Sermon Tone Analysis

Welcome || Host Time || Covenant Member || Greg Neil

10:25 Host offers our guests to grab coffee and snack (if available—pointing to the lobby doors) announcing we will start worship in 5 min.

10:28 Concord Worship is in place before Host takes the stage

10:30 Music begins promptly Host take the stage after “bumper music” has played approx. 1 min (time with Chad)

Host engages Enthusiastically!...

Good Morning Church!

Covenant Members, would you join me in welcoming all of our first time and returning guests?

( energetic applause) So good to see all of you and to be here.

I hope you have been made to feel welcome today.

This church is about walking out this life together in the RADICAL GRACE of JESUS CHRIST.

It’s our heart that here a Concord, that you are made to feel “Known, Loved, and that you Belong.”

Scripture tells us in :‌ (ESV) but God shows his love for us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.That means you don’t have to get it all figured out before you come.

You come and we figure it out together.

Whatever season you are in, we know the struggles of this sinful world…but we also know that our God is bigger than our circumstances.

guest connection:

Keep it upbeat— Also, for our Guests we want to connect with you!

With that said, I hope you received a program this morning you’ll notice in that program there’s more info about who we are and what we offer as a church.

There you will find information about various ministries for the whole family.

Also inside the program, along with the insert, there is a connect envelope.

Later on in our service we will worship through a time of offering together.

During this offering time we will give all of you a moment to fill out the connect envelopes (and they also serve as a place you can give any money or financial gift that you would offer to the Lord).

During that time you will have an opportunity to connect and give and it’s really simple.

Joe, our lead pastor will walk you through the steps.

We desire to connect with you and help you get plugged in.

covenant connection:

Covenant Members,

We value Concord KIDS!

Our KIDS are having a blast on Sunday’s with KIDS group & worship and this place is alive on Wednesday nights with KIDS AWANA!!!

We value Concord KIDS!

Our KIDS are having a blast on Sunday’s with KIDS group & worship and this place is alive on Wednesday nights with KIDS AWANA!!!

Ask Delight, what this Wednesday’s theme is…then announce it to the church and encourage them to make sure there KIDS are there

We are so excited to see so much growth in KIDS…I mean it’s an exciting time as our KIDS building is starting to burst on Sun and Wed. with that said, there is a NEED to serve our KIDS.

Covenant Members we are asking for you specifically to serve our KIDS on Sun. or Wed.

I want you to take out your Connect Envelopes and after you fill in your names and date right beside “KIDS” write I WILL SERVE!

Then write your email and cell down and we will pass your info on to our KIDS Pastor, Brandon.

We need you to take the

He will be in touch with you this week.

Whether you are willing to hold a baby or teach our KIDS about JESUS, CONCORD KIDS WILL provide you with the training you need.

Make sure to fill out that connect card and we will collect it at the end of worship during our OFFERING MOMENT.

Our lead pastor, Joe will tell you more about that later.

Call to Worship || Preparatory Prayer

Ask Congregation to stand

Lead them in an intentional prayer to focus our hearts and minds on how the Holy Spirit would move within us today

​ ESV10 For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ, so that each one may receive what is due for what he has done in the body, whether good or evil.

11 Therefore, knowing the fear of the Lord, we persuade others.

But what we are is known to God, and I hope it is known also to your conscience.

Cole, immediately start playing the worship song as you take over

Greg exits the stage

FORGIVEN || worship leader || Cole Pevey

Cole, says:

2 Songs of Pardon || Concord Worship

Cole prays: Thanking God for His presence through His Holy Spirit and how He reveals Himself through the person on Jesus who is “the Word.”

Ask Him to anoint the service as we continue to worship through His Holy Spirit inspired Scripture and song.

Band exits stage

Joe takes the stage during prayer

Sermon || lead pastor || Joe Brantley

Introduction

Good morning church.

Open your Bibles to John chapter 1 (found in the New Testament)…if you are joining us today and you don’t have Bible you should find a white paperback one laying around under the seats, grab that one…if you don’t own a Bible, consider that our gift to you.

We are continuing our study of this text because it is crucial to understand.

Here’s what you need to know most of all this morning as we have unpacked truth after truth for this very text is there is still more to grasp and to behold.

This is today’s truth that we all must see… (big idea)

God's law speaks to and applies to all of humanity.

pause… repeat…pause…repeat.

Here’s the shards of truth buried with in that general statement… “all of humanity.”

That means whether you are a skeptic or a saint God’s law is actively speaking into your life and there is no “get out of jail free cards.”

So, for you who are here that are on the fence about what this whole church thing means and are going, “Wait a minute, ugh uhhh, I didn’t sign up for that yet.

I haven’t said yes to this whole church thing or this Jesus guy.”

If that’s you welcome.

I’m glad you are hear because you desperately need to hear what God’s Word has specifically for you.

Because whether you are here in belief, kind of belief, on the fence, or you where drug here kicking and screaming, the truth is that God’s law applies to each and every one of us.

That’s why it is so crucial that you don’t tune me out.

Listen...

God's law speaks to and applies to all of humanity.

Exposition

That is why I’ve been explaining and expounding this text.

And hopefully there is a tension and a holy type of wrestling that is going on in your heart that even if you have been in church all your life, you are examining your heart.

Because no one gets a pass!

This text is not only crucial to us understanding John’s prologue () but it is also essential to understanding the whole Christian Gospel.

The Good News proclaimed in God’s Word of His One and only Son holy and supernatural mission as tells us, that Jesus...

John is teaching us ALL the doctrine of the person of Jesus Christ when he calls Him the Word...

John 1:1

R. Kent Hughes explains it like this...

“‘In the beginning was the Word.”

There never was a time when Christ did not exist because the word “was” is in the Greek imperfect tense, which means, “was continuing.

In fact, the entire verse bears this sense.

‘In the beginning was continuing the Word, and the Word was continuing with God, and the Word was continually God.” Meaning “Jesus was always wasing! Jesus was preexistent.

He was always continuing… ‘And the Word was with God.’ Literally, ‘the Word was continually toward God.”

The Father and son were continually face-to-face...” then Hughes says it just gets bigger!

“‘And the Word was God.’

The exact meaning is is that the Word was God in essence and character.

He was God in every way, though He was a separate person from God the Father.

The phrase perfectly preserves Jesus’ separate identity, while also stating that he is God.

This was his continuing identity from all eternity.

He was God constantly…The simple sentence of verse 1 is the most compact and pulsating theological statement in all Scripture.

Jesus was always existing from all eternity as God, in perfect fellowship with God the Father and (though not mentioned) the Holy Spirit.

He is the cosmic Christ.”

That my friends is the Gospel, good news to both skeptic and saint.

Why?

Because that means God stepped down from heaven and into our mess and made a way for your sins to be forgiven.