Sermon Tone Analysis

They knocked on doors and they just asked people this question: “If you don’t go to church, what are the reasons for it?

There are five reasons.

Reason number one, ‘It’s boring.’

Reason number two people said, church is irrelevant.

Reason number three they said, ‘they’re always asking for money.’

Reason number four people said, ‘I’m too busy already.’

And reason number five is ‘I feel awkward when I come to church.’

So I was reading a book, it was written by Dean Merrill, the vice president of the International Bible Society.

And the name of his book, it’s really a clever title Sinners in the Hands of an Angry Church is the name of the book.

And he said, “On any given weekend about thirty-seven percent of Americans show up in church.

The other sixty-three percent are reading the paper, drinking coffee, sleeping in, playing golf, or engaging in some other form of recreation.”

How many of that 37% are extremely devoted to the cause of Christ?

George Gallup in Saints Among Us, 13 % live deeply spiritual lives.

In the United States, 100 churches close per week.

The biggest reason for church closings is a decline in church membership.

A March poll from Gallup found that fewer than half (47%) of Americans say they belong to a church, synagogue or mosque, down from more than 70% in 2000.

Combine China, Africa, and Latin America about 3,000 converts per hour

1.

We Need God’s People

Leadership magazine, ninety percent of new church members will stay in the church if number one they can learn to articulate their faith, number two they belong to subgroups within the church, like choir, Bible study group, Sunday School class; and number three, if they have four to eight close friendships within the church.”

2. We Need God’s Perspective

1 Timothy 3:15 (NKJV)

but if I am delayed, I write so that you may know how you ought to conduct yourself in the house of God, which is the church of the living God, the pillar and ground of the truth.

3. We Need God’s Purpose

Philippians 1:3–5 (NKJV)

I thank my God upon every remembrance of you, always in every prayer of mine making request for you all with joy, for your fellowship in the gospel from the first day until now,

The purpose of God’s Church on earth is to change one life at a time through the preaching of the Gospel.

4. We Need God’s Presence

A. W. Tozer wrote, “It is scarcely possible in most places to get anyone to attend a meeting where the only attraction is God.

One can only conclude that God’s professed children are bored with him for they must be wooed to a meeting with a stick of striped candy in the form of religious movies, games, and refreshments.”

We are created with a need to worship Him!