to the church’s life and continuance, then it is the exposition of Scripture which is fundamental to the church’s pattern of activity. This whole issue of the authority of Scripture is quite crucial for our thinking about preaching, and not only in the sense of its authority as the inspired and inerrant Word that God himself has spoken. Undoubtedly if you destroy that conviction you will destroy so much that is essential in biblical preaching. But I think in the contemporary climate one of the most