In a brief article entitled “The Gospel Idea of Preaching,” R. L. Dabney argued that since the preacher “is simply to make the people see and feel what is in the word of God, preaching should usually be what is popularly known as ‘expository.’” Exposition is not done, however, when all the attention is paid to a solitary proposition singled out from its connection “to the exclusion of those truths which God has placed beside it.” No, “the Scriptures are a whole,” and individual passages “must be unfolded in their connection.” If one departs from that method to preach topically upon a single
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