Ep. 30 - Public Preaching and Private Shepherding Part 2

Sure.

I was thinking as you were readdressing it years ago, I mean decades ago, we used to talk about principles and then application.

Application was a good word, and it still is, but back in the day, it was used in really, I think, a comprehensive and very broad way to simply mean that That when a principle is given or presented or taught, a truth claim, a proposition, there's always to be a calling forth of the individual to respond to it.

And some propositions, some truth claims are exhortations to believe doctrine and truth.

Others are exhortations to respond in your life and your behavior and do something and live a certain way, et cetera, et cetera.

The reason that's important, and I kind of pull back a little bit to a little bit of that history, is because now – You know, application kind of fell on hard times because it got cheapened by the pragmatic movement.

Oh, everybody just gives a little list of self-help things.

And I totally agree.

I think that critique was warranted as the pragmatic movement grew.

And I had talked even with, you know, the late Dr. MacArthur about it when we would work together.

We talked about the fact that the pragmatic movement cheapened what application really is.

And so we had to come up with different ways to describe what should be done in preaching and in our lives.

So implications became an important word back in the day.

That is to say, when a truth claim or proposition is presented and preached, the exhortative element that we're commanded to do in our preaching is calls forth a response.

We used to, in preaching class and back in the seminary days, it was the so what of your preaching.

So what, you know? Well, in a sense, implications is they're basically saying that.

So now what do I think? What do I do? How do I respond? How do I take this propositional truth claim and apply it to my life? So that becomes very, very important in preaching because, for one thing, we're commanded to do that.

And it isn't merely proclaiming a proposition or a truth claim from Scripture.

We're commanded then to reprove, rebuke, and exhort.

Those word groups in the New Testament... have significance to them, and it's going to bear on the private admonition aspect of this in just a short moment.

But just a reminder, the reproving New Testament word group is all about calling a fault out.

I mean, that word group, you know, elenka, that's calling out faults.

And then you have the rebuking word group, which is kind of where we say admonish, you know, epitomao.

And it's the idea of bringing that to a crystallized conviction and admonishing them not to go there.

There's still a negative element to that.

Sure.

I was thinking as you were readdressing it years ago, I mean decades ago, we used to talk about principles and then application.

Application was a good word, and it still is, but back in the day, it was used in really, I think, a comprehensive and very broad way to simply mean that That when a principle is given or presented or taught, a truth claim, a proposition, there's always to be a calling forth of the individual to respond to it.

And some propositions, some truth claims are exhortations to believe doctrine and truth.

Others are exhortations to respond in your life and your behavior and do something and live a certain way, et cetera, et cetera.

The reason that's important, and I kind of pull back a little bit to a little bit of that history, is because now – You know, application kind of fell on hard times because it got cheapened by the pragmatic movement.

Oh, everybody just gives a little list of self-help things.

And I totally agree.

I think that critique was warranted as the pragmatic movement grew.

And I had talked even with, you know, the late Dr. MacArthur about it when we would work together.

We talked about the fact that the pragmatic movement cheapened what application really is.

And so we had to come up with different ways to describe what should be done in preaching and in our lives.

So implications became an important word back in the day.

That is to say, when a truth claim or proposition is presented and preached, the exhortative element that we're commanded to do in our preaching is calls forth a response.

We used to, in preaching class and back in the seminary days, it was the so what of your preaching.

So what, you know? Well, in a sense, implications is they're basically saying that.

So now what do I think? What do I do? How do I respond? How do I take this propositional truth claim and apply it to my life? So that becomes very, very important in preaching because, for one thing, we're commanded to do that.

And it isn't merely proclaiming a proposition or a truth claim from Scripture.

We're commanded then to reprove, rebuke, and exhort.

Those word groups in the New Testament... have significance to them, and it's going to bear on the private admonition aspect of this in just a short moment.

But just a reminder, the reproving New Testament word group is all about calling a fault out.

I mean, that word group, you know, elenka, that's calling out faults.

And then you have the rebuking word group, which is kind of where we say admonish, you know, epitomao.

And it's the idea of bringing that to a crystallized conviction and admonishing them not to go there.

There's still a negative element to that.