Robert T. Young - "From Hostility to Hospitality" (June 4, 1978)

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	(light organ music)	0:10
	(choral singing)	8:15
	(light organ music)	9:06
	(choral singing)	9:38
-	In the stillness of a sabbath morning	12:26
	in the majesty of this house of God.	12:29
	In the presence of one who knows us better	12:33
	than we know ourselves.	12:35
	We bow in humility and penitence.	12:38
	Praying together.	12:41
	God we come before you knowing we have tried	12:43
	to hide from you.	12:48
	From one another and from ourselves.	12:50
	We have felt that by depending upon our own powers	12:54
	we could solve the problems of life.	12:59
	We have tried to escape by withdrawing	13:02
	from the difficult experiences of life.	13:06
	We have become trapped in a meaningless round	13:09
	of insignificant activities.	13:13
	While we have avoided projects we should have done.	13:16
	We have strayed hard from the fullness	13:21
	of life you have promised us.	13:24
	Forgive us for our self centeredness,	13:27
	our rejection of your gift of the spirit.	13:30
	Have mercy upon us that we may become your people anew.	13:35
	Amen.	13:41
	The one who knows us better than we know ourselves	13:50
	hears us with more understanding love	13:54
	and forgives us with more abounding grace	13:58
	than we can ever claim.	14:01
	Let us give thanks, for God is good	14:05
	and God's love is everlasting.	14:07
	Thanks be to God who creates us.	14:11
	Thanks be to God whose tender love redeems us.	14:15
	Thanks be to God whose presence sustains us.	14:20
	There is one announcement which is not printed	14:31
	in your bulletin for this morning	14:34
	and that is the inauguration of a series	14:36
	of summer organ concerts.	14:40
	This evening at seven o'clock in this chapel	14:43
	a concert by William Weaver the organist choir master	14:48
	of St. Ann's Church in Atlanta, Georgia.	14:53
	I would call your attention also to the last notice	14:58
	on the bulletin.	15:03
	The observance of the Sacrament of Holy Communion	15:04
	immediately following this service	15:08
	in the memorial chapel to my right.	15:10
-	Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly	15:22
	in all wisdom, teaching and admonishing one another	15:25
	in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs.	15:28
	Singing with grace in your hearts to the Lord.	15:31
	Let us pray.	15:34
	Prepare our hearts, O Lord to accept your word.	15:38
	Silent in us any voice but your own.	15:41
	That hearing we may also obey your will	15:45
	through Jesus Christ our Lord, amen.	15:48
	The epistle lesson is from the 12th chapter	15:52
	of Paul's first letter to the Corinthians.	15:53
	Verses 12 to 27.	15:56
	For as the body is one and hath many members	15:59
	and all the members of that one body being many	16:02
	are one body, so also is Christ.	16:05
	For by one spirit are we all baptized into one body	16:09
	whether we be Jews or Gentiles, whether we be bond or free.	16:13
	And have been all made to drink into one spirit	16:17
	for the body is not one member but many.	16:21
	If the foot shall say because I am not the hand,	16:24
	I am not of the body is it therefore not of the body?	16:26
	And if the ear shall say, because I am not	16:30
	the eye I am not of the body,	16:33
	is it therefore not of the body?	16:35
	If the whole body were an eye where were the hearing?	16:38
	If the whole were hearing, where were the smelling?	16:41
	But now hath God set the members, every one of them,	16:46
	in the body as it hath please him	16:48
	and if they were all one member where were the body?	16:50
	But now are they many members, yet but one body	16:55
	and the eye cannot say unto the hand,	16:57
	I have no need of thee, nor again the head	16:59
	to the feet, I have no need of you.	17:02
	Nay, much more of those members of the body	17:05
	which seem to be more feeble are necessary.	17:07
	And those members of the body which we think	17:10
	to be less honorable, upon these we bestow	17:12
	more abundant honor.	17:14
	And our uncomely parts have more abundant comeliness	17:16
	for our comely parts have no need but God hath tempered	17:21
	the body together having giving more abundant honor	17:24
	to that part which lacked.	17:27
	That there should be no schism in the body	17:29
	but that members should have the same care,	17:31
	one for another.	17:33
	And whether one member suffer, all members suffer with it.	17:35
	Or one member be honored, all the members rejoice with it.	17:39
	Now ye are the body of Christ and members in particular.	17:43
	(light organ music)	18:10
	♪ How excellent ♪	18:59
	♪ How excellent thy name, O Lord ♪	19:06
	♪ In all the world is known ♪	19:16
	♪ In all the world is known ♪	19:24
	♪ How excellent ♪	19:32
	♪ How excellent ♪	19:38
	♪ Thy name name, O Lord ♪	19:41
	♪ In all the world is known ♪	19:46
	♪ In all the world is known ♪	19:54
	♪ How excellent thy name, O Lord ♪	20:02
	♪ Thy name, O Lord ♪	20:09
	♪ In all the world is known ♪	20:12
	♪ Above all heavens, O King adored ♪	20:18
	♪ Above all heavens, O King adored ♪	20:20
	♪ How has thou set thy glorious throne ♪	20:23
	♪ How has thou set thy glorious throne ♪	20:24
	♪ Above all heavens, O King adored ♪	20:27
	♪ Thy glorious throne ♪	20:29
	♪ Above all heavens, O King adored ♪	20:32
	♪ How has thou set thy glorious throne ♪	20:34
	♪ How has thou set thy glorious throne ♪	20:38
	♪ Above all heavens, O King adored ♪	20:40
	♪ How has thou set thy glorious throne♪	20:43
	(light organ music)	20:52
-	Will the congregation stand	21:21
	for the reading of the gospel lesson?	21:22
	The lesson is from the sixth chapter of Matthew	21:29
	verses 25 to 34 and from the 18th chapter, verse 20.	21:31
	Therefore I say unto you, take no thought for your life.	21:37
	What you shall eat or what you shall drink.	21:41
	Nor yet for your body what you shall put on.	21:43
	Is not the life more than meat	21:46
	and the body more than raiment?	21:48
	Behold the of the fowls of the air	21:51
	for they sow not, neither do they reap,	21:52
	nor gather into barns.	21:55
	Yet your heavenly father feedeth them.	21:57
	Are ye not much better than they?	22:00
	Which of you by taking thought can add one cubit	22:03
	unto his stature and why take ye thought for a raiment?	22:06
	Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow.	22:10
	They toil not, neither do they spin.	22:13
	And yet I say unto you that even Solomon in all his glory	22:16
	was not arrayed like one of these.	22:20
	Wherefore if God so clothed the grass of the field	22:22
	which is, today is and tomorrow is cast of the oven,	22:25
	shall he not much more clothe you oh ye of little faith?	22:29
	Therefore take no thought saying,	22:33
	what shall we eat or what shall we drink?	22:35
	Or wherewithal shall we be clothed?	22:38
	For after all these things do the Gentiles seek	22:40
	for your heavenly father knoweth	22:43
	that ye have need of all of these things.	22:45
	But seek ye first the kingdom of God	22:48
	and his righteousness and all these things	22:51
	shall be added unto you.	22:53
	Take therefore no thought for the morrow.	22:56
	For the morrow shall take thought for things of itself.	22:58
	Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof.	23:01
	For where two or three are gathered together in my name	23:06
	there am I, in the midst of them.	23:09
	Here ends the reading from the gospel.	23:13
	All praise and glory be to God, amen.	23:14
	(light organ music)	23:18
	(choral singing)	23:29
-	Before I begin the sermon, may I say just a word	24:30
	of appreciation and recognition to Earl Woleslagel	24:33
	who is the lector this morning.	24:37
	Earl will soon be retiring from service with the University.	24:41
	He has served for 16 years with the news bureau here.	24:46
	And in that capacity has been the person largely responsible	24:51
	for distributing news about Duke chapel	24:54
	and the services and programs here.	24:57
	So, we personally, and the University	25:00
	and the community at large are indeed grateful, Earl,	25:03
	for all that you have meant to us	25:06
	and will continue to mean.	25:07
	And it's good to have you share in this service with us.	25:09
	I guess all of us who preach	25:14
	more than we realize, preach from where we are,	25:19
	from what concerns us or troubles us,	25:24
	or from what we are celebrating.	25:27
	We do that much more than we are probably aware of.	25:30
	We do it both when we acknowledge it	25:36
	and when we do not.	25:38
	This morning I'd like to acknowledge it.	25:39
	Margaret Walker has some words	25:44
	and a little poem that I may have shared with you before	25:46
	but are appropriate this morning.	25:49
	She writes, "Our birth and death are easy hours	25:52
	"like sleep, and food, and drink.	25:57
	"The struggle staggers us for bread, for pride,	26:01
	"for simple dignity and this is more than fighting	26:04
	"to exist, more than revolt and war,	26:08
	and human odds.	26:13
	"For there is a journey from the me to you.	26:16
	"There is a journey from the you to me.	26:19
	"A union of these two strange worlds must be."	26:22
	The journey from me to you, from you to me,	26:30
	from us to others and others to us.	26:33
	The union of these two strange worlds, ours and others	26:37
	that is the theme of the message for today.	26:42
	From hostility to hospitality.	26:45
	Perhaps it is because of some personal struggles	26:50
	I am going through myself.	26:52
	Perhaps it is because some struggles	26:55
	I know others are having.	26:58
	Perhaps it is because of what I see and hear	27:01
	and feel around me.	27:03
	Perhaps it is because I have been struck most deeply	27:06
	by the insights and helpfulness of Professor Henri Nouwen's	27:09
	book entitled, "Reaching Out."	27:12
	Or perhaps it is because of all of these reasons	27:16
	and many more that I do not know	27:18
	but whatever, I think the spiritual well-being	27:19
	of all of us at one time or other rests	27:23
	in our desire and in our ability to move	27:26
	from hostility to hospitality.	27:30
	For much of this sermon this morning both directly	27:35
	and indirectly I am indebted to Dr. Nouwen.	27:38
	His book and particularly his chapter entitled,	27:41
	From Hostility to Hospitality.	27:45
	If one member suffers, Paul writes, all suffer together.	27:48
	If one member is honored, all rejoice together.	27:52
	And Jesus says, where two or three	27:56
	are gathered together in my name,	27:59
	in my spirit there am I in the midst of them.	28:01
	These words, it seems to me, are descriptive	28:05
	of the relationship that exists	28:08
	where hospitality is present.	28:10
	The hospitable place is where life	28:13
	can be lived without fear.	28:16
	Where authentic community can be experienced.	28:19
	Where both guest and host can reveal their true selves	28:22
	to each other and bring new gifts	28:26
	and new life to each other.	28:29
	I sense a deep, deep hunger among people I know	28:33
	for a place where we, I started to say where they,	28:38
	but where we can experience hospitality.	28:42
	As Dr. Peggy Way, Professor of Pastoral Psychology	28:46
	at Vanderbilt Divinity School said	28:50
	at a conference here this week.	28:51
	"The world is hungry	28:54
	for people who will stand with them	28:57
	"in negotiating human existence,	29:00
	"in coming to terms with limitations and finitude	29:03
	"and with the acceptance of grace.	29:07
	"all that unfolds before me," she says,	29:11
	"shows me how fragile we are.	29:14
	"Fragile ego with a fragile self."	29:19
	And thus, I sense we live as fragile selves	29:24
	in a world where most of us not only experience	29:29
	our own fragility but face hostility	29:35
	and feel hostility much of the time.	29:39
	For we live, basically, in a world of strangers.	29:44
	Strangers with one another even in our homes,	29:48
	in our schools, in our jobs, in our communities,	29:52
	in our churches, in most of the places	29:55
	where you and I live and work,	29:58
	and make our way through life.	30:01
	We live with angry, hostile feelings.	30:03
	Estranged from one another.	30:07
	From ourselves, from our past, from a meaningful present	30:09
	and from hope for the future.	30:13
	And yet, hostility is not the way Christ calls us to live.	30:16
	Hospitality is our calling.	30:22
	To provide hospitable places and experiences.	30:25
	To convert the hostice into a hospice.	30:29
	The enemy into a guest, and to find hospitable places	30:32
	for our own lives.	30:37
	But that's not easy.	30:41
	It is not easy to move from hostility to hospitality.	30:45
	There are many personal and family relationships	30:50
	for me just now where I need urgently	30:53
	to move from hostility to hospitality.	30:55
	But I know from personal experience, mine and others,	31:00
	that this moving is very, very difficult.	31:04
	But the word of scripture is quite clear, my friends.	31:09
	Our Lord says, I no longer call you strangers but friends.	31:12
	I no longer call you slaves, but friends.	31:18
	If you have anything against your brother	31:22
	or sister, go and get it set aright before	31:26
	you come and place your gift on the altar of God.	31:31
	Be at peace, our Lord says, with one another.	31:36
	John in his epistles writes,	31:42
	beloved, love one another.	31:45
	And in what I think is one of the most intimate,	31:48
	personal, richest little passages he says,	31:51
	this old, old saintly man says, my little children	31:56
	love one another.	32:01
	And in Hebrews the writer tells us,	32:04
	let brotherly or sisterly, let human love,	32:06
	let love for others continue and continue.	32:09
	Henri Nouwen writes though, in "Reaching Out."	32:15
	Many places that are created to bring people closer	32:19
	together and to help them form a peaceful community	32:22
	have degenerated into mental battlefields.	32:27
	Students in classrooms.	32:32
	Teachers in faculty meetings.	32:34
	Staff members in hospitals.	32:37
	Coworkers in projects often find themselves	32:39
	paralyzed by mutual hostility.	32:43
	Unable to realize their purposes	32:47
	because of fear, suspicion and even blatant aggression.	32:49
	And so we do often find ourselves in these situations.	32:55
	Thus, a growing, crying, urgent need	33:00
	for hospitality where when one member suffers	33:03
	we all suffer.	33:07
	Where when one member is honored we can all rejoice	33:08
	and celebrate together.	33:11
	In hospitality we may offer friendship	33:13
	without binding the other,	33:17
	freedom without leaving the other alone.	33:19
	Many of us, however, are too busy	33:26
	and too preoccupied to make space for someone else.	33:31
	We are, nearly all of us, busy, active, involved,	33:35
	energetic, working people.	33:39
	We are afraid of quiet places and empty spaces.	33:42
	We need noise, conversation, activity.	33:48
	We need to have something going on around us.	33:51
	Quiet bothers us.	33:54
	Space disturbs us and stillness creates	33:55
	anxiety between others and us.	33:59
	A Yaqui Indian told an anthropologist inquirer,	34:03
	you white Americans think and talk too much.	34:08
	You must stop talking even to yourself.	34:13
	Dr. Carlyle Marney critiques ministry	34:18
	and theological education when he says,	34:20
	we preachers are taught to be talkers not hearers.	34:22
	To speak and to preach but not to listen.	34:26
	Our purpose as Christians, Peggy Way told us again this week	34:31
	is not to cure people but to care for them.	34:35
	Or as Dr. Donald Shriver said when he was here	34:41
	a couple of years ago,	34:44
	listening is always an act of grace.	34:46
	And so it is when we're able to listen	34:53
	and to really hear and experience what others bring to us	34:56
	and so it is when someone else is able	34:59
	to listen and to hear whatever it is we bring to them.	35:01
	Listening is an act of grace.	35:05
	So we're called to listen, to care, to be hospitable.	35:09
	But it's difficult.	35:14
	Hospitality is the creation of free and friendly space	35:16
	where the stranger, whoever the stranger is,	35:20
	may become our friend.	35:23
	Professor Nouwen describes three sets of relationships.	35:27
	Where the movement from being stranger to friend,	35:32
	from hostility to hospitality may be experienced.	35:35
	Parents and children, teachers and students,	35:39
	healers and patients.	35:43
	First, parents and children.	35:46
	It belongs, he says, to the center of the Christian message	35:50
	that children are not parents' properties to own	35:54
	and rule over.	35:58
	But gifts to cherish and care for.	35:59
	Our children are our most important guests	36:04
	who enter into our home, ask for careful attention,	36:08
	stay awhile, and then leave to follow their own way.	36:14
	Children are strangers whom we have to get to know.	36:20
	It takes much time and patience to make	36:25
	the little stranger feel at home.	36:27
	And it is realistic to say that parents have	36:30
	to learn to love their children.	36:33
	Love is not automatic.	36:36
	It comes forth out of a relationship	36:39
	which has to grow and to deepen.	36:41
	Children are our guests who have their own destination.	36:44
	A good host is able not only to receive	36:50
	the guests with honor and offer them all	36:53
	the care they need, but also to let them go	36:56
	when their time to leave has come.	37:00
	Teachers and students.	37:06
	The teacher-student relationship is one where hospitality	37:10
	can truly be seen as a model	37:15
	for creative interchange between people.	37:17
	Teaching asks for the creation of space between persons	37:21
	who have different thoughts and ideas.	37:25
	Where teacher and student can enter into	37:27
	respectful, fearless, communication with each other.	37:30
	Nouwen writes,	37:37
	no one will show his most precious self.	37:39
	That is his or her doubts, or fears, or ignorance,	37:44
	or questions, or uncertainties.	37:49
	No one will show his most precious self	37:52
	to those whom he fears.	37:56
	But I might add, most of us will reveal	38:00
	our real selves, doubts, questions, fears,	38:04
	insecurities, ignorance even, to someone	38:08
	whom we know and whom we feel really loves us	38:11
	and cares for us and respects us.	38:15
	In order to help bring hospitality about	38:20
	the teacher today has two tasks he says.	38:23
	To reveal and to affirm.	38:26
	To reveal to students that they the students	38:29
	have much to give, to offer, to contribute,	38:31
	to enlighten the relationship.	38:35
	To affirm students who today in spite	38:38
	of all the many, many signs of superiority	38:42
	and of excellence, and high attainment	38:46
	which our students here particularly have,	38:48
	these students, many of them,	38:51
	are still filled with fear and insecurity	38:52
	with self-doubt, and with serious concern	38:55
	about their own self-worth.	38:58
	So we're called he says, as teachers,	39:01
	to affirm these persons.	39:03
	Hospitality, even in the classroom,	39:06
	the lab, the hallway, the office, the library,	39:09
	or wherever may happen	39:12
	between teacher and student.	39:15
	Healers and patients.	39:18
	Healers here, including doctors and counselors,	39:22
	psychiatrists, psychologists, priests, ministers,	39:25
	nurses, and others.	39:28
	Healers and patients he says,	39:32
	have a beautiful opportunity to provide hospitality	39:35
	for each other and for others.	39:39
	But healers need to be reminded, he says,	39:42
	that they do not own	39:46
	any person who comes to him	39:49
	or her for healing.	39:52
	Many patients, shall we say	39:55
	most of us as patients,	39:59
	view healers, that is doctors, and others	40:02
	in similar positions.	40:05
	View these persons with awe, with apprehension	40:06
	and many times even with fear.	40:11
	And if you don't believe this, stick your head	40:13
	in the door of a doctor's waiting room sometime	40:16
	and see the look of anxiety and fear	40:18
	and dread and unease that is on the face	40:21
	of almost everyone there.	40:23
	This is neither good nor desirable.	40:26
	What healers and patients both must know	40:29
	and must remember is that every human being	40:32
	has the capacity to be a healer.	40:37
	We are all patients in need of healing	40:43
	and we are all healers who can reach out and help.	40:46
	We must be interested, he says, in knowing others.	40:54
	In helping them and us to face their pains	40:58
	and in being willing to face our own pains as well.	41:01
	Hospitality where healers and patients can help	41:06
	and be helped.	41:12
	May I refer one more time to Henri Nouwen?	41:15
	To give us another word about moving	41:19
	from hostility to hospitality.	41:21
	He tells us,	41:24
	that poverty makes a good host,	41:27
	where genuine hospitality can take place.	41:31
	And when I first read this I thought,	41:36
	what in the world can he be talking about?	41:38
	Poverty?	41:40
	Why should poverty have anything	41:42
	to do with being hospitable?	41:44
	I don't understand, it doesn't make any sense.	41:47
	And then I read on where he said that poverty	41:50
	of mind and poverty of spirit are those two characteristics	41:53
	that make one a hospitable host.	41:58
	I still didn't understand what he was talking about	42:01
	or what he was trying to get across.	42:04
	But then as I read and then as I reflected	42:08
	it made all kind of sense.	42:10
	Poverty of mind where he simply says,	42:13
	that the person who has his or her mind already filled	42:16
	with ideas and concepts and theories and thoughts	42:19
	himself or herself has no space	42:23
	to entertain those ideas or thoughts from others.	42:26
	It's sort of like what Will Rogers is supposed	42:33
	to have said on one occasion.	42:36
	If ever you meet a man who has all the answers	42:37
	don't believe a word he says.	42:40
	And if ever you meet someone who has	42:43
	all the answers and all the knowledge	42:45
	and feels like every thought	42:47
	is already in his or her mind, you can be sure	42:48
	that there is no room for you.	42:51
	Poverty of heart, he says, very simply,	42:55
	is that that person whose heart is filled	42:57
	with his or her own pride and prejudice,	43:00
	and worries, and anxieties, and concerns	43:03
	has no space for the feelings of others to come in.	43:06
	The person you or I want least to be around	43:18
	even for a moment is the person who is thinking and feeling	43:24
	about only himself or herself	43:29
	and his ideas or her ideas, or his feelings or her feelings.	43:32
	This is what he's trying to say.	43:38
	Poverty of mind and poverty of spirit means simply,	43:40
	making space in ourselves for someone else's ideas	43:44
	and someone else's feelings to come in	43:47
	and find a lodging place.	43:50
	It does make some sense to me now.	43:54
	This is why the word of Scripture tells us	43:57
	that we must empty ourselves in order	43:59
	to help others.	44:01
	We must make ourselves weak in order	44:03
	to help others become strong.	44:05
	We must give of ourselves in order to help others.	44:08
	Those who save their lives will lose it	44:11
	but those who are willing to lose their lives, he says,	44:14
	will find not only theirs	44:16
	but will help others to find theirs.	44:18
	Perhaps this is why Jesus said on one occasion,	44:21
	unless, unless you become as little children	44:24
	you shall not enter the kingdom of God.	44:28
	Now I know that little children are filled	44:31
	with all sorts of things.	44:33
	They're filled with their own aliveness	44:35
	and their own energy and their own sense of vitality	44:37
	and they get preoccupied at times.	44:40
	But I also know that children as children	44:42
	do have time and space to let somebody else's feelings	44:45
	come in and to entertain somebody else's ideas.	44:50
	Where two or three are gathered in my name.	44:58
	When one member suffers, we all suffer.	45:03
	When one of us is honored, all rejoice together.	45:08
	Unless you become as little children.	45:13
	For as much as you have done it unto one of	45:18
	the least of these, you have done it unto me.	45:20
	In the book "Women and the Word: Sermons"	45:27
	edited by Helen,	45:31
	Peggy Way closes her sermon	45:35
	with some of the most beautiful words	45:37
	I think I've ever heard.	45:38
	Beautiful because they talk about our calling as Christians.	45:42
	They suggest how we might move helpfully.	45:48
	From hostility to hospitality.	45:55
	How we might live our lives of caring	45:58
	in the world today.	46:03
	Peggy quotes a Jesuit priest who on his invitation	46:06
	to his ordination had written these words.	46:09
	We are simply asked	46:17
	to make gentle our bruised world.	46:21
	To tame its savageness.	46:27
	To be compassionate of all,	46:34
	including oneself.	46:39
	And then with the time left over	46:43
	to repeat the ancient tale	46:49
	and to go the way	46:54
	of God's foolish ones.	46:57
	To make gentle our bruised world.	47:02
	Tame its savageness.	47:09
	Be compassionate of all,	47:13
	including oneself.	47:17
	Let us pray.	47:24
	Oh God of loving, caring,	47:28
	healing spirit.	47:32
	Come to each of us now.	47:36
	And if with any one of us, there is a sense	47:39
	or feeling or experience of hostility.	47:42
	Hostility felt from others	47:47
	or hostility showed toward others,	47:49
	God we ask now for your cleansing, caring spirit.	47:53
	To help us to begin to move from that spot	47:59
	and that feeling.	48:03
	And to show hospitality.	48:06
	To help to heal and be healed	48:10
	in the midst	48:16
	of this bruised, bruised world.	48:17
	We pray, oh Lord, in the name of Jesus Christ	48:21
	that magnificent carer, listener,	48:25
	and healer	48:30
	who always seemed to have a hospitable place	48:32
	for anyone.	48:37
	In this regard, oh Lord,	48:40
	make us like our Lord and redeemer.	48:43
	Even Jesus the Christ.	48:48
	Amen.	48:52
	(light organ music)	48:57
	(choral singing)	49:29
-	Let us affirm what we believe.	52:03
	We believe in God, who has created and is creating.	52:07
	Who has come in the truly human Jesus	52:13
	to reconcile and make new.	52:16
	Who works in us and others by the spirit.	52:20
	We trust God who calls us to be the church	52:24
	to celebrate life and it's fullness.	52:29
	To love and serve others.	52:33
	To seek justice and resist evil.	52:36
	To proclaim Jesus, crucified and risen.	52:40
	Our judge and our hope.	52:45
	In life, in death, in life beyond death,	52:48
	God is with us.	52:53
	We are not alone.	52:56
	Thanks be to God.	52:58
	The Lord be with you.	53:02
-	And with your spirit.	53:05
-	Let us pray.	53:07
	(rustling)	53:09
	In a divided and troubled world, oh Lord	53:19
	we besiege your hospitality and healing.	53:23
	There are nations and tribes at war	53:28
	with their neighbors or within themselves.	53:31
	In Zimbabwe, in the Middle East, in Northern Ireland	53:35
	and in the Horn of Africa.	53:40
	Cleanse them and us from hostility and lust for power	53:43
	that threaten to destroy the human person	53:48
	for the sake of national pride or material profit.	53:51
	Guide the disarmament conference now in session	53:56
	that it may bring some small steps	54:00
	toward cooperation and trust.	54:02
	Toward beating swords into plow shares	54:05
	and spears into pruning hooks.	54:08
	There are societies and communities	54:13
	at war with their neighbors and within themselves.	54:16
	In Uganda and South Africa.	54:21
	In Cyprus and in Israel.	54:25
	In Soviet Union and in the United States.	54:29
	Where racial prejudice and injustice still prevail.	54:35
	Where some are too rich and many are too poor.	54:40
	Where freedom to dissent is crushed	54:45
	or where it is used for destructive ends.	54:48
	Where the needy or the different suffer	54:53
	the cruelty of indifference or neglect.	54:57
	And fold us in your loving arms so that we may be	55:01
	emboldened to offer compassion and hospitality to others.	55:04
	There are individual lives at war with their neighbors	55:13
	and within themselves.	55:17
	In Duke Hospital and in Central Prison.	55:20
	In dormitories where dreams and values have disappeared.	55:25
	In homes where love and loyalty	55:30
	have been sacrificed to selfish pleasure	55:33
	or shallow success.	55:35
	Touch these lives, oh merciful God with peace	55:39
	and with hope.	55:42
	With reconciliation and redemption.	55:44
	These prayers of intercession and supplication	55:50
	we would not dare to ask.	55:53
	In fact, we would not know enough to want.	55:55
	Except for the coming of your son Jesus Christ, our Lord.	55:59
	For we too have been separated from Christ.	56:05
	Alienated from the common wealth.	56:08
	Strangers to the covenants of promise.	56:11
	Having no hope and without God in the world.	56:14
	But now in Christ Jesus we who once	56:18
	were far off have been brought near to him	56:21
	and to one another.	56:24
	For he is our peace who has made us all one	56:27
	and has broken down the dividing wall of hostility.	56:31
	In his name we pray.	56:37
	In his spirit we live.	56:40
	In his power we rededicate ourselves to his mission.	56:43
	Our father who art in heaven,	56:51
	hallowed be thy name.	56:54
	Thy kingdom come and thy will be done	56:57
	on earth as it is in heaven.	57:01
	Give us this day our daily bread	57:04
	and forgive us our trespasses as we forgive those	57:08
	who trespass against us.	57:12
	Lead us not into temptation	57:15
	but deliver us from evil.	57:18
	For thine is the kingdom, and the power,	57:21
	and the glory, forever.	57:25
	Amen.	57:28
	(light organ music)	57:31
	♪ Hallelujah ♪	58:44
	♪ Hallelujah ♪	58:49
	♪ Hallelujah, hallelujah ♪	58:53
	♪ Hallelujah, hallelujah ♪	58:58
	♪ Hallelujah ♪	59:03
	♪ Hallelujah ♪	59:05
	♪ Hallelujah ♪	59:09
	♪ Hallelujah, hallelujah ♪	59:11
	♪ Hallelujah, hallelujah ♪	59:16
	♪ Hallelujah, hallelujah ♪	59:22
	♪ Hallelujah ♪	59:27
	♪ Hallelujah ♪	59:30
	♪ Hallelujah ♪	59:33
	♪ Hallelujah ♪	59:38
	♪ Hallelujah, hallelujah ♪	59:41
	♪ Hallelujah ♪	59:47
	♪ Hallelujah ♪	59:49
	♪ Hallelujah ♪	59:52
	♪ Hallelujah, hallelujah ♪	59:57
	♪ Hallelujah ♪	1:00:05
	♪ Hallelujah ♪	1:00:08
	♪ Hallelujah, hallelujah ♪	1:00:11
	♪ Hallelujah ♪	1:00:16
	♪ Hallelujah ♪	1:00:19
	♪ Hallelujah ♪	1:00:23
	♪ Hallelujah ♪	1:00:25
	♪ Hallelujah♪	1:00:34
	(light organ music)	1:00:57
	(upbeat organ music)	1:02:11
	♪ Praise God from whom all blessings flow ♪	1:02:29
	♪ Praise Him all creatures here below ♪	1:02:35
	♪ Hallelujah, hallelujah ♪	1:02:40
	♪ Praise him above ye heavenly host ♪	1:02:48
	♪ Praise Father, Son and Holy Ghost ♪	1:02:54
	♪ Hallelujah, hallelujah ♪	1:03:00
	♪ Hallelujah, hallelujah ♪	1:03:06
	♪ Hallelujah ♪	1:03:13
	♪ Amen♪	1:03:22
-	The money which we drop in the collection plate.	1:03:36
	The meager time which we devote to worship and prayer.	1:03:39
	The effort which we expend in service to you	1:03:44
	and to others.	1:03:47
	Are paltry returns from your abundant gifts, oh Lord.	1:03:49
	But you can use them, transform them,	1:03:54
	and expand them into testimonies of your love.	1:03:57
	Please, Lord.	1:04:02
	Amen.	1:04:05
	(light organ music)	1:04:07
	(choral singing)	1:04:34
	May the creator who made us different	1:06:41
	the Christ who redeems us individually,	1:06:44
	and the Holy Spirit who enhances our diversity	1:06:47
	bind us together in the unity of Christian love.	1:06:52
	Now and forever more, amen.	1:06:56
	♪ Amen ♪	1:07:03
	♪ Amen ♪	1:07:08
	♪ Amen ♪	1:07:13
	♪ Amen ♪	1:07:17
	♪ Amen ♪	1:07:26
	♪ Amen ♪	1:07:35
	♪ Amen ♪	1:07:46
	(light organ music)	1:08:04

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Robert T. Young - "From Hostility to Hospitality" (June 4, 1978)

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Sermon start time: 25:18. Sermon end time: 48:53.
Key quotation: Hospitality is the creation of free and friendly space, where the stranger, whoever the stranger is may become our friend.

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June 4, 1978

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Young, Robert T., 1935-2009

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