Subject: Can anyone recommend a good study book? |
Bible Note: Hi, Tim... As one of my professors put it, "Expository preaching begins with exegesis and finishes with exposition." Exposition is the exposing of truth, i.e., making the truth visible for what it really is. Exposition brings light to bear on the Word. Skilled expository preaching is partially art and partially science. Exegesis, on the other hand, is a matter of definitive principles used to pull the full linguistic, historical, and contextual truth from a passage of Scripture. (I tried to gather together the principles of sound exegesis in the thread #156916.) "The exegete is like a diver bringing up pearls from the ocean bed; an expositor is like the jeweler who arrays them in orderly fashion and in proper relation to each other." --Dr. Nolan Howington I charge you in the presence of God and of Christ Jesus, who is to judge the living and the dead, and by his appearing and his kingdom: preach the word; be ready in season and out of season; reprove, rebuke, and exhort, with complete patience and teaching. (2 Timothy 4:1-2 ESV) Thus says the LORD of hosts: "Do not listen to the words of the prophets who prophesy to you, filling you with vain hopes. They speak visions of their own minds, not from the mouth of the LORD. They say continually to those who despise the word of the LORD, 'It shall be well with you'; and to everyone who stubbornly follows his own heart, they say, 'No disaster shall come upon you.'" Therefore, behold, I am against the prophets, declares the LORD, who steal my words from one another. (Jeremiah 23:16-17, 30 ESV) In Him, Doc |