Sermon Tone Analysis

What is Super Service Sunday?

What is Super Service Sunday?

What is Super Service Sunday?

Is when we talk about Biblical servanthood

Give you the opportunity to grow in serving

What is Biblical servanthood?

What comes to your mind when you think of serving / servanthood?

Servants of God in the OT

Servants of God in the OT

Abraham

Patriarch of the faith

Leaves everything to follow God

Prays for the lost /

Seeks to be hospitable

Refers to himself as God’s servant...

Gen 18.5

Moses

​ ESV5 while I bring a morsel of bread, that you may refresh yourselves, and after that you may pass on—since you have come to your servant.”

So they said, “Do as you have said.”

Moses

Deliver of his people

Spokesmen for God

Giver of Law

Leader of people / administrative / counselor

Israel says Moses is God’s servant…

Joshua

Warrior of Israel

Military commander

Leader of God’s People

defender of the faith / administration / strategic planning

God says of Joshua...

David

​ ESV8 And Joshua the son of Nun, the servant of the Lord, died at the age of 110 years.

David

Shepherd

Least in fathers house

Great faith in God!

Song / dance / faith / writing / leadership

LORD pronounced David His servant...

Many Other OT Examples of Servanthood

​ ESV18 Now then bring it about, for the Lord has promised David, saying, ‘By the hand of my servant David I will save my people Israel from the hand of the Philistines, and from the hand of all their enemies.’

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Many Other OT Examples of Servanthood

Priest

Prophet

King

Laymen

Jesus Christ and Servanthood

The Primacy of This Role

Psa

​ ESV28 even as the Son of Man came not to be served but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many.”

​ ESV26 But not so with you.

Rather, let the greatest among you become as the youngest, and the leader as one who serves.

Jesus Himself gave us this example to follow

​ ESV13 You call me Teacher and Lord, and you are right, for so I am.

14 If I then, your Lord and Teacher, have washed your feet, you also ought to wash one another’s feet.

15 For I have given you an example, that you also should do just as I have done to you.

16 Truly, truly, I say to you, a servant is not greater than his master, nor is a messenger greater than the one who sent him.

17 If you know these things, blessed are you if you do them.

What does Jesus say?

Early Church / Paul?

A servant of God

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ESV4 but as servants of God we commend ourselves in every way: by great endurance, in afflictions, hardships, calamities,

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ESV3 I thank God whom I serve, as did my ancestors, with a clear conscience, as I remember you constantly in my prayers night and day.

A servant of Jesus Christ

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ESV1 Paul, a servant of Christ Jesus, called to be an apostle, set apart for the gospel of God,

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ESV10 For am I now seeking the approval of man, or of God?

Or am I trying to please man?

If I were still trying to please man, I would not be a servant of Christ.

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ESV1 Paul and Timothy, servants of Christ Jesus, To all the saints in Christ Jesus who are at Philippi, with the overseers and deacons:

A servant of the gospel

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ESV7 Of this gospel I was made a minister according to the gift of God’s grace, which was given me by the working of his power.

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ESV23 if indeed you continue in the faith, stable and steadfast, not shifting from the hope of the gospel that you heard, which has been proclaimed in all creation under heaven, and of which I, Paul, became a minister.

A servant of the church

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ESV5 For what we proclaim is not ourselves, but Jesus Christ as Lord, with ourselves as your servants for Jesus’ sake.

Why Super Service Sunday?

partnering in preaching

Fellowship in mission

standing together in adversity

Effectiveness in Mission Together

spiritual gifts given to share

Fellowship in mission

Partnership in preaching the gospel

Php

​ ESV9 and when James and Cephas and John, who seemed to be pillars, perceived the grace that was given to me, they gave the right hand of fellowship to Barnabas and me, that we should go to the Gentiles and they to the circumcised.

See also ; ;

in prayer

Supporting the work of others

in action

because the work is great

because the workers are few

; The Philippians share in Paul’s work through their giving.See also ; ; ;

Standing together in adversity

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to help us endure

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to bring one another comfort

Fellowship between Paul and his co-workers

to share in suffering

​ ESV3 Yes, I ask you also, true companion, help these women, who have labored side by side with me in the gospel together with Clement and the rest of my fellow workers, whose names are in the book of life.

Barnabas: