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
0.06UNLIKELY
Disgust
0.07UNLIKELY
Fear
0.05UNLIKELY
Joy
0.59LIKELY
Sadness
0.13UNLIKELY
Language Tone
Analytical
0.42UNLIKELY
Confident
0UNLIKELY
Tentative
0.29UNLIKELY
Social Tone
Openness
0.65LIKELY
Conscientiousness
0.82LIKELY
Extraversion
0.48UNLIKELY
Agreeableness
0.67LIKELY
Emotional Range
0.78LIKELY
Tone of specific sentences
Tones
Emotion
Language
Social Tendencies
Anger
< .5
.5 - .6
.6 - .7
.7 - .8
.8 - .9
> .9
Pastoral Remuneration
What the Bible Teaches
Context: last in a series of 5 messages
1. Luke 16:1-15: Shrewd stewards maximize present, temporary,
fiduciary assets for future, eternal, personal benefit.
2. 2 Corinthians 8:9: Christ’s becoming poor that we might
become rich is the supreme example of generosity.
3. Principled Giving:
• God is not a beggar (Psalm 50:10-12).
• God doesn’t want certain money (e.g., 1 Timothy 3:8).
• God wants willing giving (2 Corinthians 9:7)
4. Questions on tithing, the widow’s 2 mites, “poverty-giving," etc.
Why a sermon on pastoral remuneration?
1. Financially important
• 53.7% of next year’s budget = senior pastor’s salary
• 67% of next year’s budget = staff salaries
2. Theologically important: Can a church genuinely love God
and knowingly under-pay its pastor?
1 John 3:17–18 (ESV) But if anyone has the world’s goods and
sees his brother in need, yet closes his heart against him, how
does God’s love abide in him?18Little
children, let us not love
in word or talk but in deed and in truth.
What is remuneration?
"payment for work or services"
https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/remuneration.
accessed 28 July 2022
What does the Bible teach about pastoral remuneration?
1. Obligation: Vocational pastors ought to be remunerated.
2. Necessities: Pastoral remuneration should adequately meet
needs.
3. Honour: Pastoral pay should show honour.
Caveat 1: All Christians are ministers, but not all
Christians minister for their vocation.
1 Corinthians 14:26 (ESV) What then, brothers?
When you [plural]
come together, each one has a hymn, a lesson, a revelation, a tongue,
or an interpretation.
Let all things be done for building up.
1 Peter 4:10 (ESV) As each has received a gift, use it to serve [lit.
minister] one another, as good stewards of God’s varied grace:
Caveat 2: Paying a pastor well does not make us
Christians.
• flows out of the Gospel
• does not replace the Gospel
1 John 3:16–18 (ESV) By this we know love, that he laid
down his life for us, and we ought to lay down our
lives for the brothers.
17But if anyone has the world’s
goods and sees his brother in need, yet closes his heart
against him, how does God’s love abide in him?
18Little
children, let us not love in word or talk but in deed and in
truth.
1. Vocational pastors ought to be remunerated.
1 Timothy 5:17–18 (ESV)
Let the elders who rule well be considered worthy of double
honor, especially those who labor in preaching and
teaching.
18For the Scripture says, “You shall not muzzle an ox
when it treads out the grain,” and, “The laborer deserves his
wages.”
A. The OT “from-the-lesser-to-the-greater” argument
1 Timothy 5:18 (ESV) For the Scripture says, “You shall
not muzzle an ox when it treads out the grain,”
Deuteronomy 25:4 (ESV) “You shall not muzzle an ox
when it is treading out the grain.”
What is the point of this verse?
1) God is generous, and
2) He forbids our selfish instinct to be stingy with those who
serve us—including labouring animals.
God’s universe operates on the principle of
positively incentivizing the worker.
1 Corinthians 9:7 (ESV) Who serves as a soldier at his
own expense?
Who plants a vineyard without eating
any of its fruit?
Or who tends a flock without getting
some of the milk?
God did not put Deuteronomy 25:4 in the Bible primarily
for illiterate oxen.
1 Corinthians 9:8–10 (ESV) Do I say these things on human
authority?
Does not the Law say the same?
9For it is written in
the Law of Moses, “You shall not muzzle an ox when it treads
out the grain.”
Is it for oxen that God is concerned?
10Does he not certainly speak for our sake?
It was
written for our sake . . .
God put Deuteronomy 25:4 in the Bible primarily to give
hope to human workers.
1 Corinthians 9:9–12 (ESV) For it is written in the Law of Moses,
“You shall not muzzle an ox when it treads out the grain.”
Is it for oxen
that God is concerned?
10Does he not certainly speak for our
sake?
It was written for our sake, because the plowman
< .5
.5 - .6
.6 - .7
.7 - .8
.8 - .9
> .9