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
0.11UNLIKELY
Disgust
0.1UNLIKELY
Fear
0.08UNLIKELY
Joy
0.64LIKELY
Sadness
0.54LIKELY
Language Tone
Analytical
0.86LIKELY
Confident
0UNLIKELY
Tentative
0.37UNLIKELY
Social Tone
Openness
0.77LIKELY
Conscientiousness
0.61LIKELY
Extraversion
0.61LIKELY
Agreeableness
0.48UNLIKELY
Emotional Range
0.51LIKELY
Tone of specific sentences
Tones
Emotion
Language
Social Tendencies
Anger
< .5
.5 - .6
.6 - .7
.7 - .8
.8 - .9
> .9
Introduction
Greetings...
There’s an old saying that suggests “you can tell a person’s character by the company they keep.”
Though this isn’t an absolute truth it is a biblical one and the reason why Paul told the church in Corinth “Bad company ruins good morals.”
().
The reality is typically speaking you can judge a person for who they are by the people they surround themselves with.
That’s because most people surround themselves with “like-minded” folk.
Even though this old saying isn’t in the book of Proverbs, the book does have a lot to say about friendships and how they affect and shape our lives.
With this in mind let us examine our lesson for today.
What Real Friendship Is
The term friendship has become distorted.
Today’s world has confused the word friendship with acquaintance.
Social media, Facebook in particular, has turned the noun “friend” into a verb meaning “someone on my list of people I mostly don’t really know.”
Thus, you can “unfriend” someone and it just means they are no longer on the list.
This term of friendship has become so deluded that Facebook has limited the number of friends you can have to 5000 friends.
There is no doubt this term needs clarification in our modern world.
What is biblical friendship?
Biblical friendship is based in love.
Biblical friends are those that stick with you through tough times.
Biblical friends point out truth even if you don’t want to hear it.
Summary
Biblical friendship is based in love, doesn’t allow difficulties to come in the way, and puts truth above everything, even when it hurts.
We Must Wisely Choose Friends
Friendship can have different levels.
There is no doubt that there are different levels of friendship and hence the term “best friend” or “closes friends.”
This is healthy and something we should keep in mind when making friends.
How to choose wise friends.
Understand what makes for a “bad friend.”
Are they the type of person that asks you to do wrong?
Pr 1:
Verse 17 shows how foolish it is to associate with these people.
Even the birds see a net coming at them and run why don’t we see the net people are throwing at us.
Understanding what a bad friend is allows to know whom to avoid and now whom to pursue, as the proverb writer states...
Summary
Choosing the “right” friends is extremely important.
Conclusion
Who we choose to make our close friends will ultimately determine how we spend our time and whom we put our focus on.
Choosing wisely will allow us to grow spiritually and will help us grow as we should biblically but choosing wrongly will likely take us down a path that is difficult to come out of.
Invitation
< .5
.5 - .6
.6 - .7
.7 - .8
.8 - .9
> .9