Sermon Tone Analysis

No Condemnation

Dear ACC Pastor,

Many pastors have been asking how to address the marriage plebiscite with their congregations.

The ACC National Executive discussed this complex issue when we met in Sydney this week, and over the next few weeks we will be rolling out information you can share with your congregation as to why they ought to vote 'no' to same sex marriage.

The FIRST STEP is to remind everyone that this is a critical issue for our nation and the Church, so please be encouraging everyone to have their say and make their vote count.

THIS SUNDAY the most important thing our pastors can do is to urge people to ensure that:

1.

They are enrolled to vote 

2.

Their postal address is up to date with the Electoral Commission

Please impress this upon people this weekend.

If you are currently on the electoral roll, you do not need to register separately for the Australian Marriage Law survey which opens on 12 September 2017.

For those  unsure if they are registered to vote, they will need to update their details with the Australian Electoral Commission before 24 August 2017 (next Thursday).

You can check your enrolment status at: www.aec.gov.au/enrol or call the ABS on 1800 572 113.

If you are enrolled but have recently moved, you can update your details online.

This Sunday is our last opportunity to remind people they must have their details up to date if their voice is to be heard on this issue of vital importance to our nation.

Thank you for your assistance.

In our faith journey, we must be constantly moving forward.

If we stop, we start to live in fear, we start to complain, and our past can even catch up with us.

Move forward, constantly growing spiritually and watch God do the miraculous!

No Condemnation

In our faith journey, we must be constantly moving forward.

If we stop, we start to live in fear, we start to complain, and our past can even catch up with us.

Move forward, constantly growing spiritually and watch God do the miraculous!

In our faith journey, we must be constantly moving forward.

If we stop, we start to live in fear, we start to complain, and our past can even catch up with us.

Move forward, constantly growing spiritually and watch God do the miraculous!

You have to learn how to fail in order to succeed.

Here are some famous failures from history.

• Walt Disney: Today Disney rakes in billions from merchandise, movies and theme parks around the world, but Walt Disney had many personal failures.

He was fired by a newspaper editor because, “he lacked imagination and had no good ideas.”

• Michael Jordan: Most people wouldn’t believe that a man often lauded as the best basketball player of all time was actually cut from his high school basketball team.

• Fred Astaire: In his first screen test, the testing director of MGM noted that Astaire “Can’t act.

Can’t sing.

Slightly bald.

Not handsome.

Can dance a little.”Astaire

went on to become an incredibly successful actor, singer and dancer and kept that note in his Beverly Hills home to remind him of where he came from.

• Thomas Edison: In his early years, teachers told Edison he was “too stupid to learn anything.”

Work was no better, as he was fired from his first two jobs for not being productive enough.

Even as an inventor, Edison made 1,000 unsuccessful attempts at inventing the light bulb.

One day, an assistant asked him why he didn’t give up.

After all, he failed over a thousand times.

Edison replied that he had not failed once.

He had discovered over 1,000 things that don’t work.

• J. K. Rowling: Rowling may be rolling in a lot of Harry Potter dough today, but before she published the series of novels, she was nearly penniless, severely depressed, divorced, trying to raise a child on her own while attending school and writing a novel.

Rowling went from depending on welfare to survive to being one of the richest women in the world in a span of only five years through her hard work and determination.

What do these people have in common?

Two things.

1.

They failed.

2. They had the courage to continue.

In our key verses

We learned that condemnation is not something that comes from God.

We may fail.

We will fail.

It might be our fault, like the woman in , or it might be by accident when we were trying our best.

Failure has the power to make us want to quit, and, if we stop there at our failure, we are making a detrimental mistake.

Why?

Because God isn’t finished yet, and neither should we be finished.

This is where courage comes in.

Message 2

GET GOING ‘BELIEVE’

We all have times when we mess up.

We all have moments we wish we could do over.

Too often we define ourselves by our failures and allow our darkest moments to become a forecast for our future.

How do we move past our epic failures and come to the place of actually believing that our failure our not our finale?

a quote from Perry Noble’s book Overwhelmed that talked about the tension that we all face to appear perfect.

Why do you think so many people are tempted to hide their failures, especially in the church?

4. One of the biggest obstacles to faith is the belief that we are too messed up for God to love.

In what ways have you been tempted to believe this lie?

5. Read

Peter experiences an epic fail moments as he is pursuing Jesus.

What are some ways you’ve tripped up in your pursuit of Jesus?

Peter experiences an epic fail moments as he is pursuing Jesus.

What are some ways you’ve tripped up in your pursuit of Jesus?

6.

After Peter messes up and fails Jesus he goes back to what comes most naturally to him.

What are those habits you fall back on in times of stress and failure?

How do you feel after you revert back to those old habits?

7. Read

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Three times Peter denied Jesus, and three times Jesus offers Peter forgiveness.

No matter how many times we fail Jesus, he never gives up on us!

How can Peter’s story encourage us to continue to pursue Jesus even though we’ve mess up?

Three times Peter denied Jesus, and three times Jesus offers Peter forgiveness.

No matter how many times we fail Jesus, he never gives up on us!

How can Peter’s story encourage us to continue to pursue Jesus even though we’ve mess up?

WRAP IT UP Don’t let your past mistakes rob you of an amazing future.

God doesn’t want your failure to be your final.

Jesus is relentless to love, pursue, and forgive you.