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Does anyone know why the Reformed tend not to use this method?
My perspective is that Expository Preaching is the historic Reformed approach to preaching. Consecutive preaching through the Bible, verse by verse, is the pattern that we in Calvin's sermons and many others from that age, and I think that is the ideal model.
The Dispensational and/or fundamentalistic approach, from my own experience, is to take isolated texts out of context and make them a pretext, which is nothing like Expository Preaching.
:bigsmile:Originally posted by houseparent
All I know is that Calvary Chapel tries to claim it as their invention
We take a Lord's Day from the Heidelberg Catechism (there are 52 to coincide with the 52 Sundays we have most years) and have a sermon on it. It is not normally devoid of exposition, but it can sometimes be centred more on the Catechism than on Scripture. Its not how it should be sometimes, but still I think it is a very good practice in the way of educating the congregation. When we this, we take time to explain why we baptize children, why we have a Covenant of Grace, why we fence the Lord's Table, etc. This takes in Scripture, and not just one verse in context within a passage, but various, and sometimes many, other verses as well.
Originally posted by houseparent
We take a Lord's Day from the Heidelberg Catechism (there are 52 to coincide with the 52 Sundays we have most years) and have a sermon on it. It is not normally devoid of exposition, but it can sometimes be centred more on the Catechism than on Scripture. Its not how it should be sometimes, but still I think it is a very good practice in the way of educating the congregation. When we this, we take time to explain why we baptize children, why we have a Covenant of Grace, why we fence the Lord's Table, etc. This takes in Scripture, and not just one verse in context within a passage, but various, and sometimes many, other verses as well.
That's very cool John, I like that!