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.
A score of 0.5 or higher indicates the tone is likely present.
Emotion Tone
Anger
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Disgust
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Fear
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Joy
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Sadness
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Language Tone
Analytical
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Confident
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Tentative
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Social Tone
Openness
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Conscientiousness
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Extraversion
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Agreeableness
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Emotional Range
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Tone of specific sentences
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Anger
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Read passage
What do you already know
What do you already know about Good Samaritan?
Jot down answers
How to understand a parable
Who is Jesus talking to?
What is their background?
Where are they right now?
Inside the parable
Understand what the audience would know of each character
This is a parable (a short story designed to teach a moral and spiritual lesson), not a story of complex character development or an allegory (story where ideas are symbolized as people)
Geographical characteristics
Historical characteristics
Understanding the language, grammar
Apply your understanding - Contextual, grammatical, literal, historical
Lawyer, Levite, Priest, Samaritan (history)
Geography
road, terrain
History
Robbers, Inn, Coinage
Put it all together holistically
How to evangelize
Who can love like the Samaritan?
It’s not about
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