Healthy Churches - Expositional Preaching

What is Expositional Preaching?

Hermeneutics = the branch of knowledge that deals with interpretation, especially of the Bible or literary texts.

Expository = intended to explain or describe something.

Exegesis = a careful drawing out of the exact meaning of a passage in its original context.

Eisegesis = Eisegesis is the process of interpreting text in such a way as to introduce one's own presuppositions, agendas or biases.

Ephesians 5:22–33 (CSB)

22 Wives, submit to your husbands as to the Lord,

23 because the husband is the head of the wife as Christ is the head of the church. He is the Savior of the body.

24 Now as the church submits to Christ, so also wives are to submit to their husbands in everything.

25 Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave himself for her

26 to make her holy, cleansing her with the washing of water by the word.

27 He did this to present the church to himself in splendor, without spot or wrinkle or anything like that, but holy and blameless.

28 In the same way, husbands are to love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself.

29 For no one ever hates his own flesh but provides and cares for it, just as Christ does for the church,

30 since we are members of his body.

31 For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and the two will become one flesh.

32 This mystery is profound, but I am talking about Christ and the church.

33 To sum up, each one of you is to love his wife as himself, and the wife is to respect her husband.

“The Lord, having claimed us for himself, makes his love real as the gospel word washes and makes his churches fit for himself. There is nothing degrading in Christ, nothing we need to worry about or filter out. His eternal love rains down on us in our churches with renewing power through the ministry of gospel words.” - Ray Ortlund

Isaiah 55:10–11 (CSB)

10 For just as rain and snow fall from heaven and do not return there without saturating the earth and making it germinate and sprout, and providing seed to sow and food to eat,

11 so my word that comes from my mouth will not return to me empty, but it will accomplish what I please and will prosper in what I send it to do.”