Sermon Tone Analysis

Introduction

Good morning!!

How’s everybody doing???

Why not take a moment right now and greet that person sitting beside you and ask how’s she/he doing.

Every Sunday morning:

1.

We see each other, have you ever wondered how was your brother, your sister was since the last

Sunday you saw each other?

We listen to the preachingWe join in the praise and worship

2. We listen to the preaching

3. We join in the praise and worship

So, why do we come to church?

There was a survey, conducted online Dec. 4 to 18, 2017, among a nationally representative sample of 4,729 adults on Pew Research Center’s American Trends Panel, asked respondents who attend religious services a few times a year or less often (including those who never attend) whether each of ten reasons is “very important, somewhat important, or not important” for why they do not go to religious services more often.

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So here’s a statistics that was made showing us why people attend church services.

So we can see 10 reasons, from top up to the 6th, I believe it’s safe to say that these reasons are the valid ones and the one from the beginning is the valid one.

The rest, it shows that the church is really for everyone, we don’t tell who should attend base upon their reason.

In fact I believe a particular Bible based Christian worship service is an open opportunity to those who really seek God.

This is how Sunday mornings looks like today.

Let’s check out what it looks like before, let’s go back to the scripture, our text today says:

Acts 2:44

Acts 2:42-44,

Our Theme for the whole year is:

Breakthrough, and our topic for the whole month of February is Being Contagious, today our specific topic is Being a Contagious Disciple.

When we apply this word to a disease, what do you think the most contagious disease is...or diseases are..?

As has been explained by others, the measure of contagiousness is the average reproduction number = average number of people an infected person is likely to infect.

This is different from deadliness which is measured by mortality rates = how many of those infected will likely die.

On that measure, untreated rabies, untreated HIV and Ebola are the three deadliest diseases.

We have heard three (3) sermons about being a contagious Christian, now we want to be more specific -

Be a CONTAGIOUS DISCIPLE

Are all Christian A DISCIPLE?

When we measure how those deadly diseases immediately affect a person, can we safely say that in the realm of Christianity, the same effectivity should happen?

Like, our being a Christian will and can infect others in such a way that their lives will automatically Love God, Love People and serve the World?

Are we that contagious right now?

Let’s asses ourselves in the light of the text this morning.

They themselves were INFECTED

They DEVOTED THEIR LIVES

They REPRESENT (DEPICT) A SHARED LIFE AS A COMMUNITY

to the teaching of the apostles and to fellowship, to the breaking of bread and to prayer

Parsons, M. C. (2008).

Acts (p.

48).

Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Academic.

They WANTED MORE

They were a PRAYING CHURCH

They ARE A REVERENT CHURCH

The early church is a CHURCH WHERE THINGS HAPPENED

They NEVER WAVERED and EVENTUALLY, UNKNOWINGLY BECOME CONTAGIOUS themselves

They were INFECTED

How do you literally get infected by a disease?

Yeah we know: You don’t take care of your health....

But “kung madalian...biglaan...go to a place where you can easily catch it.

Right???

If you intentionally go to a place where a disease is spreading, or when you ge

So, those who were INFECTED was in GROUND ZERO that day!!

you know after 911 world trade center was called ground zero right?

Coz that day, that’s where the immediate attack began.

Those people in , was in ground zero that they, they were all caught up with Peter’s preaching and everything they heard struck them..the prior verse said in..

“Peter’s words pierced their hearts, and they said to him and to the other apostles, “Brothers, what should we do?””

Acts of the Apostles 2:37 NLT

https://www.bible.com/116/act.2.37.nlt

You know when you are INFECTED, you begin to think of the REMEDY!!! Amen!!

Once a person is infected with a contagious disease, that person becomes agitated or troubled, because he wants to get well, in the case of this new believers, they were “infected” by the word of God, and they were in were in awe.

Immediately they began to ask what they should do.

When they were “pierced in their heart” they knew something was not right with their lifestyle...they want to know what to do...THEY WERE INFECTED, all of a sudden they want to change their life, they want to turn their lives 180 degrees.

The next thing that happened is that these believers:

They DEVOTED THEIR LIVES

The early Christians persisted in listening to the apostles as they taught.

The original meaning of the the word devoted meant - They persevered and constantly diligent.

I really believe that there is no idle time for these people, I do believe that they also have personal things to attend to, but BEING PERSISTENT, PERSEVERING AND TO BE CONSTANT DILIGENT in their Christian lives was not a dilemma, it was never about WHICH ONE TO PRIORITIZE!!

They were a PRAYING CHURCH

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They REPRESENT (DEPICT) A SHARED LIFE AS A COMMUNITY

This is where we got the word KOINONIA - if you have’t heard this before this means FELLOWSHIP - and in this verse, it means that fellowship is the essence of the of the Christian life - fellowship with God and with other believers in Christ.

We can also understand the same meaning of fellowship in the beginning , when Adam was placed in the garden to enjoy friendship and communion with God.

The early church showed a great quality of togetherness.

Vice Admiral Horatio Nelson was one of Britain’s greatest naval commanders.

He had a long and distinguished career, in which he gained a reputation as a master tactician and for his great personal bravery, explained one of his victories by saying: ‘I had the happiness to command a band of brothers.’

explained one of his victories by saying: ‘I had the happiness to command a band of brothers.’

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The Church is a real Church only when it has that kind of fellowship.

They were a PRAYING CHURCH

Kononia have two parts for it to work - fellowship with God and with other Christians, but this picture of community is not always perfect,

these early Christians knew that they could not meet life in their own strength and that they did not need to.

They always went in to God before they went out to the world; they were able to meet the problems of life because they had first met him.

these early Christians knew that they could not meet life in their own strength and that they did not need to.

They always went IN to God before they went OUT to the world; they were able to meet the problems of life because they had first met him.

these early Christians knew that they could not meet life in their own strength and that they did not need to.

They always went in to God before they went out to the world; they were able to meet the problems of life because they had first met him.

Barclay, W. (2003).

The Acts of the Apostles (3rd ed.

fully rev.

and updated., p. 33).

Louisville, KY; London: Westminster John Knox Press.

The early believers, they ARE A REVERENT CHURCH

In other translation it says “fear came over them all”.

This fear, this deep sense of awe just shows how the early believers sees who God is in their lives.

The lives of the early believers were so distinct in such a way that it also influences the spiritual climate of their time.

Their deep respect for God can be seen in their worship like we can read in:

The early church is a CHURCH WHERE THINGS HAPPENED

Signs and wonders are there.

It’s weaved-in in the fabric of the day to day life of the early believers.

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