Classic Sermon Outlines
CLASSIC SERMON OUTLINES — Alexander Maclaren
B. The Significance of the Change in Name.
2. The importance of the truth intimated. Not only the duty of widening our sympathies, but one of the supreme conditions of being of use to anybody is set forth in the comparatively trifling incident, that this man, a Jew to his fingertips, for the sake of efficiency in his work and of getting close by the side of the people whom he wanted to influence, flung away deliberately that which parted him from them.
2. The apostle Paul's view of Mark's failure. The writer of the Acts puts Paul's view of the case strongly by the arrangement of clauses in the sentence in which he tells us that the apostle "thought not good to take him with them who withdrew from them from Pamphylia and went not with them to the work" (Acts of the Apostles 15:38).
B. The Cure of Mark's Failure.
1. The evidence of the cure. The man that was afraid of dangers and difficulties and hypothetical risks became brave enough to stand by the apostle when he was a prisoner. He won his way into the apostle's confidence and made himself needful for him by his services and his sweetness that the prisoner bids Timothy bring him with himself. e levers. Translate that from the particular i into ak general andi it comes to as 'Let no man set