Good sermons and good Bible reading push through the ideas of the author to the reality behind all the words, grammar, and logic. “Hello, Pastor John! How do you define expositional preaching? I ask because to many in my neck of the woods ‘expositional preaching’ is opening the Bible, reading a text, and proceeding to say a lot of true things about that text. While this approach is better than many alternatives, so often what seems to be missed is the main point of the text. Thus, God’s agenda in the text is sometimes lost for what the preacher found most interesting, or curious, or personally uplifting. What would you say to preachers and to congregants looking for expositional preaching? What exactly is it?” EPISODE 1197: https://www.desiringgod.org/interviews/how-to-read-the-bible-and-preach-it Find other recent and popular Ask Pastor John episodes, http://desiringgod.org/ask-pastor-john