Sermon Tone Analysis

*One Another Relationships Are About Being Family*

 

/Both the one who makes men holy and those who are made holy *are of the same family*.

So Jesus is not ashamed to call them brothers.*

Hebrews 2:11*/

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/10/*/Be devoted to one another in brotherly love/*/…/* Romans 12:10*

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*In One Another Relationships God Wants Me*

 

·         To *[Encourage]* My Brothers and Sisters.

/34//There were no needy persons among them.

For from time to time those who owned lands or houses sold them, brought the money from the sales 35//and put it at the apostles’ feet, and it was distributed to anyone as he had need.36//Joseph, a Levite from Cyprus, whom the apostles called *Barnabas (which means Son of Encouragement)*, 37//sold a field he owned and brought the money and put it at the apostles’ feet./*

Acts 4:36-37*

 

 

·         To *[See the Possibilities]* In My Brothers and Sisters.

/26//When he came to Jerusalem, he tried to join the disciples, but they were all afraid of him, not believing that he really was a disciple.

27//But *Barnabas took him and brought him to the apostles*.

He told them how Saul on his journey had seen the Lord and that the Lord had spoken to him, and how in Damascus he had preached fearlessly in the name of Jesus.

28//So Saul stayed with them and moved about freely in Jerusalem, speaking boldly in the name of the Lord./*

Acts 9:26-28*

 

 

·         To *[Challenge]* My Brothers and Sisters.

/25//Then Barnabas went to Tarsus to look for Saul, 26//and *when he found him, he brought him to Antioch*.

So for a whole year Barnabas and Saul met with the church and taught great numbers of people.

The disciples were called Christians first at Antioch./* Acts 11:25-26*

 

 

·         To *[Never Give Up On]* My Brothers and Sisters

 

/37//Barnabas wanted to take John, also called Mark, with them, 38//but Paul did not think it wise to take him, because he had deserted them in Pamphylia and had not continued with them in the work.

39//They had such a sharp disagreement that they parted company.

Barnabas *took Mark and sailed for Cyprus*, 40//but Paul chose Silas and left, commended by the brothers to the grace of the Lord./*

Acts 15:37-40*

 

 

1Do not rebuke an older man harshly, but exhort him as if he were your father.

Treat younger men as brothers, 2older women as mothers, and younger women as sisters, with absolute purity.* 1 Tim 5:1-2*

 

*key: Encourage, See the possibilities, Challenge, Never give up on*