Comments on: True Topical Takes Time http://biblicalpreaching.net/2009/06/26/true-topical-takes-time/ Tue, 14 Feb 2012 08:51:34 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: pastoralan http://biblicalpreaching.net/2009/06/26/true-topical-takes-time/#comment-3971 Fri, 26 Jun 2009 18:31:22 +0000 http://biblicalpreaching.net/?p=1357#comment-3971 I love this post. You make the key point in dealing with passages in an exegetical way even in the topical message. Have you written a post on “When” to preach a topical message?

]]> By: ByronF http://biblicalpreaching.net/2009/06/26/true-topical-takes-time/#comment-3968 Fri, 26 Jun 2009 09:44:43 +0000 http://biblicalpreaching.net/?p=1357#comment-3968 Hey!

firsty, nice website. you might hear this quite often, but always nice to hear it again :)

yeah, i totally agree. im a youth pastor at a local church in South Africa. We recently got the kids to ask as many questions as they had, and we got almost 100 separate genuine questions the kids had. most of it was topical issues, and we dealt with some of them. its difficult, because the Bible does speak about these issues. its a matter of finding them and then doing the expository work, while still addressing the topical issue.

we have to work really hard at avoiding proof-texting what we have to say. because sometimes it might seem that we have found a verse, but its not really speaking about what we are speaking about.

on the other hand, i really enjoy giving topical talks more than expository bible passage ones. it gives you more freedom to explore the culture, do some interesting research, etc.

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