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
0.08UNLIKELY
Disgust
0.05UNLIKELY
Fear
0.09UNLIKELY
Joy
0.7LIKELY
Sadness
0.54LIKELY
Language Tone
Analytical
0.71LIKELY
Confident
0UNLIKELY
Tentative
0.32UNLIKELY
Social Tone
Openness
0.77LIKELY
Conscientiousness
0.65LIKELY
Extraversion
0.33UNLIKELY
Agreeableness
0.84LIKELY
Emotional Range
0.49UNLIKELY
Tone of specific sentences
Tones
Emotion
Language
Social Tendencies
Anger
< .5
.5 - .6
.6 - .7
.7 - .8
.8 - .9
> .9
Scripture Reading
Title: The Families Value
Family
Full Vision/Mission Statement (What do we see?)
By the grace of God we are a diverse family renewed and reconciled together with God by the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ for our sins.
Because of the love of Jesus we are compelled to share His message of reconciliation and renewal so that everyone in our community would experience the love of Jesus and be empowered to follow Him into eternal life.
Mission Tagline (What are we about?):
Working together for the reconciliation and renewal of all people in Jesus
Vision Outcomes/Values
New Birth
Spiritual Maturity
Healthy Family: Leveraging godly wisdom, counsel, and instruction for building healthy family of families.
Authentic Community
Gospel Saturation
Introduction
Bob Dylan sings these lines in His song "Bob Dylan's Dream"
While riding on a train goin' west
I fell asleep for to take my rest
I dreamed a dream that made me sad
Concerning myself and the first few friends I had
With half-damp eyes I stared to the room
Where my friends and I spent many an afternoon
Where we together weathered many a storm
Laughin' and singin' till the early hours of the morn
By the old wooden stove where our hats was hung
Our words were told, our songs were sung
Where we longed for nothin' and were quite satisfied
Talkin' and a-jokin' about the world outside
...
I wish, I wish, I wish in vain
That we could sit simply in that room again
Ten thousand dollars at the drop of a hat
I'd give it all gladly if our lives could be like that
Introduction
I remember a ton of stuff from early in my life.
My brother Josh says I make stuff up and I’m sure he is partly right.
Memory as we now know is not a perfect snapshot of the past.
However one big part of my story was a theme which emerged as I matured.
It came from my dad’s stories about his life “before the cross” These stories probably didn’t have the desired effect on me.
My dad would share a good story about dirt bikes, or stealing his dads car, etc. and I would listen until the fun story had the sad ending of but that was before the cross.
It made me think why did I have to be born a Christian and not get to have any fun?
We were part of our Churches growing up from AWANA, to volunteering to helping people my parents served their church.
I began to believe this idea that the family and Church were holding me back from really experiencing the fun I imagined my dad having.
I decided to go and find something better, something different I didn’t know what I was looking for but had some ideas of where to start.
Long story short I failed, and the world failed me.
I couldn’t escape the truth and Jesus called me back to himself.
It started with truth.
I remember a night I came full circle.
It was a dark winter camp with a youth group my brother had asked me to help with.
My parents had come to make dinner one night for the group.
We gathered in a big cabin kitchen place with a fire and dinner and it hit me as we joked and talked.
I looked at my parents and my brothers, I think my whole immediate family was there.
God opened my eyes I found it, that thing I thought was out there the truth not just in my head but in my heart, I was looking for Jesus, and found reconciliation with my family in the larger family of God.
I was reconciled to my blood family and gained an understanding of the family of God.
God slowly and thoroughly tore away the lies which had blinded and confused me and I could see clearly.
I have been pursuing that ever since, by God’s grace.
Our true self is found in Christ.
It emerges in a participatory relationship with God in the Son by the Spirit.
David Benner points to this reality when he writes, “We do not find our true self by seeking it.
Rather, we find it by seeking God.”1
The parable of the prodigal in Luke 15 illustrates this truth.
Plass, Richard.
The Relational Soul: Moving from False Self to Deep Connection (p.
84).
InterVarsity Press.
Kindle Edition.
Family is a place of relationship.
We call them relatives.
Some families have broken relationships some not so broken but all families have struggles.
Today I want to look at the fact that God designed the family for us to know him and fulfill His great commission.
God is inviting everyone here to a deeper relationship with him through His family, His household the Church.
In creation we understand that God sees this relationship as a father to his children.
God desires a family relationship with His people.
It is in the experiential knowledge we have of being part of a family that we can begin to understand The Father.
I remember becoming a father, the sense of connection and love I had was powerful, and it remains so.
I am connected to my daughters like no one else on earth.
This is the connection The Father has and feels with each one of those he has created.
He established their times and place so that they would seek Him and find Him, He does not wish that any should perish.
God wants us to know Him the perfect father, that we can go to him any time, with anything.
As a Father he is involved in our maturity and desires the best for us even when we don’t see or understand it.
It is the family environment which he designed to teach us about himself.
I want to stress that family is not an end in itself.
So many times in the Church Large we stress family to the exclusion of a large part of our culture who God has called to be single.
The highest expression of devotion to Christ is not a nuclear family, Some will not be called to be married or have their own biological children.
However they are called into God’s family into relationships supernaturally unified by the Spirit of God.
Remember we are called to follow Jesus who was never married never owned a house and laid down his life in obedience to the Father.
We understand that God has prepared a special relational picture and structure to bless us and to know him but the family has a purpose, a mission.
Knowing God leads us to understand that He has a plan.
He has a purpose, he gives meaning to the family it has a job, a mission.
The body of Christ, the household of God, The Church, The Family of God...
This is the relationship we are called to prioritize in following Jesus.
This is where the manifold wisdom of God comes to life, a place where the walls of hostility are torn down through the costly sacrifice of Christ, a place where all categories of people are called to be one diverse family.
This is a family of widows and orphans, of foreigners and natives, of rich and poor, married and single, immature and mature, old and young...
A spiritually united people who do not see the nuclear family as the end all or an idol, but understand Jesus calling and teaching that those who do the will of the father are His family...
That our family is the family of God we have adoption as sons and an inheritance.
The Family is also a place to multiply image bearers of God.
Be fruitful and multiply implies that Parents are raising up children who know God’s mandate and will seek to carry it on.
God brings a man and a woman together as one, to function in an intimate relationship which reflects God’s glory.
And this relationship can bear fruit to fulfill God’s plan of covering the earth with image bearers.
God designed one of our most fundamental realities to be a cooperative community of mutual love and support.
We fall short in so many ways.
But it points to the reality of the trinitarian God revealed in scripture.
< .5
.5 - .6
.6 - .7
.7 - .8
.8 - .9
> .9