Sermon Tone Analysis
Overall tone of the sermon
This automated analysis scores the text on the likely presence of emotional, language, and social tones. There are no right or wrong scores; this is just an indication of tones readers or listeners may pick up from the text.
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Anger
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Fear
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Joy
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Sadness
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Language Tone
Analytical
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Confident
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Tentative
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Social Tone
Openness
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Conscientiousness
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Extraversion
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Agreeableness
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Tone of specific sentences
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Anger
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Engage
Engage
Think long and hard about how you can do your best to get their attention.
Illustration: Something
Question: Something
Tension
What you’re doing here is bringing up some kind of a problem.
The tension you create should make people lean in and give them an opportunity to anticipate the tension being resolved.
Truth
Once you have engaged the congregation and presented some kind of tension, you can now go to God’s word in order to resolve the tension.
The next section, Application, should happen naturally as you are teaching through Scripture, and come to a point after you teach through Scripture.
Exegesis
Hook: Illustration: Something
Book:
Look:
Something
Took: Something
Something
And stuff
Hook: Illustration: Something
Book:
Look:
Something
Took: Something
Something
Application
As you walk through the text, in the previous section, application will happen naturally.
Existential leap
Something
Bottom Line: Something
Something
Inspiration
This is the time where you can ask great questions
Action
Think through what you want them to do in light of your message and spell it out plainly to them.
Manuscript
Engage
Engage
Think long and hard about how you can do your best to get their attention.
I was a huge jerk and didn’t tip the guy (well) who helped at the airport with our luggage.
Question: What is the worst tip you’ve ever given or received?
Sometimes collections can turn into a full-on episode of hoarders.
I’ve had a few collections in my lifetime.
Sometimes collections can turn into a full-on episode of hoarders.
Tension
What you’re doing here is bringing up some kind of a problem.
The tension you create should make people lean in and give them an opportunity to anticipate the tension being resolved.
I don’t know about you, but my baggage is full of junk that weighs me down and wears me out.
Let me show you: Technical Skills, Drafting Skills, ROTC Skills
Technical Skills
Drafting Skills
ROTC Skills
Am I just trying to brag here?
It’s a nice side effect, but no.
These are the things, at some point along the way, I decided added value to me as a person.
I’m sure there are those things in your life, too.
The things you know about yourself at the end of the day.
Maybe you’re good at finance.
Maybe you’re an expert businessman/woman.
Maybe you’re the best mother this side of the Mississippi.
For all of you, with exactly one exception, I would contest that one.
But, we don’t just use our skills and abilities as a litmus test for our personal worth.
We do that in our faith life all the time: Collection of Torn Up Bibles, Went to and Worked at a Bible College, Servant’s Heart Award, Work at a Church.
Collection of Torn Up Bibles
Went to and Worked at a Bible College
Servant’s Heart Award
Work at a Church.
I’ve got all this stuff that can seem really great, but when I start trusting in my own skills, my own accomplishments, that’s when I discount God’s grace.
That’s when I look to myself for salvation, instead of looking to Jesus.
We all have things in our past that we try to use to measure how much we’re worth as a person, as a follower of Jesus.
This stuff just weighs us down in our walk with Jesus.
Specifically, the habit of keeping our own “spiritual scorecard” of how well we’re stacking up.
We fall into the pattern of doing things to try and reach God.
We go to camp or a retreat with the hopes of connecting with God, and re-building the relationship we have with him.
Truth & Application
Once you’ve engaged the congregation and presented some kind of tension, you can now go to God’s Word in order to resolve the tension.
The next section, Application, should happen naturally as you are teaching, and should come to a point after you teach through Scripture.
Context
If you’ve got your Bibles with you, you get 5 Jesus Points, and if you open it with me, you get an extra 10.
Go ahead and start opening to .
And, if you’re using one of the brown Bibles underneath the seat in front of you, we’ll be on page 952.
We’ll start in verse 12, but while you’re turning there, I want to try and catch you up to speed about what’s already happened here:
Written by Paul, while he was in prison (Rome, probably).
Most emotional we’ve ever seen Paul.
Most emotional we’ve ever seen Paul.
Written to the Church in Philippi.
The first church that Paul established in Europe.
Roman colony, and very proud of it.
It’s all about trusting in Jesus, whatever the circumstances may be.
Paul’s in prison: He’s trusting Jesus.
Philippian Christians were persecuted, struggling with false teachings: They can trust Jesus.
We are weighed down by our baggage: We can trust Jesus.
Roman colony, and very proud of it.
Let’s read.
Philippians 3:12-21
Forget Your Old Baggage
Forget Your Old Baggage
Hook
The first question that comes to my mind as I read through this passage is “What is Paul’s past that he’s leaving behind?”
Well, luckily for us, he’s already answered that for us, if we jump back a few verses, to the beginning of chapter 3.
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