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
0.12UNLIKELY
Disgust
0.1UNLIKELY
Fear
0.09UNLIKELY
Joy
0.64LIKELY
Sadness
0.49UNLIKELY
Language Tone
Analytical
0.35UNLIKELY
Confident
0UNLIKELY
Tentative
0.67LIKELY
Social Tone
Openness
0.79LIKELY
Conscientiousness
0.76LIKELY
Extraversion
0.67LIKELY
Agreeableness
0.86LIKELY
Emotional Range
0.67LIKELY
Tone of specific sentences
Tones
Emotion
Language
Social Tendencies
Anger
< .5
.5 - .6
.6 - .7
.7 - .8
.8 - .9
> .9
Intro and My Story
My name is Shane Adams and my wife is here, Treva.
This is our first year as part of the Native American Fellowship of the Assemblies of God.
Chief Brent had been inviting me, but I didn’t know if I was enough blood quantum.
How much is enough?
His response was so powerful.
He said, “Blood quantum was a tool used to divide our people.
We get to decide who our people are and Shane you are a member of your tribe and you worked for that tribe.”
I said, “Would you receive me?”
He said, “Yes.”
I asked, “Do you see me?”
He said, “I see you.”
It was a powerful moment.
When he invited me to help advise him and be a connector between Chi Alpha and the Fellowship, I asked a lot of questions, including what I would be doing and if there was room to explore it.
He said, “A lot of people talk about getting everyone on the same page.
I just want to get everyone around the same fire.”
That was so powerful a statement.
I heard so much Good to Great talk and corporate business models in ministry and it was so refreshing to hear him talk like that.
Are you thankful for your Chief tonight?
He came to visit us in Oklahoma a few weeks ago.
He’s just a great guy.
Are you thankful for King Jesus tonight?
My heritage:
So Treva and I are both Cherokee.
Our families settled in Oklahoma at the end of the Trail of Tears around Vian and Webbers Falls off the Arkansas river.
Cherokee Nation:
I actually got to work for the Cherokee Nation for a couple of years while we were dating.
I did data entry, inventory, and traveled to sites for food delivery with our food distribution department all over Northeastern Oklahoma.
I was definitely the fairest of my department and when I would get too annoying, one of my coworkers, an older man, would say, “Hastee yonay” which means, “Quit it, white man.”
He taught me some Cherokee and I am now fluent in several sentences.
Ha ha!
I loved it there, though.
I loved my coworkers and most of them were not huge Jesus fans.
But I would vouch for Him.
My hope was that they would think, “I’ve been around some Christians, but Shane is different.”
or “I’ve been hurt by some people who said they followed Jesus, but Shane really seems legit.”
Smoke breaks/Bible breaks.
In some ways, evangelism is simply vouching for Jesus.. the invisible Creator who offers us forgiveness and eternal life NOW through His holy shed blood on the cross is vouched for by His friends.
Our friends take longer and more careful looks when we vouch for Jesus.
Ever need someone to vouch for you?
Can’t Buy Me Love
You may remember an 80s film called Can’t Buy Me Love where the main character believed that if he could get a singular popular girl to fake date him it would put him on a trajectory to become popular himself.
He simply needed someone to vouch for him.
And it worked!
Rejected at Vian
Rejected by most of my classmates, I tried to find identity in simply being funny or being weird.
I eventually learned what a sense of humor was, but it was after the damage was done.
However, I found a new found connection in the band!
All of a sudden, I got a whole new group of people to connect with, in multiple grades, that mostly did not know my past.
It was a new start.
Before long, I was walking with some cool kids and even went out with a senior as a freshman!
I thought I was really something!
Because some seniors vouched for me!
Identity in Christ & His Body
But my greatest clout was when I found my identity in Jesus and a connection in the Body of Christ!
I found my identity in Jesus and in His Body!
When I was unpopular at my school, I was a valued member of the Body of Christ at my youth group.
They vouched for me to the others.
Gary Vouches for XA
By the end of high school, one of my older Christian friends, told me that if I was going to college, I should check out Chi Alpha, the campus ministry to which I’ve worked with since 1993.
Because of his vouching for Chi Alpha, I went over by myself at the University of Arkansas and knocked on the door of the Chi Alpha house and got super involved there.
Somebody vouched for this campus ministry of Chi Alpha.
I would not have known what this ministry was if it had not been for him.
Kelly Vouches for Former Drug Addicts
My cousin, Kelly leading drug addicts to Christ and the Church judging them before they left the building.
He would hire them and vouch for them.
He would give them dignity and respect when others would just dismiss them.
He vouched for them.
Craig Smallwood Vouches for Tongues
One of our students, after receiving the baptism in the Spirit.
He was valued member of the crew team at Northeastern University.
He overheard one of his teammates making fun of people who speak in tongues.
Craig said, “Well I do that.”
He was so respected that the person said, “Then it must be real.”
Most of you don’t know me.
But the Chief vouched for me and that’s why you’re listening to me right now.
Someone vouched for Jesus to you and that’s why you love Jesus now.
Scripture is full of people vouching for Jesus and for the Body of Christ.
Scripture:
Acts 9.26 Barnabas Vouches for Paul
Remember when Saul the murderer became Paul the missionary?
When Saul the persecutor became Paul the persecuted?
God confirms Himself to Paul, confirms Paul’s ministry through Paul, but how does God confirm Paul’s ministry to the Church?
Let’s read...
Acts 9:26-31 “And when he had come to Jerusalem, he attempted to join the disciples.
And they were all afraid of him, for they did not believe that he was a disciple.
But Barnabas took him and brought him to the apostles and declared to them how on the road he had seen the Lord, who spoke to him, and how at Damascus he had preached boldly in the name of Jesus.
So he went in and out among them at Jerusalem, preaching boldly in the name of the Lord.
And he spoke and disputed against the Hellenists.
But they were seeking to kill him.
And when the brothers learned this, they brought him down to Caesarea and sent him off to Tarsus.
So the church throughout all Judea and Galilee and Samaria had peace and was being built up.
And walking in the fear of the Lord and in the comfort of the Holy Spirit, it multiplied.”
(ESV)
God confirms to the Church’s leadership the ministry of Paul through Barnabas.
How many of you would be in ministry today, if someone hadn’t vouched for you?
Credentialing is mostly referrals and a little education.
It is about connections and vouching.
Grandma Arline:
One of my first supporters.
< .5
.5 - .6
.6 - .7
.7 - .8
.8 - .9
> .9