translate into straightforward preaching
• Avoids the preachers responsibility to cry
  aloud messages directed to his congregation
• Is not found in the Bible

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Textual

• Exposits a smaller portion of Scripture
• Strengths
• Closely and carefully deals with the whole
  passage instead of skims through portions of a
  larger text
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Textual

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• Weakness
• None that I know of
• A person could take the text out of context
• This is the type of message most often employed
  by men like Paul Schwanke, Tom Malone, Jack
  Hyles, and others

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Topical

• Deals with a Biblical truth and weaves all
  related Scripture together
• Strengths
• Is the most like the preachers of the Bible
• Is most likely to accomplish what preaching is
  supposed to accomplish
• Translates the pastor from an explainer of the
  Bible (teacher) to a proclaimer of the Bible
  (preacher)
• Most likely to cause the preacher to become
  passionate about his message
• Weaknesses
• Can become hobby horse preaching.
• Can cause the preacher to avoid the whole counsel
  of God
• Can become mean spirited

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Character Study

• A topical message centered around a person or
  persons in the Bible
• Valuable lessons learned from the various persons
  of Scripture
• Many of the sermons in Acts are character studies
  in nature
• Teach both positive and negative aspects of human
  nature without becoming too personal

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Word Study

• A topical message centered around a particular
  Bible word
• Requires good study
• Can be fascinating to a large number of people in
  the church
• Many times can confront issues without it
  appearing you are directing the message to any
  particular person
• Be careful not to correct the KJV with your
  studies.

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Evangelistic

• A topical message geared to urge people to Trust
  Christ as Saviour
• Our day needs preachers who are gifted in this
• Every message should be evangelistic in some
  portion some messages should be all
  evangelistic
• Sunday mornings should perhaps be more
  evangelistic than anything else