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QUESTION | "What's your most annoying household chore?"
Welcome to Familia, a new series that's all about family — the good, the bad, and the annoying.
In your home, what's your most annoying household chore and why?
INSTRUCTIONS: Give a few students a chance to respond.
STORY | Talk about a chore you hated doing as a teenager.
INSTRUCTIONS: Tell a story from your own life (or have a volunteer or student tell a story) about a chore you hated doing as a teenager — and be dramatic!
This is your chance to whine, complain, and try to get a few laughs.
My kids HATE doing the dishes and putting their clothes away.
Whenever I ask them, they’re like “NOOOOO!!!”
So I have to threaten them until it gets done.
This is kind of how it goes:
*Trey Kennedy Video*
*Title Slide*
POLL | "What's your grocery strategy?"
Does anyone love grocery shopping?
We all love having groceries, but the process of getting them, carrying them, and putting them away is annoying.
No matter how many pounds of groceries I buy, you can guarantee I will try to carry them inside my place with just one trip.
INSTRUCTIONS: Have students reply to the following questions by raising their hands or cheering.
How about you?
What's your grocery strategy?
Do you . . .
Grab all the groceries at once, no matter how many bags there are?
Think it's better to go slow and take a few trips?
Run for the bathroom to hide in hopes the job will be finished before you come out?
While it may sometimes feel like we can handle things on our own, there's a lot of benefit to having other people around to help and support us.
That's what our families are meant to do.
Family can mean a lot of different things to a lot of different people.
Your family could be . . .
The people you live with.
The people you're related to.
The people you've chosen to love like family.
It could even be the family of God — people all over the world, and all throughout history, who follow Jesus.
We're talking about familia — that's Spanish for "family," but you'll learn it in a few more languages too by the time we're done.
Think of it as a reminder that no matter who we are, where we live, what language we speak, or what circumstances we were born into, we all need "family."
Sometimes we choose our family and sometimes we don't get a choice.
But no matter what "family" looks like for you, for the next few weeks, we're going to see what Scripture shows us about getting along with our families a bit better.
SO WHAT?
Why does it matter to God and to us?
When I said families are supposed to support each other, of course, I didn't only mean on a grocery run.
You might need support when you're feeling . . .
Discouraged or let down.
Stressed out.
Sad.
Angry.
Confused or unsure.
When we're feeling weighed down, it can be hard to ask for the support we need.
When we're not sure how to deal with it or ask for help, it's easy to take things out on the people who are closest to us.
No matter what burden you're carrying, it's always better to ask for support than to try to handle it on your own.
That's because you and I were designed to need each other!
This is kind of tough for me- bc I tend to like to do things on my own.
It works out ok sometimes, but other times I get super stressed bc I didn’t think ahead and ask for help when I needed it.
ACTIVITY | Family Photos
I'm sure we can all think of moments when someone gave us the support we needed during a tough time.
And I'm sure we can all think of moments when that didn't happen.
But today I don't want us to think about own needs.
I want us to think about others.
Is there anyone in your family who might need support right now? Someone who might be feeling discouraged, stressed, sad, angry, confused, or unsure?
If you can't think of anyone, why do you think that is?
Is it because everyone's life is totally perfect?
Or is it just because you haven't thought about it recently?
I know it can be difficult to feel compassionate or curious about our own family — especially the family members who are sometimes hard to like.
But today, that's what I want to challenge you to do.
Who in your family might need some support right now?
INSTRUCTIONS: Invite your students to take out their phones and scroll through their camera roll for a picture of someone in their family or community who might need support.
Encourage them to favorite the photo or make it their lock screen.
SCRIPTURE | Galatians 5:13–14
Believe it or not, we can learn a lot about families (and family drama) from the Bible!
Today we're going to look at a passage from the book of Galatians.
Galatians was originally a letter, sent to a group of Jesus-followers in Galatia from a guy named Paul.
In this particular letter, Paul was talking to a church family that had a few disagreements and conflict.
INSTRUCTIONS: Read Galatians 5:13-14.
Hopefully your family doesn't actually bite each other when you're stressed out or angry, but you get the idea.
This church family was getting so consumed by their disagreements with each other that Paul needed to jump in and correct them.
He told them to . . .
Love each other like they love themselves.
Put each other before themselves.
Stop hurting each other.
SCRIPTURE | Galatians 6:1–3
It turns out a big part of the reason the Galatians were always fighting with each other was because they were busy getting angry about each other's faults.
They would notice someone else's sins or shortcomings and jump all over them for it.
Think about your family for a second.
Does that sound familiar?
When one of your family members does something to make you angry, is your first reaction to blow up at them and point out their flaws?
What if, instead of attacking or getting angry with them, you stopped to consider, "I wonder if they need some support right now?"
INSTRUCTIONS: Read Galatians 6:1-3
In a conflict, it is so easy for us to only think about ourselves, or to think about how the other person has wronged us.
But just like we sometimes do things we regret when we need support, our family does too.
When you notice a family member messing up, here's what Paul recommends . . .
Be gentle.
Work to make things better.
Help carry their burdens.
Don't think you're better than them.
SCRIPTURE | Galatians 6:9-10
If you've ever struggled to do this for a family member (and who hasn't?) then these instructions from Paul might sound pretty difficult.
That's why Paul says we need help from God's Spirit to . . .
Supporting each other (especially when we'd rather be mad at each other) is hard, tiring work.
But Paul says not to give up and to keep supporting each other.
Paul was talking about how to love each other in God's family of Jesus-followers, but this matters for our actual families too.
No matter what you or your family members believe about Jesus, imagine how things in your family might change if you decided to support your loved ones instead of attack them.
SCRIPTURE | Matthew 11:28–30
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