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Kalled2Preach said:
Exegesis is extracting the meaning from the passage, not a suspicion that the translators got it wrong. By "not arguing for anything but what the passage says" you are doing exegesis (at least a surface level form of it). Just thought I'd point that out in case you meant something different by saying you didn't need to do any exegesis. <img src="/forum/images/graemlins/BigThumbUp.gif" alt="" />

Touche, Kalled2Preach. I wrote that early this morning, quickly before going off to work. What I had in mind to say before I typed it was that I did not need to do any exegesis of the Greek unless there was some reason to think the generally accepted translations were correct.

By the way, your title, called to preach, implies that God gives revelation outside of scripture, assuming you believe you have a special call to preach aside from something given to all believers in general.