OBC Rhetorical Analysis
Good morning,
I am sure that you enjoyed the service on this morning. I will not be before you long but I just wanted to talk Just Because.
Rosalyn Carter, wife to Jimmy Carter once said, “A leader takes people where they want to go. A great leader takes people where they don’t necessarily want to go, but ought to be. “
The reason that you are here for this meeting is that you have all been selected to work in leadership roles in the church. Though you serve in the position at OBC, this opportunity should never be taken lightly because God orchestrated it. As a leader in the ministry, there should be a continually question of “Am I pleasing God and operating at a level of excellence that He would be pleased with in this role.” …show more content…
Then we need to ponder if we acting in spiritual obedience. Many times, we become complacent and forget our focus.
Just Because is not just another appreciation day. We need to step back and look at the big picture on this day. We have a Bishop that has all but done away with these events because he sensed that people were being worn out with such events. In growing up in the church as many of you have we known that there were all types of events throughout the year. Bishop was sensitive to this and eliminated a lot of this for the sake of the people. He even selflessly eliminated the one time of year that the people could bless and appreciate him. We as a people are more blessed when we can bless the man of God.
This event is about so much more than providing a monetary gift so we have to get beyond the carnal sense of the event.
In trying to view the event in the carnal sense, the purpose can become derailed. We have to view this event from the spiritual perspective. This event has not occurred for I know over ten years. This is a message that was relayed that our leader needed us. The message was given clearly and it is our responsibility to be obedient and receive it because it does not occur often. The flesh many times wants to analyze and pick things a part but it is not our task to try to question or figure out why, it is to move and through prayer and fasting make it come to pass. When we start to understand that, it is about ministry and the spiritual aspect and not man and the physical aspect we all are victorious. Of course there will be some will say, ”This is not about the spiritual realm it’s about money and to that I say, the enemy never sends a message that is going to encourage the man of …show more content…
God.”
I do not have to remind many of you as we sit here today that we have a strong leader in Bishop Adams.
He is the leader here on earth that God had assigned us to be under in ministry. This is a man who is a Leader, Teacher, Father, Husband, Counselor, arbitrator and the list can go continue for pages. He loves God, his family and this church. He has sacrificed time with his wife, kids, holidays, vacations, sports events, first steps not because it is his job but because it is his lifelong ministry. This is a labor of love. I ask you today to think about him and his service and if you, me all of us are making his way easier by holding up his arms in the spiritual sense. For those of you who have participated and given your all in making this vision happen for the man of God, I remind you of I Kings 17 of the woman who blessed the man of God, her flour was never exhausted, and her oil was never
empty.
For those others, I appeal to you today and challenge you that if you have not done your best in supporting this event to ponder some of the things I have said today. There will some carnal minded thinking and to that I say, it is better to be quiet and not participate than put your mouth on the man of God. In 2 Kings 2:23–24 it tells of how the juveniles were taunting Elisha and two female bears came out from the forest and mauled forty-two of those juveniles.
I leave you with this Exodus 17:11 reads, "So it came about when Moses held his hand up, that Israel prevailed, and when he let his hand down, Amalek prevailed." Eventually, Moses became weary, and so Aaron and Hur responded by holding up his arms until the Israelites were able to finally defeat the Amalekites. Are you here to hold Bishops arms up so that we can all be victorious together?
I am sure that you enjoyed the service on this morning. I will not be before you long but I just wanted to talk Just Because.
Rosalyn Carter, wife to Jimmy Carter once said, “A leader takes people where they want to go. A great leader takes people where they don’t necessarily want to go, but ought to be. “
The reason that you are here for this meeting is that you have all been selected to work in leadership roles in the church. Though you serve in the position at OBC, this opportunity should never be taken lightly because God orchestrated it. As a leader in the ministry, there should be a continually question of “Am I pleasing God and operating at a level of excellence that He would be pleased with in this role.” …show more content…
Then we need to ponder if we acting in spiritual obedience. Many times, we become complacent and forget our focus.
Just Because is not just another appreciation day. We need to step back and look at the big picture on this day. We have a Bishop that has all but done away with these events because he sensed that people were being worn out with such events. In growing up in the church as many of you have we known that there were all types of events throughout the year. Bishop was sensitive to this and eliminated a lot of this for the sake of the people. He even selflessly eliminated the one time of year that the people could bless and appreciate him. We as a people are more blessed when we can bless the man of God.
This event is about so much more than providing a monetary gift so we have to get beyond the carnal sense of the event.
In trying to view the event in the carnal sense, the purpose can become derailed. We have to view this event from the spiritual perspective. This event has not occurred for I know over ten years. This is a message that was relayed that our leader needed us. The message was given clearly and it is our responsibility to be obedient and receive it because it does not occur often. The flesh many times wants to analyze and pick things a part but it is not our task to try to question or figure out why, it is to move and through prayer and fasting make it come to pass. When we start to understand that, it is about ministry and the spiritual aspect and not man and the physical aspect we all are victorious. Of course there will be some will say, ”This is not about the spiritual realm it’s about money and to that I say, the enemy never sends a message that is going to encourage the man of …show more content…
God.”
I do not have to remind many of you as we sit here today that we have a strong leader in Bishop Adams.
He is the leader here on earth that God had assigned us to be under in ministry. This is a man who is a Leader, Teacher, Father, Husband, Counselor, arbitrator and the list can go continue for pages. He loves God, his family and this church. He has sacrificed time with his wife, kids, holidays, vacations, sports events, first steps not because it is his job but because it is his lifelong ministry. This is a labor of love. I ask you today to think about him and his service and if you, me all of us are making his way easier by holding up his arms in the spiritual sense. For those of you who have participated and given your all in making this vision happen for the man of God, I remind you of I Kings 17 of the woman who blessed the man of God, her flour was never exhausted, and her oil was never
empty.
For those others, I appeal to you today and challenge you that if you have not done your best in supporting this event to ponder some of the things I have said today. There will some carnal minded thinking and to that I say, it is better to be quiet and not participate than put your mouth on the man of God. In 2 Kings 2:23–24 it tells of how the juveniles were taunting Elisha and two female bears came out from the forest and mauled forty-two of those juveniles.
I leave you with this Exodus 17:11 reads, "So it came about when Moses held his hand up, that Israel prevailed, and when he let his hand down, Amalek prevailed." Eventually, Moses became weary, and so Aaron and Hur responded by holding up his arms until the Israelites were able to finally defeat the Amalekites. Are you here to hold Bishops arms up so that we can all be victorious together?