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Introduction: I don’t know how many of you have done this, but how many of you have ever said something that the minute it left your mouth, you regretted it?
I think we all probably have!
As I was preparing for this message, I began to think of some of the regretful things I have said in the past.
Those statements that just make you want to cover your mouth and go “Oh no!
I shouldn’t have said that”
Most of my stories are too embarrassing to revisit here, and not surprisingly, many of them happened on first dates.
I would ask you to raise your hand if you wanted to share one of these “misstatements,” but I’m afraid if I do that you might embarrass yourself and everyone else in the room.
However, a quick Google of the phrase “Things You Shouldn’t Say”brought up a funny article I’d like to share with you.
Many of you have heard this before but it’s worth repeating.
10 Things You Probably Shouldn’t Say To A Police Officer
1.
I thought you had to be in good physical condition to be a cop.
2. Sorry, Officer, I didn’t realize my radar detector wasn’t plugged in.
3. Officer, do you know why you pulled me over?
Okay, as long as one of us does.
4. Gee, Officer!
That’s terrific.
The last guy only gave me a warning, too!
5.
I was trying to keep up with traffic.
I know there aren’t any other cars around.
That’s how far ahead of me they got!
6. Hey pal, I pay your salary!
7. Aren’t you the guy from the Village People?
8. Hey, you must’ve been doing about 125 mph to keep up with me.
Good job!
9. You’re not gonna check the trunk, are you?
10.
When the Officer says “Gee Son….Your eyes look red, have you been drinking?”
You probably shouldn’t respond with, “Gee Officer your eyes look glazed, have you been eating doughnuts?”
Those are too funny.
But the reality is the only person in that joke who got hurt was the person saying those things to the officer.
Right around the time he got cuffed I’m sure he was thinking “Man, I’ve really done it to myself this time!”
The only person he hurt was himself.
He hurt his ego and, lets face it, his arrest record.
But I would venture to say that 100% of us have said things that did a lot more than just hurt ourselves.
The words that come out of our mouth that hurt people often hurt the people closest to us.
We’ve called our friends “stupid,” “moron,” “retarded,” and we’ve told them to “just go die.”
We’ve said things to them that have just killed them inside.
This week we continue with week 2 of our series called ZIP IT with a message entitled Criticism Gone Bad.
So if you are taking notes, get your notebooks ready.
If you have your bibles, flip with me to James 1:26 where we start our message tonight.
James 1:26 “If anyone considers himself religious and yet does not keep a tight rein on his tongue, he deceives himself and his religion is worthless”
It’s important that we get that message tonight.
If we don’t keep a tight rein on our tongues, we are fooling ourselves and our religion is worthless.
One of the things we strive to do here at Counter Culture is to teach everyone about the things that deceive us.
We know that when it comes to sexual purity, how important that is.
We know how the enemy wants to deceive us.
We know how he’ll try to trick us.
You get on your computer and all of sudden he’s telling you “Man, you’re just a little curious.
Just take a little peek.
It won’t hurt anything,” but we understand that we can’t play around with that stuff.
He tells you its just curiosity but you’re deceived and the next thing you know id you’re a full blown porn addict.
He’s out to deceive us.
Maybe you are dating someone and there’s that little, kissy, touchy, feeling going on.
And you say “Oh we’ll stop at second base.”
You won’t.
You are deceiving yourself if you think you are going to be able to stop.
He’s out to deceive us.
It’s like McDonald’s French Fries.
Who loves McDonald’s French Fries?
It’s the same thing.
You just keep putting those things away.
They taste so good going down and you’re like, “But you know, that if you keep doing that, in ten years you are going to weigh fifty-five hundred stinking pounds!”
We know that stuff.
But, what about the words that come out of our mouth?
We are deceiving ourselves if we think those words are not damaging and hurting people.
We tell ourselves like “Mmm.
Girl, you know, she just had it coming!”
A little punch here, a little jab there.
It’s kind of like that when we sneeze.
Think about it.
Have you ever have one of those sneezes that spends 20 minutes building up?
It builds up, and builds up until we finally sneeze and it feels so much better because all that pressure is gone.
But what are we left with after a sneeze?
SNOT!
And what do we do with snot?
We just wipe it off.
And that’s how those words of criticism feel coming out of our mouth.
We think to ourselves is, “Man, we’re giving somebody a piece of our mind.
Well, it’s about time somebody gave them a piece of their mind, and I’m glad I was the one to stand up and finally do it.”
That’s sarcasm, that’s wit, we think to ourselves.
“Man, you know what, man?
Wasn’t I funny?
Look at that.
It felt so good, everybody laughing,” and we have no idea of the damage that we are doing.
The central theme for tonight’s message is this: People who constantly criticize others often do not realize the damage they are doing.
People who constantly criticize others are often deceivedand do not realize the damage that they are doing.
Tonight, we are going to look at the three root causes of criticism.
We want to identify them.
We want to zip it up, and we want to figure out how to turn that around and begin to speak words of life that build people up.
Thesis: People who constantly criticize others often do not realize the damage they are doing.
Transition: Three Root Causes of Destructive Criticism
I. Jealousy
a. Proverbs 14:30 “A heart at peace gives life to the body, but envy rots the bones.”
b.
Envy rots the bones!
i. Picture the inside of your body, and imagine what it must look life for your bones to be rotting away.
1. Envy and jealousy rots away at the inside of us.
2. It rots away at our spirit and our soul.
3. It turns us into bitter, negative, critical people.
c.
It doesn’t start big.
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