“I want a teaching church, not a preaching church.”

What do we make of a statement like that?

In this episode, I explore the difference between preaching and teaching—and whether that distinction is even as clean as we often assume. I also address a growing concern I see in some Reformed spaces: that Sunday worship can drift into being primarily informational—heavy on theology, light on application.

But preaching is not meant to be merely the transfer of knowledge. And neither is it meant to be emotional manipulation. True biblical preaching teaches the mind and presses the truth onto the life.

So where is the balance? And have we unintentionally created sermons that inform but don’t confront, explain but don’t apply? ...