Is Expository Preaching the Only Way to Preach? | Pastor Well - Ep 67

Is there ever a time to preach topically in a church? In this episode, Hershael York talks through the different types of preaching and the importance of each type.

Hosted by pastor-scholar Hershael York, the Pastor Well Podcast offers a wellspring of wisdom from about the insights learned from a life of faithful ministry.

[dillontarr]

Delete and re-upload with audio that doesn't cut out repeatedly, please.

[SaskDrives]

Amen. If someone is teaching ONLY topically, it is easy to miss a lot of what the Bible teaches. When you teach through a book, it's a lot harder to skip "hard" topics. I've known a lot of preachers who teach a lot of "fluff" because they do not deal with the harder Scriptures.

[ruchit]

Sir, thank you for the wonderful guidance you have been providing.
please can you consider re-uploading or re-addressing it as this one has audio issues
thank you.

[hillvolfan]

Great video but frustrating to listen to it b/c of the editing.

[beaglehawk]

I certainly agree that topical preaching is important if the topics are theological. But the reason the mainstay of your preaching should be exegetical is because that is the way the Holy Spirit wrote the Bible and intended it to be understood. People need to see how to read and study their own Bibles and expository preaching exemplifies this for them.

[brucermarino]

It would seem that a balance between expository preaching and topical preaching would be wise. For instance, it is important for people to be taught doctrine in a coherent and not fragmentary manner. Discussing the Trinity, the resurrection, apologetical issues, etc. seem to have a place in the Sunday morning pulpit. Thanks!

[OkOk-rnto]

In our church (where I serve as Pastor), we have topical sermon serieses on Sundays and Expository Interactive studies on Tuesdays. I think a mixture of both is necessary.

[paulhall]

First of all, brother, thanks for giving our Lord His proper name, instead of the near-universal pally Jesus. He IS The Lord Jesus Christ; the appellation almost always applied to Him by the Apostle Paul.
Secondly, my story, briefly. I was brought up in the home of an open-air preacher, and started at 17 preaching in the open-air also. Topical preaching was what worked in that environment. Despite for the rest of my life being a Bible Teacher, and expounding the Word of God as a default method, I believe there is still a place for topical preaching, and I continue to use this method when appropriate. I have preached on, for example, the Person and Work of Satan; this is topical and developing that theme ranges over a vast amount of Scripture. Likewise all other areas of doctrine. So I think there's a time to teach doctrine when it comes out of an expounded passage, but I also think there's a time to teach it across all the passages in which it is revealed.

[carlmoore]

It's not the only way, but it's The Gold Standard

[naphtali]

Deuteronomy 32 :3. Whether topical or expository. Deuteronomy 32:3. Amen.

[JulianGarrett]

I’d like to watch this whole episode without the audio being skipped. I think we’d all like to hear exactly what this person is saying. I did turn on subtitles, and it stops working when the audio goes out.

[AWTTBWITHMOEEDWARDS]

At best, it's all an opinion. The bible doesn't instruct us on how to preach from the scriptures. Or what's the wrong and right way to preach As it relates to a style. Just preach/proclaim the truth.

[opiracharles]

Thanks for your good guide on that, the only challenge that I have with expository teaching is that it ignores the leading of the Holy spirit....in all of your guidance you never mentioned the holy spirit and that will only make it knowledge and knowledge alone is not enough..the word of God says those who are led by the spirit are the sons of God...I believe 100% in the leading of the spirit...and seek God for what his direction through his spirit.

[elijahnatureboy]

My understanding of Isaiah 28:9-12, @Hersher York, suggests we're not to Preach but instructs us to "Study and therefore Teach Depositorially." For us to "be in the likeness of Christ Jesus, " as Christian means, our Sermons will be like his "on the mountain" such as Matthew 5th through 7th chapters. He also instructed us that we can't see the "kingdom of heaven" except by (living circumspect of the world) like him. He said we "can't serve God and money" for we will "love one and despise the other." So why are there those building we call "Churchhouses" when our bodies are "God's Indwelling Temple"? So how can we say preaching "God's Word" when we are nowhere close to "Living The Life Jesus Lived" since he "Is The Way, The Truth and The Life" that gets us To Father YHVH?

[lonniesatterfield]

Need to redo this presentation bc there are annoying breaks that demonstrably irritate the listener. Give us a break!

[wiscobuckeye]

Pastors should endeavor to be as much like Jesus as possible, and most of Jesus’ teaching to the crowds was topical. All of his parables were topical. The sermon on the mount was topical. His teachings on the Kingdom of Heaven, money, the last days….all topical. I certainly think we should teach exegetically as well, but the notion that topical teaching is somehow inferior is clearly not shared by Jesus.