Sermon Tone Analysis

[SLIDE] Introduction

Word meanings /understanding

Cellfish - someone who continues to talk on their phone being rude or inconsiderate of other people.

Textpectation - the anticipation you feel when waiting for someone to reply to your text.

After clap - the last person who claps after everyone else has stopped.

Chairdrobe - piling clothes on a chair in place of a closet or dresser; see also floordrobe.

Carcolepsy - a condition where a passenger falls asleep as soon as the car starts moving.

Destinesia - when you get to where you were intending to go, but forget why you were going there in the first place.

Words that don’t mean what you think they do

Winter - A season from Mid December to mid-march.

In the Midwest - dreariness that starts around Halloween and lasts until April.

Shorts weather - Summer time.

In the midwest - 40 degrees.

Pop - a loud noise.

In the Midwest - a carbonated drink.

Fair - honorable or just.

In the midwest - the best part of summer with corn dogs and lemon icees.

Passion

Passion

Romantic

Deep emotion

What matters to you

Follow/pursue your passion/interest with everything you have - you can do anything you want!

There’s a perfect job (just like mate) waiting for you.

We’ve been telling that to young people long enough there is now research data that shows it was bad advice.

NO! Bad advice.

You are uniqely you; gifted in some ways and not others.

Too much passion

Paul is addressing a burning issue.

Emotions are running high.

He's going on the attack.

Gets personal

Vivid, emphatic and abusive language (dung)

Pursue Your Passion

Pursue your passion

Passion about something = what matters to you

Passion as zeal - eagerness and ardent interest in pursuit of something 

Zealots - Jewish patriotic party resistant to Roman aggression.

Resorted to violence and assassination; fanatical violence eventually provoked the Roman war.

   and assassination; fanatical violence eventually provoked the Roman war.

Zeal - being hot for something or cold against something.

Eagerness.

Passion.

A single minded desire, characterized by enthusiasm and devotion.

In scripture often directed toward God also has zeal for his people.

Misdirected or inappropriate zeal can disintegrate into fanaticism.

[SLIDE] Passion Defined

[SLIDE BUTTON] Zeal

Zeal - being hot or eager for something or cold as in against something.

A single minded desire with focused enthusiasm and devotion.

In OT, God’s zeal for his people.

Zealots - Jewish patriotic party resistant to Roman aggression.

Resorted to violence and assassination; fanatical violence eventually provoked the Roman war.

Zealots - Jewish patriotic party resistant to Roman aggression.

Resorted to violence and assassination; fanatical violence eventually provoked the Roman war.

Misdirected or inappropriate zeal can disintegrate into fanaticism.

In the NT - passion is not an emotion but conviction.Zeal

Zeal - being hot for something or cold against something.

Eagerness.

Passion.

A single minded desire, characterized by enthusiasm and devotion.

In scripture often directed toward God also has zeal for his people.

Zealots - Jewish patriotic party resistant to Roman aggression.

Resorted to violence and assassination; fanatical violence eventually provoked the Roman war.

Misdirected or inappropriate zeal can disintegrate into fanaticism.

In the NT - passion is not an emotion but conviction.

To Suffer

[SLIDE BUTTON] Intense, Powerful emotions are involved

[SLIDE BUTTON] Passion can be good and bad, and can certainly be overwhelming and override rationality.

[SLIDE BUTTON]The word passion originates from the Latin word “passio” which is closely related to the Greek root “path”

[SLIDE BUTTON] meaning “to suffer.”

- a feeling which the mind suffers

Go down a path means to walk the way of suffering

Intense

When Paul wrote that God gave them up to their (sinful) passions () the Greek word “pathos” was used and can mean several things; “an affliction of the mind, emotions,” and “a feeling which the mind suffers” so the word passion can swing in many different areas but almost always is extremely intense.

Zeal - being hot for something or cold against something.

Eagerness.

Passion.

A single minded desire, characterized by enthusiasm and devotion.

In scripture often directed toward God also has zeal for his people.

Zealots - Jewish patriotic party resistant to Roman aggression.

Resorted to violence and assassination; fanatical violence eventually provoked the Roman war.

Misdirected or inappropriate zeal can disintegrate into fanaticism.

In the NT - passion is not an emotion but conviction.

[SLIDE BUTTON] TOGETHER: TO SUFFER FOR A CONVICTION

Zealous and Passionate People in the Church

Paul is addressing a burning issue.

Emotions are running high.

He's going on the attack.

Gets personal

Dogs, evil workers, mutilators - Judaizers, false teachers

Circumcision - a practice and an identity.

To be known as “the Circumcision” was to be known as belonging to God.

Carried over to the church: Have to be circumcized to be a Christian and welcome here.

a physical means of securing salvation (rule following).

A physical means of securing salvation (rule following).

Paul: Had passion/conviction, just the wrong kind.

What was their teaching: circumcision - Now that Christ has come, this is wicked.

They lost sight of the spiritual significance of it.

Relied on it for their salvation rather than Christ.