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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Openness
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Conscientiousness
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Extraversion
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What happens to a company with divided employees?
They fail.
The morale goes down.
The work doesn’t get done or at least it doesn’t get done efficiently.
The leaders are always trying to put out trivial fires instead of concentrating on pushing the business forward through innovation or discovery.
Ultimately it affects the bottom line, and you be assured that whatever affects the bottom line will get the attention of the upper management and owners pretty quickly.
God knows that we, like employees, will have tendencies to not get along.
We can have family feuds but not like the TV game show.
Church Sign: God prefers kind atheists over hateful Christians.
It doesn’t take long for a church to ruin its reputation and ministry potential when fighting starts to take place among the members.
Paul gave an appeal for unity to the church at Corinth and he dives in to that issue almost immediately after his introduction.
Let’s look at what he says and ask God to speak to us today.
The Crisis of Contention in the Church
In the same way that an owner doesn’t like employees bickering about policy or working, God doesn’t want church members arguing and causing division.
Church Sign: God prefers kind atheists over hateful Christians.
Two strong words:
Two strong words:
Division - a tear or split
Contentions - quarrel or fight
The Cause of Contention in the Church
Favorite preachers
Forgotten purpose
The Cure for Contention in the Church
Decide to agree
Come together
Seek understanding
Follow a common purpose
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