1992 – Resolution: Expository Preaching

WHEREAS we live in an age of great deception and proliferation of strange doctrines, and in view of the periodic ecclesiastical fads that promise church growth through man-centered methods that minimize sound Biblical preaching, and

WHEREAS God has promised that His Word will not return to Him void but will accomplish that which He pleases and prosper in the purpose for which it was given, and that the Word of God is “living and powerful and sharper than any two-edged sword,” and

WHEREAS Our Lord Jesus Christ commanded us to preach the Gospel, baptize converts, and train them in the work of the ministry, and since the Apostle Paul instructed Timothy to “preach the Word,” and

WHEREAS many have “heaped to themselves teachers, having itching ears,” and have employed worldly entertainment and worldly music, and have minimized the preaching of the Word of God and the teaching of sound doctrine in an effort to reach the ungodly with secular methods of “Marketing the Church,”

NOW THEREFORE the members of the Independent Baptist Fellowship of North America, gathered at their Second Annual Conference in Lenexa, Kansas, June 15-17, 1992, do hereby express their confidence in the preaching of the inerrant Word of God as the instrument God has ordained in this Church Age for the conversion of souls and the edification of believers, and

BE IT FUR THER RESOLVED that we exhort ministers of the Word to major in and perfect the skill of expository preaching in the spirit of Nehemiah 8:8: “So they read in the book in the law of God distinctly, and gave the sense, and caused (them) to understand the reading.”