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The question is not “which variety of preaching is best” and then choose from the various genres and sub-genres of preaching options. 

Some prefer topical sermons, because just like topical ointments, they go right to where the itch is…

Others prefer a more narrative approach, since life is one big unfolding story, shouldn’t our sermons include stories, or even be framed as one big story itself? 

Maybe the autobiographical yet informative Ted talk is the way forward? 

The real question is “is God’s Word powerful?” And since the answer is yes, we who have opportunity to speak about it in public need only to discover what model of preaching allows the Word to speak the most plainly, most directly - or to put it another way, what form of preaching unleashes God's Word? 

Since the Bible is God’s very words, and have within themselves His very authority - I believe that expository preaching should be the most consistent offering that we offer unto God and to His people

What is expository preaching? 

Quite simply it is exposing what is inside the pages of the Bible to the hearers, for all to understand believe and apply. 

think of a report who does an expose on a politician or a corporation. She does the work of discovering what is hidden and what previously is unknown, and then she exposes it to the watching world. “I want to tell you the true story of what you may only know the surface of” 

Not to imply that the scriptures are unknowable, and locked to all but a few experts. It isn't that the main message of scripture is inaccessible, but simple that it is un-accessed by many. 

(Another example of exposition … maybe the mohler quote?) 

So what the expositors does, week after week, is go deep into the pages, the themes, the paragraphs and the words of scripture. 

But what is also happening - is that the expositor is going deep into the Word, and the Word is going deep into the heart of the expositor. 

“For the word of God is living and active, sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing to the division of soul and of spirit, of joints and of marrow, and discerning the thoughts and intentions of the heart. And no creature is hidden from his sight, but all are naked and exposed to the eyes of him to whom we must give account.” (Hebrews 4:12–13, ESV)

Naked and exposed. The expositor is also the exposed one! 

Such is the power of God’s word and that is why expository preaching is powerful because it is putting people into direct contact with God’s Word. 

And what does it do? It exposes us. It lays us bare!  τραχηλίζω trachēlizō