Dr. Darryl Johnson, Senior Pastor at First Baptist Church in Vancouver, BC (http://www.firstbc.org/) spoke this morning to the Church Planting BC “cadre” on the subject of expositional preaching. In his presentation, he gave his “10 Convictions on Preaching”. Here they are…
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The living God has chosen the preaching of the Word as a primary means for the blessing and transforming of the world.
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The preaching of the Word of God is the Word of God.
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The preaching of the Word of God participates in the preaching of the Word of God by the Word of God.
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Preaching the Word is hard work.
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The Word “deliver” is a wholly appropriate description of preaching.
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The Church must set the preachers of the Word free to be engaged in all that faithful preaching of the Word demands.
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The preaching of the Word takes place in many different modes.
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Preaching that participates in the preaching of the Word, emerges from, is rooted in, and returns to, a text—a Spirit breathed, biblical text.
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Preaching that participates in the preaching of the Word Himself has the transforming power it does because the of what the preached text is designed to do.
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The person most transformed by the preaching of the Word is the preacher.