Conrad Mbewe emphasizes the importance of making the Bible the central focus for church congregations through regular expository preaching. He argues that this method fosters a biblical culture within the church, contrasting it with worldly influences. Despite the positive aspects of African culture concerning family values, Mbewe acknowledges the presence of negative elements that can be addressed through faithful exposition of scripture. This practice helps congregants discern the differences between worldly and biblical teachings, ultimately affirming Jesus as Lord. Mbewe underscores the importance of understanding the role of individuals, families, churches, and even nations under the lordship of Christ, highlighting the transformative impact of the gospel through personal engagement with scripture.

I would say to any pastor, make the Bible the primary menu for your people, regular expository preaching. Because what that does is it creates a culture in your people in the church that's a biblical culture rather than the culture that is out there in the world. Because even those of us who are in Africa, yes praise the Lord that the family is still being upheld in that sense. There's still a lot of negative stuff that is in our culture that can only be addressed as there is the regular exposition of the scriptures. Is exposition that's faithful to the context of those passages and going through the Bible, so that what the Holy Spirit had put in the minds of Moses and Samuel and all those prophets across the Old Testament, including the New Testament writers, who becomes the very natural air that your people breathe.

It's the way in which you inoculate them against that which has become so popular around them, because they easily sense the difference as they are exposed to the scriptures and then get out there and then get exposed to the world. And they ultimately finally say, it's not Caesar who's Lord, Jesus is Lord, and this is what his word says. So in that sense, you will find that your people will see the importance of the individual under Christ, the importance of the family under Christ, the importance of the church under Christ, and indeed the importance of even the nation, the society under Christ, the impact of the gospel being through individual response to the scriptures.