Here is an example. I am confident that I have gleaned the main idea and the argument of the text. I am also confident that without sentence diagramming, I would have ended up at a different point. I’ve summarized the results in a sermon plan.
“To win the favor of the world and its despots
means to lose the favor of heaven.
To win the favor of heaven
means to lose the favor of the world.” - Garland
Illustration: “Why Jesus requires assistance from Simon is not stated by Luke, who seems more interested in providing a reminder of the implications of Jesus’ faithfulness to God’s purpose for those who want to follow him in discipleship:
9: 23: If any want to become my followers, let them … take up their cross daily and follow me.
14: 27: Whoever does not carry the cross and follow me cannot be my disciple. 23: 26: They laid the cross on him, and made him carry it behind Jesus.”
— Joel B. Green
Theme: The Mission of Christ
Main Point: Anyone that wishes to follow Christ must join Him on Mission
The Cost of Following Christ on Mission: To join the ranks of those condemned by the world; a world that is adulterous and sinful.
The following quote was added after I first published this blog:
“The place of suffering in service and of passion in mission is hardly ever taught today. But the greatest single secret of evangelistic or missionary effectiveness is the willingness to suffer and die. It may be a death to popularity (by faithfully preaching the unpopular biblical gospel), or to pride (by the use of modest methods in reliance on the Holy Spirit), or to racial and national prejudice (by identification with another culture), or to material comfort (by adopting a simple lifestyle). But the servant must suffer if he is to bring light to the nations, and the seed must die if it is to multiply.” - John Stott
http://www.justworshipgod.com/2015/08/12-classic-quotes-from-john-stott-cross.html?m=1
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