1PointPreacher Ep. 34 - The Reformation & Preaching: 3. Expositional & Controversial

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1 Point Preacher
Episode 34

Show Notes:

Concluding a special series of 1 Point Preacher, to commemorate the 504th anniversary of the Protestant Reformation.

The great Reformation was emphatically a reformation of the pulpit in this particular, and a revival of expository preaching.
—R.L. Dabney

It was a revival of Biblical preaching. Instead of long and often fabulous stories about saints and martyrs, and accounts of miracles, instead of passages from Aristotle and Seneca, and fine-spun subtleties of the Schoolmen, these men preached the Bible. The question was not what the Pope said; and even the Fathers, however highly esteemed, were not decisive authority it was the Bible. The preacher’s one great task was to set forth the doctrinal and moral teachings of the Word of God.
And the greater part of their preaching was expository. Once more, after long centuries, people were reading the Scriptures in their own tongue, and preachers, studying the original Greek and Hebrew, were carefully explaining to the people the connected teachings of passage after passage and book after book.
—John Broadus, Lectures on the History of Preaching

Knox knew that many took offense at his preaching and that they attributed his vigor to hatred of his enemies instead of zeal for the gospel. In one of his sermons before Mary, Queen of Scots, he offered an explanation: “Without the preaching place, I think few would have occasion to be offended at me; and there I am not master of myself, but must obey him who commands me to speak plain and to flatter no flesh on the face of the earth.” Still, there is a sense in which Knox’s preaching was motivated by hatred. As Iain Murray has it: “He passionately hated that which destroys souls. He hated the system which had blinded people to the necessity of faith and salvation by the blood of Jesus Christ.”
—Douglas Bond, The Mighty Weakness of John Knox

Works referenced:

The Expository Genius of John Calvin
by Steven J. Lawson
https://www.amazon.com/Expository-Genius-John-Calvin-Godly-ebook/dp/B001YQEX4S

The Heroic Boldness of Martin Luther
by Steven J. Lawson
https://www.amazon.com/Heroic-Boldness-Martin-Luther-Profile-ebook/dp/B07B45WCB4/

The Mighty Weakness of John Knox
by Douglas Bond
https://www.amazon.com/Mighty-Weakness-John-Knox-Godly-ebook/dp/B006ON35ZE/

The Unquenchable Flame: Discovering the Heart of the Reformation
by Michael Reeves
https://www.amazon.com/Unquenchable-Flame-Michael-Reeves-ebook/dp/B003FOGVCY/

Lectures on the History of Preaching
by John Broadus
https://archive.org/details/lecturesonthehis00broauoft
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