Hebrews 4:12 says "For the word of God is living and
active, sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing to
the division of soul and of spirit, of joints and of
marrow, and discerning the thoughts and intentions of
the heart."
Here at Triangle Baptist, we believe the Bible is God's
inerrant Word.
It determines our faith (what we
believe) and our practice (how we live). In
our preaching, we are "expository", meaning we go
through the Bible verse by verse. We look forward
to seeing you on Sunday!
Paige Patterson
"Fewer Christians would succumb to unbiblical
teaching if more ministers practiced expositional
preaching. There is no genuinely good preaching
except exposition.”
John Piper
“People
are starving for the greatness of God.
But most of them would not give this
diagnosis of their troubled lives. The
majesty of God is an unknown cure. There
are far more popular prescriptions on
the market, but the benefit of any other
remedy is brief and shallow. Preaching
that does not have the aroma of God's
greatness may entertain for a season,
but it will not touch the hidden cry of
the soul: "Show me Your glory!"
R.
Albert Mohler
"Authentic
expository preaching takes the presentation of the Word
of God as its central aim. The purpose of the preacher
is to read the text, interpret the text, explain the
text, and apply the text. Thus, the text drives the
sermon from beginning to end. In fact, in too many of
today's sermons, the text plays a subordinate role to
other concerns. Real exposition takes time,
preparation, dedication, and discipline. The foundation
of expository preaching is the confidence that the Holy
Spirit will apply the Word to the hearts of the
hearers--explained by the Reformers as the ministry of
Word and Spirit. That ministry--so vital to the people
of God--is missing or minimized in many evangelical
congregations."
Charles
Spurgeon
"The true
ambassador for Christ feels that he himself stands
before God and has to deal with souls in God's stead as
God's servant, and stands in a solemn place--a place in
which unfaithfulness is inhumanity to man as well as
treason to God."
J. I. Packer
"The Purpose of expository
preaching is not to stir people to action while
bypassing their minds, so that they never see what
reason God gives them for doing what the preacher
requires of them; nor is the purpose to stock people's
minds with truth, no matter how vital and clear, which
then lies fallow and does not become the seed-bed and
source of changed lives:
The purpose of preaching is to inform, persuade,
and call forth an appropriate response to the God whose
message and instruction are being delivered."
James
Montgomery Boice
"We are to believe and follow Christ in all things,
including his words about Scripture. And
this means that Scripture is to be for us what it was to
him: the unique, authoritative, and inerrant Word of
God, and not merely a human testimony to Christ, however
carefully guided and preserved by God. If
the Bible is less than this to us, we are not fully
Christ's disciples. "
D.
Martyn Lloyd-Jones
"We have spoken in a very enlightened manner, but we
have not always lived as the salt of the earth.
Whether we like it or not, our lives should always be
the first thing to speak; and if our lips speak more
than our lives it will avail very little. So often the
tragedy has been that people proclaim the gospel in
words, but their whole life and demeanor has been a
denial of it. The world does not pay much
attention to them. Let us never forget this order
deliberately chosen by our Lord: 'the salt of the earth'
before 'the light of the world'. We are something
before we begin to act as something. The two things
should always go together, but the order and sequence
should be the one which He sets down here."
John
MacArthur
"Expository preaching familiarizes people with the
Scripture itself instead of simply giving them a speech,
as true and as reflective of biblical teaching as that
speech may be. With expository preaching, people become
familiar with the Scripture. They can go back to
the passages that have been addressed, and they can be
reminded by the text itself of what it means. So you
give people the Word of God in a way that has long-term
impact, because it makes them familiar with Scripture."
W.A. Criswell
“When I first began to preach as a teenager … I preached
about whatever fell by chance into my mind. I
preached according to whatever some incident or event or
saying would suggest. That is about as poor a way
to prepare a sermon as could be found in all the world
…Why should I struggle to think up topics for my sermons
… when I could let inspiring and informative texts speak
for themselves? … Suddenly I found myself really
proclaiming the Word, book by book, text by text, cover
to cover from Genesis to Revelation. I felt new
power. Instead of pacing the floor, stressed and
anxious, trying to find some new topic to preach, I was
pacing the floor with excitement, caught up in the might
and majesty of God’s Word …”
A.W. Tozer
"It is a tragedy that those who claim to be contenders
for the faith and hold a high view of inspiration of the
Bible, rarely preach expositionally. Until our
thinking
has been transformed by God's Word, we do not have a
message.
