the word of God. Preachers are literally to be ministers of the word. Thus preaching with authority is synonymous with true expository preaching. “Preaching which severs itself … from the Bible can have little or no valid authority over men’s minds or hearts,” asserts Miller, “for it is an irreverent assumption of authority which no living man may rightly claim.… The only right we have to preach is to preach Christ as he makes himself known through the Scriptures of the Old and New Testament.”29