Sermon Tone Analysis

Review of Confirmation

What is the purpose of confirmation?

Is it just a class?

Because there are plenty of classes you can take.

Some of them you have to take: ever take a class and wondering, when am I ever going to use this information?

When I taught history I got that all the time?

History is boring, and when am I going to need this information?

I hated hearing that.

“I’m going to study business, how is the Revolutionary War going to help me with that.

There are some useless classes out there.

Here’s one that caught my eye: Getting Dressed.

As a history teacher I heard this.

As an English literature teacher I heard this.

“I want to study business in college, I don’t need this!”

From Princeton University: "...an inquiry into the social significance of clothing and a close examination of the relationship between clothing and identity in 20th-century America.

Students record their observations about the ways clothing comes into play in the news, in their surroundings and in their own lives.

Why?

Because students hone their powers of observation and learn key skills for examining the world."

From Princeton University: "...an inquiry into the social significance of clothing and a close examination of the relationship between clothing and identity in 20th-century America.

Students record their observations about the ways clothing comes into play in the news, in their surroundings and in their own lives.

Why?

Because students hone their powers of observation and learn key skills for examining the world."

Because picking out a pair of Birkenstocks and jeans are hard to do.

Montclair University, a research school in NJ;

Confirmation is about giving you the basics of what it means to be a disciple.

A Christianity 101.

What does a Christian believe?

What do are they supposed to do?

How to get started.

But Confirmation is more than a class: it’s about inviting you into a entirely different way of life.

Jenna read 2 verses that give a quick summary of this way of life:

confirmation is not for a 6 month experience.

Classes to attend.

It exists for help you see God’s purpose.

Here is our purpose:

and there’s this:

and there’s this:

Matthew 28:19

Matthew

confirmation is not for a 6 month experience.

Classes to attend.

It exists for help you find a purpose.

We exist to love God and serve others.

If we forget this, we are wasting our lives.

We exist to love God and serve others.

If we forget this, we are wasting our lives.

Write these on your mirror.

Plan your day around these.

At the end of your day, assess your day based on these.

Love God and love your neighbor.

Go and make disciples.

Write these on your mirror.

Plan your day around these.

At the end of your day, assess your day based on these.

We exist to love God and serve others.

If we don’t this, if our lives don’t revolve around these.

we are wasting our lives.

So

Don’t Waste Your Life

Don’t Waste Your Life

Write these words on your

Love God and love your neighbor.

Go and make disciples.

(e.g.

Rock, youth, smart phone)

time moves fast

yesterday I was out of high school, going into college, my life in front of me; just this past week, someone reminded me that the average man lives to the age of 72; usually I would feel a sense of accomplishment from saying, “I’m over halfway there!”

(before / after pic, church will gray your hair, working with youth can accelerate the process)

now I have 4 kids, married and have gray hair

funeral: what will they say about you? what did you accomplish? how many lives did you touch?

what did your life say about Jesus Christ?

Ways that we can waste our lives.

Will sound like a graduation speech, but it applies at all stages of life:

1. Don’t Waste Your Work

2. extremes: slacking and becoming a workaholic; a slacker cuts corners to make the job easier, the workaholic finds their identity in their work to the point that they neglect family, relationships, health;

slacking on the job - boss comes in

being lazy

cutting corners

plagarizing - country music lyrics (Bubba shot the juke box last night)

1st question people will ask you, which college? what will you study?

graduate, what job?

workaholic: shoveling snow; eagle scout project; wrong paper;

working hard, but for things that don’t have eternal importance does my work help me (or am I working to..)

Love God and love your neighbor.

Go and make disciples.

2. Don’t Waste Your Brain

what are you reading?

Tv is your friend

Tv is your friend

24 hours per week

Using friendships as ways to share gospel

24 hours per week

dr.

candy crush

Look at what you’re putting in your brain and ask, does this keep me from

Love God and love your neighbor.

Go and make disciples.

3. Don’t Waste Your Health

what are you eating

I’m not going to champion a gluten free, low sodium, low carb diet; I’m the kind of person that reads the ingredient label; I don’t eat numbers and if I can’t pronounce it I try to avoid that too;