I found a sermon on sermoncentral.com from a pastor by the name of J Jeffrey Smead. The main purpose of his sermon was that God loves us. He opens up his sermon with a story, about a little boy. The little boy is playing with a boat, he made, on a lake and the boat starts to leave his hands. He loses grip and it starts to float away, he jumps in after it and gets soaking wet, but does not get the boat. A few days later he is walking down the street and sees his boat in a store, and asks to have to have it back, but the store clerk says he has to pay for it. But he has no money so he was offered a job to work for him and get the boat. And he took it, after all the work he got his boat and was very happy and he said “You were mine the first time because I made you, and now you’re mine again because I bought you. The pastor uses this as an example for how God led the people out of Egypt, and the fact that he created us, loved us, and remembered us. I think this pastor used a great example of rhetoric which is stories. You are able to see different ways to interpret examples like God leading the men out of Egypt. He was able to make people interested with the story of the little boy, and brought all of his points together in the end.
While browsing on Google I found an old advertisement. The ad was for Lustre-Crème Shampoo. It featured Marilyn Monroe, known for her beauteous looks and her parts in different movies. One of her movies was Gentlemen Prefer Blondes. Lustre-Crème was attempting to sell their shampoo through the use of fallacies. By saying that Marilyn Monroe that tells you nothing about the actual product: it simply attracts you to the pretty face in the picture. Using this as an argument of why someone should buy your product is quite illogical. Just because Marilyn Monroe uses it doesn’t provide assurance of its abilities. They attempt using snob appeal by trying to make the audience believe that they could be like Marilyn Monroe if they use the same product as her. They use appeal to illegitimate authority by using Marilyn Monroe to promote their product. Although she herself is a customer, this is still rather irrelevant. She herself has no type of expertise in hair products and knows nothing that
It's a short passage, but you still did a good job on this. Because your passage is very clear, so that I can know what the pastor trying to say. We should love God because he created us and remember us.
ReplyDeleteStory is always a good way to start the sermon, especially interesting story, it grabbed my attention.For me, I would rather listen to stories associated with the sermon. You did a good job explain the story.
ReplyDeleteFor most people it can be hard to pay attention sometimes so it is good to start of with a story to peak a persons interest. Once they are interested in what the pastor is saying he can get his point across. The story does show how God created us, remembered us, and loved us.
ReplyDeleteI agree that a story is a great method to captivate an audience, and then to convey your point. Well done pointing that out.
ReplyDeleteGood job at retelling the stories and explaining the speech. Also, good job on making sure you clarified that he ended his speech well and concisely.
ReplyDeleteThis story reminds me of what my parents always teased me about as a child. At dinner they would say, "Oh we don't have enough for the check you'll have to go clean dishes." I guess they originate from the same place.
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