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Let me ask you this question … how do you know whether or not you are a good friend?
How do you know if you are a good friend?
Is there a report card that we can look at?
Is it the same for every single one of us?
Tonight, I want us to look at what it takes to be an awesome friend.
Here’s why this is important.
It’s something that we’ve been talking about for the past two weeks:
BFFS can affect the quality and direction of your life.
We have been talking about the idea that our BFFs, our best friends, can have a drastic effect on our life.
They have influence in our life, whether or not we recognize or admit it.
All of our friendships shape us.
And we see this in Proverbs.
(NIV)
“Walk with the wise and become wise, but a companion of fools suffers harm.”
When I think of about an awesome friendship, I think about MY best friend.
My best friend is named Scott.
My best friend is named Scott.
[BEST FRIEND PIC]
Scott and I met in college, and to be honest, we couldn’t be more different.
I’m an extrovert, he’s an introvert.
He plays sports, and I’ve never played one in my life.
He’s black, I’m white.
He grew up in Oklahoma and his parents are divorced, I grew up in Texas and my parents are together.
We met each other in class and quickly became friends.
We actually found some interests that we DID have in common.
Here’s what made my friendship with Scott so awesome.
We pushed each other in the right direction.
Scott was a guy who was by my side when I was making a bunch of dumb decisions.
I was there for him and helped get him out of his comfort zone.
We pushed each other in our schoolwork.
We loved and accepted each other no matter what.
Scott was patient with me when nobody else was.
He was there for me during times of need, and he made me laugh.
To this day, Scott and I are still friends and still talk regularly.
And as I was talking about Scott and my friendship, I’m sure that some of you here thought about your own BFF.
When you think about your friendships, what is it about them that makes them awesome?
When you think about your friendships, what is it about them that makes them awesome?
Why are you STILL friends with that person?
And ultimately, how do we become the best friends that we can possibly be?
Thankfully, God has a lot to say about our friendships, about how we can be the best BFF that we can possibly be.
Why are you STILL friends with that person?
And ultimately, how do we become the best friends that we can possibly be?
Thankfully, God has a lot to say about our friendships, about how we can be the best BFF that we can possibly be.
Tonight, I want us to look at .
Here, Paul writes to the church in a city called Corinth.
Paul is a guy whose life was transformed by Jesus.
Paul was literally persecuting Christians, and then he had an encounter with the risen Jesus and his life changed dramatically.
In this letter, Paul is writing to a group of believers just like you and me.
We start here in , “Love is …”
Let’s stop here.
Before we get any further, we must understand something important.
God calls us to love our BFFs.
In fact, the two most important commandments—the two things that God tells us we need to—are to love HIM and love OTHERS.
When Paul is writing about love, he’s talking about the people that we are TO love.
We are to LOVE our BFFs.
Being an awesome friend starts with LOVE.
This passage is recited all the time in weddings,
and it relates to the relationship between a husband and wife.
But let’s be real … we are to love everyone, whether it’s our spouse, our best friend, or even our enemies.
And so this passage relates to ANYONE that we need to love.
Let’s continue reading.
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Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant 5 or rude.
It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; 6 it does not rejoice at wrongdoing, but rejoices with the truth.
7 Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.
The Holy Bible: English Standard Version.
(2016).
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Wheaton, IL: Crossway Bibles.
Let’s start off with the first one.
Being an awesome friend means being patient.
Patience is a tough skill that we all need more.
Here’s the thing about patience: it is always for something or someone who annoys you.
Nobody is ever patient with something that they enjoy.
Nobody says, “I am being really patient with these cookies that I’m eating!”
Patience is only required when something or someone is getting on our nerves.
When we talk about being a good friend, about being the best friend we can be, we have to be patient.
None of us are perfect.
We all have things that make us unique.
We all have our bad habits.
Think about your parents—what is something that they do that annoys you?
OK, got something on your mind?
Well, someone has something about you that annoys them and bugs them.
And that’s OK!
Patience means loving that person right where they are.
Patience means that we stay with our friends even when it gets tough.
Patience means that WHEN our friends get on our nerves, we will stay by their side.
Let’s go to the next one:
Being an awesome friend means being kind.
God desires for us to be kind to each other, to build each other up and not burn each other down.
If someone didn’t know you and your best friend, would they describe the way you treat each other as “kind”?
Let’s be real for a second.
Some of us here do things that they feel is loving.
We joke around, we play fight, and from the outside, this behavior doesn’t look loving, it doesn’t look kind.
And when we joke around with each other and rip on each other, it hurts us.
We may not admit it, but often what we say to each other hurts.
Being kind is being respectful.
Being kind is speaking well of each other.
Some of you need to start being kind to your friends.
Some of you feel that you are kind in your heart, but you haven’t expressed that kindness.
Being kind is doing something nice for someone without expecting something in return.
Being a jerk is the opposite of being kind.
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