The ineffectiveness of expositional preaching
To give some background to what follows: from 2010-2022 I had been pretty much in love with the preaching style of expositional preaching; indeed it was the main way that I had come to understand scriptures, even to the point, that I had begun to formulate sermons in this fashion from 2013; but no longer do as I do not view this manner as the most practical manner to teach the faith. Below I will give several reasons for this change. (1) It theologises the scriptures when they never were given to be understood in this fashion. They were given for us to understand God purpose in the history of man through the unveiling of Christ. In fact, if you do not see Christ as the central character of the scriptures then you do not know how to read it correctly. (2) It distorts contexts of passages in order to give a bite-size systematic position such as you see in both Calvinism and Arminianism. Both of these systems can only be hoisted upon scripture when you undermine the text by ripping apa