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:

Guests know that 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 want to remind you that next Sun at 2pm we have been asked to host the Southern Baptist Association’s Annual Business meeting.

Our very own Concord Worship will be leading us in Worship and we will be hearing from a special guest speaker.

We want to encourage our Covenant Members to be here (wearing your Concord shirts) receiving and greeting ministers and church messengers from all the churches that are within our Association.

Let’s show the churches of our community that we are serious about making ALL people feel as though they are Known Loved and Belong in this place.

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

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

Greg exits the stage

FORGIVEN || worship leader || Cole Pevey

Cole, says:

Psalm 145:

2 Songs of Pardon || Concord WorshipCole 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

2 Songs of Pardon || Concord WorshipCole 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

2 Songs of Pardon || Concord Worship

2 Songs of Pardon || Concord WorshipCole 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

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.

(selective reading of verses)

We learned that the Word, is Jesus.

Jesus was there in the beginning.

With God and He was God.

Yes, He is the Son of God, but He is One with the Father.

HE IS GOD.

All things were made through Him.

And without Him making it, nothing was made.

In Jesus was life and He was the light of men.

Jesus being the light was sent to “shine in the darkness”…interesting enough we learned that sin is the darkness, but not only do you and I live in sin (the darkness) but the darkness (sin) lives in us.

WE ARE THE DARKNESS in which JOHN is referring…Jesus came to shine light on the fact that we are sinners in need of a SAVIOR and that in our sin we die without God; separated to eternal darkness.

What did God use to show us the contrast in the saving grace of the Light of Jesus and how distinctively different it is than the darkness in which we live and which we are?

He used his law (v.17).

He used His law given through Moses, to show us the light (Jesus) that we can only experience through Jesus, so John says “Grace and truth came through Jesus.”

So John, has taught us through this “prologue” the doctrine of the person of Jesus Christ.

He has brought to us the doctrine of salvation and how the law of the OT was needed to remind us of ( 3 S’s)our sins, separation, and need of a Savior.

Why?

Why do we need to be saved?

Why do we need Jesus to save us?

Why can’t we just do better?

become good people?

and live and die in peace without all of this NEED for Jesus?

Let me tell you why...

The truth of God’s law and grace shows there is existence beyond physical death for all.

(repeat slowly)

So how does that have bearing on us who believe and to those of you who don’t?

Why is this important?

Because what I’m going to unpack for us today, through John’s reminder and pointing us to the Scriptures what I want you to understand is whether you believe or not doesn’t mean that this physical existence is all you will experience.

“I don’t believe in God!

When I die, I die…I don’t believe that I’m going up to some place in the clouds where I get wings and will play a harp for eternity (you are right about that and some believers have that wrong).

But what I’m telling you is in your ignorance to believe in a God that created you, does not mean the reality you hope for is simply to take the proverbial “dirt nap.”

Not true.

Just because you don’t believe in life after death doesn’t mean that you are right, it just determines how you spend your eternity.

The truth of God’s law and grace shows there is existence beyond physical death for all.

Scripture tells us through out this truth...

Peter:

Luke (recording the words of Paul on trial for heresy in Caesarea):

Acts 24:14

Paul to the Romans:

That’s us… ALL OF US...

Then the Apostle John later quoting Jesus:

John 5

The truth of God’s law and grace shows there is existence beyond physical death for all.

Just because you don’t believe in life after death doesn’t mean that you are right, it just determines how you spend your eternity.

There are two ways in which the Scriptures teach this and that’s what we are going to focus on today.