Light Up the Burner

"Today Christian education should be our goal. As one of my colleagues says, It's like a big burner: the expository pulpit ministry is the center of the burner, and the complementary efforts with their greater participation possibilities form the outer rings of the burner. . . . Let's light up the big burner, not to make things hot for everyone, but to warm up the saints and condition the atmosphere. . . . In order to do this we must get back to the kind of expository teaching that is dedicated to lifting up and presenting the true sense of the text so that God can reach our wills through our minds" [Bob Smith, When All Else Fails . . . Read the Directions (Waco, TX: Word, 1974), 58].