PC130-706 - Expository Preaching Workshop A

  • 1,427 Standard Tuition Fee
  • 6
    Credit Points
  • 0.0625 EFT 
  • 7
    AQF level
  • Category developing unit
    B
  • Pastoral & Church-Focussed Ministry Unit Discipline

Prerequisites

EITHER PC126 Expository Preaching: An Introduction OR PC047 Preaching I

Learning outcomes

On successful completion of this unit, students will

A. Know and understand

1. Demonstrate Functional knowledge and understanding of the practice of expository preaching, including the methods and standards of professional, safe, and ethical practice

B. Be able to

1. Critically Analyse the practices and skills required for the accurate, clear, and persuasive delivery of expository sermons
2. Demonstrate skill in preparing and delivering expository sermons
3. Present Critical evidence-based perspectives on expository preaching
4. Compare and contrast NT Epistles and Revelation as preaching genres and articulate the place of topical preaching in an expository ministry.

C. Be in a position to

Apply perspectives and skills from ‘Expository Preaching Workshop A’ to ministry practice as a reflective practitioner

Content

SECTION A: Biblical Genres and Various Types of Preaching
1. Consideration of the issues involved in preaching from NT Epistles and Revelation.
2. Reflection on the place of topical preaching in a predominantly expository ministry and the skills of topical preaching.

Students will be expected to participate actively in the evaluation of other students’
sermons and engage with literature on the genres under consideration.
 

SECTION B: Field Work
3. Students will be required to prepare and deliver a sermon from one of the genres, preferably in a church or devotions context. The sermon will be videoed for later class interaction.

Set Readings

This unit's indicative bibliography is currently being revised. Students should contact their home college for further details at the time of taking this unit.

 

General:
Capill, Murray. The Heart is the Target: Preaching Practical Application from Every Text. Philipsburg: P&R, 2014.
Helm, David. Expositional Preaching: How we Speak God’s Word Today. Crossway, 2014.
Keller, Timothy. Preaching: Communicating Faith in an Age of Skepticism. London: Hodder and Stoughton; Viking, 2015.
Millar, Gary and Phil Campbell. Saving Eutychus: How to preach God’s word and keep people awake. Kingsford, NSW: Matthias Media, 2013
 

Genre Specific Preaching:
Arthurs, Jeffrey D. Preaching with Variety: How to Re-Create the Dynamics of Biblical Genres. Grand Rapids: Kregel, 2007.
Fee, Gordon D. and Douglas Stuart. How to Read the Bible for All Its Worth: A Guide to Understanding the Bible. Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 2003.
Goldsworthy, Graeme. Preaching the Whole Bible as Christian Scripture: The Application of Biblical Theology to Expository Preaching. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2000.
 

Revelation:
Beale, G. K. The Revelation: A Shorter Commentary. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2015.
Chapple, Allan. A Gospel Pageant: A Reader’s Guide to Revelation (Sydney: Mosaic Press, 2013.
Poythress, Vern S. The Returning King: A Guide to the Book of Revelation (Phillipsburg: P&R, 2000.
 

Topical Preaching:
Allen, Ronald J. Preaching the topical sermon. Louisville, Ky: Westminster/John Knox Press, 1992.
Chapell, Bryan (ed.), The Hardest Sermons You’’ Ever Have to Preach. Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 2011.