Avoid nonsense this week. Train for godliness instead. Be sofocused on your efforts to study and respond deeply and truly to God’s word that you have no time for vanity and silliness. Work so hard on your godliness that your progress is visible to everyone. Do that this week and it’ll be a week well spent.

You think a lot about what effect your ministry has on yourpeople. For the next few moments, let’s ask a different question: What effect is your ministry having on you?

Pastor, how do you know if you’re doing a good job? By measuring church growth? Altar calls? Sermon complements? Building projects? Pastor appreciation gifts?

It’s hard to know, isn’t it?

Let’s look at 1 Timothy 4:6a together and see how a pastor's goodness or badness is actually measured.

Let's conclude our conversation about expository preaching with Josh Baker, pastor of Tabernacle AC Church in Lenoir, NC.

Books mentioned in this episode:

• Preaching and Preachers by D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones
• The Supremacy of God in Preaching by John Piper
• Preaching Old Testament Narratives by Benjamin H. Walton
• Expository Preaching by David Helm

Let's continue to talk about expository preaching with Josh Baker, pastor of Tabernacle AC Church in Lenoir, NC.

Let's continue to talk about expository preaching with Josh Baker, pastor of Tabernacle AC Church in Lenoir, NC.

Let's continue to talk about expository preaching with Josh Baker, pastor of Tabernacle AC Church in Lenoir, NC.

Let's talk about expository preaching with Josh Baker, pastor of Tabernacle AC Church in Lenoir, NC.