William H. Willimon - "Whose Side Are You On?" (September 25, 1988)

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	(soft music)	0:01
	(man singing)	2:33
	(choir singing)	2:44
-	Good morning and welcome to this service of worship	4:20
	here at Duke University Chapel.	4:22
	20 years ago Duke students, faculty, and employees	4:25
	gathered in front of the chapel for a silent vigil.	4:31
	Both in outrage and concern over national events,	4:38
	and also in commitment to changes that needed to be made	4:43
	on this campus.	4:47
	Duke Chapel was part of the silent vigil.	4:49
	It was the backdrop for the activities during that period.	4:52
	On one evening when it was raining heavily,	4:57
	the students were invited inside the chapel	4:59
	and spent the night here.	5:01
	The vigil became an important part of this	5:03
	university's history and also this chapel's history.	5:07
	And during our service as we worship God	5:11
	we will commemorate that time in our history.	5:14
	We are being assisted in our service today	5:18
	by people who played leading roles in that silent vigil.	5:21
	Tammy Holtman was president of the	5:25
	young women's Christian association.	5:27
	One of the activist groups on campus.	5:29
	She is now with the Africa News Service.	5:33
	Elmer Hall was a chaplain here on campus	5:36
	during that period.	5:40
	And Sam Cook, Duke's first black professor	5:41
	who is now president of Dillard College	5:45
	and a Duke trustee, was also a leader in the vigil.	5:47
	Our lecturer today is Mr. Dick Sommers, class of 1953	5:52
	whose class is in reunion here this weekend.	5:58
	And our service is being led by professor of homolitic	6:02
	at the divinity school, Carol Mari Norrin.	6:06
	At the end of the service, unless it is raining very hard,	6:10
	you will be asked to process right out behind the choir	6:14
	and to stand in front of the chapel	6:18
	for a brief concluding service of remembrance.	6:20
	The ushers will direct you as you proceed right out	6:23
	the front steps, I ask you to please keep moving	6:27
	on out to the front and then turn around	6:31
	and face the chapel.	6:33
	The chapel choir will gather on the front steps	6:34
	and the service will end in front of the chapel.	6:37
	Now let us worship God.	6:41
	(organ playing)	6:47
	(choir and congregation singing)	7:27
	(choir singing)	11:13
-	With penitent and obedient hearts,	12:03
	let us confess our sin to almighty God	12:05
	that we may obtain forgiveness by his	12:09
	infinite goodness and mercy.	12:11
	Please be seated as we pay together.	12:14
	Almighty and most merciful God,	12:25
	who knowest the thoughts of our hearts,	12:28
	we confess that we have sinned against thee	12:31
	and done evil in thy sight.	12:34
	We have transgressed thy holy laws.	12:37
	We have neglected they word and ordinances.	12:40
	Forgive us, oh Lord, we besiege thee.	12:43
	And give us grace and power to put away	12:47
	all hurtful things that being delivered	12:50
	from the bondage of sin we may bring forth fruit	12:53
	worthy of repentance.	12:57
	And henceforth, may ever walk in thy holy ways.	12:59
	Through Jesus Christ our Lord, amen.	13:03
	God is light and in him is no darkness at all.	13:08
	If we walk in the light as he is in the light	13:12
	we have fellowship with one another	13:15
	and the blood of Jesus, His son, cleanses us from all sin.	13:18
	Our sins are forgiven for His sake, amen.	13:24
-	Let us pray.	13:38
	Open our hearts and minds, oh God.	13:41
	By the power of your Holy Spirit,	13:44
	so that as the word is read and proclaimed	13:47
	we might hear with joy what you say to us this day.	13:50
	Amen.	13:55
	The epistle lesson is recorded in the letter of James.	13:58
	Come now you who say today or tomorrow,	14:04
	we will go into such and such a town	14:07
	and spend a year there and trade and get gain.	14:09
	For as you do not know about tomorrow, what is your life?	14:14
	For you are a mist that appears for a little time	14:20
	and then vanishes.	14:23
	Instead you ought to say, if the Lord wills	14:25
	we shall live and we shall do this or that.	14:29
	As it is, you boast in your arrogance,	14:33
	all such boasting is evil.	14:36
	Whoever knows what is right to do and fails to do it	14:39
	for him it is sin.	14:43
	Be patient therefore brethren until the coming of the Lord.	14:46
	Behold the farmer waits for the precious	14:51
	fruit of the earth, being patient over it	14:54
	until it receives the early and the late rain.	14:57
	You also be patient.	15:01
	Establish your hearts for the coming of the Lord is at hand.	15:05
	Do not grumble, brothers and sisters, against one another	15:10
	that you may not be judged.	15:15
	Behold the judge is standing at the doors.	15:17
	As an example of suffering and patience, brethren,	15:22
	take the prophets who spoke in the name of the Lord.	15:26
	Behold, we call those happy who were steadfast.	15:29
	You have heard of the steadfastness of Job	15:34
	and you have seen the purpose of the Lord.	15:37
	How the Lord is compassionate and merciful.	15:40
	This ends the reading of the epistle.	15:45
-	Please stand for the reading from the salter	15:54
	and remain standing through the next hymn.	15:57
	Hear, oh Lord, but I cry aloud.	16:07
	(congregation speaking)	16:09
	Thou has said, seek ye my face.	16:13
	(congregation speaking)	16:16
	Turn not they servant away in anger,	16:23
	thou who hast been my help.	16:26
	Cast me not off, forsake me not, oh God of my salvation.	16:29
	(congregation speaking)	16:35
	Teach me thy way, oh Lord and lead me on a level path	16:40
	because of my enemies.	16:45
	(congregation speaking)	16:47
	I believe that I shall see the goodness	16:57
	of the Lord in the land of the living.	16:59
	(congregation speaking)	17:02
	(organ playing)	17:11
	(choir singing)	17:19
-	Let us give ear to the reading of the gospel	18:06
	recorded in the ninth chapter of Mark,	18:08
	reading verses 38 through 41.	18:13
	John said to him, teacher we saw a man casting out	18:18
	demons in your name and we forbade him	18:23
	because he was not following us.	18:26
	But Jesus said, do not forbid him.	18:29
	For no one who does a mighty work in my name	18:33
	will be able soon after to speak evil of me.	18:36
	For he that is not against us is for us.	18:40
	For truly I say to you whoever gives you a cup	18:44
	of water to drink because you bear the name of Christ	18:48
	will by no means lose his reward.	18:52
	Thanks be to God for this word of truth.	18:57
	(organ playing)	19:02
	(choir singing)	19:55
-	I want you students to know that	22:02
	as one gets older with the onset of age,	22:07
	the ravages of time, one's tastes change.	22:12
	This fall, like those who are observing the	22:18
	20th anniversary of the silent vigil,	22:22
	I shall commemorate the 20th anniversary	22:25
	of my graduation from college.	22:29
	If you have detected a note of nostalgic	22:32
	retrospection in my sermons this fall, this accounts for it.	22:36
	I'm getting older.	22:40
	We have a vice presidential candidate	22:43
	one year my junior, though I was never in	22:44
	the National Guard.	22:47
	Now there's no cause for those of you who are younger	22:50
	to be smug, one day this shall happen to you.	22:53
	And over the years one's tastes change.	22:57
	There are things which seem sweet to you at 19,	23:02
	which are repugnant by age 30.	23:08
	There was a time when I thought that	23:12
	dream whip was good eating.	23:14
	Liked nothing better than a Velveeta sandwich.	23:18
	But now you see, I've been around,	23:22
	I've gone to the university, I've eaten artichokes.	23:24
	My tastes have changed.	23:26
	Now I am more discriminating in my taste.	23:29
	More discriminating.	23:33
	Age does that.	23:37
	Now I'm trying to explain to you why I have	23:41
	a problem with today's gospel.	23:44
	What does a preacher do when he is forced	23:48
	to preach a text for which he has simply lost his taste.	23:52
	This little vignette from Mark,	23:56
	which once tasted so good to me, once seemed so right	24:00
	and appropriate, now hangs in my mouth	24:04
	like cold cotton candy.	24:07
	Thanks, but I just don't care for it anymore.	24:09
	John said to Jesus, rabbi, we saw a man	24:15
	casting out demons in your name, but he wasn't one of us	24:19
	so we forbade him.	24:26
	And Jesus responds, do not forbid him,	24:30
	for no one who does a good work in my name	24:35
	shall long speak evil of me.	24:37
	He that is not against us, is for us.	24:41
	He that is not against us is for us.	24:48
	What muddle brained sentimentality.	24:51
	Don't worry that this unknown exorcist	24:56
	has a medical degree from a school in Acapulco.	24:59
	If he's doing good, it's okay.	25:02
	He's all right, leave him alone.	25:05
	If he isn't against us, then he must be for us.	25:10
	This is the proof text of the flake who says,	25:16
	it doesn't matter what you believe	25:21
	as long as you're sincere.	25:23
	What pea brain mush.	25:26
	Oh there was a time, a time when I was your age	25:30
	I might have said right on.	25:32
	But those were during my angry young man	25:35
	prophetic granola days and this was my text.	25:40
	In my youthful impatience, I was fed up	25:46
	with this dry dead religion of hair splitting	25:49
	dogmas and scholarly theological definitions.	25:53
	No, I grew up in a church	25:58
	that had an orthodox creed,	26:03
	that knew the bible, that used all the right words	26:06
	and still put guards on the front door	26:10
	to make sure that no one of the wrong color	26:13
	tried to pray with us.	26:16
	What is religion all about, I ask,	26:20
	if it is not good deeds more than good dogma.	26:23
	Right action rather than correct thinking.	26:29
	What is religion about?	26:32
	During my first summer in college I worked in a factory	26:36
	of a man who was in our church.	26:40
	He taught a bible study class there	26:41
	and had a whole library of bible study books.	26:44
	I thought it a great privilege to be able to work	26:47
	into this factory of this biblically	26:49
	knowledgeable businessman.	26:52
	Each day he opened work in that factory	26:55
	with a devotional led by the president of the company.	26:58
	But I tell you when the whistle blew	27:04
	he put away that bible stuff and he was yelling	27:07
	at people on the assembly line,	27:10
	humiliating workers in front of their fellow workers.	27:12
	There was no advancement in that factory	27:16
	for people who didn't have the color of skin that he had.	27:17
	I remember one day he began yelling at a man	27:22
	on the assembly line, a man who had worked	27:25
	in that factory for 40 years.	27:27
	And on the spot he fired him	27:30
	and threw him out on the street	27:33
	without a pension or prospects.	27:36
	There was another man working in the factory.	27:42
	Chain smoking, profane sort of person.	27:46
	I'm sure he had never read the bible,	27:51
	he never darken the door of a church.	27:53
	But on that afternoon he was the only person	27:54
	on the faculty, in the factory.	27:57
	(laughing)	28:01
	Okay, another sermon, to lay down,	28:04
	to lay down his tools and shake his head	28:09
	and walk out in courageous protest.	28:12
	And later I heard that it was this profane man	28:15
	who didn't know Jesus who dug down into his	28:20
	meager life savings and provided for his fellow worker.	28:24
	Now think hard, class.	28:30
	Which man do you think represented, for me and my	28:33
	19 years of life,	28:36
	the one who was closest to Jesus?	28:40
	That fall I volunteered in a soup kitchen	28:48
	in the town where I went to college and I still	28:51
	remember overhearing one of the volunteers	28:55
	in the soup kitchen holding a bowl	28:56
	of thin soup in one hand and lecturing an old	29:00
	hungry man who came to the soup kitchen looking for food,	29:03
	lecturing him on theology.	29:07
	I heard him say to the old man, no, no, that's not baptism.	29:09
	It's not baptism unless it's believers baptism.	29:13
	It is not efficacious unto salvation unless one	29:16
	comes to a saving knowledge of Jesus Christ.	29:19
	Then and only then can we speak of baptism	29:21
	as wholly salvific.	29:24
	Good Lord, I thought.	29:28
	Give the poor man his soup.	29:29
	Is there no limit to this petty theologizing	29:33
	and barrier building on the part of us Christians.	29:37
	Thank God for the simple, straightforward	29:44
	religion of Jesus.	29:47
	He wouldn't have lectured the man on theology.	29:48
	He would've give him soup.	29:51
	But I was younger then, and that was what?	29:55
	20 years ago.	29:57
	Now my taste have changed in regard to this text.	30:01
	Since then I've learned to be more fair	30:07
	to the disciples' questioning of the credentials	30:10
	of that unknown exorcist.	30:13
	I've learned the dangers of mushy thinking	30:17
	and the need to make proper discriminations.	30:19
	It doesn't matter what you believe	30:25
	as long as you're sincere.	30:27
	If I ever believed that, I now know better.	30:29
	I know that history teaches, that down through history	30:31
	many people have done some horrible things	30:36
	all the while believing in their hearts	30:38
	that they were sincerely right.	30:40
	Wrong thinking can lead to chaotic miserable living.	30:42
	Since my youth, I've been to the university.	30:48
	A place dedicated to the enterprise of examination,	30:52
	giving and diploma bestowing and credentialing.	30:57
	Professor, there's a first year med student	31:03
	down the hall that's just cured a broken leg	31:06
	and he's never had a course in orthopedics.	31:08
	And the professor says, well I mean,	31:11
	if he's not against us, I guess he's for us.	31:15
	Leave him alone, it's okay.	31:18
	No, no, that's not the way we do business around here.	31:21
	No.	31:25
	In the closing of the American mind,	31:28
	Alan Bloom focuses his critical insights	31:31
	upon America's infatuation with openness and tolerance.	31:36
	We wallow in a morass of relativism says Bloom,	31:43
	which teaches us to count intolerance	31:48
	as a more grievace sin than error.	31:50
	We have in Bloom's analysis, convinced ourselves	31:55
	that it is a virtue, the supreme virtue,	31:58
	always to be non-judgmentally open	32:01
	to everything and to accept everybody	32:04
	and all behavior as equally valid.	32:07
	According to the advocates of openness, says Bloom,	32:11
	the true believer is the real danger.	32:14
	The study of history and culture teaches	32:18
	that all the world was mad in the past	32:20
	that people always thought they were right	32:22
	and that led to wars, persecution, slavery,	32:24
	xenophobia, racism, and chauvinism.	32:27
	The point, Bloom says, among the apostles of openness	32:29
	is not to correct the mistakes and really be right,	32:35
	but it is to never think that you are right at all.	32:42
	Openness, openness to the one who does good.	32:47
	I mean, how do you know what right action is	32:51
	unless you think about it.	32:54
	You've seen a lot of people who thought	32:55
	they were doing right actions, but as it turned out	32:57
	they did much harm.	33:00
	How do you know that that uncertified exorcist	33:01
	is not creating a host of other problems	33:04
	by his well meaning, but uncredentialed do-goodism.	33:06
	Our openness, I found, is often a cop out	33:13
	for intellectual sloth.	33:16
	Though I might not have thought that	33:20
	when I was your age, I can now see the disciples' point.	33:21
	Whose side are you on?	33:27
	Thinking affects acting.	33:29
	Beliefs link to behavior.	33:30
	When the scandals broke last year	33:32
	down at the PTL club, revelations of sleaze	33:34
	and financial impropriety, I wished at that time	33:38
	that I'd kept a list of everybody who said to me,	33:41
	well you know, they believe in a lot of strange things,	33:44
	but they do a lot of good.	33:46
	How do you know they do a lot of good	33:53
	unless you think about it?	33:55
	Unless you make proper distinctions.	33:57
	What theological oatmeal, whoever is not	33:59
	against us is for us.	34:02
	As a text, I might have preached with conviction	34:06
	20 years ago, but I'm in an intolerant mood right now.	34:09
	Perhaps my fellow quadroginarian Dan Quayle	34:14
	is feeling the same way.	34:17
	You got to make distinctions.	34:19
	Now by the way, one helpful tactic,	34:23
	whenever you encounter a bible verse	34:26
	with which you don't agree is to look	34:28
	for another bible verse that says just the opposite point.	34:29
	We call this the law of cancellation.	34:34
	It's one verse cancels out another verse.	34:36
	Fortunately, such a text is readily available	34:41
	in Matthew 12:30, where this same Jesus says,	34:45
	he who is not with me, is against me.	34:52
	And he who does not gather with me, scatters.	34:58
	You see, Mark's Jesus pleads for openness.	35:02
	Matthew's Jesus excludes.	35:07
	I'm in the mood for a little exlusivism.	35:11
	Thank goodness for the contradictions.	35:14
	Would you please pass the Matthew 12:30.	35:16
	Or is there a contradiction?	35:21
	Is there a contradiction?	35:22
	Mark says that Jesus said whoever is not against us	35:24
	is for us.	35:30
	The us, here, is us.	35:32
	It's his disciples.	35:36
	In Matthew, Jesus says, whoever is not with me	35:39
	is against me.	35:44
	The me, here, is Jesus.	35:46
	Apparently it is permissible to be outside	35:50
	the bounds of the club, outside the bounds	35:52
	of Jesus' 12 best friends, but it is not	35:55
	permissible to be against Jesus himself.	35:59
	And that sounds like quite a different matter	36:04
	than merely mushy headed openness and tolerance.	36:06
	For it must not be a matter of baptizing	36:12
	the great unwashed majority who have merely	36:14
	not take up the trouble to make up their minds.	36:17
	It is a matter of being with Jesus.	36:22
	And how is it that we are with Jesus?	36:27
	How do you get on Jesus' side?	36:34
	Perhaps the important thing is not that we have	36:39
	our head straight on correct theology.	36:42
	Or that we can claim allegiance to the one true church	36:46
	or the one pure religious group.	36:48
	The main thing is that you're with Jesus.	36:51
	And how do you do that?	36:56
	That's the issue.	36:58
	Jesus' own life defines discipleship.	37:01
	Can you cite me anywhere in the gospel	37:06
	Jesus stands up his disciples and says,	37:08
	everybody I want to hear to the correct creed	37:10
	recited by you by heart.	37:12
	Rather, in this little vignette, Jesus urges his disciples	37:17
	to get on his side, namely the side of those	37:22
	who match words with their deed.	37:27
	The deeds with their words.	37:30
	And to be ready to be surprised	37:32
	and to rejoice wherever good work is done,	37:34
	whoever the agent.	37:38
	Knowing that Jesus' kingdom is a lot bigger	37:41
	than our little church's definitions of it,	37:43
	we can expect as disciples to be surprised	37:46
	by the rich array of faithfulness	37:49
	because that world is also Jesus' world.	37:51
	And disciples are known more often	37:57
	by their offering of a cup of cold water	38:00
	than by their affirmation of a creed.	38:03
	20 years ago Duke students turned their anger	38:09
	into a stunning act of protest.	38:14
	They gathered here in the front of this chapel	38:17
	to make a statement against injustice here and elsewhere.	38:20
	On Sunday morning the congregation walked past	38:25
	those bedraggle looking students	38:29
	and some of the worshiper undoubtedly sneered	38:32
	at these rebelling students.	38:35
	But microphones were put out on the quad	38:39
	and those out on the vigil were surprised to hear	38:41
	the then dean of the chapel remark	38:45
	that there's a good chance that Jesus	38:50
	would've felt a lot more comfortable outside	38:53
	with those protesting students than inside	38:58
	with his best friends.	39:02
	If we would be where Jesus is,	39:07
	we have to do what Jesus does.	39:12
	Those who are not against us, are for us.	39:19
	And no one who does a mighty work in my name	39:22
	shall be able to speak ill of me.	39:25
	Those who are not for me are against me.	39:30
	Yesterday's student activist become today's	39:35
	yumpies and bumpies.	39:38
	Now those of us who are older, who have learned	39:41
	all the right words and correct	39:43
	and can recite the creed by heart	39:45
	and are able to make proper distinction	39:48
	and discrimination, whose side are we on?	39:50
	Jesus told a story in Matthew 21 about a father	40:00
	who had two boys.	40:04
	And to his two sons he said	40:06
	that he wanted them to go out and work in his fields.	40:07
	The first son was a pleasant sort of lad	40:11
	who always wanted to please his parents	40:14
	and had a high SAT score and he said,	40:15
	sure father, it is an honor for me	40:19
	to be able to do your will.	40:21
	And yet an hour later, there he was still on the sofa.	40:25
	The second son was a rebellious adolescent upstart	40:31
	and he greeted his father's request typically with,	40:37
	me, forget it.	40:40
	I gotta work on the carburetor of my Chevy.	40:42
	I got more important things than to be	40:44
	your lacky running around doing stuff for you, forget it.	40:46
	Cooperative words would not fit in his	40:50
	young, insolent mouth.	40:52
	And yet about an hour or so later the father looked up	40:56
	from what he was doing and out in the field,	40:58
	there was the second son, hard at work.	41:03
	Jesus said, okay class, think hard.	41:07
	Which son do you think was closes to his father?	41:10
	The one with the right words	41:17
	or the one with the right deeds?	41:20
	And then to wrap up that story, Jesus made one	41:25
	of his most tasteless remarks.	41:29
	He looked at his disciples and he said,	41:33
	I tell you, tax collectors and whores	41:36
	are going into the kingdom of God before you.	41:40
	I tell you it's a text for which I've lost my taste.	41:45
	Amen.	41:50
	(organ playing)	41:55
	(choir singing)	42:09
Elmer	The Lord be with you.	44:06
Congregation	And also with you.	44:08
-	Let us pray, please be seated.	44:10
	Oh savior of the world,	44:18
	by your cross and passion you have redeemed us.	44:21
	(congregation speaking)	44:26
	From the impatience that prevents from	44:31
	discerning your purpose and pain and sorrow.	44:33
	(congregation speaking)	44:38
	From refusing to share the suffering of the world.	44:40
	From seeking only confident pleasure,	44:45
	from forgetting those in distress.	44:48
	From selfishness that brings needless grief to others.	44:52
	(congregation speaking)	44:57
	Almighty God, in the afflictions of your people	45:00
	you are yourself afflicted.	45:05
	Hear us as we pray for those who suffer.	45:07
	For all who are hindered in the race of life,	45:16
	through no fault of their own.	45:22
	For the defective and the delicate.	45:24
	And for those who are disabled.	45:28
	(congregation speaking)	45:33
-	For those whose livelihood is insecure.	45:36
	For the hungry, the homeless and destitute.	45:39
	For those how are overworked, down trodden	45:42
	and in despair.	45:45
	(congregation speaking)	45:47
	For little children whose surroundings	45:51
	hide from them your love and beauty.	45:53
	For the fatherless and motherless.	45:56
	And for the unwanted and the unloved.	45:59
	(congregation speaking)	46:02
	For prisoners and captives and all	46:06
	suffering from oppression.	46:09
	(congregation speaking)	46:11
	For all who are suffering because of their	46:15
	faithfulness to conviction and duty.	46:18
	(congregation speaking)	46:21
	For those who have to bear their burdens alone,	46:25
	for those who are in doubt and anguish of soul.	46:28
	For those who are oversensitive.	46:31
	And for those who suffer through their own wrong doing.	46:34
	(congregation speaking)	46:38
	For all who do not pray for themselves	46:42
	and for all who have not the consolation	46:44
	of the prayers of others.	46:47
	And for all whose anguish is unrelieved	46:49
	by the knowledge of your love.	46:51
	(congregation speaking)	46:54
	For the infirm and aged, and all who are growing	46:58
	weary with the journey of life.	47:01
	And for all who are passing through the valley of death.	47:03
	(congregation speaking)	47:08
	For all forgotten by us, but dear to you.	47:11
	(congregation speaking)	47:15
Elmer	Oh God, our creator.	47:19
	Have regard to our prayers.	47:22
	Answer them in your compassion.	47:25
	And make us the channels of your infinite	47:29
	pity and care, amen.	47:32
-	Now let us respond to the word by offering	47:43
	ourselves and our gifts to God.	47:46
	(man singing)	48:30
	(organ playing)	49:48
	(choir singing)	50:15
	(man singing)	54:42
	(choir singing)	56:15
	♪ Hallelujah, hallelujah ♪	56:27
	(choir singing)	56:34
	♪ Hallelujah, hallelujah ♪	56:47
	♪ Hallelujah, hallelujah ♪	56:53
	♪ Hallelujah ♪	56:59
	♪ Amen ♪	57:07
-	Accept these offerings, we beseech you oh Lord	57:18
	and mercifully direct and enable us	57:22
	by your holy spirit, that all things	57:24
	which we do in your name may be truly wrought in you.	57:27
	Through Jesus Christ our Lord,	57:32
	who taught us to pray together saying	57:35
	our father who art in heaven hallowed be thy name	57:38
	thy kingdom come, thy will be done	57:42
	on earth as it is in heaven.	57:46
	Give us this day our daily bread	57:48
	and forgive us our trespasses as we forgive those	57:51
	who trespass against us.	57:54
	And lead us not into temptation,	57:57
	but deliver us from evil.	57:59
	For thine is the kingdom and the power	58:01
	and the glory forever, amen.	58:04
	(organ playing)	58:16
	(choir singing)	58:56

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Title:

William H. Willimon - "Whose Side Are You On?" (September 25, 1988)

Description:

Sermon start time: 22:02. Sermon end time: 41:51.
The preacher argues that being on Jesus’ side means not just saying the "correct" doctrine or theology, but also acting in ways compliant with Jesus’ teachings. (Abstract created by Duke Divinity School staff.)
Key quotation: “If we would be where Jesus is, we have to do what Jesus does.”

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Date:

September 25, 1988

Speaker:

Willimon, William H.

Liturgical Calendar:

Ordinary Time

Biblical Book:

Mark

Chapter and Verse:

Mark 9:38-43

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Contributor:

Duke University. Chapel

Identifier:

UA.17.01.0003 VHS-0099
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Duke Chapel Recordings

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The Duke University Chapel Recordings were transferred to the Duke University Archives beginning in 1970.

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