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.
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Anger
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Joy
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Language Tone
Analytical
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Confident
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Tentative
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Social Tone
Openness
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Conscientiousness
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Extraversion
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Agreeableness
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Emotional Range
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Study
Write down everything this text says about the Word...
Regarding who or what he is:
Regarding what he does:
2. Who is the Word, according to verse 17? What do you think John is implying about this person by calling him, “the Word”?
Which of your observations from these first two questions most helps you understand who Jesus is?
3. How can the Word both be with God and be God?
4. Light and darkness are major symbols in John’s Gospel.
What do they refer to and symbolize in the Bible?
Consider the following texts...
Psalm 82:5
Psalm 119:
Proverbs
Romans
Light -
Darkness -
5. How would you explain to someone both the meaning and the results of receiving Jesus (vv.
12-13)?
6.
Therefore, what does it imply about Jesus to call him the light (, ; )?
7. Think about what you observed in question 1 about who the Word is and what he does.
Write down as many implications for your priorities, actions, and decisions as you can think of.
For example what difference does it make to you that Jesus...
is the Word?
is God?
was the means by which God created all things?
became flesh and dwelt among us?
gives certain people the right to become God’s children?
8. What can you do this week by God’s grace to let one truth from question 7 more fully affect your character and habits?
(Be as specific as possible about the prayer and other action you want to pursue.)
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