Sermon Tone Analysis

Introduction

I want to set the tone for my ministry here .

Of course I want to do all a pastor is called to do:

Provide comfort to those that are hurting

Provide council to those that need help

Preach and teach the word

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Overall, I want to lead Hopewell to be a church known for carrying out the great commission.

Do you want to be a church known for carrying out the great commission?

Overall, I want to lead Hopewell to be a church known for carrying out the great commission.

Do you want to be a church known for carrying out the great commission?

We are all on the same page then, this should be a piece of cake shouldn’t it?

Well, we know it isn’t easy.

Our sinfulness gets in the way.

Characteristics of growing churches

Spiritual maturity: People know how to walk with God and seek accountability to do so.

Hospitality: We expect guests to come and are prepared to make them feel welcome.

Evangelism: Intentionally sharing the gospel with people we meet every day.

Missions: Intentionally taking the gospel where it is not currently known.

Disciple Making: Investing in other believers so that they are prepared to invest in others.

If I were to compare a dynamic, great commission church to a roaring fire, these five characteristics would be the wood, the fuel.

You need fuel to have a fire.

BUT, how many of you know that fuel alone is not enough.

Something has the light the fire.

Something has to start it.

That something is revival

How do you define it?

Vance Havner: “Revival is falling in love with Jesus all over again.”

Stephen Olford "the sovereign act of God, in which He restores His own backsliding people to repentance, faith and obedience."

Richard Owen Roberts "an extraordinary movement of the Holy Spirit producing extraordinary results."

Martin Lloyd Jones: “And in movements of the Spirit the first thing that happens and which eventually leads to a great revival is that one man or a group of men suddenly begin to feel this burden and they feel the burden so much that they are led to do something about it.”

The Revival Attendant

Verses 1,2

Hezekiah’s Age

Hezekiah become king at a young age.

Would you have felt prepared at 25? Is that your age now, or younger.

Age should never be an excuse to say no to God.

Children are used of God in Scripture (lad with the loves and fish)

Teenagers are used by God (Shadrach, Meshach, Abednego)

Senior Adults (Abraham, Sarah, Caleb)

By Rev. Oliver W. Price

In 1856 a Methodist names William Arthur published a book of fiery sermons which closed with a prayer pleading with God to "Crown this nineteenth century with a revival of pure and undefiled religion...greater than any demonstration of the Spirit ever vouchsafed to man."