Preaching: How to Preach Biblically

by John MacArthur

Many sermons preached today lack the divine knowledge and spiritual understanding available only through dynamic expository preaching. In Preaching: How to Preach BiblicallyPreaching: How to Preach Biblically, John MacArthur’' well-known passion for the Bible combines with the expertise of faculty members at The Master's Seminary to inspire and equip preachers in effective biblical preaching.

Preaching: How to Preach BiblicallyPreaching: How to Preach Biblically flows from biblical foundations for expository preaching through a detailed process of developing expositions and creating sermons to the actual delivery of expository messages, connecting what pastors learn in seminary with the sermons preached in a local church. This volume shows how to progress purposefully from one phase to the next in preparing to minister to God's people through preaching.

This book answers these questions and more:

What is expository, biblical preaching?
What are the theological and historical foundations for insisting on expository preaching?
What are the steps involved in preparation for and participation in biblical preaching?
What models exist for expository preaching today?
The Master's Seminary faculty, with over thirty years' experience in preaching and seminary training of preachers, contributes a treasury of expertise alongside insights from expositor John MacArthur. While united on their commitment to exposition, the variety of individual expressions and methodological preferences discussed offers beneficial assistance for any preacher seeking a higher level of expository excellence.

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Hardcover, 384 pages

Published August 21st 2005 by Thomas Nelson (first published 2005)

tags: theology, christian non fiction, religion, leadership, christian living, christian

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“The bell in the steeple may be well hung, fairly fashioned, and of soundest metal, but it is dumb until the ringer makes it speak. And . . . the preacher has no voice of quickening for the dead in sin, or of comfort for living saints unless the divine spirit [Spirit] gives him a gracious pull, and begs him speak with power. Hence the need of prayer for both preacher and hearers.”

― John MacArthur

“What two or three books on preaching have profoundly impacted your thinking? The first book that affected my thinking was John Broadus's On The Preparation and Delivery of Sermons. A second book that really hit me hard was John Stott's book The Preacher's Portrait in which he explained five New Testament words that pictured the preacher's vast responsibility and duty. Then I read D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones's Preachers and Preaching. Those three have influenced me greatly.”

― John MacArthur

“Todos miramos con indignación al abogado o al juez que, a raíz de la búsqueda de riquezas particulares, distorsionan la verdad al atacar la reputación y las posesiones personales de la gente, a medida que las reducen a la pobreza. Respondemos con una indignación parecida ante el médico farsante que, por incompetente, pone en peligro la salud y la vida de alguien en busca de ganancias financieras. Esas personas merecen ser consideradas como criminales;”

― John MacArthur

“Pero, ¿y qué de mí como suministrador de la verdad de Dios, el médico del alma? ¿Acaso no soy responsable ante Dios por cualquier perversión de la verdad, independientemente de cuán tonta sea, y también por mi negligencia e incapacidad? ¿Qué asociación terrenal me regula?”

― John MacArthur

“Hasta hace unos quince años los cristianos veían a la psicología como algo hostil al evangelio. Permítase que alguien que profesa el nombre de Jesús bautice la psicología secular y la presente como algo compatible con la verdad de la Escritura, y la mayoría de los cristianos se sentirán felices tragándose una cicuta teológica en forma de «intuiciones psicológicas». Durante los últimos 15 años las iglesias han tendido a depender más y más de los consejeros pastorales entrenados [...] Para mí esto parece indicar debilidad en o indiferencia hacia la predicación expositiva dentro de las iglesias evangélicas [...] ¿Por qué tenemos que recurrir a las ciencias humanas? ¿Por qué? Porque por años no hemos expuesto el todo de la Escritura. Porque debido a nuestra débil exposición y nuestras charlas temáticas superficiales hemos producido una generación de ovejas cristianas sin pastor. Y ahora nos estamos maldiciendo a nosotros mismos más profundamente que nunca por haber recurrido a la sabiduría del mundo.”

― John MacArthur

“The unique contribution of Bible exposition is its substantial enhancement of the listeners' comprehension of Scripture's intent. Those who listen to expository preaching have opportunity to submit to the Holy Spirit who first inspired the text as He now illumines that text to them. This is the best avenue for building up the saints. The New Testament puts heavy emphasis on using the mind as the principal avenue to Christian growth (for example, Rom. 12:2; 1 Pet. 1:13), so the preacher should do the same.”

― John MacArthur

“Exposition presupposes an exegetical process to extract the God-intended meaning of Scripture and an explanation of that meaning in a contemporary way.”

― John MacArthur

“Una historia de los expositores bíblicos debe incluir a Cristo, que es tanto el modelo de la predicación como el mensaje a predicarse.”

― John MacArthur

“El predicador expositivo de hoy debe moldear su ministerio de acuerdo a la obra expositiva de Cristo.”

― John MacArthur

“The three “undervalued" components of expository sermon preparation include introductions, illustrations, and conclusions. Due to the complexities of pastoral ministry in general and message preparation particularly, pastors tend to let these three slide. The congregation, in contrast, eagerly looks forward to how its pastor will handle these elements of the message. This discussion, which intends to equip the preacher for a new level of expository excellence, is built around purposes, sources, variations, guidelines, and preparation tips for these three parts of an exposition.”

― John MacArthur

“If I profess with the loudest voice and clearest exposition every portion of the truth of God except precisely that little point which the world and the devil are at that moment attacking, I am not confessing Christ, however boldly I may be professing Christ. Where the battle rages, there the loyalty of the soldier is proved, and to be steady on all the battlefield besides, is mere flight and disgrace if he flinches at that point.”

― John MacArthur

“The man of God is thrilled to be a soldier. It is not that he goes out of his way to antagonize people and make enemies, but he is willing to fight the battle for truth. It is greatly disturbing to live in a time when battling for truth is looked upon as divisive and unloving. Far too many in the church today are willing to compromise theologically to avoid conflict, forgetting Jude's exhortation to “contend earnestly for the faith” (Jude 3).”

― John MacArthur

“God's objective and historically past revelation in Scripture cannot be understood accurately apart from the present, personal, and subjective work of the Holy Spirit. “Illumination,” which applies only to believers,3 is simply the continued work of the Spirit by which He causes enlightened understanding of doctrine and how it should be applied to life.”

― John MacArthur

“¿Cuál es la responsabilidad del predicador? Primero, el predicador necesita percatarse de que la Palabra de Dios no es la palabra del predicador. Sino más bien, euaggelizo]). Es un mensajero, no el creador (eu,aggeli,zo [euaggelizo Es un sembrador, no la fuente (Mt 13.3, 19). Es un sembrador, no la fuente (Mt 13.3, 19). Es un heraldo, no la autoridad (khru,ssw [kerusso]). Es un mayordomo, no el propietario (Col 100.25). Es la guía, no el autor (Hch 8.31). Es el servidor de comida espiritual, no el cocinero Jn 21.15, 17).”

― John MacArthur

“Fruitful expository preaching demands great effort. Since nothing is as important as the Word, no energy expended by anyone in any other field should even equal the effort of an expositor seeking to “rightly divide the Word.” Adams identifies the number-one reason for poor preaching: I have had the opportunity to hear much preaching over the last few years, some very good, some mediocre, most very bad. What is the problem with preaching? There is no one problem, of course. . . . But if there is one thing that stands out most, perhaps it is the problem I mention today. What I am about to say may not strike you as being as specific as other things I have written, yet I believe it is at the bottom of a number of other difficulties. My point is that good preaching demands hard work. From listening to sermons and from talking to hundreds of preachers about preaching, I am convinced that the basic reason for poor preaching is the failure to spend adequate time and energy in preparation. Many preachers—perhaps most—simply don't work long enough on their sermons.”

― John MacArthur

“Específicamente, la predicación evangélica debería reflejar nuestra convicción de que la Palabra de Dios es infalible. Con demasiada frecuencia no es así. Se observa una tendencia en el movimiento evangélico contemporáneo a apartarse de la predicación bíblica y a deslizarse hacia un acercamiento en el púlpito basado en la experiencia, que es pragmático y temático.”

― John MacArthur

“Al predicar la narrativa, uno debe quitarle las luces a los héroes parecidos a José y colocarla en el único personaje en el relato digno de alabanza: Dios.”

― John MacArthur

“This is a day in which one of our great perils is that of doing a thousand little things to the neglect of the one thing, which is preaching.6”

― John MacArthur

“«La Palabra sale de la boca de Dios de forma similar a la que “sale de la boca” del hombre; porque Dios no habla abiertamente desde el cielo, sino que emplea a los hombres como instrumentos suyos, para hacer conocer su voluntad mediante ellos»”

― John MacArthur

“«No nos metamos en la cabeza buscar a Dios en ningún otro sitio que en su Sagrada Palabra, o pensar cosa alguna acerca de Él que no esté motivada en su Palabra, o decir nada que no sea tomado de esa Palabra».60”

― John MacArthur

John MacArthur

John F. MacArthur, Jr. is a fifth-generation preacher who serves as a pastor-teacher of Grace Community Church in Sun Valley, California. He is also a prolific author, conference speaker, and is president of The Master's College and Seminary. MacArthur received a B.A. from Los Angeles Pacific College, his M.Div. from Talbot Theological Seminary, Litt.D. at Grace Graduate School, and D.D. from Talbot Theological Seminary. In addition to his administrative responsibilities, he regularly teaches Expository Preaching at the seminary and frequently speaks in chapel.

MacArthur's pulpit ministry has been extended around the globe through his media ministry, Grace to You, and its satellite offices in Australia, Canada, Europe, India, New Zealand, Singapore, and South Africa. In addition to producing daily radio programs for nearly 2,000 English and Spanish radio outlets worldwide, Grace to You distributes books, software, audiotapes, and CDs by John MacArthur. In thirty-six years of ministry, Grace to You has distributed more than thirteen million CDs and audiotapes.

John Fullerton MacArthur, Jr. is a United States evangelical writer and minister, noted for his radio program entitled Grace to You. MacArthur is a fifth-generation pastor, a popular author and conference speaker and has served as the pastor-teacher of Grace Community Church in Sun Valley, California since 1969, and as the President of The Master's College (and the related The Master's Seminary) in Santa Clarita, California.

Theologically, MacArthur is a conservative far-right Baptist, a strong proponent of expository preaching, a dispensationalist and a self-described Calvinist. He has been acknowledged by Christianity Today as one of the most influential preachers of his time, and is a frequent guest on Larry King Live as representative of an evangelical Christian perspective.

MacArthur has authored or edited more than 150 books, most notably the MacArthur Study Bible, which has sold more than 1 million copies and received a Gold Medallion Book Award. Other best-selling books include his MacArthur New Testament Commentary Series (more than 1 million copies), Twelve Ordinary Men, (more than 500,000 copies), and the children's book A Faith to Grow On, which garnered an ECPA Christian Book Award.

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