What Is Expositional Preaching? What is expositional preaching? To define the process, let me start with something familiar. Many in the church grew up hearing topical sermons. Topical sermons are when a pastor selects a topic (ie missions, love, family, etc.) and selects a few passages of Scripture to clearly exemplify the topic. Expositional preaching doesn’t start with the topic and select Scripture. Instead the pastor moves verse by verse through a book of the bible. The