Sermon Tone Analysis

IMPERATIVES: #1 Determine Your Goal;#2 Pick A Point (It’s important to have a one point message.

That way you only have one thing to remember.);#3

Create A Map (Me-We-God-You-We);#4 Internalize The Message (Tell a story that takes them on a journey) (Whether it’s a journey to your childhood home or a journey to a life-changing truth, it’s a story that will take you there.)

(People make it difficult when they try to communicate points instead of telling a story.)

(When you stand up and speak without notes and without having to read your sermon, you’re saying, “This is so important that it’s a part of me — and I think you should make it a part of you, too!”);#5 Engage The Audience;#6 Find Your Voice;#7 Find Some TractionPrayer, Checklist Questions: What do they need to know?Why do they need to know it?What do they need to do?Why do they need to do it?MAP:ME - Explain who you are and what you’re all about.

Pastor in his church uses as introduction of idea or topic.WE - It takes me from what I’m thinking or feeling to what WE are thinking and feeling.

I have to find an emotional common ground with them around the topic or idea of the message.

My goal is to raise a felt need with as many people in the audience as I canGOD - where I take this emotional common ground I’ve established and introduce biblical truth into the discussion.

Now I’m providing a solution to the need I just raised.

Remember, we are not teaching the Bible to people; we’re teaching people the Bible.

First, we connect with the people; then we move to the Bible.YOU - Once I’ve introduced God’s view on the subject as the answer to the need, it makes it easy for me to then ask, ‘What are you going to do about it?

This becomes the application segment, and if I’ve followed my map well, instead of having to stir up interest in making the application, the application comes as a relief or it’s always the answer to a question they’re already asking.

Communicate the challenge at a personal level because life-change is going to come when people apply the truth to their lives.

You just go back, and everywhere you raised a need, now you make an application and make sure you don’t raise a felt need that you aren’t going to cover from God’s Word and answer with an application.

The worst thing a communicator can do is overpromise and under-deliver.

You’re building trust with your listeners.

Not just trust in the information, but trust in the relationship.WE - the place to cast a common vision.

A vision of what our lives, our church, and even our world would look like if only we would apply the truth of God’s Word.

It’s the inspirational part of the message.

My goal at this point is to inspire people to make a change.

Sometimes being faced with God’s Word can leave the listener feeling defeated, if all they think about is how far they have to go.

But, if I can give them a picture of what life will be like once they apply the truth, then they have a little hope.

GOAL: To help New Life to understand the Core Value of “Passionately proclaiming, by word and deed for transformation . . . 1) of the heart, 2) of the mind, and 3) of our being.

POINT: Passionately proclaiming transformation is of utmost importance!

INTRODUCTION

The Andy Griffith show video makes good humor of health!

Isn’t it funny how that can happen if someone begins to point certain things out in our lives and about our bodies . .

we all of sudden get real nervous and concerned . . .

maybe even scared!

When we think of health and more importantly Transformation . . . the motif looms large in the stories of the world, and if for not other reason than that stories are built around the principle of character development . . .

and if the development is sufficiently drastic, we experience the account as a transformation.

In mythical literature, too, stories of transformation — trees becoming people, people becoming animals or statues (like in The Lord of the Rings/Hobbit, or like The Weeping Angels, better known as Blink in Doctor Who turning people into statues).

Kind of reminds me of a little story . . .

Illustration: There was this Jewish man that moved into a Catholic neighborhood.

Every Friday the Catholics went crazy because, while they were gloomily eating fish, the Jew was outside barbecuing steaks.

So the Catholics worked on the Jew to convert him.

Finally, by threats and pleading, the Catholics succeeded.

They took the Jew to a priest who sprinkled holy water on him and intoned, “Born a Jew, raised a Jew, now a Catholic.”

The Catholics were ecstatic.

No more delicious, maddening smells every Friday evening, they thought.

But the next Friday evening the scent of barbecue wafted through the neighborhood once again.

The Catholics all rushed to the new convert’s house to remind him of his new diet.

They saw him standing over the grilled steak sprinkling it with water.

As he did so he said, “Born a cow, raised a cow, now a fish.”

Hodgin, Michael.

1002 Humorous Illustrations for Public Speaking .

Zondervan.

Kindle Edition.

Hodgin, Michael.

1002 Humorous Illustrations for Public Speaking .

Zondervan.

Kindle Edition.

Hodgin, Michael.

1002 Humorous Illustrations for Public Speaking .

Zondervan.

Kindle Edition.

Anyways . . .

but transformation assumes spiritual depth in the Bible with its sense of the momentous possibilities for good or ill that characterize human life.

Scott Adams, the creator and writer of the Dilbert cartoons, suffered from a vocal disorder—spasmodic dysphonia.

With this rare disorder, a certain section of the brain simply shuts down, paralyzing the ability to speak with much command or volume.

Think of it as a more permanent case of laryngitis.

Oddly enough, the condition is situational.

For example, Adams could speak quite well when using his public speaking voice, but his more conversational, everyday voice eluded him.

Adams wrote on his personal website about how frustrating the condition was.

He desperately wanted his normal voice back.

One day he finally had a breakthrough.

While helping his child with a simple homework assignment, Scott found that he could speak perfectly when using a rhyme scheme.

He could say, “Jack be nimble, Jack be quick, Jack jump over the candlestick” with very little difficulty.

As he noted on his website, it was “just different enough from normal speech that my brain handled it fine.”

What is amazing is that Adams’s regular voice returned as well.

He likened the healing to starting up a car on a cold winter night—the words of the poem awakened a sleeping section of his brain, and his normal voice suddenly emerged.

In a similar way, the living Word can awaken and transform a heart that has been spiritually dysfunctional.

Do you ever feel that?

When you think of transformation . .

we all know that we are supposed to be going through a process of being transformed . . .

and then we get convicted because we wonder if we really are!

The tension that takes place between what we know is supposed to be happening and what is really happening!

And especially when we fail the tests of life and we react in a way that we know is wrong . . .

or we say something that is out of place from who we are!

(ME)(WE)

You see, God wants ME to live a victorious life on the outside that comes from, and is only possible out of an overflow of a healthy heart and life on the inside!

He want US all to do the same thing!

And . . .

that is possible through our transformation!

And then, not only living it in our words and our deeds!

But, PASSIONATELY PROCLAIMING it with our words and deeds to everyone else! BEING THE LIGHT!

RIGHT!

How can we possibly do that?

(WE)

MESSAGE

(GOD)

TRANSFORMATION OF THE HEART: (Ezekiel 11:19)

You see, we learn from this text that the Israelites that were exiled were away from home and God was calling them back.

The remnant was being called back home to clean things up and God would give them an undivided heart and put a new spirit in them . . .

He would removed from them their heart of stone and give them a heart of flesh . . .

and then, and only then would they follow His decrees and be careful to keep His laws . . .

then they would be His people and He would be their God!

Ezekiel 11:16-

You see, transformation of the heart comes when we come to Him, when we return home to where we already know we are supposed to be.

It is when this happens and we get focused on the Lord and are single minded that he works in us to give us an undivided heart, a new spirit, and a heart of flesh!