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Product Review Summary: Preacher's Helper While this book is biased towords expository preaching it is a great asset for reviewing one's preaching style and methods and for lining up good preaching with good exegesis!
Product Review Summary: A wonderful Tool for pastors This book is a great book for preaching. Bryan Chapell is a reformed presbyterian prefessor. He gives very practical steps to prepare sermons and very helpful too. I enjoyed every part of his book. He divides the book to three different parts. The first being the observation. The second part is the interpretation. And the third part is the application. Of course every part he expand on way more than any other book that I have read. He give the preacher a pastor perspective in preparing sermons. I found the book exciting to read not dry reading or boaring. You will find that he gives you many questions to ask the text and yourself in the application part.
Product Review Summary: A must read for serious preaching Great book--the author does a fantastic job of reminding the reader to stay true to the text as well as giving excellent information on dividing the truth
Product Review Summary: Great practical information but one problem This is a hulk of a book for down to earth info on preaching. It really drives home the basics with logical force, witty prose, and spiritual authority. A must read for preachers indeed. BUT, I do have one tiny problem with the book. And I am sure to be decried as a heretic and God-hater for it; just hear out my claim and weigh its logical merit before you go and poison the well.
I thought it a bit ironic to write a book on being Christ-Centered (and he definitely focuses on JC) yet use a scriptural reference to illuminate the whole of God's Word that was not the direct teaching of Christ. Dr. Chapell uses the famed 2nd Tim passage to establish his Fallen Condition Focus; i.e., every passage and the very purpose of the whole Bible is to illuminate/rebuke/rebuild/redeem our fallen-ness. Thus (according to Dr. Chapell), we should never attempt to understand the meaning of any Biblical passage apart from the FCF.
Two things: 1) Those are not the exact words of Christ with regards to the function and purpose of Scripture. 2) That being said, the definition is too narrow. This doesn't mean that there isn't enormous truth in the FCF but I don't think that's the totality of the Bible's purpose and the underlying theme of every passage.
In Matthew 22:36-40 Jesus gives the one word that defines the whole of life and the Bible: Relationship. Relationship with God, others, and self is what the whole of the prophets and the law depend, according to JC. Earlier in Matthew 5 Christ tells us that he has come to "fulfill" the law and the prophets; i.e., he has come to champion the cause of relationship (our relationships with God, others, and self.)
The broader definition of relationship in general is what Jesus used to describe as the sole defining element for all that God had revealed and all that he was to do (and is doing). He didn't point a finger and say, "Remember, the main point is that your fallen and suck." That may be true to a large extent but that is not what Christ left us with as the sole paradigm to understand life and Scripture. Relationship was his paradigm and a relationship focus (RF) should be ours. Now a subpoint of the RF is the FCF but not in its entirety.
Still a fantastic book. I just thought that the FCF was a little ironic, too narrow, and thus missed the grand point of relationship which is the broader purpose we must to illuminate and unmask meaning behind each passage in Scripture and to navigate life in general.
Product Review Summary: Very well written text! This is a very well done book. Chapel explains in detail the art of Expository sermons and why such a style is to be used. Although there are many that preach topically, or textually, expository tends to be the most Biblical as its focus is directly on the text, and verses cannot be isolated out of context as may often be the case in Topical sermons. Chapel explains the importance of the FCF-Fallen Condition Focus, the importance of using Illustrations (stories) and effective application. I have heard many preachers that really could use this book. Their sermons lack illustrations, applications and such. And I have even heard some that like to dance in their knowledge of the Greek. Such preaching styles is not what Chapel encourages, as the goal of the preacher is not to feed his flock a textbook or only information, but to be the instrument in Biblical transformation. A preacher must challenge his people to exhortation. In my course we used this textbook in aid of 4 sermons and they were from 1 Pet 4:1-11, Matt 5:21-26, Psalms 23 & Daniel 1.
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