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
0.13UNLIKELY
Disgust
0.08UNLIKELY
Fear
0.12UNLIKELY
Joy
0.57LIKELY
Sadness
0.58LIKELY
Language Tone
Analytical
0.71LIKELY
Confident
0UNLIKELY
Tentative
0.74LIKELY
Social Tone
Openness
0.66LIKELY
Conscientiousness
0.87LIKELY
Extraversion
0.03UNLIKELY
Agreeableness
0.68LIKELY
Emotional Range
0.62LIKELY
Tone of specific sentences
Tones
Emotion
Language
Social Tendencies
Anger
< .5
.5 - .6
.6 - .7
.7 - .8
.8 - .9
> .9
Intro:The title of today’s sermon is “Small Thoughts, Small Results”.
Now Last week we finished this account of Jesus sending out his disciples and teaching them how they should expect to be treated.
Jesus also gave them an image of the results of saving faith in their life.
They will stand with Him.
Now almost a year later we come to this account of the feeding of the 5000.
I. Jesus Point His Disciples to an overwhelming Need.
The other Gospels state it this way.
Because need is everywhere we often fail to see it.
Because need is so common we have become calloused to it.
It isn’t that we don’t know that it is there, but rather we don’t recognize the part that we are to play in it.
I mean lostness and rebellion is everywhere we look.
It’s overwhelming.
From time to time my kids will do what kids do and trash their rooms.
A child’s room can go from spotless to destroyed in an afternoon.
Sometimes they will have made it so messy, that it isn't that they don’t want a clean room, but it becomes so overwhelming to them they don’t know where to begin.
So the easiest thing is to walk by the mess as if it doesn’t exist.
However, once I or Hope assign them a starting point the job becomes less overwhelming and they can manage to pick up the room themselves.
I believe over time this is what has happened to the church.
The thought of meeting the need and evangelizing the lost is such a great task that we have become overwhelmed.
We walk right by it day after day.
Choosing not to notice because it is overwhelming to even know where to begin.
II.
Reactions to the Need
#1 Place the responsibility on those that are in need.
How often do we refuse to take responsibility for the needs and lostness around us?
#2 Limit the work based upon our perceived ability or resources
In other words, we only attempt what is possible through our current assets or perceived human ability
#3 - Turn to Christ with the need and let him magnify Himself through us.
In What way was Jesus limited by circumstance or resource?
I want you to look around, we are a small church.
One of the mistakes small churches make is that we can become convinced that our impact is limited by our size.
In what why is Jesus limited by circumstance or resources?
We will never be big enough to reach the entire world.
We will never be big enough to even reach greater Charleston.
Yet we have a savior that is limited by nothing and if we wait as a church to until we are “big enough” that day may never come.
Yet Christ is calling us to look at the world around us, be moved with compassion ,step into the brokenness and let him be magnified through our weakness.
We see this example in the story of account of Gideon.
God told Gideon he had to many men.
So God paired it down to 300 to go against the Midian Hordes.
Size and resources have little to do with impact.
Trans : I am not talking about just doing good,
III.
Jesus Purpose was not to only make the World a Better Place
If it was his intent, He would have become king.
Jesus was not a provider of Goods and services, He the savior proclaiming the Goodness of God both by proclamation, but also in His visible form.
Conclusion:
What need(s) are you ignoring simply because you are overwhelmed by its scope?
< .5
.5 - .6
.6 - .7
.7 - .8
.8 - .9
> .9