Sermon Tone Analysis
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! Knox’s Alpha
!! The Promise
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Recap
!! • Tradition…
!! • Trinity….The Dance…
!! • Humanity & Sin
!! • Today: Jesus’ Invite to rejoin the dance…
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Many Ways to Read the Bible
!! • Not a Novel
!!! – Different Genres
!! • Thread of the Promise
!!! – Always Vulnerable
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! Myth of Redemptive Violence
!! • Example: Films
!!! – James Bond
!!! – Rocky Balboa
!! • Society
!!! – Pre-emptive Strike
!!! – Surveillance Society
!! • Even view Jesus this way…?
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The Testing and The Hope
!! • Adam: Expelled – Grace compromised
!! • Noah: The Flood
!! • Abraham: Old – Sacrifice
!! • Israel: Exiled~/Occupied
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! Jesus: Our Promise
!! • Jesus: Ordinary Artisan
!!! – Rejected and Executed
!! • Could have ended there…but it didn’t – The Cross
!!! – Died for transgressions, raised for justification
!!! – To offer…To teach
!! • God the Son, the Lord of the Dance
!!! – Meets us where we are and helps us in our weakness…our rebellion…
!! • But it is not over….
!!! – The ‘in-between time’
!!!! • Between the first-fruits and the fulfilment
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! Jesus: Our Hope
!! • One day, he will come again
!!! – Draw all people…Put all things under His feet
!!!! • Every knee will bow…Tongue confess
!! • One day the Lord of the Dance will come
!!! – Not to offer hope, but to judge
!!! – And to lead His own to a place where there is no….
!! • This is our Hope
!!! – May seem a ‘weak hope’
!!! – But our call…the narrow gate….
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Our Challenge
!! • So what is the challenge…?
!!! – The Challenge of Witness
!!!! • The proclamation of hope…
!!!!! – Society: Denies God…ethics & morals
!!!! • /Baptism is a picture of this./
!!!!! – /God will bring to fruition the seed planted…./
!! • Will we walk that hard road?
!!! – Proclaim that hope…?
!!! – Learn again to dance the dance or love with Him…?
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