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God's Masterpiece

Matthew Parker, from Church at the Mission, gave a sermon on January 19, 2016 about being God’s masterpiece. He starts his sermon with various questions about people’s likes and dislikes. After discussing the questions he goes on to talk about what people appreciate and how humans commemorate those things with things such as a Hall of Fame. While on this topic he explains what the point of a Hall of Fame is and lists a few people in the music Hall of Fame. He then states that “most of us will not be in the Hall of Fame” and that “God wants to make each of us His masterpiece”. He then claims that all of those famous people are just regular people like us, who have succeeded in a chosen field with the help of someone who sees our potential. He says that they all had someone in the background encouraging them and helping them. God is that person to us and wants to see our full potential. He says that the only way to get to our full potential is to let God do it. As a conclusion, he adds in his daily Scripture verse, which was Ephesians 2:8-10.

Even though most of his statements were true, he still used a lot of fallacies. First, he used the fallacy of and irrelevant thesis when he brought up all of the facts about the Hall of Fame and when he started listing the people in the music Hall of Fame. Secondly, he used snob appeal by making us want to be like those celebrities and do what he says you have to do to get to that point. Thirdly, he uses the fallacy of bifurcation. While it may be true that we need God to get to our full potential, he only gave us two options. It was a good sermon, but it was kind of disorganized and confusing as to how things related.
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  1. AnonymousMarch 31, 2016 at 7:27 AM

    I think you did a good job recognizing the fallacies presented in the speaker's sermon, especially when he used the fallacy of bifurcation.

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  2. Abby BartonMarch 31, 2016 at 5:59 PM

    I love messages about us being God's masterpieces. It is sad that this one contained fallacies though.

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  3. Abigail OverbeyApril 4, 2016 at 9:35 AM

    It is awesome to think he made us in his image and we are his masterpiece good job catching the fallacy.

    Mason

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  4. ClaytonApril 5, 2016 at 5:22 PM

    It's cool how we can apply what we learn and pick apart the inconsistencies in other's arguments.

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