Expository vs. Dramatic Teaching

I routinely get questions from teachers asking about how to make lessons more entertaining, more interesting. "I can't just plod through the text," wrote one teacher, "I need to add a lot of stories to make it interesting."

Our task is to teach, to disciple, to point people to the living Jesus. And our best source for this is the bible itself. Personal stories have their place, but not as a substitute for Scripture. Don't get stuck in the snare of using Scripture as a jumping-off point to fill the time with other stuff, no matter how entertaining.

Haddon Robinson has some good counsel on this issue.