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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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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Tone of specific sentences
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Anger
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I. What religion is and is not.
* Religion is not *Christianity*.
* Anti-religion is not *Anti-church*.
II.
Religion can be bad or good.
* Religion is bad when...
* It is built on *false teaching*.
* It becomes *empty* and loses its *meaning*.
(Amos 5:21-23; Mark 7:5ff)
* It is not matched by our *life*.
(Matt.
23; Lk. 11:37ff; Rom.
2:19-24; James 1:26)
* It becomes *prideful*.
(Lk.
18:9-14)
* It is viewed as a vehicle for *salvation*.
(Rom.
1-3)
* It becomes an *end* in *itself*.
(Col.
2:6ff)
III.
Biblical religion was always intended to *enhance* our *relationship* with God.
* God's eternal *desire*.
(Gen.
1-3)
* God's *misunderstood* plan.
* God's gracious *invitation*.
(Acts 2:36-41)
* God-ordained *practices*.
(Acts 2:42)
* God-centered *unity*.
(Acts 2:44ff)
* God-centered *relationships*.
(Heb.
10:19-25)
/Is your hope in *religion* or in *Jesus Christ*?/
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