Sermon Tone Analysis

Running head: SERMON WORKSHEET & MANUSCRIPT

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

*Sermon Worksheet & Manuscript*

*Robert L. Hutcherson, Jr.*

*Quinn** Chapel A.M.E.

Church*

*Sermon Preparation~/Delivery *

                                                          *Psalm 26 *

*“/Examine Me/”*

*The Rev. Karla J. Cooper, Pastor*

*October 15, 2006*

\\ \\ Sermon Worksheet & Manuscript

*AUTHOR*

*1.

Who wrote (or is credited with writing) the text?*

/While there is little if any direct evidence of authorship, it was the unanimous testimony of the early church that this gospel was written by John Mark.

Mark was a close associate of Peter, from whom he received the tradition of the things said and done by the Lord.

The first mention of him is in connection with his mother, who had a house in Jerusalem that served as a meeting place for believers.

When Paul and Barnabas returned to Antioch from Jerusalem, Mark accompanied them.. Mark next appears as a helper to Paul and Barnabas on their first missionary journey, but he deserted them to return to Jerusalem.

When Barnabas proposed taking Mark on the second journey, Paul flatly refused..Barnabas took Mark and left for Cyprus.

Mark reappears in Paul’s letter to the Collossians written from Rome.

Paul sends a greeting from Mark and adds “you have received instructions about him about him, if he comes to you, welcome him.”

by the end of Paul’s life, Mark had fully regained Paul’s favor../

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From what perspective does the author write?*

/Mark writes this Gospel not as a finished sequential account of the life of our Lord, but as the preaching of Peter preaching, which was directed to the needs of the early Christian communities.

Tradition holds that the Gospel of Mark largely consists of the preaching of Peter arranged and recorded by John Mark./

*3.

What are the historical and social contexts?*

*TEXT*

/" 17As He was setting out on a journey, a man ran up to Him and knelt before Him, and asked Him, Good Teacher, what shall I do to inherit eternal life?

18And Jesus said to him, Why do you call Me good?

No one is good except God alone.

19You know the commandments, 'DO NOT MURDER, DO NOT COMMIT ADULTERY, DO NOT STEAL, DO NOT BEAR FALSE WITNESS, Do not defraud, HONOR YOUR FATHER AND MOTHER.' 20And he said to Him, Teacher, I have kept all these things from my youth up.

21Looking at him, Jesus felt a love for him and said to him, One thing you lack: go and sell all you possess and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven; and come, follow Me.

22But at these words he was saddened, and he went away grieving, for he was one who owned much property.

23And Jesus, looking around, said to His disciples, How hard it will be for those who are wealthy to enter the kingdom of God! 24The disciples were amazed at His words.

But Jesus answered again and said to them, Children, how hard it is to enter the kingdom of God! 25It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of God.

26They were even more astonished and said to Him, Then who can be saved?

27Looking at them, Jesus ~*said, With people it is impossible, but not with God; for all things are possible with God.

28Peter began to say to Him, Behold, we have left everything and followed You.

29Jesus said, Truly I say to you, there is no one who has left house or brothers or sisters or mother or father or children or farms, for My sake and for the gospel's sake, 30but that he will receive a hundred times as much now in the present age, houses and brothers and sisters and mothers and children and farms, along with persecutions; and in the age to come, eternal life.

31But many {who are} first will be last, and the last, first."

(Mark 10:17-31 NASBR)/

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*I.

What does this passage say? (exegesis)*

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*2.

What does the passage mean?

(hermeneutic)*

 

 

 

 

*A.

To the original audience?*

*B.

To the contemporary context?*

 

 

 

 

*READER*

*3.

What does this passage say to the larger community?

(homiletic)*

 

 

 

 

 

 

*What is the "Bad News" in the text?

What is the "good News" for our*

*time?*

 

 

 

 

 

*What is the "Good News" in the text?

What is the "Good News" for*

*our time?*

 

 

 

 

 

*How can the conflict between the Bad News and the Good News be*

*reconciled?*

*7.

Specific Purpose~/Central Idea.*

*(In one clear sentence say what the sermon is about and why you are*

*preaching it).*

*I propose to show ______________________________________________*

 

 

 

 

 

 

*To the end that the hearers will*

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

*8.  What will the listener~/audience celebrate as a result of hearing this*

*sermon?

(Celebration happens in preaching when the Gospel becomes*

*Good News for the listener).

Just as the sermon must have a specific*

*aim, the celebration must be specific as well.*

*9.

How will I conclude the sermon?*

*10.

Where will I make sermonic moves and transitions?

List specific*

*transitional sentences.*

*11.

What biblical translation and~/or paraphrased version are consistent*

*with what I want to say in the sermon?

What cross-references and~/or*

*literary sources will I use?*

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

*BODY*

 

 

*I have chosen this passage from Mark because it challenges every one of us about our relationship with our money.

Most of us know this story as the story of the rich young ruler, although Mark is the only one who suggests he is rich, Matthew is the only one who says he is young, and Luke is the only one who calls him a ruler.

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*As Jesus is setting out on his journey to Jerusalem, an eager young man approaches him.

This man seems to be an ideal candidate to be a disciple of Jesus.

He kneels before Jesus and asks, "Good Teacher, what must I do to inherit eternal life?" *

*His question shows his great respect for Jesus and his interest in matters eternal.

His idea is that he can "inherit" eternal life.

This word is well chosen because it reflects the Jewish tradition that eternal life was often seen as a given, as something one inherited by being born right.

For the Jews, belonging to the people of God was a matter of race.

For Jesus, belonging to the people of God was a matter of grace.

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*Instead of directly answering this man's question, Jesus first focuses on that reference to "goodness."

He replies, “Why do you call me good?

No one is good but God alone.”

Then Jesus listed some of the Ten Commandments.

In fact, he lists numbers 6, 7, 8, 9 and 5.

After the rather incomplete version of the commandments Jesus recites to this man, he swiftly insists, "Teacher, I have kept all these since my youth" (v.

20).

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*Here was a man who had found the emptiness of success.

He had the very things that most of us think will bring us happiness.

Most of us yearn all our lives for the very things this man enjoyed.

First of all, he had a lot of money.

That one suckers all of us.