THE INTEGRITY OF THE EXPOSITOR
THE INTEGRITY OF THE EXPOSITOR You may find this chapter a little “preachy”; that is what I intend! Preaching the Bible is an Altogether Unique Enterprise , for God’s Word cannot be preached effectively when there is something awry in the personal life. GOD WANTS HIS VESSELS TO BE CLEAN. One may teach algebra adequately and not pay one’s bills, but no one cannot adequately expound the Word of God and fail to pay his bills. One can be sexually immoral and serve as a grocery clerk, but no one can preach the Word of God in that condition. A MAN’S PERSONAL LIFE AND DISCIPLINE CAN MAKE OR BREAK HIS PREACHING MINISTRY. Before I begin a discussion of the mechanics of the expository method I must challenge you to a point of decision. Thus is not merely opinion on my part. The Bible makes very clear that THE PREACHER PREACHES BY HIS LIFE AS WELL AS BY HIS LIPS ; there is a sense in which “what a man is” is more important than what he says . There is great strength in the “silent sermon of a go...