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
0.18UNLIKELY
Disgust
0.15UNLIKELY
Fear
0.09UNLIKELY
Joy
0.58LIKELY
Sadness
0.5UNLIKELY
Language Tone
Analytical
0.52LIKELY
Confident
0UNLIKELY
Tentative
0.46UNLIKELY
Social Tone
Openness
0.83LIKELY
Conscientiousness
0.6LIKELY
Extraversion
0.25UNLIKELY
Agreeableness
0.85LIKELY
Emotional Range
0.5UNLIKELY
Tone of specific sentences
Tones
Emotion
Language
Social Tendencies
Anger
< .5
.5 - .6
.6 - .7
.7 - .8
.8 - .9
> .9
Reasons for Gifts
Acts 2:1-21
Every person can better understand spiritual gifts by looking at the characteristics they possess in this passage.
Introduction:
Kent Hunter tells the story of Mrs. Schneider.
She had been teaching a children’s Sunday School class for a long time.
Everyone had a really bad attitude about Mrs. Schneider and her class.
No one liked to attend her class.
For generations people had dreaded Mrs. Schneider’s class.
When Dr. Hunter became the pastor he asked Mrs. Schneider about how she came to teach the class.
She told a story that 50 years earlier she had been asked to fill in for a teacher who wanted to take Maternity leave.
Fifty years later she was still teaching the Sunday School class.
Dr.
Hunter asked her to take a spiritual gifts inventory.
Too no one’s surprise, Mrs. Schneider did not have the gift of teaching.
Her gifting was in the areas of showing mercy and serving.
She was then asked to leave her Sunday School class and begin working in a nursing home ministry.
This simple moved proved to be something positive for Mrs. Schneider and for the church.
I will be giving you some characteristics of gifts of the spirit.
These will help us to identify the importance of these gifts.
Characteristic I. Ability
A. I went through a time in my life when I was really trying to understand spiritual gifts and especially speaking in tongues.
So whenever I had the opportunity I would ask someone about their understanding of the gift of speaking in tongues.
One of the most fascinating stories came from a missionary.
He told me that he was speaking to a group of youth while he was serving in Argentina.
He was not very fluent in his Spanish and that was evident in the failure of his audience to pay attention.
So while he was speaking he prayed that God would help him to communicate.
Immediately he began to speak fluent Spanish and these kids who did not seem to be paying attention were suddenly listening intently to this man.
This man was sure that God had given him the ability to speak to these youth in a supernatural way.
B.
< .5
.5 - .6
.6 - .7
.7 - .8
.8 - .9
> .9