William H. Willimon - "Imagine" (April 30, 1989)
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(choir singing) | 0:00 | |
- | We have been led in worship | 1:18 |
by the University of North Carolina | 1:20 | |
at Greensboro Choral, Richard Cox director. | 1:22 | |
They're always honored guest here at the chapel | 1:27 | |
and we thank them for sharing their gifts with us this day. | 1:30 | |
We also thank Dean Caroline Lattimore and Dean Paula Gilbert | 1:35 | |
for their leadership in the service today. | 1:40 | |
We know that this may be the last Sunday | 1:44 | |
before the summer for many of our students | 1:48 | |
and we wish you well in exams and wish you a good summer | 1:51 | |
and look forward to welcoming you back | 1:54 | |
to the chapel in the fall. | 1:56 | |
Up to about 20 minutes ago, we were in total darkness | 2:00 | |
here in the chapel with the power outage | 2:03 | |
on this part of the campus, that accounts for the candles. | 2:05 | |
We're leaving the candles illuminated | 2:09 | |
just in case the power goes out again. | 2:12 | |
John says that humanity loves darkness better than light | 2:15 | |
but he never tried to worship in the chapel with no power | 2:19 | |
but we will continue | 2:24 | |
and we are definitely glad that you're with us today. | 2:25 | |
Let us continue our worship as we praise the Lord. | 2:30 | |
Stand. | 2:34 | |
(organ plays) | 2:36 | |
(everybody singing) | 3:06 | |
- | Let us pray. | 5:18 |
Oh God, who through the resurrection of Jesus Christ | 5:22 | |
has freed us from the power of darkness | 5:26 | |
and brought us into the kingdom of Thy love. | 5:29 | |
Grant, we beseech Thee, that as by His death, | 5:33 | |
He has recalled us into life so by His abiding presence | 5:36 | |
He may bring us to the joys eternal. | 5:41 | |
Through Him who for our sakes died and rose again | 5:45 | |
and is ever with us in power | 5:49 | |
the same Thy son Jesus Christ our Lord, amen. | 5:51 | |
- | Let us pray. | 6:11 |
Open our hearts and minds oh God | 6:15 | |
by the power of your Holy Spirit | 6:18 | |
so that as the word is read and proclaimed | 6:21 | |
we might hear with joy what you say to us this day, amen. | 6:25 | |
I'm reading from the Revelation to St. John the Divine. | 6:39 | |
And in the spirit, | 6:45 | |
the angel carried me away to a great, high mountain, | 6:47 | |
and showed me the holy city Jerusalem | 6:52 | |
coming down out of heaven from God | 6:56 | |
and I saw no temple in the city | 7:00 | |
for its temple is the Lord God, the Almighty and the Lamb. | 7:03 | |
And the city has no need of sun or moon to shine upon it. | 7:10 | |
For the glory of God is its light and its lamp is the Lamb. | 7:16 | |
By its light shall the nations walk | 7:24 | |
and the rulers of the earth shall bring their glory into it | 7:27 | |
and its gate shall never be shut by day | 7:31 | |
and there shall be no night there. | 7:35 | |
They shall bring into it the glory | 7:38 | |
and the honor of the nations. | 7:43 | |
- | Our Psalter lesson this morning is Psalm 67 | 7:56 |
found as number 576 in the back of your hymnal. | 8:01 | |
Will you please stand and join me in this reading. | 8:05 | |
May God be gracious to us and bless us. | 8:14 | |
Congregation | (murmuring) | 8:18 |
Woman | That Thy way may be known upon earth. | 8:21 |
Everyone | Thy saving power among all nations. | 8:25 |
- | That the peoples praise Thee oh God. | 8:28 |
Everyone | Let all the peoples praise Thee. | 8:31 |
- | Let the nations be glad and sing for joy. | 8:34 |
Everyone | For Thou dost judge the peoples | 8:38 |
with equity and guide the nations upon earth. | 8:40 | |
- | Let the peoples praise Thee oh God. | 8:44 |
Everyone | Let all the peoples praise Thee. | 8:47 |
- | The earth has yielded its increase. | 8:49 |
Everyone | God, our God has blessed us. | 8:53 |
- | God has blessed us. | 8:56 |
Everyone | Let all the ends of the earth fear Him. | 8:58 |
(organ plays) | 9:02 | |
(everyone sings) | 9:10 | |
- | Today's lesson speaks of the new Jerusalem, | 10:11 |
the heavenly city. | 10:16 | |
Then I saw a new heaven and a new earth | 10:20 | |
for the first had passed away. | 10:24 | |
When God gets finished with Durham, | 10:30 | |
there will be no more moon or stars to shine | 10:33 | |
because the glory of the Lord present among his people | 10:38 | |
will provide all the light that's needed. | 10:43 | |
In God's new city, the gates will never be shut | 10:48 | |
so there's no need for street lights or police | 10:54 | |
because in this heavenly town, | 10:58 | |
everything that's wrong with our cities shall be set right. | 11:01 | |
Imagine that, imagine no more soup kitchens. | 11:08 | |
No more homes needed for the homeless on cold winter nights. | 11:15 | |
No more muggers or corner drug pushers | 11:22 | |
or criminals who stalk the night because in God's new city, | 11:26 | |
there will be No more night to stalk. | 11:30 | |
In that new world, says John, | 11:36 | |
we will not only be delivered of criminals and psychopaths | 11:40 | |
but also preachers, did you hear that? | 11:43 | |
John says there will be no more temple in that city, | 11:49 | |
no more Duke Chapels, no more sermons, no more preachers, | 11:52 | |
because we'll be so close to God. | 11:56 | |
God will be so close to us that you won't need | 11:58 | |
a neo-Gothic chapel or a choir or a preacher | 12:01 | |
to make God seem close to you, God will be among us. | 12:04 | |
I don't know what I will do for a living there | 12:11 | |
but you'll love it. | 12:15 | |
It sounds good, doesn't it? | 12:18 | |
A little too good? | 12:20 | |
A little too good to be true? | 12:23 | |
Well it's just a dream. | 12:26 | |
It's a vision, John had this dream | 12:29 | |
while he was on the island of Patmos. | 12:32 | |
And we know that desperate people | 12:36 | |
often dream wild desperate dreams, | 12:38 | |
and John was desperate. | 12:42 | |
And most of us here today are not that desperate. | 12:48 | |
Oh I had a bout with a bad back last week, | 12:52 | |
something related to an upcoming and unwelcome birthday | 12:54 | |
but you can hardly call me desperate. | 12:57 | |
Some of you are facing exams | 13:00 | |
but you're not really desperate. | 13:03 | |
And people like us who are fairly well accommodated | 13:07 | |
to things as they are | 13:12 | |
do not dream wild dreams, | 13:15 | |
wild utopian dreams of a new heaven and a new earth. | 13:19 | |
We dream not of what will be | 13:28 | |
because we're fairly well contented with what is. | 13:30 | |
Pie in the sky by and by. | 13:39 | |
Isn't that how we mostly categorize eschatological theology | 13:42 | |
such as represented by Revelation 21? | 13:47 | |
Are you in pain, well come to church. | 13:51 | |
We'll give you a little opiate | 13:53 | |
called pie in the sky by and by. | 13:55 | |
John was in jail, he was on the island of Patmos, | 13:59 | |
the Alcatraz of the Roman world, | 14:02 | |
his church was being decimated by the emperor, | 14:05 | |
and in his desperation, he dreamed. | 14:08 | |
His imagination got the best of him we might say. | 14:15 | |
Pearly gates, streets of gold, eternal light | 14:18 | |
but we don't blame John for dreaming such wild dreams, | 14:22 | |
after all, he was desperate. | 14:26 | |
We don't blame him for dreaming such dreams | 14:31 | |
anymore than we blame those American slaves | 14:33 | |
who sang those spirituals. | 14:39 | |
Soon, very soon, | 14:40 | |
we will go to meet the King. | 14:45 | |
I got shoes, you got shoes, all God's chillun got shoes. | 14:48 | |
And when I get to heaven, | 14:52 | |
I'm gonna put on my shoes and walk. | 14:53 | |
Of course, the people who sang those songs had no shoes. | 14:56 | |
They were desperate and we say, | 15:01 | |
in their desperation, they dreamed. | 15:05 | |
And perhaps it made them feel better for a little while | 15:09 | |
but only for a little while. | 15:13 | |
But we generally don't care for such scripture | 15:18 | |
and we don't care for such singing. | 15:20 | |
Because we fear that such talk may result | 15:24 | |
in an abdication of ethical responsibility for the present. | 15:29 | |
You do too much talk about the future | 15:36 | |
and you won't feel responsible for the present. | 15:39 | |
Too must talk about what God's going to do | 15:43 | |
and the future results in the abandonment | 15:45 | |
of human action now, | 15:48 | |
eschatology leads to quietism. | 15:51 | |
Don't worry, be happy, God will work it out, some day. | 15:57 | |
Why worry about the deserted streets | 16:04 | |
of downtown Durham after dark when some day, | 16:06 | |
God is going to turn Durham asphalt into pure gold. | 16:10 | |
Talk of the end, the last things, the future, | 16:16 | |
leads to inaction in the present. | 16:23 | |
How many sermons have you heard about heaven | 16:29 | |
or Revelation 21? | 16:32 | |
Not many I say, because after all, | 16:35 | |
we are gifted, talented, able, resourceful, Duke-type people | 16:38 | |
who know that we must take responsibility for the present. | 16:45 | |
If Durham or Detroit is broken, | 16:50 | |
then it's up to us to fix it. | 16:53 | |
We have an ethical duty to do something now. | 16:56 | |
So most of the sermons that you hear from a pulpit like this | 17:02 | |
are exhortations to live up to your potential | 17:05 | |
for action now | 17:10 | |
rather than invitations to wild dreaming about the future. | 17:13 | |
Yet here's what I wonder. | 17:20 | |
I wonder if some of our preoccupation | 17:23 | |
with the ethical demands of the present | 17:29 | |
also is the engine that drives modern despair, | 17:33 | |
despair and cynicism which are the true sources | 17:39 | |
of modern ethical paralysis. | 17:43 | |
Sermons so full of should and ought and must, | 17:48 | |
at best, | 17:53 | |
simply urge you to do more of what you're already doing. | 17:56 | |
At worst, such sermons lead to an increasing | 18:02 | |
burden of guilt. | 18:05 | |
Because if you really do try to something fundamental | 18:09 | |
about the desperation of the present, | 18:12 | |
there's a good chance that you will discover | 18:16 | |
not your great human potential | 18:18 | |
but your awesome human impotence. | 18:20 | |
I know a man who at 21 left college | 18:25 | |
to go work with the poor in Alabama. | 18:29 | |
At 40, he is selling exclusive real estate in Burmingham. | 18:35 | |
Be honest, even if you are a relatively activist, | 18:42 | |
altruistic person, isn't there a part of you | 18:45 | |
that has become cynical that | 18:49 | |
there is something we can do about our city? | 18:52 | |
Well, more fundamentally, why should you do anything? | 19:00 | |
Well, I'm your preacher, I'll tell you. | 19:05 | |
You should do something about the situation | 19:08 | |
of downtown Durham or downtown Rio or downtown Nairobi | 19:10 | |
or downtown Singapore because after all, | 19:14 | |
it's your fault. | 19:19 | |
You have either done something, over consumed, | 19:21 | |
eaten red meat, use aerosol spray, | 19:24 | |
or you have not done something, | 19:26 | |
you have not voted democratic, you've not given to charity. | 19:28 | |
Something which makes it your fault | 19:33 | |
for the mess things are in. | 19:35 | |
I mean, listen to your preacher | 19:37 | |
and I think this is the content of about 90% of my sermons. | 19:40 | |
It's your fault. | 19:45 | |
And the funny thing is it's a sermon | 19:48 | |
which most people just love to hear. | 19:50 | |
After all, we are intelligent resourceful able people, | 19:54 | |
and it is true that the world would be a better place | 19:58 | |
if I did good and stopped doing bad, | 20:01 | |
but how much better place would the world be? | 20:07 | |
Is it true that the abundant human misery in the world | 20:13 | |
rest at the feet of what I do or I don't do? | 20:19 | |
The funny thing is that guilt | 20:27 | |
is a surprisingly delicious emotion | 20:29 | |
for resourceful, capable people | 20:34 | |
because it's a nice way of reminding me that after all, | 20:38 | |
the world really is in my hands after all for good or ill. | 20:40 | |
Surprise, busy intelligent resourceful people, | 20:49 | |
there is more pain and rage and grief in this world | 20:56 | |
than has been generated even by your guilt. | 21:01 | |
The amount of evil out there exceeds | 21:08 | |
the currently available means of eradicating it here. | 21:13 | |
A mother in Mexico City weeps | 21:20 | |
because both of her children have died of infant diarrhea. | 21:23 | |
Not a serious malady here, but a major cause of death there. | 21:26 | |
We're really gonna do something | 21:34 | |
about third world debt we say. | 21:35 | |
I want my babies back, she says. | 21:39 | |
Perhaps a new administration in Washington will be | 21:44 | |
more sensitive to the needs of Latin America, we say. | 21:46 | |
I want my babies, she says. | 21:51 | |
The World Bank really has big plans for Mexico, we say. | 21:57 | |
I want my babies. | 22:01 | |
Surprise, | 22:11 | |
there is too must heartache and grief | 22:14 | |
and tragedy out there even to be accounted for by our guilt. | 22:17 | |
That woman knows that no matter how guilty this preacher | 22:24 | |
manages to make you feel by the end of the service, | 22:27 | |
no matter how motivated you become, | 22:29 | |
the currently available human solutions will be exhausted | 22:32 | |
before her tragedy is put right. | 22:37 | |
Our solutions just crumble in the face of that | 22:40 | |
one mother's awesome unresolved grief. | 22:44 | |
Now do you appreciate how much courage it takes | 22:49 | |
for a preacher like me to say that | 22:51 | |
in front of a congregation like you? | 22:53 | |
Most of us have been culturally conditioned | 22:57 | |
to believe that we already possess the human potential | 23:00 | |
to devise a new heaven and a new earth, | 23:05 | |
that we are best described | 23:09 | |
as bundles of untapped possibility. | 23:11 | |
So I'm supposed to make you feel guilty | 23:16 | |
that you really haven't lived up to your potential. | 23:18 | |
Yet Karl Bart tells me that many of you have come here | 23:24 | |
this morning deeply suspicious of human potential. | 23:28 | |
People come to church on a Sunday morning says Barth, | 23:34 | |
consciously or unconsciously leaving behind them | 23:39 | |
the cherry tree and the symphony and the state | 23:42 | |
and daily work and other things | 23:47 | |
as possibilities somehow exhausted. | 23:49 | |
Human possibilities for world transformation | 23:57 | |
appear inadequate to the need for world transformation | 24:01 | |
and that's very depressing news | 24:07 | |
to people who are preoccupied with strategies | 24:09 | |
for the present rather than wild dreams for the future. | 24:12 | |
When will we preachers get it through our brains | 24:19 | |
that one's ability to act differently | 24:24 | |
is not simply a function of knowing how to act | 24:28 | |
but of living in a new world with new possibilities. | 24:34 | |
And so in the Bible, in texts like today's from Revelation, | 24:41 | |
there is talk about a world that is not yet, | 24:46 | |
a world we haven't fully seen yet, | 24:51 | |
a world still on the horizon of human history | 24:54 | |
rather than the world which is now. | 24:58 | |
The world as it is, no matter how much better | 25:01 | |
we manage to make it, | 25:04 | |
is never enough to escape despair. | 25:08 | |
And ironically, it it often those people | 25:13 | |
who work the hardest to make this world better | 25:15 | |
who are the most susceptible to utter despair. | 25:20 | |
I mean, what I'm saying is that downtown Durham | 25:24 | |
even with better padlocks and more skillful police | 25:26 | |
is still downtown Durham. | 25:29 | |
After the soccer tragedy in England a couple of weeks ago, | 25:33 | |
there was the predictable modern attempt | 25:39 | |
to blame this on somebody. | 25:41 | |
The police shouldn't have let those people into the stadium. | 25:45 | |
The soccer field owners | 25:49 | |
should have built more modern facilities. | 25:51 | |
The fence for mob control was a bad idea. | 25:55 | |
The trouble is, after it's all said and done | 26:00 | |
and after we've pinned it on somebody, | 26:03 | |
we're still stuck with the awesome truth | 26:07 | |
that we are people. | 26:09 | |
We are people capable of trampling and smothering to death | 26:12 | |
our own kind to get a better view of a soccer match. | 26:17 | |
And my little moralistic preacherly exhortations | 26:25 | |
to duty, to crusade, to fight, | 26:28 | |
just crumble in my hands to dust. | 26:31 | |
Any preaching which is worthy, which is honest, | 26:37 | |
has got to somehow get beyond what is | 26:40 | |
and move to what by God's grace ought to be. | 26:44 | |
Could I be bold enough to stop helping you | 26:49 | |
to just adjust to things as they are | 26:51 | |
and try to get you to stand on tiptoes | 26:54 | |
quivering with anticipation over what is to come | 26:57 | |
because either God is busy creating a new heaven | 27:01 | |
and a new earth or all our talk | 27:05 | |
about God's love, mercy and justice is nothing. | 27:07 | |
Either God will give that woman in Mexico City | 27:12 | |
a new city with clean fresh safe shining streets | 27:16 | |
or we are all without hope. | 27:22 | |
Such eschatological vision is not escape | 27:26 | |
from responsibility but a narrow escape into hope | 27:29 | |
which is the very basis of action. | 27:34 | |
Without hope, there is no action. | 27:39 | |
If you can't dream of some utterly new world yet to be, | 27:44 | |
then all you can do is just to adjust. | 27:50 | |
Que sera sera my dear. | 27:55 | |
I mean, some are born well, some are born poor, | 27:57 | |
what can anybody do? | 28:00 | |
Contort the voice into a whine, clench the fist in rage, | 28:03 | |
that's about all that can be done. | 28:08 | |
If that's all there is my friend, then let's keep dancing, | 28:13 | |
let's break out the booze, | 28:18 | |
and let's have a ball if that's all there is. | 28:20 | |
But it's okay with your preacher | 28:29 | |
if you want to dream a wild dream. | 28:32 | |
A wild, unmanaged, maladjusted, uncompromised dream | 28:35 | |
of full stomachs and safe streets | 28:43 | |
and loved children and peaceful Beirut, | 28:48 | |
imagine. | 28:53 | |
And that's why St. Augustine once called | 28:57 | |
the Lord's Supper, hors d'oeuvres for heaven. | 29:00 | |
Here at this table, Augustine said, is just a little | 29:07 | |
foretaste, a little antipasto | 29:11 | |
for this hungry world, | 29:16 | |
a foretaste of a world where there is food | 29:21 | |
and our people around the table are no longer strangers | 29:29 | |
but brothers and sisters, imagine. | 29:33 | |
There will be a day soon, very soon, | 29:37 | |
when God will close the gap | 29:40 | |
between what is and what ought to be, | 29:42 | |
when God will take up the justice project | 29:46 | |
in which we have only haltingly engaged, | 29:49 | |
the making of a new heaven and a new earth, imagine. | 29:52 | |
And on that day, you won't need a preacher | 29:58 | |
to help you to see because the love and the justice | 30:02 | |
and the mercy of God will be so visible, | 30:06 | |
so real, so tangible that all preachers | 30:10 | |
will be turned out to pasture, imagine. | 30:14 | |
But until that day, you've got this preacher | 30:19 | |
urging you to dream, to cut loose, | 30:24 | |
to stand on tiptoes for a glimpse of God's promised city. | 30:26 | |
And you've got this bread and you've got this wine | 30:32 | |
to just whet your taste for some real love | 30:36 | |
and mercy and justice. | 30:41 | |
Amen. | 30:45 | |
(organ plays) | 30:50 | |
(everyone sings) | 31:21 | |
- | Now, let us worship God | 34:17 |
with the giving of our gifts and the offering of ourselves. | 34:19 | |
(organ plays) | 34:40 | |
(choir sings) | 36:20 | |
(everyone sings) | 41:28 | |
The Lord be with you. | 42:36 | |
Congregation | (murmuring) | 42:38 |
- | Lift up your hearts. | 42:39 |
Congregation | (murmuring) | 42:41 |
- | Let us give thanks to the Lord our God. | 42:43 |
Congregation | (murmuring) | 42:46 |
- | We give thanks Father | 42:49 |
because You were God even before time began. | 42:50 | |
You have seen every sunrise, every day begin | 42:54 | |
since you first gave form to our home, this earth. | 42:59 | |
You launched it into your universe, | 43:03 | |
shaped its hills and filled its seas. | 43:05 | |
When space was ready, you brought life out of the waters | 43:09 | |
and in time, made us in your image, male and female. | 43:13 | |
Yet we were not content with such a paradise. | 43:18 | |
We rebelled, putting our wills before yours. | 43:21 | |
Even then, we found you boundless in love. | 43:26 | |
Time after time, you reached out your hand | 43:30 | |
to touch our lives with loving kindness. | 43:32 | |
You led us from captivity to life in the land you promised. | 43:36 | |
You made covenant to take us to be your people, | 43:40 | |
to love, and to cherish, and we took you | 43:44 | |
as God and ruler promising to forsake all others. | 43:48 | |
You put your words on the lips of women and men. | 43:52 | |
They spoke your words of love, | 43:57 | |
gave themselves in the struggle for justice, | 43:59 | |
and taught us to sing your glory. | 44:02 | |
We join with those who have lived | 44:05 | |
and those now living in faith from sunrise to sunset, | 44:07 | |
from south to north as with one voice | 44:12 | |
in the song of unending praise. | 44:15 | |
Everyone | Holy, holy, holy Lord, God of power and might, | 44:18 |
heaven and earth are full of Your glory, | 44:24 | |
hosannah in the highest. | 44:27 | |
Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord, | 44:29 | |
hosannah in the highest. | 44:32 | |
- | Full indeed are heaven and earth of Your glory, | 44:36 |
holy Lord God. | 44:39 | |
When time was ready, You the creator of all that is | 44:41 | |
sent Christ to be a creature like us. | 44:46 | |
Instead of a servant you sent Your own Son | 44:49 | |
that he might be a servant of all. | 44:52 | |
Christ alone, he who is closest to Your heart, | 44:56 | |
he made You known to us. | 44:59 | |
Walking among us, Jesus the Christ | 45:02 | |
performed great signs to reveal his glory. | 45:04 | |
He spoke as one having authority, | 45:07 | |
that we might trust Your love and obey Your law. | 45:10 | |
When his hour had come, he drank the cup of suffering | 45:14 | |
and accepted the baptism of death. | 45:18 | |
Like a lamb, he was led away from the living | 45:21 | |
but as Your Son, he was raised from the grave. | 45:25 | |
Having triumphed over death, he left our sight | 45:28 | |
that his Spirit might fill our hearts | 45:31 | |
as we await the completion of all things in him. | 45:34 | |
On the night in which he give himself up for us, | 45:39 | |
the Lord Jesus took bread in his hands. | 45:42 | |
Lifting his eyes to heaven, he gave thanks to You, | 45:46 | |
broke the bread, gave it to his disciples and said, | 45:49 | |
Take, eat, this is my body which is given for you. | 45:53 | |
When supper was finished, he took the cup. | 45:59 | |
Again he returned thanks to You, | 46:02 | |
gave the cup to his disciples and said, | 46:04 | |
Drink from this, all of you. | 46:07 | |
This is the cup of the new covenant in my blood | 46:09 | |
poured out for you and for many | 46:13 | |
for their forgiveness of sin. | 46:16 | |
When we eat this bread and drink this cup, | 46:19 | |
we know anew the presence of the Lord Jesus Christ | 46:21 | |
and look to the day when we shall feast | 46:25 | |
in his eternal kingdom. | 46:27 | |
With hearts raised in joy, | 46:29 | |
we know a new Christ life among us, his death because of us, | 46:31 | |
his resurrection for us, and his ascension to glory. | 46:37 | |
Join this memorial made by your priestly people, | 46:42 | |
bound by earth and time, to the heavenly and timeless | 46:45 | |
offering for us of Christ himself, our great high priest. | 46:49 | |
Everyone | Dying, Christ destroyed our death. | 46:55 |
Rising, Christ restored our life. | 46:58 | |
Christ will come in glory. | 47:01 | |
- | Sinned, we pray your Holy Spirit on us. | 47:04 |
Gathered here out of love for you | 47:07 | |
and on this offering, may your Spirit make real | 47:10 | |
the signs that through breaking bread | 47:14 | |
and drinking wine together, | 47:16 | |
we may know Christ's present among us. | 47:18 | |
By the Spirit, make us one with the goodness of Christ, | 47:21 | |
as you made him one with our sinfulness. | 47:24 | |
That we may be one with each other | 47:28 | |
and one in service to all you have created. | 47:30 | |
Through your Son Jesus Christ with the Holy Spirit | 47:34 | |
in your holy church, all your people and all your works, | 47:37 | |
glorify and honor you Father, now and forever, amen. | 47:42 | |
And now with the confidence of children of God, we pray. | 47:48 | |
Everyone | Our Father who art in heaven, | 47:52 |
hallowed be Thy name. | 47:55 | |
Thy kingdom come, Thy will be done, | 47:57 | |
on earth as it is in heaven. | 48:01 | |
Give us this day our daily bread; | 48:03 | |
and forgive us our trespasses, | 48:06 | |
as we forgive those who trespass against us; | 48:08 | |
and lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil. | 48:12 | |
For thine is the kingdom, and the power, | 48:17 | |
and the glory forever, amen. | 48:20 | |
- | When we break the bread, | 48:32 |
it is a sharing in the body of Christ. | 48:35 | |
When we give thanks over the cup, | 48:45 | |
it is a sharing in the blood of Christ. | 48:48 | |
(organ plays) | 49:05 | |
(choir sings) | 55:20 | |
Let us pray. | 1:04:30 | |
We thank you Holy God for giving us this meal | 1:04:32 | |
shared in the Spirit which sustains us with the food | 1:04:36 | |
and drink of Your life. | 1:04:39 | |
Grace our lives that we may at the last | 1:04:42 | |
come to share at the heavenly banquet of Your kingdom. | 1:04:45 | |
Through Jesus Christ our Lord, amen. | 1:04:49 | |
And now, may the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ | 1:04:53 | |
the love of God and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit | 1:04:56 | |
be with you now and always, amen. | 1:05:00 | |
(organ plays) | 1:05:06 | |
(everyone sings) | 1:05:42 | |
(choir sings) | 1:08:20 | |
(organ plays) | 1:09:51 |
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