Heilshistories-verbondsmatige prediking teenoor eksemplaristiese prediking

When preparing a sermon on an historical text from Scripture, several approaches can be followed, inter alia an exemplaristic or a redemptive-historical approach. The central problem, however, is the way in which the acts of biblical figures should be interpreted and treated in the sermon. It is contended that on the one hand the approach should not be focused on the acts of biblical figures as being examples to be directly applied to contemporary circumstances, as this approach will probably result in ‘exemplaristic’preaching