Monday, September 15, 2008

Exegeting Little Bo Peep

Pyromaniacs:
John MacArthur used to say if you're using Scripture as a springboard to say whatever you want rather than teaching your people what the Bible actually says, you might as well exegete "Little Bo Peep." And he did a 90-second parody of how that could be done using the style of preaching so many contemporary evangelicals seem to favor. MacArthur, of course, was using a classic reductio argument, employing an example no one (or so we thought) would ever seriously consider imitating. Here's an audio clip:
Peter Adam argued compellingly for Expository Preaching (of Scripture) at BeginningWithMoses.org

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