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.
A score of 0.5 or higher indicates the tone is likely present.
Emotion Tone
Anger
0.44UNLIKELY
Disgust
0.07UNLIKELY
Fear
0.13UNLIKELY
Joy
0.52LIKELY
Sadness
0.52LIKELY
Language Tone
Analytical
0.85LIKELY
Confident
0UNLIKELY
Tentative
0.15UNLIKELY
Social Tone
Openness
0.69LIKELY
Conscientiousness
0.64LIKELY
Extraversion
0.18UNLIKELY
Agreeableness
0.29UNLIKELY
Emotional Range
0.48UNLIKELY

Tone of specific sentences

Tones
Emotion
Anger
Disgust
Fear
Joy
Sadness
Language
Analytical
Confident
Tentative
Social Tendencies
Openness
Conscientiousness
Extraversion
Agreeableness
Emotional Range
Anger
< .5
.5 - .6
.6 - .7
.7 - .8
.8 - .9
> .9
USING COUNSELLING FORMS
LESSON OBJECTIVE:
1 YOU MUST TAKE NOTES
You will not remember important things.
B Take notes while you are counseling
Take notes while you are counseling.
See the attached article.
C See the attached article
D Make the fact that you are taking notes a positive factor in counseling
Make the fact that you are taking notes a positive factor in counseling
2 THE WEEKLY COUNSELLING RECORD
Record basic information about each session
1 Counselee, date, session number
Counselee, date, session number
2 Allows you to analyze the progression of counseling
Allows you to analyze the progression of counseling
Becomes a prayer calendar
3 Becomes a prayer calendar
Drift of the session
B Drift of the session
Record your evaluation of weekly homework
C Record your evaluation of weekly homework
1 How well did they do last week’s homework
How well did they do last week’s homework
What did you assign for next week
What did you assign for next week
2 What did you assign for next week
D Take careful note of the agenda column
Take careful note of the agenda column
Take careful note of the agenda column
1 What do you anticipate dealing with during this session
© INSTITUTE FOR NOUTHETIC STUDIES  INTRODUCTION TO NOUTHETIC COUNSELING PAGE | 51
What do you anticipate dealing with during this session
© INSTITUTE FOR NOUTHETIC STUDIES  INTRODUCTION TO NOUTHETIC COUNSELING PAGE | 51
List matters to be handled later
2 List matters to be handled later
This will help you bring order to confusing situations
3 This will help you bring order to confusing situations
3 THE PERSONAL DATA INVENTORY (PDI)
Factual data
This will save you “oodles” of time.
1 This will save you “oodles” of time.
It is to be filled out by each counselee 20-30 minutes before the first session
2 It is to be filled out by each counselee 20-30 minutes before the first session
● Each counselee fills out his own
Each counselee fills out his own
●Have it done immediately before the first session—you want current information
Have it done immediately before the first session—you want current information
3 Note the specifics of the form
Note the specifics of the form
B Subjective data
Subjective data
1 Even though the data is subjective, it is vital
Even though the data is subjective, it is vital
We want to discover what he thinks the problem is
2 We want to discover what he thinks the problem is
● What is the main problem as you see it?
What is the main problem as you see it?
● What have you done about it?
What have you done about it?
● What do want us to do about it?
What do want us to do about it?
4 BIBLICAL COUNSELLING IS WORK
We need a desk!
A We need a desk!
Use these form to help you organize your work
B Use these form to help you organize your work
THE USE OF TALK
LESSON OBJECTIVE:
The use of talk is important.
As we have seen, means and methods are not identical.
Methods are the use one makes of means (in this instance, talk) in order to accommodate the ends of a system.
Our concern, then, is how Nouthetic counselors talk.
1 TALK IS VITAL
There is a difference between methods and means
1 Means are something we all have to do as humans to get by in life
Means are something we all have to do as humans to get by in life
2 Methods are means that are dedicated to a specific end
Methods are means that are dedicated to a specific end
B Secular systems use methods differently
Secular systems use methods differently
1 Freudians use “free association”
Freudians use “free association”
Rogerians are concerned merely with the feelings and emotions, not the data
2 Rogerians are concerned merely with the feelings and emotions, not the data
“If you simply let a person talk you can do no harm.”
WRONG!
C “If you simply let a person talk you can do no harm.”
WRONG!
2 ENCOURAGE COUNSELLEE TO TALK
Counseling has been called the “talk cure.”
Nouthetic counselors disagree.
True, counseling involves much talk on the part of both counselor and counselee, but talk alone rarely solves difficult problems.
, , .
1 Nouthetic counselors disagree.
True, counseling involves much talk on the part of both counselor and counselee, but talk alone rarely solves difficult problems.
Talk is like a battery in an automobile: You get nowhere without it, but you will not get anywhere by it alone.
2 Talk is like a battery in an automobile: You get nowhere without it, but you will not get anywhere by it alone.
To encourage talk is clear from the data about listening (which we will explore later in depth) .
We must listen for facts, but not as a “therapeutic measure.”
1 We must listen for facts, but not as a “therapeutic measure.”
< .5
.5 - .6
.6 - .7
.7 - .8
.8 - .9
> .9