Expository Biblical Higher Education
Leading to Faithful Biblical Living
A series of short essays on Trinity College of Florida’s commitment to expository teaching and preaching.
By Stephen P. Best, D.D., President
We must teach them to LISTEN – to Expository Teaching and Preaching!
Jesus repeated this important phrase: “He who has ears to hear, let him hear.” Unfortunately, not everyone is listening. Distractions, technology addictions, information at our fingertips, and short attention spans are dumbing down the current Christian culture and preventing knowledge with understanding that leads to wisdom.
Short, pithy, biblical topics surrounded in the creativity of charismatic communicators may be encouraging, but often leave us enamored with the speaker and at a loss to experience the daily spiritual growth with a heart and attitude in awe of God. We become what we adore. Expository teaching and preaching are the revelation of God and his relationship with his people presented in the form of truth in context.
A clear presentation of the main idea of the passage developed through the order and logic of the text and set in its broader context is something that every listener can find and follow when they go back to the text of the message in their Bible. This equips them to pray and think more deeply about the work of Christ in them and to be transformed into his likeness as they apply their lives to the message of the text. It also models how to interpret the Bible.
Expository teaching and preaching are the demonstration of our commitment to a distinctive joy for the glory of God in the authority and sufficiency of his verbally inspired, inerrant, and infallible Word to us. It is faith in action.
The discipline of learning to listen without distraction begins with a right view of our need and appreciation for God that leads us to see the necessary importance of listening to him through the preaching and teaching of his Word.
[Proverbs 1:1-7] – “The proverbs of Solomon, son of David, king of Israel: To know wisdom and instruction, to understand words of insight, to receive instruction in wise dealing, in righteousness, justice, and equity; to give prudence to the simple, knowledge and discretion to the youth—Let the wise hear and increase in learning, and the one who understands obtain guidance, to understand a proverb and a saying, the words of the wise and their riddles. The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge; fools despise wisdom and instruction.”
Trinity College of Florida is committed to teach our students to listen to expository teaching and preaching. – Listen to Truth in Context!
“He who has ears to hear, let him hear.”
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