Sermon Tone Analysis

Introduction

My son has decided that he no longer needs training wheels on his bike.

He has done the work to learn how to ride and now wants them off.

So yesterday he walks out in the garage with his tool kit, to take off the training wheels.

In his tool kit are some very important items: Screwdrivers, tape measure, hammer and a waterproof box.

None of these tool can take off training wheels, but he was sure going to try.

Taking the training wheels off the bike is outside the scope for which these tools were made.

On the other hand, I have a small box in my garage with tools for just such a job.

They were designed for this, and in fact this is their purpose.

The church is designed to do many things.

It has a great purpose.

Over the course of the next weeks, I would like for us to deal with the purpose of the church.

Why are we here and are we doing our job.

This series is called “Church.

On purpose!

Today we will dealing directly the church “Connecting People to God.”

Connections are individual and local

8. “Sounded out”—To proclaim

“Every place”. .

.“To

God-ward”—What they do locally for the Lord is known globally.

“Spread abroad”— “The speaker is asserting a particular domain or area of influence”—LPOG.

Basically, the Gospel in these areas has a specific emanation point.

“Need not to speak anything”--

“To God-ward”—What they do locally for the Lord is known globally.

“Need not to speak anything”--

9.

These facts demonstrate how we connected you to the Lord.

You not only turned from idols but you also serve the living and true God.

I Thes.

1:8-2:

10.

These Christians had such a relationship with the Lord, it was know, they wait for Christ.

Because of that relationship with Christ, they could not keep themselves from sharing Christ.

---A close relationship with the Savior forms a burden for souls, a desire to reach souls and fruit from both.

2:1-2.

Because of the fruit we see in your life, we know that our ministry with you was not in vain and the contention we experienced was in fact a yield of good fruit.

The ability to reach global results for Christ, begins with the necessity of having local results for Christ!

History is insignificant , but a heritage of soul winning is the lifeblood of any church.

“But none of these things move me, neither count I my life dear unto myself, so that I might finish my course with joy, and the ministry, which I have received of the Lord Jesus, to testify the gospel of the grace of God.”

The Cambridge Paragraph Bible: of the Authorized English Version.

(1873).

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Connections are not:

I Thess.

2:3-7

I Thessalonians 2:3-6

3. Just a decision, not a notch on the belt.

There was no back corner manipulation in order to get people to believe.

4. Man made: God does the work in our heart and in the hearts of the people we are sharing Christ with.

5. Convincing with enticement: we do not need to convince people with things that don’t matter.

The Gospel is the Gospel.

6. Man glorifying: They did not seek any attention just the joy of preaching Christ.

Christianity is in serious danger today of being over run and over taken by sensationalism.

Many times the importance is on a number and not on the message of truth.

Connections are:

I Thes.

2:

2:7 Our method was harmless.

The care was obvious.

Behavior leads/wins people to Christ.

Our method was harmless.

Behavior leads/wins people to Christ.

“The fruit of the righteous is a tree of life;

"88% of evangelicals were ‘totally outraged’ to hear of a transgender person going into a bathroom intended for the opposite of their birth sex, while only 9% expressed the same level of discomfort to hear of that same person dying without Christ."—Satirical

Quote from Babylon Bee.

And he that winneth souls is wise.”

The Cambridge Paragraph Bible: of the Authorized English Version.

(1873).

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Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

2:8.

Willing to give all for the sake of the Gospel in a life.

2:9-10.

We worked hard at everything so that we could be blameless in al that we did, just to earn the privilege to preach the Gospel of God.

2:11-12.

All of this was so that you could walk worthy (acceptable to God) lives after salvation.

Remember that everything about us says something about us.

Conclusion

“For the cause of Christ the King

We give our lives, an offering

’Til all the earth resounds

With ceaseless praise

To the Son

For the cause of Christ we go

With joy to reap, with faith to sow

As many see

And many put their trust in the Son

CHORUS

Christ we proclaim,

The Name above every name:

For all creation,

Ev’ry nation,

God’s salvation

Through the Son!

For the King once lifted high

To cries of rage, of ‘crucify!’

Endured the cross

As every sin was laid

On the Son

To the King who conquered death

To free the poor and the oppressed

For lasting peace

For life and liberty

In the Son

CHORUS

Let it be my life’s refrain:

To live is Christ, to die is gain;

Deny myself, take up my cross

And follow the Son

CHORUS”

— WORDS AND MUSIC BY KEITH GETTY, KRISTYN GETTY, AND STUART TOWNEND (C) 2016 GETTY MUSIC PUBLISHING (BMI) AND TOWNEND SONGS (PRS)