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Expository Preaching/Teaching is a verse-by-verse explanation of Scripture.
"Preaching an expository message involves far more than standing in the pulpit and reviewing the high points, details, and components unearthed through research. Neither a word study nor a running commentary on a passage is, in itself, an expository sermon. An expository sermon does more than simply explain the grammatical structure of a passage and the meanings of its words. A true expository message sets forth the principles or doctrines supported in the passage. True expository preaching is doctrinal preaching.
The proper elements in an expository sermon may be summed up as follows:
1. Preaching is expository in purpose. It explains the text.
2. Preaching is logical in flow. It persuades the mind.
3. Preaching is doctrinal in content. It obligates the will.
4. Preaching is pastoral in concern. It feeds the soul.
5. Preaching is imaginative in pattern. It excites the emotion.
6. Preaching is relevant in application. It touches the life."
John MacArthur
"They read in the book in the law of God distinctly, and gave the sense, and caused them to understand the reading" [Nehemiah 8:8].
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