“How Should a Member Respond to a Divisive Elder?”

Thabiti Anyabile addresses a question brought to his attention:

“I am currently in a dialogue with an elder in my church who does not believe that traditional, ‘monologue-style’ preaching is the ‘preaching’ that is modeled and recommended in the New Testament. He believes that a conversation in which the Gospel is shared is a form of preaching. He also believes that preaching could simply be reading a book of the Bible, even possibly on Sunday mornings, without any additional explanation or application. … Do you have any recommendations as to how I could answer his points about expositional preaching?”