Bishop Earl G. Hunt - "Pilate's Washbowl" Homecoming Service (October 13, 1968)

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	(choir singing indistinctly)	0:09
	(organ music)	0:47
	(choir singing faintly)	1:31
-	[Presiding Minister] Beloved not as any tried formality,	3:25
	but because of our needs that as unite,	3:28
	our hearts and voices in our prayer	3:32
	of confession and for pardon.	3:35
	Let us pray.	3:37
	Almighty God we humbly confess that we are guilty people.	3:39
	We cannot count the sins that we have done	3:44
	nor can we remember all the evil thoughts of our hearts.	3:48
	We have neglected dive work	3:52
	and have taken lightly thy mercies.	3:55
	We have not turned away from violence and baggage.	3:57
	We therefore do not deserve	4:02
	the forgiveness that we pray for.	4:03
	But we ask thee to grant	4:06
	that we may from the heart returned to thee	4:08
	and that we may be reconciled to thee	4:12
	through Jesus Christ our Lord.	4:15
	Amen.	4:17
	From the book of Micah we find words that are comforting	4:21
	and comfortable to those who are sorry for their sins	4:26
	and wished to be delivered from.	4:30
	The words are "Who is like unto God?	4:34
	Who pardons inequity and passes over transgressions.	4:39
	He does not retain his anger forever,	4:44
	because he delights in steadfast love,	4:47
	He will again have compassion upon us.	4:52
	He will tread our equities under foot,	4:55
	He will pass all our sins into the depths of the sea."	4:59
	Amen.	5:04
	(choir singing faintly)	7:08
Summon Reader	Our scripture lesson	14:18
	for this home coming Sunday morning,	14:20
	Is taken from the 27th chapter of the gospel	14:25
	according to Saint Matthew 15:24	14:28
	"Now at that base,	14:40
	the governor was accustomed	14:41
	to release for the crowd	14:43
	any one prisoner whom they wanted,	14:44
	and they have been a man some notoriety called Barnabas	14:49
	So Pilate, when he was faced by the crowd said,	14:56
	'Which one do you want me to set free by Barnabas or Jesus	14:59
	who is called Messiah?'	15:07
	For he was well aware	15:11
	that they had brought him up for judgment	15:12
	because they were jealous.	15:15
	While he was still sitting in court	15:19
	his wife sent word to him.	15:22
	'Do not meddle with this innocent man.	15:26
	I was much troubled on his account in my dreams last night.'	15:31
	But the chief priests and the elders	15:38
	persuaded the mob to ask for Barnabas	15:40
	and demand Jesus' execution.	15:45
	The governor however said unto them,	15:50
	which of the two will you that I released unto you?	15:52
	They said, 'Barnabas.'	15:57
	Pilate said unto them	16:03
	'What shall I do then with Jesus was called Messiah.'	16:04
	They all shouted back, 'Crucify him.'	16:09
	The governor said, 'But what crime is he committed?'	16:14
	But they cried louder than ever saying,	16:18
	'Let him be crucified.'	16:22
	When Pilates saw that he was getting nowhere,	16:28
	but that instead the confusion was increasing.	16:32
	He took water and washed his hands	16:38
	in full view of the people saying,	16:42
	'I am innocent of this man's life see to it yourselves.'	16:46
	(organ music)	16:58
	(choir singing indistinctly)	17:06
	The Lord be with you?	17:56
Congregation	And your spirit.	17:58
-	[Presiding Minister] Let us pray.	17:59
	Heavenly father we thank thee	18:08
	for the failure of our unworthy schemes	18:10
	that forced us to make worthy plan.	18:15
	We thank thee that we did not succeed	18:18
	in our attempts to play God.	18:21
	So that in our frustration,	18:24
	we learned the grace of humanity.	18:25
	We express our gratitude	18:30
	for friends who encourage us	18:31
	and who recognize our strong points.	18:33
	We are grateful to thee	18:37
	for Friend who help us to see	18:38
	where we are wrong and need to improve.	18:39
	We are thankful that evil is not so strong,	18:44
	but that we can rise above it.	18:47
	When we surrender our wills to thine,	18:49
	seek thy divine grace.	18:52
	We bless thee for victories of health over disease	18:55
	victories of love over hate, of unity over division	19:00
	of truth over error of beauty over ugliness	19:06
	of order over and anarchy,	19:13
	peace over war.	19:17
	We express our gratitude to thee for seed time and harvest	19:21
	for full burns and full employment	19:26
	for the abundance of industry	19:29
	for improve distribution	19:31
	for greater sharing of the fruits of honest labor.	19:34
	We thank you the for pioneers who found the way to	19:39
	(indistinct) relationships in the homes, office,	19:42
	in the market, in the classroom, in the halls of government.	19:46
	We thank thee that while we were yet sinners	19:53
	Christ died for us.	19:55
	And we bless thee for our fault	19:58
	of the final triumph of righteousness,	20:00
	and the life everlasting,	20:03
	even as we thank thee oh God for these blessings,	20:07
	we pray for yet other blessings	20:11
	for ourselves and our friends or our enemies,	20:13
	we pray thee for grace,	20:19
	it would keep us from being willing	20:21
	to cleanse only part of our lives	20:23
	while withholding a little private precinct	20:27
	from thy cleansing grace	20:29
	little pockets of time, little stores of money	20:33
	that are not offered up	20:39
	for the sanctifying influence of thy Holy spirit.	20:41
	We pray to keep us from emphasizing exterior beauty	20:46
	while forgetting the importance	20:50
	of interior love and greatness.	20:52
	Keep us oh God from complaining	20:56
	that we are too busy to do the things we should	20:58
	while being impatient with others	21:01
	who have given us less than perfect service.	21:04
	We ask that we may be kept by thy grace	21:09
	from pretending that issues are terribly complicated,	21:13
	which thou has to reveal to be very simple.	21:17
	Keep us from the kind of boldness, rashness,	21:22
	which declares impossible,	21:26
	those things which thou has said are possible by thy grace.	21:28
	Keep us from acting as though we are God.	21:35
	We ask that we may have the judgment and wisdom	21:41
	not to put our trust	21:45
	in academic grades and academic degrees.	21:47
	To the extent that we assume knowledge and wisdom	21:51
	are guaranteed by them,	21:54
	help us to find knowledge and wisdom in thee.	21:57
	Keep us oh God from believing that	22:04
	if we will only ignore our problems, they will go away.	22:06
	Keep us from acting as though we are able	22:13
	to reveal thy moral laws,	22:15
	by our books or our loud voices.	22:18
	Give us grace to have a proper balance between	22:25
	loving the sinner and hating the sin.	22:27
	It seems to us that sometimes in our impetuousness	22:32
	we have loved the sinner	22:39
	but have left We should take seriously	22:42
	the awful consequences in sin.	22:44
	Sometimes in our unguided moments,	22:49
	we've been so zealous to uproot the sin	22:52
	that the sinner has gone unloved.	22:57
	And so we need thy wisdom for which we pray.	23:02
	We need thy guidance in our lives	23:06
	thy strength to be the people we must be	23:08
	in this crucial hour.	23:11
	In these and in every other way which seems good to thee	23:16
	Through that will give us a blessing,	23:20
	enable us to understand the meaning of the prayer,	23:24
	which Christ has taught all his disciples to join and pray.	23:29
	Saying	23:34
	Our father who art in heaven,	23:35
	hallowed be thy name,	23:38
	thy kingdom come	23:40
	thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven	23:42
	give us this day our daily bread	23:46
	and forgive us our trespasses	23:49
	as we forgive those who trespass against us	23:51
	and lead us not into temptation,	23:54
	but deliver us from evil	23:56
	for thine is the kingdom	23:58
	and the glory forever.	24:00
	Amen.	24:04
Preacher	And the heart of the scripture	24:23
	Lashon read so helpfully	24:25
	for us President Mike	24:29
	there is this verse the 24th verse	24:33
	and the 27th chapter of St. Matthews gospel.	24:38
	When Pilates saw that he could prevail nothing	24:42
	but Barnabas (indistinct)	24:49
	he took water and washed his hands before the multitude	24:54
	saying I am innocent of the blood of this just person,	25:00
	see ye to it	25:08
	Pilate wash bowl.	25:15
	It was a symbol of responsibility dodged	25:19
	of opportunity flashed away,	25:25
	a brutalized cowardice	25:31
	adopted mold (indistinct) for life.	25:35
	And of a scale values,	25:42
	more tragically distorted than any and all the centuries.	25:45
	Pilate lived in then the long, long ago.	25:52
	And ironically is remembered in our time	25:56
	only because of the person who he sentenced	26:01
	upon the faces of such gross misjudgment.	26:06
	His historical relevance lies in the plain and tragic back	26:13
	that he has so very many counterparts in our world.	26:20
	And then the church of our day.	26:27
	If one listens carefully in the modern century	26:32
	above the martial music,	26:39
	he can hear still the noise	26:43
	of the spiking of water in Pilate washbowl.	26:48
	Pilate washbowl reminds us this morning	26:56
	of certain responsibilities that last	27:02
	inevitably of our man and women	27:04
	who are sensitive to the spiritual and to God,	27:10
	but it reminds us also that	27:16
	we do not always accept and implement goals responsibility.	27:20
	(indistinct) may remind us today	27:29
	of the responsibility which we have to express our faith.	27:36
	In uprightness of daily life and attitude,	27:43
	true blood the startling thing	27:50
	When you reminded us that we are equally shocked at hearing	27:54
	the Christian faith denied	28:01
	and seeing it practiced.	28:05
	it is true that our primary path is to make better people	28:11
	but it is also true that people cannot be better,	28:17
	any final or glorious backward until both	28:22
	their attitude and their relationship	28:27
	with their fellow human beings have been redeemed.	28:30
	Jesus things about quotation about possession	28:35
	about fair dealing between employer and employee.	28:40
	And between employee and employer	28:45
	about justice and brotherhood	28:50
	and equal opportunity.	28:54
	About grace about international (indistinct)	28:57
	which happened to be accepted and incorporated	29:04
	into the the thinking and believing of a man or a woman	29:09
	before that person is really a preacher.	29:15
	Religion in order to be effective	29:20
	makes personal it requires to be consistently social.	29:22
	To undertake (indistinct) the responsibility	29:31
	for regenerating good social attitude,	29:33
	through insisting upon a brand of religion	29:37
	which does the same soothing stockman into the all source	29:42
	of human personality and of society	29:53
	is to live in a food paradise upon deferred.	29:57
	And to we danger one than heroin when they can in that,	30:00
	going to church, a reputation for a decent neighborhood	30:06
	(indistinct)	30:15
	transforming power which cleans us and redirect all of life,	30:18
	but there is still a clear line of righteousness.	30:28
	Even in these days of ethical confusion	30:33
	which by fact all of human life	30:37
	therefore the church to ignore the bad line of righteousness	30:42
	and to surrender to (indistinct)	30:48
	to teach, to educate it or to Paternal agencies the higher	30:53
	responsibility in my job,	31:03
	attitude and action is for the church	31:08
	to forming its own legitimate claim from now on	31:12
	leadership in society.	31:17
	The glory of the church (indistinct)	31:20
	as been its willingness to aspire the will of Jesus Christ	31:24
	at the expense of the opposition.	31:30
	And the better understanding of men and women	31:36
	whose lives are still controlled by selfishness	31:41
	and not by God.	31:45
	At the very best our ladies were the efforts	31:48
	to eliminate the old higher predicament moralism	31:54
	from contemporary understanding of religion.	32:00
	We're not intended to destroy or to invalidate	32:03
	the role of ethical quality in a Christian's life.	32:08
	There is no way I am persuaded or a	32:15
	man or woman could to belong to Jesus Christ	32:20
	and to ignore that consequences of that relationship,	32:25
	is his attitude and his actions at possible of life.	32:31
	What I'm saying. All right.	32:40
	Luckily if you please on my Christian,	32:42
	there will be places where that person does not go.	32:47
	There will be places where he does go.	32:52
	That might be things that he does not do.	32:56
	There will be maybe that he will do.	32:58
	And I this election year	33:02
	there will be ways in which he will not look.	33:05
	And there will be ways in which he will look.	33:10
	Not because of any exterior commotion above the man,	33:15
	but because of an interior response to a relationship,	33:23
	that is just between God and himself.	33:30
	Here's a bowl.	33:35
	I have heard the	33:36
	gypsies to me of the elder.	33:37
	Tell a story about a young stenographer in London who had	33:45
	given her life to the principles of Jesus Christ.	33:53
	She was picking a letter one morning and from her employer,	33:58
	she knew on up about his business.	34:01
	It was dictating,	34:05
	but recognize that the paragraphs of that letter with,	34:07
	for to a dishonest transaction,	34:10
	very quietly she closed her stenographic pad	34:14
	laid aside her pencil and said,	34:18
	am sorry sir but I cannot take this left	34:23
	He may not have been with Paul.	34:31
	(indistinct)	34:34
	Yeah, that will never,	34:47
	the risk Christian man or Christian woman take the	34:52
	response for the empty Russian of him or her.	34:59
	Maybe he had applied daily like and attitude	35:04
	there is the need for integrity.	35:10
	can you hear the knowing of the flagging of one	35:21
	Pilate washbowl	35:27
	we've got a game Pilate washbowl reminds	35:34
	us of the responsibility we have to	35:39
	Amper compassionately into the plight of humanity.	35:43
	during the day of the second world war.	35:51
	The great pianos(indistinct)	35:55
	was living in 85 in west Palm Beach Walnut.	36:01
	In our own country.	36:05
	You know, our own thing to recuperate the combined,	36:08
	the rigors of his Brady	36:11
	and a core of reporters	36:17
	one morning to interview Mr (indistinct).	36:20
	They discovered that the apartment	36:24
	had been wired for broadcasting,	36:26
	the brave piano.	36:28
	Wasn't the police didn't bring a management,	36:30
	which in a few moments he would read out over the air.	36:33
	They wondered with if real	36:37
	would be able to marshal it up energy.	36:42
	To send his voice on the radio	36:44
	Surprisingly enough, when the moment came and execute,	36:47
	read the words of this manual script	36:51
	with power and with eloquence.	36:54
	as he wore the punch of those	36:57
	totalitarian bull of the weak democracy,	37:01
	we had concluded the brassy.	37:09
	There was an awkward silence broken by a mother	37:11
	for reporters who grew up in a corner	37:17
	of the living room of the apartment.	37:22
	five way for us while we were	37:24
	shaking his hand, he replied, I am sorry	37:26
	(indistinct)	37:34
	I pan up way a day while my on.	37:43
	This simple stories suggest that	37:55
	the great Christians first of all are compassion	37:58
	which is key to the very a part of the gospel of Jesus	38:03
	compassion has been seriously threatened	38:10
	in our time threatened by affluence.	38:13
	Or if there is any radio result of economic luxury.	38:19
	It is the peril of insensitivity to one neighbor.	38:26
	Brian Niebuhr in an essay said	38:34
	the United States is like dead gadget filled paradise	38:37
	suspended in a hell of international insecurity security.	38:40
	There is another deep personalization.	38:45
	Deep personalization to see which religion	38:52
	it is a disease which religion and our kind	38:57
	seems to often to have caught in our society.	39:02
	There can be no communication without participation.	39:12
	(indistinct)	39:19
	how terrible river of human brain must flow through	39:24
	one cannot convert to the heart of Jesus	39:29
	without examining afraid.	39:39
	The Christian peach have always been a peach	39:45
	that could be disturbed by the power of a hungry child.	39:50
	By the mode of a wounded solider	39:56
	by the distress of loneliness or shame of a human being	40:00
	(indistinct)	40:12
	bread alone for women.	40:21
	What were y'all doing before?	40:29
	What part of the same job that we have that lovely little	40:30
	Tammy or patient where Jesus cried with him	40:34
	and with X, with it, with, with the woman?	40:36
	Well,	40:38
	I made it over again to keep my pastor's heart.	40:39
	The other Saturday morning,	40:44
	I was at work in my office in Charlotte, all them times,	40:46
	working alone on Saturday without my secretary.	40:50
	(indistinct)	46:21
	(indistinct)	46:29
	in the name of the Father and of the Son and the Holy spirit	52:45
Congregation	Amen	52:50
	(organ music)	53:01

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Bishop Earl G. Hunt - "Pilate's Washbowl" Homecoming Service (October 13, 1968)

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October 13, 1968

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Hunt, Earl G., Jr., 1918-2005

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