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When I was 12-14 I caddied in a local country club.
This is a place where people paid lots of money to be exclusive with one another and have other people wait on them all day.
I would go to school all week and then wake up at 5am on Saturday and Sunday (no church for this heathen).
And I would hopefully get signed up to caddy.
I would carry a members golf bag for 18 holes, about 4-5 hours and I would make, with tips about $20.
When I arrived about 5:30 we had to wait in a very specific spot.
We would walk past the golf carts, past the maintenance shop where there were some benches outside surrounded by some chain link fence.
We couldn’t leave that area unless with a member.
So we would wait until we got called to caddy (or not).
I was on their property every weekend for two years.
I probably spent more time on the golf course than a lot of the members.
But not once did I ever feel like I was a part of what they were doing.
Never once did I feel like I belonged.
I was never invited in, only transacted with.
Now that makes sense with being a caddy but it points to a larger problem.
We live in a world where it feels like we have a hard time belonging, only transacting with.
We don’t always feel like we belong like we are a part of something, like we are invited in.
That is the nature of living in the world.
We don’t get picked for teams, we feel left out of conversations or plans.
We feel like we don’t belong.
HAve you ever felt that way?
The good news is Christ has come for those who have felt left out.
HE has come to invite us in.
He created the church to be a place where people are invited to take part, where people are invited to belong.
There is always plenty of room under the tent of Christ.
And He has called the church to go out and invite others in.
So this morning we are going to look at the idea of Christian hospitality and see how Christ has invited us in and how the church has called us to invite the friend, neighbor and stranger in.
Showing hospitality is trusting God for another person.
We make room for them.
If you look into the first few verses in this passage, there is a clear message that to be hospitable with one another means that there needs to be a proximity with one another.
If we are going to live as the church then there needs to be a proximity with one another, with our neighbor and with the world.
Meaning that we have to be close and be seen.
Paul tells us to love one another with brotherly affection.
to outdo one another in honor.
To contribute to the needs of the saints and to seek or desire to show hospitality.
What we will see is that hospitality is not just cookies and tea at someones home.
we have mistakenly defined it as that and in doing so have limited what the Bible calls us to
We have reduced and closed down the definition of hospitality.
We need to open it back up to see its spiritual significance.
It is really our posture as a Christian.
let’s look at the practice promise purpose and posture of hospitality
The practice of hospitality is honor.
The self before another.
The practice of the self before another.
Vv 14-17
This is actually a difficult passage to practice because Paul is telling us to bless people who persecute us
We are called to join others in weeping.
to associate with the lowly
not repay evil for evil.
These are hard things to do, in fact they can really only be done in the shadow of following Christ.
These are peculiar things to do.
No other organization on the earth will tell you to love your enemy and bless them.
They will say other things about how to handle your enemy, but not bless them
The Church in Christ is called to love beyond what is comfortable for us to do.
We need Christ already just in the practice of hospitality.
The passage earlier tells us to outdo one another in honor.
I hope you have heard me say that before because I think that is the vision of church relationships.
That we are competitive about how we can honor one another.
In order to do honor one another we have to learn how to love and serve God well, how to live patiently in tribulation, how to be constant in prayer.
We are called to honor one another and that is the practice of hospitality.
The people who you see this morning deserve honor
Just as you do.
To practice hospitality is to show honor through offering another your time, attention and recognition.
how are you giving others your attention?
How are you giving others your time?
How are you giving others recognition?
Do you know that we have people in the church who send cards out to others in the church?
Or that we have a care team who proactively reaches out to those who are hurting?
We have deacons and deaconesses who are actively looking to help.
And while we are called to honor those in the church and contribute to the needs of the saints.
Much of what hospitality is is how we treat the stranger.
Maybe the new people around us this morning
Or maybe someone we bump into on the streets
How we offer the stranger our time, recognition and attention is a spiritual practice.
And it matters to the witness of the church
Good Samaritan
Someone asks Jesus who exactly his neighbor was.
Who is the stranger among them?
Jesus responds with a story
Now this passage deserves its own sermon but here is what I want to point out regarding hospitality.
The man and the samaritan would have been natural enemies.
They wouldn’t have culturally connected
The samaritan didn’t only offer recognition, time and attention but paid for the man to get well.
He sacrificed his time attention and finances for the well being of a stranger.
He showed honor to the man who could not, by the way, repay in honor.
How we treat others matters because we are called to pay attention and to be in proximity of the other.
We are called to give our time attention and recognition to others.
That is the church
The promise of hospitality is trusting God for another.
The self before God
It seems like we take a sharp right turn here but we really dont.
Paul is addressing the need for us to trust God for another in order for us to love people well.
One of the reasons we hold onto our anger with other people is because we feel like we need to be the ones who exact vengeance on another.
We feel hurt, we feel slighted.
And we feel like we are the ones who must make sure that person pays.
That mentality will keep us locked in vengeance and failed attempts at justice for the rest of our lives.
Vengeance is a clenched fist.
How long can you keep a fist clenched?
Attempting to exact vengeance on another for hurting us, trying to seek vengeance on your hurt will be like clenching your fist for the rest of your life
You think its a position of power but it will only end up exhausting you and atrophying your fist.
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