My students in NT Survey turned in responses today from listening to my sermon on Romans 3. This typically turns up some good discussion, but one student statement I thought was particularly worth citing here. The student was responding to my statement that you should not be surprised to find your thinking to be in error if you do not intentionally seek to shape your thinking by Scripture. He then wrote:

“Sometimes my life is like a sermon that takes a verse and runs with it- may my life be lived more exegetically”

I don’t know if the phrase ‘living exegetically’ is original with him or borrowed, but I thought it was well put. May we provide models for living for our people by preaching exegetically that they might live exegetically. May our preaching and our living rightly represent the truth of God’s word (1 Tim 4:16).