Textual Preaching

Textual preaching is more than making a comment or two on a text. Textual preaching, in contrast to expository preaching, focuses on the thematic unity of a biblical passage, challenging the preacher to seek the text's central truth. Textual Preaching versus Expository Preaching. Textual preaching is one of the most common and elementary sermon types, taking its main themes and divisions (or points) directly from the textual material. Like the expository sermon, the selected text may vary in length from a phrase to an entire biblical book. The textual approach, however, seeks to draw a unified subject from the biblical passage which will eventuate in supporting points for discussion and further understanding. While an expository sermon seeks to have its entire thought content come from Scripture and tends towards continuous exposition in the natural order of ideas presented in the text, the textual sermon allows for greater freedom in the choice of external materials and developmen…