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Subject : Worship and Preaching

Topic : Sermon of Different types on Topical, Textual and Expository.
Lecturer : Mrs. Hukheli
Presenters : Senyali, Atoli and Michi
Respondents :
Introduction: Preaching the Word of God is among the greatest privileges entrusted to man.
Through the foolishness of preaching (1 Cor 1:21), God has chosen to reveal Himself to men. This
knowledge of God, conveyed through types of preaching, are able to lead men to eternal salvation
through faith in Jesus Christ.1 This paper presents you the three different types of sermons on Topical,
Textual and Expository.
A SERMON
The word “sermon” has its origin in Latin, which means “a stab”, or a “thrust”. This
indicates the purpose of it, to pierce the hearer with “the Sword of the Spirit which is the Word of
God.” Eph. 6: 17
A sermon is an oral address to the popular mind upon Scriptural truth contained in elaborately
treated and with a view to persuasion.
A sermon is a form of discourse on Scripture truth, designed to save or edify the hearers.
A sermon is a prepared message and presented for the purpose of persuading men to believe and
to act upon the truth as revealed by the preacher.
THE BASIC PURPOSE OF SERMONS

1. KERYGMATIC – Sometimes called proclamation or evangelistic preaching. There is an
announcement of the Good News and an invitation to receive it. The goal of this kind of
preaching is to win people to Christ.
2. DIDACTIC – This is sometimes called Doctrinal Preaching. The emphasis is on learning
and understanding; leading to maturity in the Christian life. The desired learning may be
directed towards the correction of ignorance or misinformation, the development of insight,
the sharpening of critical faculties, or the acquisition of skill. (Ex.: the 22 Tenets;
tithing/giving.)
3. THERAPEUTIC – This classification includes what are sometimes called devotional and
psychological sermons. The emphasis is on dealing with the problems of Christian living.
The preacher seeks to exhort, counsel, comfort, encourage and inspire his people.
4. PROPHETIC – This kind of sermon is sometimes called social or social-prophetic. The
emphasis is on dealing with social issues, problems and evils from a Christian perspective.
The preacher is not only to denounce social evil, but to expose it, to show causes, to seek
solutions, and to motivate Christians to work to remove the evil.
5. APOLOGETIC – This kind of preaching faces the problem of the Christian world view in
dialogue with secularism, communism, atheism and other non-Christian viewpoints. It seeks
1
Ralph Mahoney, ed, The Shepherd’s Staff (Kilpauk: Chinnai, 1993), P 138 (Section D13)
to defend the Christian faith and the Christian position at points where attacked by its
opponents.2
I. THE TOPICAL SERMON

The Topical Sermon takes from the text only a topic or subject; the divisions are invented by
the preacher in accordance with the rhetorical possibilities of the subject and the preacher’s
knowledge of the subject as it is treated in the whole Bible.
The method permits full liberty of composition and a full treatment of any subject. It gives
unlimited rein to the preacher’s incentive genius and opens a wide door to rhetorical eloquence.
TOPICAL SERMONS ARE RECOMMENDED IN THE FOLLOWING CONDITIONS:

1. When the subject is not adequately treated by any one passage of Scripture.
2. When one desires to treat a subject in a very general way such as presenting a doctrine to an
audience to which it is entirely unfamiliar.
3. When one desires to present general evangelistic truth to an audience of unsaved persons
who are not too familiar with the Bible.
4. When treating social and moral problems not existing in Bible times or not treated by Bible
writers.3
Advantages and Disadvantages
- this type of preaching will give a broad-spectrum view of what the entire Bible says on a given
topic.
- affords ample opportunity for a thorough discussion of the topic
- impresses the audience by demonstrating the unity of Scripture
- can be best applied with the great doctrines of the Bible
- range of topics is necessarily limited
- will be exhaustive to the preacher
- tendency to be secularized, preaching only topics that are according to the preacher's fancy or
the tendency to preach on "popular" topics4
II. THE TEXTUAL SERMON: It consists of selecting verses, a verse, or even a part of a verse as
a text. The main divisions of the sermon are only the ones stated or clearly inferred by the passage
of Scripture upon which the sermon is based.
Advantages and Disadvantage Of The Textual Sermon.
1. The actual words of scripture are brought before the people.
2. It permits great variety in construction and selection.
3. The number of divisions is determined by the material in the text.
4. Biblical unity is not apparent here. The Bible becomes a book of isolated truths.
III. THE EXPOSITORY SERMON
Expository sermons – An expository sermon expounds a portion of Scripture larger than that
normally used in textual sermons. An expository sermon is a detailed explanation of the meaning of
a particular passage of Scripture. This kind of sermon will attempt to give the sense of each word,
2
Achivida, Homilitics, 2010, Pp
3
Ibid
4
Ricky Ferrer, Knowing Homiletics, 2013
each phrase, each sentence, each verse, and each group of verses, usually without referring to other
parts of Scripture. The text will be fully developed within its own context. Sometimes, this method
of preaching allows several subjects to be dealt with in one sermon as they appear in the text. This
kind of sermon has its dangers, the chief one being lack of preparation. You can deceive yourself
into thinking that a larger passage of Scripture requires less consideration and study. But the this
style of preaching is possibly the most effective method when prepared for properly.
“An expository discourse may be defined as one which is occupied mainly, or at any rate very
largely, with the exposition of Scripture. It by no means excludes argument and exhortation as to
the doctrines or lessons which this exposition develops. It may be devoted to a long passage, or to
a very short one, even part of a sentence. It may be one of a series, or may stand by itself. We at
once perceive that there is no broad line of distinction between expository preaching and common
methods, but that one may pass almost insensible gradations from textual to expository
sermons.”5
Expository preaching is “the communication of a biblical concept, derived from and

transmitted through a historical, grammatical, and literary study of a passage in its context, which
the Holy Spirit first applies to the personality and experience of the preacher, then through him to
his hearers.”6
“A sermon is biblical when the original meaning of the text intersects with the contemporary
meaning of the text, when what the text meant becomes what the text means, when the `now' of
the text coincides with the `then.' Assigning a length of text and a manner of treatment in order to
label the sermon biblical or expository is a homilitical myth.”7
The word expository come from the Latin word “ex” meaning “out” and “pono” meaning “to
place”. This means to place out, to display, to exhibit. An exposition of a Scripture portion is
therefore the placing out, or the displaying of the truth contained in the passage selected. It is
detailed interpretation, logical application and practical application of a passage of Scripture.
Advantages of Expository Sermon.

1. It puts the supreme emphasis on the Word of God itself. Ps. 138: 2
2. It makes for a broad knowledge of the Scripture as a whole.
3. It provides an opportunity for speaking on many passages of Scripture which would
otherwise be neglected. 2 Tim. 3: 16-17
4. It will also make for a variety in the ministry of the Word.
5. It enables the preacher to deal with current levels. Eccl. 1: 9-10
6. It will deliver the preacher from the tendency to a fanciful use, or abuse of isolated texts.
7. It will furnish the preacher with enough material for a lifetime of preaching.
A. Expository Sermon is Recommended.
1. Whenever the need of the occasion can be met with a consecutive passage containing all
the points necessary to the need.
5
John A. Broadus, A Treatise on the Preparation and Delivery of Sermons, 7th ed. (New York: A. C. Armstrong and
Son, 1891), 303.
6
Haddon W. Robinson, Biblical Preaching: The Development and Delivery of Expository Messages(Grand Rapids:
Baker Book House, 1980), 19.
7
Harold T. Bryson, Expository Preaching(Nashville: Broadman& Holman, 1995), 29.
2. When preaching a series or cause sermons.
3. When treating a narrative, parable or psalm.
4. Whenever one desires to give a treatment of any passage longer than one or two verses.
5. When preaching on a book of the Bible.
6. When preaching on Bible chapters where the material is not too far scattered.
7. When preaching on great chapters of the Bible.
8. Evangelistic preaching when the sermon is based on a story, parable, or incident.
B. Four Features which Characterizes an Expository Sermon.
1. The text of an expository sermon provides the material for all the divisions and sub-
divisions.
2. The text of expository sermon is usually longer than the text of a textual sermon.
3. The expository sermon is a treatment of the passage of Scripture, while the topical and
textual sermons are treatment of the subject.
4. The Scripture passage is chosen first and the subject is derived afterward.
C. Varieties of Expository Sermon.
1. Doctrinal Expository Sermon – The aim is to expound the doctrinal teaching of a text, one
in which the unity of the sermon is based upon released doctrines or related aspects of a
single doctrine.
2. Ethical Expository Sermon. The aim is to discover, explain and enforce rules of right
Christian conduct. The divisions of Ethical sermons consist of related rules of behavior or
related aspects of one ethical ideal.
3. Inferential Expository Sermon. The divisions are derived from inferences drawn from the
fact and details of a narrative text. A narrative text is one which tells a story such as history
or parable. The inferences may be of a Doctrinal or Ethical nature, but the sermon is called
inferential if the points are derived by inference from a narrative text instead of by direct
statement by the author of the book.
4. The Biographical Expository Sermon. The success or failures, the good or bad
characteristics of both the good and bad traits of a Bible character are discovered,
discussed, and presented for the hearer to imitate or avoid.
5. An Analogical Expository Sermon. The divisions of which are related parts of an analogy.
An analogy is a relation or likeness between two things or of one thing to another,
consisting in the resemblance not of the things themselves, but of two or more attributes,
circumstances or effects.
6. Propositional Expository Sermon. The divisions of which are the arguments in the proof of
a proposition.8
Conclusion: we find that three different types of Sermons are characterized as follows: Topical - "Preaching
about the Bible", Textual - "Preaching from the Bible",
8
Tirso Achivida, Homilitics, 2010, Pp 21-23

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Subject : Worship and Preaching

THE BASIC PURPOSE OF SERMONS

I. THE TOPICAL SERMON

TOPICAL SERMONS ARE RECOMMENDED IN THE FOLLOWING CONDITIONS:

III. THE EXPOSITORY SERMON

Expository preaching is “the communication of a biblical concept, derived from and

Advantages of Expository Sermon.

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