Sermon Tone Analysis

E.M. Bounds, Power Through Prayer, Baker, 1972

Men of Prayer Needed

God’s plan is to make much of the man, far more of him than of anything else.

Men are God’s method.

The Church is looking for better models; God is looking for better men. 5

Herald

John 1:

The dispensation that heralded and prepared the way for Christ was bound up in that man

Savior

The world’s salvation comes out of that cradled Son 6

Preachers

The world’s salvation comes out of that cradled Son 6

1 Tim. 3

When Paul appeals to the personal character of the men who rooted the gospel in the world, he solves the mystery of their success.

The glory and efficiency of the gospel is staked on men who proclaim it.

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Witnesses

When Paul appeals to the personal character of the men who rooted the gospel in the world, he solves the mystery of their success.

The glory and efficiency of the gospel is staked on men who proclaim it.

Mt. 28:19-20

When it comes to the call to evangelize the world, this plan rests not on some evangelism method do not win people for the kingdom, obedient Christians do.

When it comes to the call to evangelize the world, this plan rests not on some evangelism method do not win people for the kingdom, obedient Christians do.

What the world needs today is not more machinery or better, not new organizations or more and novel methods, but men whom the Holy Ghost can use- men of prayer, men mighty in prayer.

He does not anoint plans, but men- men of prayer.

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The character as well as the fortunes of the gospel is committed to the preacher (evangelist).

He makes or mars the message from God to man.

The preacher (evangelist) is the golden pip through which the divine oil flows.

The preacher makes the message 8.

The Evangelist makes the gospel message.

Our lives bear ethos, which leads people to look at the gospel message for themselves.

The sermon grows because the man grows.

The sermon is forceful because the man is forceful.

The sermon is holy because the man is holy.

The sermon is full of the divine unction because the man is full of the divine unction.

8 This can apply to the evangelist and his message

How does your life substantiate the gospel?

Everything depends on the spiritual character of the preacher (evangelist) 9

It is not great talents nor great learning nor great preachers that God needs, but men great in holiness, great in faith, great in love, great in fidelity, great for God- men always preaching by holy sermons in the pulpit, by holy lives out of it.

These can mold a generation for God. 12

The real sermon is made in the closet.

The man- God’s man- is made in the closet His life and his profoundest convictions were born in this secret communion with God.

The burdened and tearful agony of his spirit, his weightiest and sweetest messages were got when alone with God. 12

Prayer makes the man; prayer makes the preacher; prayer makes the pastor.

The pulpit of this day is weak in praying.

The pride of learning is against the dependent humility of prayer.

Prayer is with the pulpit too often only official- a performance for the routine of service.

Prayer is not to the modern pulpit the might force it was in Paul’s life or Paul’s ministry Every preacher who does not make prayer a mighty factor in his own life and ministry is weak as a factor in God’s work and is powerless to project cause in this world.

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