In my last post I don't think I was as clear as I should have been concerning Expository and Topical teaching. First of all, expository teaching should address many topics but if it is done correctly it should be uniquely Gospel oriented. In other words, it should always be lifting up the character of God and resting on the death and resurrection of Christ.
On the flip side, if topical teaching is done correctly it too shall lift up the character of God and rest on the death and resurrection of Christ. I am not completely rejecting the idea of topical teaching. I love eating at Red Robin but we must realize that topical teaching limits the teacher (to what he already understands) and it limits the hearer (to what the teacher already understands). Topical teaching is, generally, a rehearsal of all of the verses on a given subject that the teacher already knows. Expository teaching keeps forcing the teacher and the students into unknown worlds of Biblical Truth.
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Right on, right on.
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