Sermon Tone Analysis

Intro

Key points to hit

Timothy was told to practice his gift, to hone his craft, to improve.

Intro

Building something takes materials, personnel, know how, time, patience, guidance.

It didn’t work so well for me.

On the other hand, the VBS team built a campus designed so that the gospel can be effectively communicated to children.

Building a Culture of Peace

the set of shared attitudes, values, goals, and practices that characterizes an institution or organization

Inc Merriam-Webster, Merriam-Webster’s collegiate dictionary., 2003.

Culture: the set of shared attitudes, values, goals, and practices that characterizes an institution or organization.

(Merriam-Webster, Merriam-Webster’s collegiate dictionary., 2003.)

Inc Merriam-Webster, Merriam-Webster’s collegiate dictionary., 2003.

Biblical Ways to Deal With Conflict (Slide)

Make every effort to maintain peace.

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Surrender to Christ.

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Four G’s of peacemaking

Glorify God ()

Get the Log Out of Your Eye ()

Gently Restore ()

Go and Be Reconciled ()

We have surrendered to Christ.

Thus we are winners.

The victory is in Jesus.

But because of Christ we are inspired to carry on.

Do this because we have been born again through Jesus.

Do this because of the gospel.

We will get treated poorly.

10 We are fools for Christ, but you are wise through Christ!

We are weak, but you are strong!

You are honored, but we are dishonored!

11 Up to this very moment we are hungry, thirsty, wearing rags, abused, and homeless.

12 We work hard with our own hands.

When we are insulted, we respond with a blessing; when we are harassed, we put up with it; 13 when our reputation is attacked, we are encouraging.

We have become the scum of the earth, the waste that runs off everything, up to the present time.

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But we struggle forward.

Timothy was told to practice his gift, to hone his craft, to improve.

Do this because we have been born again through Jesus.

Do this because of the gospel.

Practice practice practice

About how professionals can become stagnant.

How much more important as Christians to constantly develop, to practice practice practice.

Youtube medical procedures.

You wouldn’t want me to watch the video and then try it out on you for the first time?

Use the resources, reference your materials

The Seven A’s of Confession

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ADDRESS everyone involved

AVOID if, but, and maybe

ADMIT specifically

ACKNOWLEDGE the hurt

ACCEPT the consequences

ALTER your behavior

ASK for forgiveness

The Four Promises of Forgiveness

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I will not dwell on this incident.

I will not bring this incident up and use it against you.

I will not talk to others about this incident.

I will not allow this incident to stand between us or hinder our personal relationship.

I will not talk to others about this incident.

I will not allow this incident to stand between us or hinder our personal relationship.

hinder our personal relationship.

I will not talk to others about this incident.

I will not allow this incident to stand between us or hinder our personal relationship.

The PAUSE Principle of Negotiating

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Prepare

Affirm relationships

Understand interests

Search for creative solutions

Evaluate options objectively and reasonably

Ask for help

Example of a peaceful culture in (highlight elements)

Put others first because of Jesus

John Henry Weidner was born tweet that she had been his family in Belgium 1912.His father was a pastor who taught Greek and Hebrew At the Adventist UniversityIn France.

It was located just across the Swiss border from Geneva.

As a boy he's been a great deal of time playing outside in the mountains in and around the campus and learned a lot about the countryside.

He did not know what at the time, but he was learning important skills that would help him in his work years later.

John Henry Weidner was born tweet that she had been his family in Belgium 1912.His father was a pastor who taught Greek and Hebrew At the Adventist UniversityIn France.

It was located just across the Swiss border from Geneva.

As a boy he's been a great deal of time playing outside in the mountains in and around the campus and learned a lot about the countryside.

He did not know what at the time, but he was learning important skills that would help him in his work years later.

As he grew older John Weidner eventually got into the textile industry and his business expanded into many other cities in France during that time World War II was in full swing and people were fleeing the city ahead of the approaching German Army in 1940.

He soon became involved in an underground resistance organization called Dutch Paris.

This network consisted of more than 300 agents who operated an underground escape line from the Netherlands Belgium and France into neutral Switzerland.

This group ended up helping 800 Jews, 100 down Allied aviators, and others to escape certain death under the Nazi regime.

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“when the war started I thought, as a human being well that's the question: how to help people.

I thought I had a way to help them.

If a Jewish person could reach Switzerland or Spain, he was safe.

Those countries were neutral.

Big question was how to reach Switzerland from Holland.

Everywhere there were the Gestapo, the SS, the soldiers of Hitler.

The borders were closed.

The border between France and Switzerland was heavily guarded, because the Nazis knew that Jewish people were trying to reach Switzerland.

But I knew the border between France and Switzerland from my days of best college," Widener said.

This was a very dangerous undertaking.

Before long he was found out and on the top of the Gestapo’s most wanted list.

On three separate occasions he was arrested, Tortured, interrogated.

Eventually a member of their movement who was captured, ratted out almost 150 of their network.

Many were arrested and sent to concentration camps and never seen again.