Sermon Tone Analysis

“Liturgies are those rituals or practices that are loaded with an ultimate Story about who we are and what we’re for.”

James K.A. Smith

“So when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was a delight to the eyes, and that the tree was to be desired to make one wise, she took of its fruit, and ate, and she also gave some to her husband who was with her, and he ate.”

3 Assumptions

1. Everyone has a version of the “good life.”

2. Your vision is a lot less carried around in your thoughts and logic than it is your hearts, where your affections have been captured by something.

3. What we want is shaped by the liturgies/habits/rhythms of our lives.

What we practice, we learn to love.

James 1:14-15

3. What we want is shaped by the liturgies/habits/rhythms of our lives.

What we practice, we learn to love.

2 Kin

They went after false idols and became false…

What we behold, we become, and what we liturgy, we love.

4 Observations

1.

We have a sight problem (v.14-15)

2. Whenever anyone turns to the Lord in faith, that veil is removed (v.16-17)

3. What do we now have the privilege to see once the veil is removed?

The glory of the Lord.

(v.18a)

4. It is in the beholding and reflecting the glory of the Lord, that we are changed more and more into the same image by the Holy Spirit.

(v.18b)

In Christ, the image of the invisible God (), we become the image bearers we were created to be ().

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Take stock on rival liturgies in your everyday life.

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Set up habits to help us behold more of Jesus.

Set up habits to help us behold more of Jesus.