The Expository Genius of John Calvin ( Quotes

“Expository preaching consists in the explanation and application of a passage of Scripture. Without explanation it is not expository; without application it is not preaching."32”
― Steven J. Lawson, The Expository Genius of John Calvin

“It is desperately essential in this hour that preachers recover a soaring vision of the supremacy of God. Life-changing, history-altering preaching will come only when pastors reclaim a high view of God's blazing holiness and are overshadowed by His absolute sovereignty. Towering thoughts of God's transcendent glory must captivate preachers' souls.”
― Steven J. Lawson, The Expository Genius of John Calvin

“o step into the pulpit is to enter onto holy ground. To stand behind an open Bible demands no trifling with sacred things. To be a spokesman for God requires utmost concern and care in handling and proclaiming the Word. Rightly does Scripture warn, "Not many of you should become teachers, my brothers, for you know that we who teach will be judged with greater strictness" (James 3:1).”
― Steven J. Lawson, The Expository Genius of John Calvin

“What God has to say to man is infinitely more important than what man has to say to God.”
― Steven J. Lawson, The Expository Genius of John Calvin

“UNA ALTA PERSPECTIVA DE LA PREDICACIÓN Su alta perspectiva de la predicación venía de su alta perspectiva de Dios, su alta perspectiva de la Escritura y de una perspectiva adecuada del hombre. Para Calvino, los cuatro distintivos mencionados en este capítulo —la autoridad bíblica, la presencia divina, la prioridad del púlpito y la exposición secuencial— eran inseparables. Permanecían juntos o se derrumbaban juntos. En las palabras de Calvino, la predicación es la “palabra viva” de Dios “en Su iglesia”.40 Él argumentaba: “Dios concibe y multiplica Su iglesia únicamente por medio de Su Palabra… Es solo mediante la predicación de la gracia de Dios que la iglesia es preservada”.41 Este era el compromiso de Calvino con la predicación, y debe ser el de todos los predicadores por el mandato que tenemos en la Escritura. ¿Dónde están tales hombres actualmente? ¿Dónde están los predicadores como Calvino que predicarán la Palabra con un compromiso inquebrantable? ¿Dónde están los pastores que creen que Dios está con ellos de una forma particular cuando suben al púlpito para exponer Su Palabra? ¿Dónde están los pastores que priorizan la predicación de la Palabra en la adoración pública? ¿Dónde están los expositores que predicarán libros enteros de la Biblia consecutivamente, mes tras mes, año tras año? Es imperante que volvamos a la predicación bíblica. Tal era el caso en la Ginebra del siglo XVI, y tal es el caso en la actualidad. Que Dios levante una nueva generación de expositores que estén preparados y empoderados para proclamar la Palabra.”
― Steven J. Lawson, El genio expositivo de Juan Calvino (Un gran legado de héroes de la fe nº 2)

“The aim of a good teacher, [is] to turn away the eyes of men from the world, that they may look up to heaven.”
― Steven J. Lawson, The Expository Genius of John Calvin

“Therefore let us not suppose that men can put themselves forward on their own initiative, for no man can know how to speak one word to the glory of Jesus Christ, except it is given him, and that the Holy Ghost govern his tongue.”
― Steven J. Lawson, The Expository Genius of John Calvin

“This was the chief underlying principle of Calvin's exposition: He was always seeking to discover the "one definite thought" behind what the biblical author wrote. Calvin believed this was the expositor's first duty:”
― Steven J. Lawson, The Expository Genius of John Calvin

“Calvin was not a silver-tongued orator, but a Bible-teaching expositor. Above all else, he desired to bring his people to the Scriptures.”
― Steven J. Lawson, The Expository Genius of John Calvin

“He first considered the forest before exploring the individual trees.”
― Steven J. Lawson, The Expository Genius of John Calvin

“Uma visão vulgar de Deus conduz somente à mediocridade. Entretanto, uma visão elevada de Deus inspira santidade e um espírito resoluto.”
― Steven J. Lawson, A Arte Expositiva de João Calvino

“Ele escreveu: “Nada é mais contrário à pregação pura e livre do evangelho do que os dilemas de um coração covarde”.[85]”
― Steven J. Lawson, A Arte Expositiva de João Calvino

“Because a sermon is simply an overflow of a preacher's life, the man of God must prepare his heart well. A sermon rises no higher than a preacher's soul before God.”
― Steven J. Lawson, The Expository Genius of John Calvin

“We owe to the Scripture the same reverence which we owe to God because it has proceeded from Him alone, and has nothing of man mixed with it."14 This was the unshakable foundation of Calvin's preaching-the authority of divinely inspired Scripture. He firmly believed that when the Bible speaks, God speaks.”
― Steven J. Lawson, The Expository Genius of John Calvin