Don’t miss the God Exposed Conference, a pastors conference focusing on expositional preaching. This is a much needed conference which was co-sponsored by 9Marks ministry and Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary.
To begin with, Dan Akin’s message is one of those defining messages that set the standard for what preaching is meant to be. Akin looks at the preacher in Ecclesiastes. He begins his message by stating the phrase, ‘The most important thing about any message is what you say, but how you say it has never been more important.’ Akin comes down hard (helpfully so) on the need for preaching to engage and hold interest in the listener. He even goes so far to say that it is a sin for a preacher to be boring. This is a message you will want to listen to twice (which I did).
Mark Dever opens the conference with a good anticipatory message and concludes it with a fantastic message. In fact, all of the speakers made very thoughtful and engaging contributions to the conference.
One of the unique qualities of this conference is something that I first heard at T4G, and that is that immediately after the message all the speakers gather to discuss the message–a very helpful practice.
God Exposed is a pastors conference on expositional preaching that
- Session 1: Mark Dever – “The Power of God’s Word” (Mark 4:26-34)
- Session 2: Daniel L. Akin – “The Preaching on Preaching” (Eccl. 12:9-14)
- Session 3: Michael McKinley – “The Centrality of the Word” (Luke 10:38-42)
- Session 4: CJ Mahaney – “Expository Faithfulness” (2 Timothy 4:1-5)
- Session 5: Thabiti Anyabwile – “Will It Preach? Exposition in Non-White Contexts”
- Session 6: Mark Dever – “Expositional Preaching: A Defense and Charge”
Faith by Hearing 