By Jim on
Church & Ministry
Expository Preaching
John Piper

The preacher’s job is to minimize his own opinions, and to explain what the Bible says and apply it to people’s lives. The preacher’s job is to do that in a way that enables you to see in the Bible where his opinions come from. Because if you don’t see where they come from in the Bible, you will — in the long run — wind up putting your faith in a man and not in God’s word.

Discussion

Sat, 01/05/19
For some reason Piper’s preaching and writing has never appealed to me much but his point is great. Everyone has their “hobby horse” and I have sat under preachers where you could see the point of departure and how they are forming the sermon to get to their favorite issue. It got to where I could tell where we were going five minutes ahead of time.