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Intro
This is my last Sunday.
I am pleased to be able to say goodbye in this way.
For a couple reasons:
First, because I love preaching and I love you.
So this is nice
Secondly, goodbyes are hard and complex.
Taking our time to sort through a good goodbye will help us to do it correctly and understand what is happening
You might not like me...
Thirdly, we will be saying goodbye to people for our whole lives
People we like and don’t
Moving, kids growing up, people growing apart, even people dying
These things happen all the time and we need to be able to have Good, Godly goodbyes
Good vs Bad
Memories, excitement, fondness, heartbreak, nervousness, disappointment.
Two that ruin goodbyes: guilt and grief
Guilt
You are filled with regret and you carry the weight
Guilt involved in leaving: so much that could have done/could have been done differently.
How can you be sure that after this goodbye is done, you shouldn’t be filled with regret and guilt?
**Princeton Researchers: 2013, the weight of guilt— expend more energy to do the same things**
How can we keep a good bye from damaging the move forward?
Grief
Grief is a part of a goodbye, but we can let it overwhelm us and handicap us from moving forward
Something we love is ending, or someone we love is being separated from us— that hurts
How can keep that hurt from ruining the start of the next chapter?
How can we be sad the right way?
Answers
Hard questions: How can we have a good goodbye?
(Pop-culture, pop-psychology, self-help books)
Better Idea: How did Paul say goodbye?
Paul
**Read **
Guilt and the Gospel
How is he not guilty?
How is he innocent of their blood?
(v26)
How can he live the rest of his life (probably not long) without guilt of feeling like he hadn’t done enough, said enough, been there enough??
V 26- He declared to them the whole plan of God.
By explaining to them what the whole plan of God is, Paul sees the most basic requirement of his responsibility fully fulfilled
How can he live the rest of his life (probably not long) without guilt of feeling like he hadn’t done enough, said enough, been there enough?
Guilt and the Gospel
Paul answers his guilt with the Gospel: Was our foundation the Gospel?
vs 27- “because I did not avoid declaring to you the whole plan of God” / Whole counsel of God
The Greek here can be understood “the entirety of God’s plans”
Christian Standard Bible.
(2017).
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Nashville, TN: Holman Bible Publishers.
THIS cures all guilt that he has for his goodbye: that he fulfilled his mission to them
In fact, vs 24 Paul tells us that his whole purpose is to finish his course and the ministry
He can leave these people he loves so much, guilty-free, because his gospel-rooted ministry needs to be completed
And that is more important than him staying.
Or even Him staying alive.
Grief and the Gospel
Paul answers his grief with the Gospel
Was there grief: **Read **
\Tears, weeping, hugs, relationships broken— there was grief for sure
But there was understanding: “Paul, we know that your leaving by God’s leading and with the gospel in mind.
So they prayed together, they shed tears together, they embraced, they kissed, they helped him to his ship.
AND they grieved.
We can be sad on sad days
The grief should never overshadow our joy in God
The grief should never overshadow our joy in His plans for us
We can have a godly grief
We can have both understanding and tears
Example: Can you rejoice in those closest to you going to the mission field?
John Piper story: young fam, “If they don’t come back, I will kill you”
Is your grief subject to the Gospel?
Are you sad with the situation but satisfied in Christ?
A good goodbye is Gospel-centered
Do you believe what Paul wrote in - “For I consider that the sufferings of this present time are not worth comparing with the glory that is going to be revealed to us.”
PAUL wrote that= Same guy!
Christian Standard Bible.
(2017).
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Nashville, TN: Holman Bible Publishers.
Ant hills vs Mt.Everest--- Not worth comparing
Is your grief a godly grief?
With the Gospel in mind?
With that indescribable glory in mind?
Paul knows that a good bye changes location, but not the mission
The place but not the purpose
The mission field but not the mission
people/place?
He knows that the Gospel is their foundation now is the time to use it as a standard
He leaves well by giving them responsibilities:
V28 Be on guard for yourselves, be on guard for all the flock, shepherd them
Why should they do this?
Because the Holy Spirit has appointed them to oversee the flock
And because Jesus purchased them with His own blood
V31 Be alert, remembering the Gospel and its implications
V32 Honor God and His Grace that you have been committed to
This will build you up
This is where your inheritance comes from
This is where your good works come from: (v35)
He can leave well because he knows his responsibility:
V24- to testify to the Gospel of God’s grace.
He has done that here, he must now continue it elsewhere
He is constrained, couldn’t possibly do anything else
He can leave well by acknowledging the past, present and future
Thank you
It was a great past, it is a heart-warming present, and a future that moves forward
Gospel centered past, present, and it HAS to remain that way in the future
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