I was amazed at these excerpts from Charles Spurgeon's Commenting and Commentaries (1860). He sounds a lot like a Calvary Chapel guy.
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Nowadays since expository preaching is not so common as it ought to be, there is the more necessity for our commenting during the time of reading the Scriptures. Since topical preaching, hortatory preaching, experimental preaching, and so on - all exceedingly useful in their way - have almost pushed proper expositional preaching out of place, there is the more need that we should, when we read passages of Holy Writ, habitually give running comments upon them.
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If you want to make full proof of your ministry and to leave no single point of revelation untouched, your easiest mode will be to comment upon Scripture habitually.
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As a rule, I spend much more time over the exposition than the discourse. Once start a sermon with a great idea, and from that moment the discourse forms itself without much labor to the preacher, for truth naturally consolidates and crystalizes itself around the main subject like sweet crystals around a string hung up in syrup; but as for the exposition, you must keep to the text, you must face the difficult points, and must search the mind of the Spirit rather than your own.
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You will soon reveal your ignorance as an expositor if you do not study; therefore diligent reading will be forced upon you.
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I remember reading about someone who listened to Spurgeon, and this man said that he much preferred Spurgeon's expositions to his preaching! Don't you wish someone had written them down like they did the sermons?
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