Hmm...expository preaching. Preaching that is in context.
Seems like it has been abused.
I realise there is a danger when you come to a text with pre-formed supposition, even though your intent wasn't to inteprete wrongly, a subtle desire for it to mean what you think it is wrong.
I realise the importance is to strip yourself of any pre-formed thoughts and come clean to what the text is saying allows one to clearly grasp the text for its intent.
Have heard a few messages for the past month which I realise while on the surface seemingly is alright, but upon discernment and thinking through, realise the fine line between understanding scriptures and misunderstanding can be so close yet the resulting gulf is so dangerously wide.
Contextual intepretation and understanding of the bible is strict. It is a skill that needs discipline yet it is the most slippery of all. Coz our well-intented desire to study scriptures has always a disposition to desire to support what we want it to say.
This is the first line of discernment or in greek root word aesthetic...personal taste for truth has no personality except submission.
What a revelation of the subtly of precise homiletics...
2 Timothy 2:15
Be diligent to present yourself approved to God, a worker who does not need to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth.
Paul exhorted Timothy to develop this skill set. Be rightly dividing. The mandate comes from a desire to be approved by God. What a high order but the greatest honour - being approved by God. Be careful. I have to remind myself as well.
Scriptures has authority. Complete authority.
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