Sermon Tone Analysis

Setting Fires

2 Timothy 1:3-7 (NIV)

/Encouragement to Be Faithful /

3 I thank God, whom I serve, as my forefathers did, with a clear conscience, as night and day I constantly remember you in my prayers.

4 Recalling your tears, I long to see you, so that I may be filled with joy. 5 I have been reminded of your sincere faith, which first lived in your grandmother Lois and in your mother Eunice and, I am persuaded, now lives in you also.

6 For this reason I remind you to fan into flame the gift of God, which is in you through the laying on of my hands.

7 For God did not give us a spirit of timidity, but a spirit of power, of love and of self-discipline.

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*I.         *Introduction: If we are only out to be nice, mild-mannered folk, we should either change our name or change our calling.

Citation: Stephen Brown in Leadership, Vol. 8, no. 2.

*II.

*Consider the Friend

*/A.

/*Faithful to His God

*/B.

/*Faithful to His Forefathers

*/C.

/*Faithful to His Friend

*III.

*Consider the Family

*/A.

/*A Connection to the Friend

*/B.

/*A Heritage of Family

*/C.

/*A Present Faith

*IV.

*Consider the Flame

*/A.

/*Ignition of Flame Needed

*/B.

/*Initiation of Gift Repeated

*/C.

/*Integrity of Spirit Pleaded

1.        Chutzpah not cowardice

2.        power

3.        love

4.        self-discipline – self possession and Government, Able to control oneself and think in a healthy way, which the unconverted cannot do.

*V.      *Conclusion: Smokey the Bear –  A cub from the fire in Lincoln National Park in New Mexico whose motto became “Only you can prevent forest fires.”

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[1] /The Holy Bible : New International Version/.

Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 1996, c1984.