Stott had a name for this approach: “expository preaching”: “All true Christian preaching is expository preaching.… To expound Scripture is to bring out of the text what is there and expose it to view. The expositor pries open what appears to be closed, makes plain what is obscure, unravels what is knotted and unfolds what is tightly packed.”22 How did this transformation take place? From whom did Stott learn to preach in this way? The answer can be found on the wall of his London apartment. He had