Piper on Preaching
From one of the clearest Christian thinkers going around:
Piper’s Points
- Preaching Is Expository - meaning that preaching aims to explain and apply, the meaning of the Bible.
- Preaching Is Exultation- meaning that the preacher and the people exult over what is in the Bible as it is being explained and applied.
- Preaching Isn’t Church, but It Serves the Church
If you’re used to a twenty-minute, immediately practical, relaxed talk, you won’t find that from what I’ve just described.
- I preach twice that long;
- I do not aim to be immediately practical but eternally helpful;
- and I am not relaxed.
I standing vigilantly on the precipice of eternity speaking to people who this week could go over the edge whether they are ready to or not. I will be called to account for what I said there. – John Piper
