Sermon Tone Analysis

Core Value #8 Resolve All Issues

VISION-LOVE ALL PEOPLE, LEAD THEM INTO AN INTIMATE WALK WITH JESUS, IMPACT GENERATIONS THROUGH THEM.

(LOVE, LEAD, IMPACT)

MISSION-TO BUILD A FAMILY CHURCH, AND A MINISTRY TRAINING CENTER

2 cor 5::

We are new creations in Christ.

The new birth is the rebirth of the human spirit.

We were separated from God because of our sin.

But now we are reconciled to God our heavenly Father.

Now that we are reconciled, we are commission by God to reconcile people in our Jerusalem.

What is mean by “reconciliation?”

Reconciliation comes from the Greek family of words that has its roots in allassō.

The meaning common to this word group is “change” or “exchange.”

Reconciliation involves a change in the relationship between God and man or man and man.

It assumes there has been a breakdown in the relationship, but now there has been a change from a state of enmity and fragmentation to one of harmony and fellowship.

To “reconcile” or bring about “reconciliation” is to restore harmony or friendship between two entities formerly divided.

In the biblical tradition, reconciliation denotes the fundamental fact of a restored relationship, either between human persons, among various elements in the cosmos, or between humans and God

This biblical idea assumes that relationships have indeed been broken, as the narrative of so poignantly relates.

In that story, moreover, all relationships of human existence stand in need of reconciliation: relations between creatures and their Creator, gender relationships made hostile by the effects of sin, and the relationships between human creatures and the earth itself which have been marred as well by the sin of the garden.

Christ’s death and resurrection have redefined and restored all relationships in the “new creation” (); God, now, has become the perfect Reconciler.

Through Christ, God has restored all people to a right relationship with the divine Creator and has summoned every believer to cooperate in this “ministry of reconciliation” ().

The whole cosmos now stands reconciled before God, invited into this reconciliation: “in Christ God was reconciling the world” (

Since we are reconciled to God, we have been given the ministry of reconciliation.

In fact, we are ministers of reconciliation in the marketplace.

If we are reconciling men to God, we have the power to reconcile men to men.

The power to reconcile starts with ourselves.

Jesus calls this “peace-makers.”

8. Resolve all issues- We address issues until they are resolved, and relationships restored.

8. Resolve all issues- We address issues until they are resolved,and relationship restored.

When a relationship is restored, the tension in gone and peace is established.

Peace with God, empowers us to have peace with men/women.

Stories of Reconciliation

Jacob and Esau , & 33

Esau is going kill me and my entire family!

Jacob deals with the fear, and turns it to favor through prayer!

Gen 32

Reconciliation starts with prayer!

Through prayer, we cleanse our hearts and release God to move in our behalf, and He does!

In the book “Forgiving Forward” Chap.

6, pg 95 Bill Hybels states “Reconciliation is the restoration of an estranged parts to a good relationship.”

God restored the relationship between Jacob and Esau, and he can do the same for you!

Prayer is the beginning of all reconciliation.

Restoration of friendly relationships and of peace where before there had been hostility and alienation.

Ordinarily it also includes the removal of the offense which caused the disruption of peace and harmony

Restoration of friendly relationships and of peace where before there had been hostility and alienation.

Ordinarily it also includes the removal of the offense which caused the disruption of peace and harmony

[1] Elwell, W. A., & Beitzel, B. J. (1988).

Reconciliation.

In Baker encyclopedia of the Bible (Vol.

2, p. 1823).

Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Book House.