{"id":1904,"date":"2011-01-06T23:41:54","date_gmt":"2011-01-06T23:41:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/?p=1904"},"modified":"2011-01-06T23:41:54","modified_gmt":"2011-01-06T23:41:54","slug":"topical-preaching-vs.-expository-preaching","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/?p=1904","title":{"rendered":"Topical Preaching vs. Expository Preaching"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\nI have just added to my English-Chinese Terminology in Christianity the phrase:\n<\/p>\n<p>\nExpository Preaching.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nContrasting Topical preaching, Expository (&#37323; &#32147;&#24335;&#35611;&#36947;) preaching makes the topics follow the scripture; while topical (&#23560;\/&#20027;&#38988;&#24335;&#35611;&#36947;) makes scriptures follow preferred topics.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nLike John MacArthur, I generally condemn topical preaching.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nWhy teach with some topics, when we have a well prepared book by God.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nNow lectures\/workshops for a particular time, on the other hand, is a completely different matter. Because we honestly advertise the topic of the workshop, so that whoever want to participate, could do it on their own will, which is not forced upon when they come to worship God requiring to listen to the WORD OF GOD as the WORD OF GOD.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have just added to my English-Chinese Terminology in Christianity the phrase: Expository Preaching. Contrasting Topical preaching, Expository (&#37323; &#32147;&#24335;&#35611;&#36947;) preaching makes the topics follow the scripture; while topical (&#23560;\/&#20027;&#38988;&#24335;&#35611;&#36947;) makes scriptures follow preferred topics. Like John MacArthur, I generally &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/?p=1904\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1904","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1904","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1904"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1904\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1904"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1904"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1904"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}