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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Joy
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Analytical
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Openness
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Conscientiousness
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Extraversion
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Agreeableness
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1 Thess
1.1
Who? [Paul with Silas & Timothy; 2.18, 3.2]
Whom? [Christians in Thessalonica; Acts 17.1-9]
When? [AD 50-51; written after Timothy returned with report on the Thessalonian church]
Where?
[likely from Corinth after having gone to Athens]
What? [A letter to believers with whom Paul didn’t get to spend enough time (he’d sent Timothy to go check on them)]
Why? [To encourage peace amid persecution; endurance to end times; God’s sovereignty and believer’s faith in salvation]
Why do you think Paul so often in his letters opened with “grace to you and peace?”
1.2-3
Paul seems fixated on this triad—Faith, Hope, & Love.
Where else do we read this from him?
[; ; ; ]
What is/are the results of faith, love, & hope in the lives of the Thessalonian Christians? [work, labor, endurance;…also, check out the relation of virtue and result]
1.4-5a
Eternal hope is described as based in what truth?
[Gospel]
What specific aspects of the Gospel are especially significant in this case?
Why?
1.5b-10
In these verses, what jumps out at you? Why?
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