This week’s list of benefits comes from Ramesh Richard who teaches expository preaching at Dallas Theological Seminary and is the author of the excellent ‘Preparing Expository Sermons’

“Expository preaching will impact your life. It can help you

• grow personally in knowledge and obedience by your disciplined exposure to God’s Word
• conserve time and energy in choosing a sermon for each week
• balance your area of ‘expertise’ and preferred topics with the breadth of God’ thoughts in the Bible

Expository preaching will impact your congregation, because it helps you

• be faithful to the text and be relevant to your context in regular ministry
• implement a strategy for equipping and energizing your people for long-term faithfulness to God and the ministry
• overcome your tendency to target a sermon to a particular person or group and be protected from that charge
• avoid skipping over what does not suit your taste or temperament on any given day
• carry on a cohesive ministry in the middle of multiple dimensions and demands on you as a pastor
• enhance the dignity of the pastoral work since you stand under the authority of God’s Word as you preach
• integrate the conversation of the church around the message of the week
• communicate the intentions of God for your congregation as seen by its human leaders
• orient people around a common vision, thus helping you surface the voluntary labour force needed to achieve the vision
• motivate people to action in implementing the programme of the church with God’s sanction
• garner the credibility needed to lead the church to change
• model effective ministry to present and future teachers and preachers
• outline the agenda for corporate spirituality
• make your congregation biblically literate

Basically, expository preaching helps the preacher promote God’s agenda for his people.”