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Pray everyone had a wonderful Christmas.
Overwhelmed with cards and food...
I had a great Christmas...
Kayak - Fishing
Hal Vaughan…the dad who flew to be with his daughter…that’s crazy.
one or two flights is a lot during the holidays…but 6…WOW.
But he knows the importance of relationships.
Relationships are what make life great.
Now I love my wife…She would agree that without our kids home for Christmas it wouldn’t be the same.
I know it will happen one day when they have families of their own…but it’s best when my kids are at home.
Why?
Because being with those I love and those who love me make for a better life.
I grew up in a house with lots of arguing, screaming and yelling.
It didn’t seem like anyone wanted to be there…sure you might say I had a pretty good life growing up…but it certainly wasn’t the best life.
Think about it.
If you are with someone who loves you…and you don’t love them back, that’s not good.
You get irritated by their efforts to please you and make you happy…you just want to be free.
Or when you love someone and they don’t love you…it’s just sad.
Sure you may not care how they feel, but it’s not a very fulfilling way to live.
You can have a good like with these sorts of relationships, but the best life is when you are with those you love and those who love you.
Best Life > Good Life
That's how life is.
And the absolute best life is lived in relationship with God our father.
You can have a good life w/o God…you might even be happy.
But the best life, the fullest life is found in living in relationship with God.
Because that’s how God designed it in creation.
How do I know?
Because that’s what Jesus said.
Can you believe him?
Died and resurrected…I can believe him.
In the relationship that Jesus came to establish for me, for you, is where I get to experience life in all its fullness.
A lot of people see a relationship with God as restrictive, but in reality, it is the best thing you can do with your life…in fact it is the way to have a life.
Best Year Ever: Gather
That’s where I want to start this series of messages, our need to connect and to know God and the means we as disciples in Rock hall live these out in our GATHERING.
Growing into our relationship with God that we was wired into us at Creation
I used to think I wanted a girlfriend…or I wanted friends.
But the reality is, it’s not something we want.
Gather to know God - Worship.
We know we are made for relationships…that’s why we love puppies, are fascinated with social media, cry during our hallmark movies and weddings.
Because we love to love…and be loved.
We are made for relationships.
It’s as much of you as the color of your hair…and your fingerprints.
What does this have to do with Jesus coming to give us that best …fullest life?
This has been done.
The relationship is there…God established that in Jesus.
So we don’t gather in order for God to know us…he knows you from before you were born.
We know God by gathering.
But we gather in order to know God…we get to know God as we experience him in worship…in prayer…in song…in hearing his word…in sharing Holy Communion...that’s how we get to know God.
As we learn about him, as we experience his Goodness, as we are challenged to consider his awesome wonder.
In connecting our lives with God, we enter into the relationship Jesus made possible…the one he paid his life to purchase.
This is the first step in this being the BYE
So Part of the best year ever is to gather to know God through worship....But that’s not all.
Another part, I think just as important a part of gathering is.
If I told you you can have 75% of what Jesus had for you woudl that be enough?
If you could have 80% would that be enough for you?
I want to encourage everyone who hears my voice to take their relationship with God to the next level this year.
I don’t want you to have 80% of the life that God has planned for you…I want you to have it all.
Like Jesus came to give you life in its fullest…not life in it’s almost fullest.
This comes as we gather to connect your lives to those of other Christians.
Back in Genesis, after God had created all thiings and named them good
All things are good....But this is not good.
This may come as a shock to some of you.
But I bet there are people who have been coming here, worshiping together for months maybe years....and yet you don’t know who they are....and they don’t know you.
As you look around the room today, I bet there are people here you .
The reality is, we can’t know everyone, but we can and should know some.
We should be connected to some other Christians.
You see, the reality is we don’t gather here just to worship God.
Part of our gathering is about connecting to others.
This is a blessing to us and a blessing to them.
We Gather to connect
This connection is real.
It’s not an emotional thing.
It has a spiritual weight to it.
In “us” the gathered that God lives…and in us God is made visible.
Scripture said it this way too, where 2 or more are gathered, there I am with you.
So we gather, not just in corporate worship, in small groups, in big groups, in bible studies, in mission teams, we gather to play, to serve…we gather to know God…but we also gather to show one another God.
Gather to connect to other Christians - Fellowship.
It’s not just getting together with people, it’s getting together with other Christians.
Some people come to church and wonder why it doesn’t seem real…often it’s because you haven’t connected your life to others.
You're worshipping with people who you aren’t connected.
I understand this may be difficult.
How many will walk in to a room full of strangers and say WELL HELLO....My name is… and I am here to be known.
Does anyone have any questions?
What would you like to know?
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People have real problems and when we connect our lives to one another in worship, we connect our lives to his and we share in something stronger than us individually or collectively.
You see, the church is the hope of the world because HOPE is in US.
In us is the reality that God is alive.
Don’t just worship, worship together.
DOn’t just pray, pray together.
Don’t just serve, serve together.
We are to be a connection machine.
Looking for people to connect to God and other christians.
How do we do this?
We see someone in church we don’t know…we introduce ourselves…we get to know them, we introduce them to others who we know might connect with them.
Our bible studies, our small groups, sure they are a place to grow…we are going to talk about that next week…but they are also a place to connect and know GOd.
Our small groups should become a place for worship, for praying for each other.l
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