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Want to become a member?
we believe in membership here at parkland.
But being a member is more than just a status card.
Church membership is about having a group of people who have committed to being actively committed to and connected to their local church.
it’s a way of saying, ‘I am a part of this church,I call this place my home church, and I’m an active part of the growth and health of my church’.
As a charity, we need a membership for the sake of voting, and things like that.
But membership isn’t about the benefits or the rights of being a member.
And it’s my desire that every person who attends this church regularly would consider being a member.
So if you’re interested in being a member, it’s a simple process.
Please connect with me, either here or by visiting parklandchurch.ca/contact,
or call the church during the week, whatever works.
it’s an easy process.
But we’re inviting everyone today - if this is your home church, and you’re committed to being a living part of the health and growth of this church - we’d love to have you on board.
What will being a good neighbour look like?
This isn’t the practical ‘what do I do’ question.
It’s ‘after what do I do - what should I expect?’
This is a REALLY important question.
because if we have the wrong motives here - we’ll miss the boat.
Not out of judgment, or God hating us because we did something wrong - but
Our motives determine our direction - and our destination
Our heart decides which way we’re facing, and which way we’re facing determines where we end up.
And our motives are our reasons - why are we doing this or that or the other thing.
STORY - Caleb giving a piece of cereal out of generosity, so that his sister will respond in kind, and him doing it so THAT he can try some of his sisters.
But they’re also our expectations - We do something because we want to see health.
But what does ‘health’ mean to us?
FREEDOM is a big keyword.
And even the Bible says, it’s for freedom that we have been set free.
But what does the world expect freedom to look like? - the ability to do whatever you want, whenever you want.
But the bible’s definition of freedom is ‘obeying God, developing the proper desires, and humbly serving other people’.
And those two definitions clash.
The world’s freedom leads to greed, self indulgence, self centeredness.
The Bible’s freedom leads to humility, servitude, and love for others.
Right motives and wrong expectations lead to wrong places
Saying ‘We want God to be glorified!’ is wonderful - saying ‘God is glorified when the poor get shuffled out of the way to make way for the rich’ or ‘God is glorified when the world knows how much we hate them’ is blasphemy.
So it’s not enough to just say ‘I want to see God glorified’.
‘I want to see his church holy’.
‘I want to see worship be true’.
We need to put our expectations, our definitions, on the table laid bare for God to examine, and let Him do His thing.
David here is saying, ‘look deep into me God, and see even those secret, anxious things that I myself may not even know about’.
And if anything’s off base - get rid of it.
So that said - what does being a good neighbour result in?
What should we expect life to look like when we’re taking this seriously?
So I’ve got 3 good expectations:
Expect to let go of a lot of issues
This is radical.
We’ve always taught ‘turn the other cheek’ to mean ‘forgive the person’.
And that’s valuable.
But what it really means, if they hit you on one side of the face, turn the other side to them.
If they steal one thing, give them another.
I can’t wrap my head around this.
Note - it doesn’t say here, don’t seek revenge if the other person hasn’t done something deserving it.
It doesn’t say, don’t bear a grudge against someone if they’re actually innocent.
It just says - don’t do it.
As we commit to loving, expect to let go of a lot of issues.
As Christians, we are committing to following a God who forgave more things that he was justified in punishing us for than we even know about.
He’s a God who chooses to work with people who are weak, who drop the ball constantly, who make mistakes, who turn on him periodically.
Some will be easy to let go of.
Some will not be as easy.
But loving your neighbour isn’t a path to get more of what we want or deserve:
Loving our neighbours is a path for more people to hear about Jesus
and there’s that expectation piece.
If we’re in this to get more for ourselves, or to feel like we’re higher up on the ladder than somebody else - we’re going to end up in the wrong place.
Freedom means serving the other guy.
Loving our neighbours means the priority is placed on that OTHER person hearing about jesus, being saved, being forgiven fully for whatever may come.
And we’re the vessels for that.
We have been given the wonderful and holy chance to be able to sacrifice for someone else to meet God.
We die to us in order to honor the one who died for us.
In a world full of selfishness, we’ve been given the supernatural ability to do something different.
And that ties into my second point:
Expect to Sacrifice
The first point was about us giving up our grudges, our problems - even if we have good reasons to want to hold them.
This is different.
Loving other people as yourself is not a path to build up your own kingdom.
Loving others is not a shortcut to profit.
It costs.
But here’s a secret about sacrifice -
Sacrifice may cost what we want - but it gives what we need
STORY - something I do as a dad with treats.
I’m always counting.
Not calories - quantities.
There’s 5 people in my family.
If there’s 4 - then I’m not taking one.
But let me tell you what’s more rewarding than sitting and eating the last cookie out of a box of my favourite cookies - sitting my 3 kids down, and giving them the last 3 cookies.
I don’t sit awake at night and think, man, I wish I had that cookie.
I don’t scroll through my phone and smile at pictures of all the nice desserts that I’ve had in my life (And no judgment on you if you do, foodie tiktoks totally exist).
I look at my family and what they’re becoming.
When we sacrifice, we see a different kind of power from God, something that we can’t make happen through selfishness.
Jesus said, whoever wants to save their life will lose it.
But in giving up our lives, we choose the only true way that leads to life.
We choose to rely on the power of God every single day, rather than the power of what we can make happen with our own two hands.
And that’s my last point:
Expect to see the power of the Lord in new ways
I love reading through the book of acts, because of two big reasons.
First, you see the amazing movement of God in power and might.
Thousands being saved.
People being healed.
But second - in the characters in acts, you see a template and an expectation for how we should be.
And it’s very humbling.
I want to read a section of that story to you.
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