How Sunday School Can Help Your Preaching
By Jamie DunlopIf you are an expositional preacher, a topically-driven adult Sunday school program can significantly help your preaching ministry. How?
SUNDAY SCHOOL FREES UP TIME FOR MORE EXPOSITION
First, Sunday school frees up time for exposition. 9Marks has always maintained that preaching in a local church should be primarily expositional—preaching in which the main point of the passage is the main point of the sermon.
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A Pastors' and Theologians' Forum on Biblical Theology
"In what ways will a congregation’s understanding of salvation and the gospel be limited if their pastors do not have a good grasp of biblical theology?"
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9Marks Pastors' and Theologians' Forum
Must the sermon be a monologue? If not, should it be? In other words, does the Bible allow for some type of back and forth conversation (like Q&A) to characterize the regular style of the main exposition of Scripture in a congregation? If it does, is it pastorally prudent?
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By Class III: Preaching
By Jamie Dunlop
As Christians, we probably all agree that preaching is important. But what's not immediately obvious is how the act of preaching—and the act of listening to preaching—contributes to the unity of a local church.
How exactly does preaching foster unity in the church? How we can be good stewards of the preaching we hear, not just for our own individual growth, but for the health and maturity of the church as a whole? These are some of the questions we'll consider today.
I. God Creates his People Through His Word
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Preaching and Biblical Theology 101 (PBT-101)
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Diagnosis—The Problem with Much Preaching Today (Part 1)
Discovery—What is Biblical Theology (Part 2)
Direction—How To Do Biblical Theology When Preaching (Part 3)
Diagnosis—The Problem with Much Preaching Today (Part 1)
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By Gospel Implications
SHEPHERDING YOUR PEOPLE TO THINK AND LIVE IN LINE WITH THE TRUTH OF THE GOSPEL
A local church is healthy to the degree that: (1) its pastor-teachers are able to accurately, effectively, and broadly bring the gospel to bear in the real lives of their people; and (2) its people have a deep personal understanding of and appreciation for the gospel, so as to be able to live in the good of the gospel daily. I call this the functional centrality of the gospel.
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The Preacher and the Text: What is the Goal of the Message?
[I]f you get the priority of the Word established, then you have in place the single most important aspect of the church’s life, and growing health is virtually assured, because God has decided to act by His Spirit through His Word.
--Mark Dever, Nine Marks of a Healthy Church, p.25
INTRODUCTION
The Glory of God in the Preaching of the Word
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Plexiglas Preaching
Those who are familiar with my ministry know that I am committed to expository preaching. It is my unshakable conviction that the proclamation of God’s Word should always be the heart and the focus of the church’s ministry (2 Tim. 4:2). And proper biblical preaching should be systematic, expositional, theological, and God-centered.
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