003 - Foreword

FOREWORD

I am happy to write a brief foreword to this book on expository preaching. With all my soul I believe that it is the preacher’s business to “preach the word.”

People are hungry for a plain, clear word from God. They are eager to know what He has said and what it means to them. It is the privilege and responsibility of the preacher to open to them the matchless glories of God’s Word.

Genuine expository preaching is the answer. It is time that someone called us back to this, the richest and most fruitful kind of preaching. The author has written in plain, simple language which any man can understand. He has skillfully sought to awaken the determination of every preacher to do just this sort of gospel preaching.

I have a conviction that the Spirit of the Lord, emphasizing the tremendous need for such preaching, as moved mightily in the heart of the author and that this book has a real mission to accomplish.

After nearly thirty years of trying to preach “the unsearchable riches of Christ,” I am convinced that most of us who are preachers have failed badly at this point. It is not too late to begin!

It happens that the author is my brother in the flesh, in Christ Jesus, and in the Baptist ministry. It is my earnest prayer that God will greatly use this book to magnify “His word through preaching.”

K. Owen White, Ph.D. Pastor, First Baptist Church Little Rock, Arkansas