Andy Naselli

“Expository lecturing”?

“Expository lecturing is not the same thing as expository preaching; the Word must not only inform but also wound and heal, sing and sting.”

On the other hand,

“[P]ractical concerns can so control the text that no one hears the Word of God. Worse, the search for relevance frequently degenerates into the trite or the trivial.”

-D. A. Carson, New Testament Commentary Survey (6th ed.; Grand Rapids: Baker Academic, 2007), 17.