Sermon Tone Analysis

CONNECTED to HUMANITY

Jesus as a Witness to the World

Joshua Burton, a 10 year-old fourth grader at Columbia Elementary School in Orange County, Florida, was forced to stand in a corner, and was later scolded by his principal for violating the “separation of church and state,” because he brought a Bible to school.

The Liberator, April 1995, and The Gates of Hell Shall Not Prevail, p.111

In June of 1998, public school teacher Mildred Rosario prayed with her class over the death of one of her students.

Later that week she was fired.

In December 1998, fifth grade instructor Simpson Gray was fired from the same Bronx school district where Rosario had taught.

His crime?

He brought a Bible to school, and he made Christian resources available to his students upon their request.

New York Post, 12/12/98

It is unconstitutional for students to see the Ten Commandments posted at a public school because their effect would be to “induce the schoolchildren to read, meditate upon, perhaps to venerate and obey, the Commandments.”

(Stone vs. Graham, 1980) Original Intent, by David Barton

Equipped to witness (knowing scriptures) (know your faith)

Jesus’ Witness (I do what I see my Father doing…)

Witness - somebody who saw or heard or knows something that happened and gives evidence about it

Share Your Testimony Practically

Your Life Before Christ How You Came to Know Him Life After Christ

~ Keep testimony short (2-3 minutes)

~ Avoid preaching and church vocabulary

~ Avoid criticism on church, denomination, or individual

~ Share something of your life that is relative

~ Do not force them to receive Jesus

Give Law to the proud and Gospel to the humble

How can you live be them if you don’t know them?

Witnessing Andrew and John; Matthew; Samaritan Woman

used happendstance of life; humbled Himself; awakened her curiosity “if you would know”; used a contact point water; advantage; personal conviction;

Power of the Gospel makes you great.

John 1:7 John is the example

Holy Spirit

Wait Acts 1:5-8

Holy Spirit comes upon us as a Person:

~ to unable us life the Christian Life

~ to unable us carry out our earthly calling