Sermon Tone Analysis

Walk Series (Part 2) -

ME

Walking can be a great joy or a great challenge depending on the obstacles you face or the conditions around you.

Our relationship with God has been often described as a WALK and moving forward in our faith requires us to take necessary steps and be mindful of obstacles to avoid.

Paul wrote a letter back to a church that he helped plant in Galatia that gave them critical guidance for their walk.

It’s truth and application is as meaningful for us today!

Summer 2017 | Spruce Hills Community Church

a journey through Galatians

Today talk about ‘Mixed Messages’; What is a mixed message?

Any communication that is contradictory, inconsistent, or unclear, especially in its motive or intent.

Any communication that is contradictory, inconsistent, or unclear, especially in its motive or intent.

ILL - start with a funny story of sending wrong message

start with a funny story of sending wrong message /// maybe even autocorrect fails 

ILL - autocorrect fails (PICS) How many have sent a text to wrong person?

It’s frustrating, disappointing, and sometimes even downright EMBARASSING when we send the wrong message on our phone but exponentially more when the message of my life sends a wrong message.

It’s so import that our life’s message as Christ-followers is true, consistent and God-honouring.

WE

Summer 2017 | Spruce Hills Community Church

GOD - * Walk through Paradigm Shift of /15 ; Then ; *Peter’s Pressure to People Please and how that led him to compromise his beliefs  * Paul’s confrontation and emphasis that Peter’s life was sending mixed messages and distorting the gospel message

the importance of our life’s message as Christ-followers.

We’ve all been there, struggled with the inconsistency living something other than what we say we stand for and believe in.

YOU - * Your Life’s Message Matters * Be a Champion of Grace  * Get Back Up 

When we have stepped outside of the values we been raised in to give into peer pressure or pleasing people 

When we say we trust God and worry our heads off

When we say we are Christ followers but live no different from anyone else

When we are more concerned with being liked or accepted than being obedient to God

Our summer series: Walk (through Galatians)

Our summer series: Walk (through Galatians)

WE - Imagine the reach of the gospel when our lives line up with it’s message.

/// S.O.A.P challenge for the week ahead

Walk

How many of you tracking your steps - Apple watch; fitbit?

Cool to be able to track our progress, calories, heart-rate, sleep, STEPS!

Track our steps on this journey of faith.

Our relationship with God has been often described as a WALK!

Moving forward in our faith then requires us to track our steps and be mindful of our progress and obstacles we need to avoid.

Sunday afternoon walks - Red Cliff

Similarly, our relationship with God has been often described as just that … a WALK!

Moving forward in our faith then requires us to take necessary steps and be mindful of obstacles that we need to avoid.

Series Description

Walking a girl home

Walking a girl home

Walking … WALKing can be either a great joy or a great challenge depending upon the obstacles you face or the conditions around you.

Similarly, our relationship with God has been often described as just that … a WALK!

Moving forward in our faith then requires us to take necessary steps and be mindful of obstacles that we need to avoid.

Walking can be a great joy or a great challenge depending on the obstacles you face or the conditions around you.

Our relationship with God has been often described as a WALK and moving forward in our faith requires us to take necessary steps and be mindful of obstacles to avoid.

Paul wrote a letter back to a church that he helped plant in Galatia that gave them critical guidance for their walk.

It’s truth and application is as meaningful for us today!

Walking … WALKing can be either a great joy or a great challenge depending upon the obstacles you face or the conditions around you.

Similarly, our relationship with God has been often described as just that … a WALK!

Moving forward in our faith then requires us to take necessary steps and be mindful of obstacles that we need to avoid.

The Apostle Paul wrote a letter to the churches that he helped plant in Galatia, giving them critical guidance for their Christian WALKs.

The truth and application of this little book called Galatians is as meaningful for us today as it was for the Galatian people of Paul’s time!

Journey with us this summer as we unpack Paul’s letter to the Galatians and be better equipped for the walk ahead.

- Walking … WALKing can be either a great joy or a great challenge depending upon the obstacles you face or the conditions around you.

Similarly, our relationship with God has been often described as just that … a WALK!

Moving forward in our faith then requires us to take necessary steps and be mindful of obstacles that we need to avoid.

- The Apostle Paul wrote a letter to the churches that he helped plant in Galatia, giving them critical guidance for their Christian WALK’s.

Here at Spruce Hills we believe that it’s truth and application is as meaningful for us today as it was for the Galatian people of Paul’s time!

- SO we invite you today to journey with us this summer as we unpack Paul’s letter to the Galatians and become better equipped for the WALK ahead.

WE - we’ve all been there right (on the lighter side of life), but also in the areas that matter most.

When we have stepped outside of what we believe/value to give into pressure/please people 

What about our WALK of faith … what obstacles are in our way that we need to avoid?

What things have distracted us from truly understanding what a deeply connected relationship with Christ can look like?

What distractions in our lives and in our faith walks have led us astray from God’s plan for our lives and away from the true meaning of what it means to be a Christian?

SLIDE 2

- What about our WALK of faith … what obstacles are in our way that we need to avoid?

What things have distracted us from truly understanding what a deeply connected relationship with Christ can look like?

What distractions in our lives and in our faith walks have led us astray from God’s plan for our lives and away from the true meaning of what it means to be a Christian?

SLIDE 2

- As we will see in the case of the Galatians … “Another Gospel Is Not THE Gospel” … “Jesus + Nothing = Everything”

As we will see in the case of the Galatians … “Another Gospel Is Not THE Gospel” … “Jesus + Nothing = Everything”

BIG IDEA: Paul confronts Peter after he pulls a chameleon move in front of some prominent Jews.

He then emphasizes that our New ID is rooted in justification by faith, not works!

GOD

BIG IDEA: Paul confronts Peter after he pulls a chameleon move in front of some prominent Jews.

He then emphasizes that our New ID is rooted in justification by faith, not works!

Before we unpack this second chapter of Galatians, let’s set the stage with some background information: Paul wrote to the churches in southern Galatia after having a hand in starting them on his first missionary journey to Asia Minor.

Upon arriving back in Antioch from his first missionary journey after eighteen months on the road, Paul received a report that the churches he had started in Galatia had fallen into hard times—specifically, they had fallen into error.

A group of Judaizers—those who sought to make living under the Mosaic Law a requirement of the Christian faith—had gained an influence in the Galatian churches.

Church is no stranger to controversy - if you come to faith thinking the church is perfect you’ll be sadly disappointed.

God is preparing us to be that perfect bride but we all have a ways to go.

ILL - almost church split over where we should pray before a service.

Some controversies are trival; some are huge like poverty, justice, gender equality, racial divides.

It was this last one that emerged early in the early church.

Paul wrote the book a few months before his attendance at the Jerusalem Council in AD 49, a meeting where the apostles would take up this very topic ().

Paul’s letter speaks wisdom and clarity into the first real controversy that plagued the church in its early years—the relationship between Christian Jews and Christian Gentiles.

Paul’s tone is aggressive because he was passionate that people embrace unity in Christ, no matter their racial distinctions.

For him, this was no minor issue, as he went so far as to call the Galatians deserters of Christ, people turning from the truth toward a gospel contrary to the one they had received from Paul ().

Paul wrote to the churches in southern Galatia after having a hand in starting them on his first missionary journey to Asia Minor.

ILL - racism

Where are we?

Upon arriving back in Antioch from his first missionary journey after eighteen months on the road, Paul received a report that the churches he had started in Galatia had fallen into hard times—specifically, they had fallen into error.

A group of Judaizers—those who sought to make living under the Mosaic Law a requirement of the Christian faith—had gained an influence in the Galatian churches.

Paul wrote the book a few months before his attendance at the Jerusalem Council in AD 49, a meeting where the apostles would take up this very topic ().

When the Galatians fell away so quickly from the gospel of grace Paul had preached to them, they also made clear their disloyalty to Paul’s authority as an apostle.

Therefore, Paul began the letter to the Galatians by spending two chapters defending that very issue.

If they could discredit Paul they could discredit his message.

Paul shores up his message and his God-given authority.