Sermon Tone Analysis

Introduction

Illustration: In JR Woodward’s book “Creating A Missional Culture: Equipping The Church for the Sake Of The World” Chapter 3

Types of church culture:

Learning Environment- scripture shapes the culture of the church, listening to God through scripture & practicing it in their daily lives

Healing Environment- people are transparent, taking off the masks and become more whole & holy

Welcoming Environment- practicing hospitality as a way of life

Liberating Environment- encourages people to embody a holistic gospel, helping people experience liberation from personal and social sins by forming Spirit-transforming communities.

A liberating environment encourages people to overcome addictions, grown in personal holiness and live in the power of the Spirit

Yesterday at the United Baptist Convention Congress of Christian Education, I taught a course on The Missionary Ministry of the Local Church:

Allen, Hancock, and Singleton.

Together On Mission: Building Gospel-Centered Missional Communities.

Allen, Dana, Hancock, David, and Singleton, Jim.

Together On Mission: Building Gospel-Centered Missional Communities.

It was a learning church?- teaching

It was a relational church?- discipleship

t was a relational church?

It was a worshipping church?- worship, praise, & prayer

It was a Winsome (attractive)?-

attracts people

It was a generous church?

- help others

Transition To Body

Our generous savior Jesus Christ

recap:

- A Gentile Soldier’s Exemplary Faith- a certain centurion

- A Widow’s Exemplary Faith

- John the Baptist’s Wavering/Shaky Faith

- A Female Sinner’s Exemplary Faith

Body

the disciples, the twelve are with him, so they are learning

proclaiming= publicly announce religious truths and principles while urging acceptance and compliance- to preach

bringing= to communicate good news concerning something

What happens when the good news is proclaimed?

What is the good news?

Along with Jesus, has come some exhibits of Jesus has done:

healed= to serve, to be serviceable, to cause someone to recover health, often with the implication of having taken care of such a person.

to heal, to cure, to take care of

evil= demon, supernatural evil being

John 1:405

infirmities= state of debilitating illness, sickness, disease the state of being ill and thus incapacitated in some manner

Exhibit A: Mary Magdalene

Thank the LORD for the healed women

a woman from Magdala

a place-name, meaning ‘of Magdala’, i.e. ‘The Tower’

Luke says that seven demons had gone out from her, which shows that Jesus had rescued her from a very distressing existence.

demons are usually connected with mental or physical disorder

Exhibit B: Joanna, the wife of Chuza, Herod’s household manager (servant)

Thank the LORD for the committed women

Joanna is mentioned again in 24:10, but otherwise nothing is known of her.

Her husband Chuza is mentioned here only.

That he was Herod’s steward shows that he was a man of substance, though the precise nature of his office is not clear.

The word translated steward may mean the manager of Herod’s estates, or it may point to a political office.

Godet conjectures that this man may have been the officer whose son Jesus healed (John 4:46ff.).

If so, it would explain why Joanna was numbered among Jesus’ followers and allowed to go with him on this tour.

Exhibit C: Susanna

Thank the LORD for the just willing to serve women

humble servants

Exhibit D: Many others

Thank the LORD for the anonymous women

those you do not even know are helping you

Here we learn that these women responded in love and gratitude for what Jesus had done for them (cf.

Mark 15:40f.).

It seems to have been not uncommon for godly women to help religious teachers, and Jesus speaks of some Pharisees who were evidently quite rapacious (20:47).

It is heart-warming to read of this group of women who supported Jesus.

And it is worth reflecting that the Gospels record no woman as ever taking action against him: his enemies were all men.

Transition To Conclusion

Luke 4:

Closing Illustration: Yesterday teaching the The Missionary Ministry of the local church and there being mostly women in attendance:

Missionary Board of most historically black churches are lead by women

Women’s missionary Union:

During the meeting of the Southern Baptist Convention in Richmond, Virginia, in May 1888, a group of women delegates from 12 states gathered at the Broad Street United Methodist Church and organized the Executive Committee of the Woman's Mission Societies, Auxiliary to Southern Baptist Convention.

In previous years, women had been meeting during the convention to discuss the possibilities of creating a missions organization.

During the 1888 meeting, a constitution was adopted and the first officers were elected.

Baltimore, Maryland, was chosen as headquarters.

The Christian Woman's Board of Missions (CWBM) was a missionary organization associated with the Restoration Movement.[1]

It was the first such group managed entirely by women.[1]

It hired both men and women, and supported both domestic and foreign missions.

The rabbis refused to teach women and generally assigned them a very inferior place.

But Jesus freely admitted them into fellowship, as on this occasion, and accepted their service.

Conclusion- But

the greatest sacrifice of all time was

And the women were committed to the very end

Luke 24:6-1