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Welcome
<preshow discussion of who’s been the best so far, end with JR. trying to talk about Bruno into COVER>
One of my best friends is an Enneagram 6.
And probably my favorite thing about him is going for walks together.
It doesn’t matter if we’re literally going on a walk around the neighborhood or just walking into a restaurant.
We’ll be in the middle of a conversation and he’ll pause to say, “Watch out for that curb.”
Or, “Be careful for that crack!”
But my favorite example is one time when a group of us was walking down the sidewalk and he leaped in front of us and threw his arms out.
“You guys, WATCH OUT!”
We stopped dead in our tracks, looking for the thief about to assault us or perhaps a car chase hurtling towards us.
There was nothing.
“Watch out for the praying mantis!”
We looked down and, sure enough, there was a praying mantis.
I leaned in to take a better look, and my friend exclaimed, “Don’t touch it!
They’re endangered!”
Now, it turns out that’s not true - though it’s a weird belief that a bunch of us picked up along the way.
But I also want you to walk with me through my friend’s thought process.
As our group was out enjoying an evening stroll, he was scanning the route ahead of us for possible dangers.
And then he spotted one.
There, on the curb, small enough that someone less vigilant would have missed it, is a creature.
But not just a creature - an endangered creature.
If he doesn’t act fast, someone is going to step on it.
At which point sirens will sound and as police cars screech around the corners from both directions, a PETA SWAT team will descend from helicopters to arrest all of us - guilt by association, after all.
We’ll go to prison, which means we’ll all lose our jobs and, given recidivism rates in the US prison-industrial complex means we’ll all become lifers.
At best, we’ll all get released sometime in our 80s, hopefully to retire to a low-income nursing home to live out our few, final and brutal days.
together.
Thank God he stopped us and pointed out the praying mantis in time!
Do you know someone like that?
Someone who sees danger around every corner, the person who’s constantly scanning for pitfalls and peril?
Then you might know an Enneagram Six.
And while they sound like Chicken Little, these folks are actually called the Loyalists.
They’re the glue that holds the rest of us together, and when they’re healthy, they’re amazing.
So how do these Loyalists find the path to flourishing?
And how can the rest of us help them?
Brace yourselves… for the answer, we’re going to have to talk about Bruno!
Message
Welcome to Summer at Catalyst!
This year, we’re going on a quest for spiritual transformation.
To help us get at that, we’re spending our summer with La Familia Madrigal from Encanto.
The nine magical Madrigals correlate with a tool utilized in Spiritual Direction called the Enneagram.
On its surface, the Enneagram looks like a personality profile - like Myers-Briggs or Strengthsfinder.
In the Enneagram, you identify yourself as one of the numbers 1-9, which then goes on to describe how you interact with the world.
Ian Cron, a Spiritual Director who has written about the Enneagram a lot, says it like this: “Personality tests tell you who you really are.
The Enneagram tells you who you’re really not.”
In other words, what the Enneagram helps you identify in yourself is something theologians and mystics call our shadow self.
Personas we all create to help us cope with the world.
Throughout this series, we’re investigating the type embodied by each member of La Familia Madrigal, allowing them to illustrate for us the various personas.
Then we’ll dive into Scripture to see how these personas keep us from being fully who God created us to be.
The end goal is that we come to know our creator better by better knowing God’s creation.
By the end of the summer, I hope we come together as a spiritual family, closer than ever and a source of healing and hope for our community - just like La Familia Madrigal!
[Triads] We’ve explored the anger triad, the 8s, 9s and 1s.
Abuela, the Protector/Challenger, Mirabel the Peacemaker and Isabela the Perfectionist.
We’ve explored the shame triad, the 2s, 3s and 4s.
Julieta the Helper.
Luisa the Performer.
Pepa the Romantic.
Now we’re in the final triad, the fear triad.
Last week, we met Dolores the Investigator, who projects her fear outward, exploring the world to keep herself safe.
Today, we’re meeting the Enneagram Six, also known as the Loyalist.
Sixes are the Fear avoiders, and they do so by worrying.
Sixes see danger around every corner, and they spend a lot of energy working to prevent that danger.
It’s no wonder, then, that la familia Madrigal’s Six is… deep breath, everyone!…
Tio Bruno.
In Mirabel’s opening song, she says, “My Tio Bruno… they say he saw the future, one day he disappeared.”
Bruno knows if it’s going to rain, who’s going to hurt themselves and even that the family’s magic is going to fade.
Bruno can see every bad thing that’s going to happen and… it doesn’t exactly make him the life of the party.
Quite the opposite.
Bruno’s visions have a way of coming true.
The central example is his sister Pepa’s wedding day.
There was not a cloud in the sky before Bruno warned it would rain.
Once the thought was in her head, Pepa couldn’t control herself, and they got married in a hurricane.
When Bruno had a vision of the family’s magic fading, he left.
Except he didn’t really leave - he hid in the walls of casita.
He’s spent years patching cracks in the walls, caring for the family even from his exile.
When Mirabel finds Bruno, he explains, “My gift wasn’t helping my family, but I love my family.”
That’s why Sixes are the Loyalists.
No matter how the family treated Bruno, no matter how he felt, he remained loyal to the family.
Bruno is a super unhealthy six - he knocks on every piece of wood he sees, throws salt and sugar over his shoulder.
He’s sure that the worst possible future is going to come to pass.
Sixes can’t actually see the future - but they’re convinced that if they try hard enough, they have a shot.
They can keep themselves - and the people they love - safe by worrying, dwelling, planning.
Sixes manifest in two ways - Enneagram experts call them phobic and counterphobic.
When Mirabel first makes her way into the walls, she realizes Bruno has been patching the cracks in casita for a long time.
When she observes as much, he says, “Oh that?
No, no, no, no, no.
I’m too scared to go near those things.
All the patching’s done by Hernando.”
Who is Hernando?
It’s Bruno with his hood up.
It’s a silly gag - Bruno admits as much, but it captures the duality Sixes live in.
Phobic Sixes are afraid to go near the cracks.
They want to stay as far from danger as possible.
These Sixes usually find some kind of authority figure they can trust, and then they stick with that person through thick and thin (for Bruno, it’s Abuela).
Counterphobic Sixes are Hernando - they confront, challenge, oppose.
My favorite counterphobic Six is actually Batman - he spends his whole life imagining worst-case scenarios, and making a plan to overcome each one.
He even has Bat-Shark Repellent.
But despite how different phobic and counterphobic look, they share the same root: a desire to avoid a frightening world.
That’s because, as kids, Sixes learned early on that the world isn’t safe and that the adults in charge can’t always be trusted.
When they learn that message, they respond either by obeying or rebelling.
They always know who’s in charge, and they’re keeping a close eye on them.
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