Ministry of the Church (1645)
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  1. The goal of Arrangement is to make the proclamation of the Gospel clearer and more compelling for your hearers.
  2. This is what makes the reading from John so frightening and yet so exciting. Notice how Jesus appears. Not in miracles, not in marvels, but in relationships.
  3. One name repeatedly emerges from the heart and mind of Paul: Jesus. Jesus is Messiah, Jesus is Savior, Jesus is the world’s rightful and reigning King.
  4. For the Israelites, the language of restoration cannot be separated from the language of resurrection.
  5. Our words of proclamation from the pulpit not only bring repentance and comfort, enacting in our hearers an exchange of sinful identity for the identity of God’s child, but also the motivation and fuel for loving others.
  6. In chapter 41 the servant is identified as Israel, but chapter 42 is a different servant. In fact, Matthew 12:18-21 makes the ID clear—this Servant is Jesus!
  7. This text explicates the Christian life in light of the reality of Christ’s lordship and the gift of the Holy Spirit amidst a world and a Church which has not experienced the fullness of redemption and recreation itself.
  8. Jesus did not need to be baptized. But he did it. Why?
  9. It is the words the pastor speaks that send the dead out alive.
  10. Is there ever a time when someone needs to be re-baptized? Not if we believe that God is the one who does the baptizing.
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