This article is a response to Rev. Ryan Denton: “Expository Preaching, The New Golden Calf” posted on Reformation 21’s website on May 12, 2025.[1] This cannot be an exhaustive treatment of the topic but will simply engage with Rev. Denton’s article.
In the title of the article, Rev. Denton introduces the image of idolatry at Sinai, recorded by Moses in Exodus 32:4-8. From the exposition of this text, we understand that the Israelites were attempting to worship God by syncretistic means, mingling worshipping the Egyptian bull-god Apis, with that of Jehovah. He asserts that expository preaching is a new golden calf, or species of idolatry. For the eye-catching title of Rev. Denton’s article to obtain, he must demonstrate that his outlined method of preaching is the only acceptable, divinely commanded method.
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