Spurgeon: against consecutive expository preaching
Many present-day evangelical preachers are strongly in favour of expository sermon series. That is to say, they like to preach through a book of the Bible (or an extended portion of the book) paragraph-by-paragraph or section-by-section.
These same preachers tend to admire C.H. Spurgeon as ‘the prince of preachers’.
How curious, then, that Spurgeon’s preaching was textual, rather than expository. His texts were usually just one or two verses. He would often introduce thoughts that did not arise from the text itself. …