Description: Valley Bible Church in Billings Montana - A Word-Centered Church
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The Scriptures tell us that Christ is the Head of the church (Eph 1:22). He is the supreme Sovereign over His people and His rule is mediated through the Bible. Therefore, if we desire to be a “Christ-centered” and Christ-governed church, then we must live in submission to the entire Holy Spirit-inspired Word of Christ (Romans 10:17). This realization inevitably affects how and what we preach. In our corporate worship gathering, the sermon is the central time in which we hear from God through His Word.
Expositional preaching is a particular kind of preaching that makes the main point of a given passage the main point of the sermon. The preacher’s responsibility is to study to determine the God-intended meaning of any given passage (2 Tim 2:15) and then herald or preach that meaning to the congregation in the form of a sermon (2 Tim 4:2). In an expositional sermon, the preacher does his best to clearly explain what God has said in a particular passage and then exhorts the congregation to live in light of w