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*Sharing Life Together - Go small, grow big!*
“Best of Times, Worst of Times!”
I hold in my hands here this morning 50 cards people have sent to me or to my family.
That’s not counting the cards my brother David and his family received.
That’s not counting the cards my Mom received from many of you – cards you sent to a woman you probably have never met.
My Mom says thank you.
My brother David says thank you.
I say thank you!
Your cards and prayers and text messages and phone calls were so very important.
In light of my Dad’s death, I was reminded again just how much I need you – how much I need this place, this church – Jesus body in this world!
In MY world!
It’s easy to think the opposite.
/“Ok, my Dad died.
I’m tough.
I can make it on my own!”
You can’t.
At least not very well./
I mean no disrespect when I say… when Michael Jackson died I did not shed one tear.
Not one single tear.
I know he gave us the red leather jacket, the one white glove, serious dance moves (moonwalk~/The Thriller), but his life did not intersect with my life.
My Dad, however, did!
I have participated in some 65 funerals in the last 20 years, but I have never felt sadness like I do now.
I confess – I need you all and you need me!  Today, I am beginning a new message series straight from the book of Acts!
If you need a Bible – now would be a great time to raise your hand.
I’m calling this series – “Sharing Life Together – Go small, grow BIG!”  I like that – “Go small, grow BIG!”  *There are three pressing reasons why I need to present this series.
Reason #1:*  *Our children’s ministry is busting at the seams.*
We have so many children here we have to keep dividing classes.
Nearly every age group has two classes meeting at the same time.
Some classes are fast approaching three.
For every class that divides that eliminates a class location for adults.
Since we are running out of space on Sunday morning we turned our attention to Sunday Night.
We’ve called these classes Sunday Night Sessions.
But with some 500 to 550 adults worshipping at Westerville Christian on Sunday morning – we can barely get 75 to attend on Sunday Evening.
*Here’s Reason #2* *of why I must do this series.
You can’t short cut spiritual growth!*
If you want to be like Jesus you must be intentional about growing.
SO, here’s my dilemma.
We’re running out of room on Sunday morning and few adults return on Sunday Night.
Well, that tells me we must try something new!  *And the funny thing is - it’s not new at all.
* It’s what the 1st century church did.
They shared life together.
They experienced community.
They had a need for one another and fulfilled Jesus’ prayer in John 17 of becoming one!
They went small (that is a few people connected together) and they grew BIG!
You will too!
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*Here’s a 3rd Reason for this Sharing Life Together series.
*Every human being needs a forum to share the best of times and the worst of times in life!
In the last 14 days I’ve experienced such extreme highs and lows.
Hospice told my Mom on Monday, July 20 that my Dad had 48 hours to live.
My older brother Bill was already at the house.
My sister was there.
I arrived around 1:00PM and David was there by mid afternoon.
My Mom and her four children spent a week together watching over Dad.
We have not been together like that for 25 years.
We celebrated my older brother’s 55th birthday together on July 21st.
We took walks together.
We sifted through photo album after photo album.
*(PHOTOS)*  My sister and I noticed that all the pictures were of the 1st born and the baby of the family.
/Bill & David – Bill and David.
/ Middle kids are the forgotten ones.
We laughed so hard I thought I was going to pass out.
We played the board game Aggravation together and of course my sister beat her three brothers again!
THIS TIME WAS SO GOOD, but in the same breath – it was so bad.
My Dad moaned in pain.
Despite the methadone – despite the liquid morphine.
He stopped eating.
He stopped recognizing us.
I watched my Dad take his last breath on earth.
I’ve never seen my Mom cry like that before.
I’ve never cried like that.
I felt like such a big whuss!
My brother Bill wrote out his obituary and we planned his funeral.
Times like these it’s easy to think you’re the only one.
Satan wants you to feel this way, but it’s not true.
How many of you have had a parent or a close family member die?  /A church family helps you see that you’re loved, *but* a small group won’t let you to go through that experience alone./
I will not kid you – I loved my dad.
He was a great example to me.  *Can I show you just what kind of example?* 
*Turn in your Bibles to the 2nd chapter of Acts.*
I love the book of Acts.
Acts was written by the Holy Spirit though Luke – when I think of Acts – I think of ACTIONS.
Acts is the actions of the Holy Spirit working through two primary apostles – Peter & Paul.
Ordinary Peter – fisherman Peter – the only one who walked on water besides Jesus and the very guy who chopped off Malchus’ ear in the Garden of Gethsemane.
This very same Peter - is preaching.
He is not any more special than you.
*He just chose to follow Jesus!*  *Find verse 40 in Acts 2.  *Wow!
3000 more people because followers of Jesus.
That’s incredible.
I wonder if Peter heard some of the same comments I’ve heard over the years.
I don’t want to become part of a big church.
3000+ is a BIG church.
BIG churches are impersonal.
People in BIG churches will get lost in the crowd.
Not true!
If you are part of a small group!
Couples’ group.
Ladies group.
Men’s group.
My Dad was part of a men’s small group that met on Wednesday mornings.
There again he’s being an example to me.
When I was 16 I wanted to learn to drive.
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