“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.