Sermon Tone Analysis

Transformation #1- My Head

There is one vice of which no man in the world is free; which everyone loathes when he sees it in someone else; and of which hardly any people, except Christians, ever imagine that they are guilty themselves.

I have heard people admit that they are bad-tempered, or that they cannot keep their heads about girls or drink, or even that they are cowards.

I do not think I have ever heard anyone who was not a Christian accuse himself of this vice.

And at the same time I have very seldom met anyone, who was not a Christian, who showed the slightest mercy to it in others.

There is no fault that makes a man more unpopular, and no fault which we are more unconscious of in ourselves.

And the more we have it ourselves, the more we dislike it in others.

The vice I am talking of is Pride or Self-Conceit: and the virtue opposite to it, in Christian morals, is called Humility…it was through Pride that the devil became the devil: Pride leads to every other vice: it is the complete anti-God state of mind

…In fact, if you want to find out how proud you are the easiest way is to ask yourself, “How much do I dislike it when other people snub me, or refuse to take any notice of me, or shove their oar in, or patronise me, or show off?”

The point is that each person’s pride is in competition with everyone else’s pride.

It is because I wanted to be the big noise at the party that I am so annoyed at someone else being the big noise

...Pride gets no pleasure out of having something, only out of having more of it than the next man…It is the comparison that makes you proud, the pleasure of being above the rest…For, of course, power is what Pride really enjoys: there is nothing makes a man feel so superior to others as being able to move them about like toy soldiers

…In God you come up against something that is in every respect immeasurably superior to yourself.

Unless you know God as that – and, therefore, know your-self as nothing in comparison – you do not know God at all.

As long as you are proud you cannot know God.

A proud man is always looking down on things and people: and, of course, as long as you are looking down, you cannot see something that is above you.

--C.S. Lewis (Mere Christianity)

Transformation #2- My Heart

Transformation #3- My Hands

in•teg•ri•ty \in-ˈte-grə-tē\ noun

[Middle English integrite, from Middle French & Latin; Middle French integrité, from Latin integritat-, integritas, from integr-, integer entire] 14th century

1: firm adherence to a code of especially moral or artistic values: INCORRUPTIBILITY

2: an unimpaired condition: SOUNDNESS

3: the quality or state of being complete or undivided: COMPLETENESS

The Essence of Transformation: Love