NCFIC Confession Advocates Expository Preaching in Churches

The NCFIC Confession contains this statement on expository preaching, explaining that it is our intention to, "Restore the practice of teaching 'the whole counsel of God' through exegetical preaching of Scripture in the church and daily instruction in homes by fathers and mothers."

Our prayer is the same as John Piper communicated in his sermon Why Expository Preaching is Particularly Glorifying to God. He says his prayer is:

"That God would raise up thousands of broken-hearted, Bible-saturated preachers who are dominated by a sense of the greatness and the majesty and the holiness of God, revealed in the gospel of Christ crucified and risen and reigning with absolute authority over every nation and every army and every false religion and every terrorist and every tsunami and every cancer cell, and every galaxy in the universe."

Piper explains that:

"Exposition of texts is essential because the gospel is a message that comes to us in words and God has ordained that people see the glory of Christ—the “unsearchable riches of Christ (Ephesians 3:8)—in those gospel words. That is our calling: to open the words and sentences and paragraphs of Scripture and display “the glory of Christ who is the image of God.”