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How is your soul?
We began with this question last week!
Did anyone think about it?
Anyone want to share the journey that God has you on with soul discovery?
I am a profound thought today!
We are selfish!
Due to the fallen nature of our sin, we are wired to think about ourselves!
We think about ourselves first and often!
I want to give you a quick test here to see if you are self-centered...
Do we:
We have a critical spirit.
We think our ideas are better than someone else’s simply because they are ours
We look out of ourselves first.
Look at a group photograph that you are in and ask yourself, “who do you look for first?”
Why do you do that?
We have a low self-esteem.
We think our appearance or performance is lower than that of others, in part because our standards for ourselves are higher than others.
We can’t forgive ourselves.
Even when God has forgiven us, our own opinion is still more important.
We are competitive.
To win is to prove that we are the better person.
Losing is insufferable because it defies the image we have of ourselves.
We talk about ourselves all the time.
We dominate the conversation, we talk over people.
or use clever tactics like humor or cynicism to take control of the conversation.
We hold grudges.
Over things that were done to us, but not someone else.
How did you do?
Did you pass?
1/7 = 14%
2/7 = 29%
3/7 = 43%
4/7 = 57%
5/7 = 71%
6/7 = 86%
7/7 = 100%
Obviously, there are many ways to display our selfishness.
This is just seven of those ways.
What areas in our life are you selfish?
How does that affect others?
In the scripture reading today we read about the disciples displaying their selfishness.
In this passage, we see two different focuses.
Jesus is focused on what was to come.
He tells them
The disciples couldn’t understand was Jesus was saying and so they dropped it.
They then began to argue…and what were they arguing?
They were arguing which one of them was the greatest.
So, Jesus has just shared some important news about what was going to happen to him.
The disciples were too focused on their own concerns to think about or ask about what Jesus was referring to.
Instead, they were wondering who of them was the greatest.
A chapter later in Mark’s version we see another conversation:
So again, for a third time, Jesus tells them that he was going to be killed.
They were on the road to the cross, when James and John decide that it is a good idea to ask if they can sit at the right and left of Christ.
The right and left were positions of glory and power.
Rather than being focused on what was about to happen to Jesus, they were focused on their own fame and glory.
The authors of SoulShift say this “The disciples were following Jesus, but they were wired another way.
They were on the same road but in a different world.”
- Steve DeNeff and David Drury
They were literally following Jesus, but they were still not completely transformed.
To be a disciple of Jesus, something has to shift within us.
We have to shift from Me to You!
We need to become outwardly focused.
This is the challenge.
How many things do we do out of selfish ambition or vain conceit?
How many times do we simply value ourselves over other people?
Our natural inclination is ourself.
We think of ourselves.
Jesus is different.
He is shaped to think about others.
He is shaped to put the needs of others above his own needs.
So, the question is: How do we shift from Me to You?
Jesus lays out the two greatest commandments.
To love God
To love others
Sometimes we focus soley on the first.
The second often falls way behind the first.
Interestingly, John writes
and
So, what John is writing here is that if we truly love God, then we will love other people.
We can’t claim to love God while not loving others.
So, to begin the shift from Me to You, we must understand that we are to love others.
What does this look like practically?
I am going to give you 4 quick steps to help us shift our focus.
1. Wake Up
From the moment that we are born, we are focused on ourselves.
We need to reminded that we are selfish.
That we put ourselves above other people.
How many of you are a first born child with younger siblings?
Do you remember when your first sibling was born?
I don’t as I was a middle child, but I obviously have three children.
I remember what it was like for Tasia with Lacy was born.
She was super jealous.
She was no longer the baby.
There was a new baby, one tat took all of her attention.
It became reality for her that she no longer received all of mom and dad’s attention.
Or think about when you were first married.
Y’all remember those single days?
When you could basically do whatever you wanted whenever you wanted?
You could have your house as filthy as you wanted.....
You had the bed all to yourself....
Everything revolved around you!
And then....you fell madly in love with someone.
Eventually you got married.
At first, it was all good....I mean, this was the person that you were supposed to spend the rest of your life with!
Things were great.
But then, the honeymoon period wore off.
Eventually, things got real....
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