Grant S. Shockley - "The Art of Human Relations" (February 19, 1984)

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	(organ music)	0:03
	(choir music)	8:23
	(organ music)	9:27
	(congregation sings)	10:03
-	God, whom we gather to worship this day,	13:23
	takes gregarious carbon,	13:26
	sturdy iron,	13:29
	precious gold,	13:31
	fluctuating mercury,	13:34
	volatile phosphorus,	13:36
	scarce argon,	13:39
	nurturing nitrogen,	13:41
	and a multitude of other wonderfully diverse elements	13:44
	and forms with them an astonishing,	13:48
	fruitful, enduring universe.	13:51
	Come, let us worship God.	13:56
	And to God let us make our confession.	13:58
	Oh, God, author of eternal light,	14:15
	we confess to You our desire to turn away	14:19
	from the brightness of Your presence,	14:23
	to cling to the security of life as we know it,	14:25
	to stop our ears to the call, follow me.	14:30
	Forgive our hesitancy.	14:34
	Speak to us yet another time.	14:36
	Show to us once more the presence which promises life,	14:39
	for we pray, trusting as little children	14:45
	in the light of Your love.	14:48
	Amen.	14:51
	My sisters and brothers,	15:24
	hear and believe the good news.	15:26
	Nothing can separate us from the love of God	15:30
	in Christ Jesus our Lord.	15:32
	In Jesus, the Christ, you and I	15:35
	are forgiven.	15:41
	Let us give thanks	15:44
	for God is good	15:46
	and God's love is everlasting.	15:47
	Thanks be to God,	15:51
	whose love creates us.	15:52
	Thanks be to God,	15:55
	whose mercy redeems us.	15:56
	Thanks be to God,	15:59
	whose grace leads us into the future.	16:01
	It is the seventh Sunday after Epiphany,	16:08
	and I am glad to be able to welcome each of you	16:12
	to this special service of worship	16:14
	in the Duke University Chapel.	16:17
	I would remind you that there will be	16:20
	the celebration of the Eucharist in Memorial Chapel	16:22
	following this service.	16:25
	And I encourage you to stay for that brief service.	16:27
	I am pleased to introduce our guest preacher	16:32
	of the morning, the Reverend Doctor Grant Shockley	16:36
	and to welcome Dr. Shockley to the Duke Chapel pulpit.	16:39
	A man of immense warmth and energy,	16:45
	Dr. Shockley is presently	16:48
	Duke Divinity School Professor of Christian Education	16:50
	and Director of Black Church Affairs.	16:54
	A United Methodist minister, he has served parishes	16:57
	in New York City,	17:01
	in Brooklyn,	17:03
	and in Dover, Delaware.	17:05
	Dr. Shockley is also recognized as an able writer,	17:08
	teacher, lecturer, and administrator.	17:12
	In addition to several distinguished professorships,	17:16
	he served also as president	17:20
	of the Interdenominational Theological Center	17:21
	in Atlanta, Georgia,	17:24
	and Philander Smith College in Little Rock, Arkansas.	17:25
	A native of Philadelphia, Dr. Shockley is married	17:30
	to Doris Taylor Shockley.	17:33
	And I am delighted to welcome both of these gracious people	17:36
	to Duke Chapel and to this service.	17:39
	The Art of Human Relations is the title	17:43
	of Dr. Shockley's sermon.	17:46
-	Let us pray.	17:57
	Almighty God, in whom are hid all the treasures	18:00
	of wisdom and knowledge, open our eyes	18:04
	that we may behold wondrous things out of Your word.	18:09
	And give us grace that we may clearly understand	18:13
	and heartily choose the way of Your love.	18:17
	Through Jesus Christ our Lord, Amen.	18:22
	The Old Testament message is from Genesis chapter four,	18:29
	verses eight through 16.	18:34
	Cain said to Abel his brother,	18:38
	let us go out into the field.	18:41
	And when they were in the field,	18:44
	Cain rose up against his brother Abel and killed him.	18:46
	Then the Lord said to Cain,	18:51
	"Where is Abel, your brother?"	18:55
	He said, "I do not know.	18:58
	"Am I my brother's keeper?"	19:01
	And the Lord said, "What have you done?	19:04
	"The voice of your brother's blood is crying	19:08
	"to me from the ground.	19:11
	"And now you are cursed from the ground,	19:13
	"which has opened its mouth to receive	19:16
	"your brother's blood from your hand.	19:19
	"When you till the ground,	19:23
	"it shall no longer yield to you its strength.	19:25
	"You shall be a fugitive and a wanderer on this earth."	19:29
	Cain said to the Lord,	19:34
	"My punishment is greater than I can bear.	19:37
	"Behold, thou has driven me today away from the ground,	19:41
	"and from the face I shall be hidden.	19:46
	"I shall be a fugitive and a wanderer on the earth,	19:50
	"and whoever finds me will slay me."	19:55
	Then the Lord said to him, "Not so.	19:59
	"If anyone slays Cain,	20:04
	"vengeance shall be taken on him sevenfold."	20:06
	And the Lord put a mark on Cain,	20:10
	lest any who came upon him should kill him.	20:13
	Then Cain went away from the presence of the Lord	20:18
	and dwelt in the land of Nod, east of Eden.	20:22
	Here ends the reading of the Old Testament.	20:28
	(organ music)	20:39
	(choir music)	20:48
	Will the congregation please stand	22:33
	for the reading of the Gospel lesson?	22:36
	The Gospel lesson is from Luke chapter 10,	22:45
	verses 25 through 37.	22:50
	And behold, a lawyer stood up to put him to the test,	22:54
	saying, "Teacher, what shall I do to inherit eternal life?"	22:59
	He said to him, "What is written in the Law?	23:05
	"How do you read?"	23:09
	And he answered, "You shall love the Lord your God	23:11
	"with all your heart and with all your soul	23:15
	"and with all your strength and with all your mind,	23:19
	"and your neighbor as yourself."	23:23
	And he said to him, "You have answered right.	23:27
	"Do this, and you will live."	23:31
	But he, desiring to justify himself,	23:34
	said to Jesus, "And who is my neighbor?"	23:38
	Jesus replied, "A man was going down from Jerusalem	23:43
	"to Jericho, and fell among robbers,	23:48
	"who stripped him and beat him and departed,	23:51
	"leaving him half dead.	23:56
	"Now by chance a priest was going down that road,	23:59
	"and when he saw him he passed by on the other side.	24:05
	"So likewise a Levite,	24:11
	"when he came to the place and saw him,	24:14
	"passed on the other side.	24:17
	"But a Samaritan, as he journeyed,	24:21
	"came to where he was, and when he saw him,	24:24
	"he had compassion and went to him and bound up his wounds,	24:28
	"pouring on oil and wine.	24:34
	"Then he set him on his own beast and brought him to an inn	24:38
	"and took care of him.	24:43
	"And the next day he took out two denari	24:45
	"and gave them to the innkeeper, saying,	24:49
	""Take care of him, and whatever more you spend,	24:52
	""I will repay you when I come back."	24:56
	"Which of these three, do you think,	25:01
	"proved neighbor to the man who fell among the robbers?"	25:04
	He said, "The one who showed him mercy on him."	25:08
	And Jesus said to him, "Go, and do likewise."	25:13
	Here ends the reading of the Gospel lesson.	25:18
	Amen.	25:22
	(organ music)	25:24
	(congregation sings)	25:32
-	Let us pray.	26:32
	May the words of my mouth	26:37
	and the meditations of our hearts	26:41
	be acceptable in Thy sight,	26:45
	oh, Lord, our strength and our redeemer.	26:49
	Amen.	26:55
	For more than 50 years,	27:01
	American churches have observed	27:05
	Race Relations Sunday.	27:08
	It was a time to reflect upon the ideal	27:12
	of the fatherhood of God and the brotherhood of humankind.	27:16
	It was a time to sing with great lust	27:24
	in Christ there is no east or west.	27:28
	In Him no south or north.	27:33
	The words of the prophet Malachi	27:39
	would ring out from our pulpits.	27:43
	Have we not all one father?	27:47
	Has not one God created us?	27:51
	Why then are we faithless to one another,	27:56
	profaning his covenant?	28:00
	We would also listen to the words of Luke	28:04
	in the book of Acts.	28:08
	And he made from one every nation to live	28:11
	on the face of the earth that they should seek God	28:16
	and find Him.	28:22
	Now I am well aware of this great heritage.	28:26
	I know the many very positive things that have been done	28:32
	to sensitize insensitive people	28:37
	in the area of better race relations,	28:41
	To encourage others and not to be weary in their well doing,	28:47
	and to remind still others that there is yet	28:53
	so much to be done in black-white relations	28:57
	in our churches, in our communities,	29:03
	on our campuses, and in our nation.	29:07
	This morning, however,	29:14
	I would like us to look at race relations	29:17
	from a different and with a deeper perspective.	29:22
	Very simply, I want us to view it	29:28
	in the wider and more inclusive context	29:33
	of the desperate need for improved human relations	29:38
	on interpersonal, inter-group,	29:43
	international and global levels.	29:48
	For here lies the root and stem of the problem.	29:54
	And here, latently at least,	30:00
	is the hope for solving	30:04
	what the renowned black scholar W.E.B. Du Bois	30:07
	called the critical problem of the 20th century,	30:12
	namely the color line.	30:17
	Now we need not look too far to understand	30:21
	the urgent necessity for this expanded view	30:26
	of race relations into a scene of human relations.	30:30
	Consider, if you will, this scenario	30:37
	for the 21st century, which is less than 20 years away.	30:40
	By the year 2000, the earth's population	30:47
	will be closer to 8 billion than anything else.	30:52
	Almost two thirds of whom	30:58
	will be none-white.	31:01
	In America, the population will be about 300 million,	31:04
	at least 33rd percent of those	31:10
	will be non-white.	31:15
	The balance of world power	31:17
	and the centers of decision making	31:21
	have already shifted dramatically	31:24
	in the second half of this century	31:28
	in terms of continents and nations	31:31
	and classes and races.	31:34
	We are at the end of an era of domination	31:38
	by and Anglo-European ethos.	31:42
	Western ascendancy has declined and that seriously.	31:45
	With the advent of nuclear weaponry,	31:52
	the day is gone when right can be sustained by might.	31:56
	Or orthodoxy by power.	32:01
	Or supremacy by threat.	32:04
	The rising expectations of more than 50 new nations	32:09
	in the last two decades	32:13
	and their new-found political muscle	32:16
	in the United Nations have changed forever	32:19
	the power equations between east and west.	32:22
	The revolutions for food, for civil rights,	32:27
	for women's rights, for human rights,	32:31
	and for national liberations are still vibrant	32:34
	and they indeed are irreversible.	32:39
	The eminent late historian Arnold Toynbee	32:43
	was quite right when he said, and I quote,	32:47
	"the revolution through which we are living today	32:52
	"is world wide, penetrating to the cultural	32:56
	"and spiritual depths.	33:01
	"Living together as a single family is the only future	33:04
	"that mankind can have.	33:09
	"The alternative is mass suicide.	33:12
	"Yet learning how to live together	33:17
	"is going to be very difficult.	33:20
	"We have suddenly become one another's next door neighbors,	33:23
	"physically, that is, while our hearts	33:29
	and minds "remain far apart."	33:34
	He goes on to say that ignorance breeds fear.	33:39
	And fear breeds hostility.	33:44
	Human beings have had 6,000 years	33:49
	to become strangers to one another.	33:52
	And now we hardly have any time at all	33:55
	for learning the most difficult art	33:59
	of dwelling together in unity.	34:02
	Now in the face of this situation,	34:06
	those who are leaders and those who aspire to leadership	34:10
	might well feel like Hamlet, who said,	34:16
	"the time is out of joint.	34:19
	"Oh, cursed spite that ever	34:22
	I was born to set it right."	34:25
	But this is our time.	34:29
	There is no other time in which	34:31
	we can live or shall live.	34:34
	This is the day which the Lord has made.	34:38
	Let us rejoice and be glad in it.	34:42
	You and I are His leadership,	34:46
	His present leadership and His future leadership.	34:50
	And perhaps both of our generations had better hear	34:55
	what Benjamin Disraeli once said when he told us	34:59
	that, "now God be thanked who matched us	35:04
	"with this fateful hour."	35:09
	Now what seems to be the word of the Lord in all of this?	35:15
	What do scriptures say?	35:21
	The word may be found in the two well known stories	35:25
	that you have just heard,	35:30
	Cain and Abel and the Samaritan.	35:33
	The Cain and Abel story in Genesis is well known.	35:38
	Cain rose up against his brother, Abel,	35:44
	and killed him.	35:48
	Then the Lord said to Cain, "Where is Abel, your brother?"	35:50
	Cain said, "I do not know.	35:56
	"Am I my brother's keeper?"	35:59
	The Samaritan story in Luke	36:04
	is in the Samaritan parable.	36:07
	Note we did not say the good Samaritan.	36:11
	We are assuming that there were more than one	36:14
	of the Samaritans who were good.	36:17
	But nevertheless, the story is this.	36:20
	A man was going down from Jerusalem to Jericho	36:24
	and fell among robbers.	36:29
	They beat him and stripped him and departed,	36:32
	leaving him half dead.	36:36
	But a Samaritan came to where he was,	36:38
	and he did four things.	36:44
	He stopped and had compassion.	36:47
	He went to him.	36:51
	He bound up his wounds,	36:53
	and he set him upon his own beast	36:55
	and took him to an inn.	36:59
	Now there are many sayings in the Bible	37:03
	that speak about human relations.	37:06
	In Deuteronomy and Leviticus,	37:10
	we read, "You shall love the Lord your God	37:12
	"with all your mind and with all your strength	37:16
	"and with all your soul,	37:20
	"and your neighbor as yourself."	37:22
	In Matthew, we read, "I was hungry and you fed me,	37:25
	"thirsty and you gave me drink.	37:30
	"I was a stranger and you received me in your homes,	37:34
	"naked and you clothed me.	37:38
	"I was sick and you took care of me,	37:41
	"in prison and you visited me."	37:44
	But none of these passages speaks as vividly	37:48
	to the human relations theme of our day	37:52
	than these stories in Genesis and Luke.	37:56
	These stories challenge us as people of faith	38:00
	and as Christians to love,	38:05
	to respect, and to respond	38:10
	to people as individuals and to people as groups	38:14
	or to people as nations	38:19
	or to people who have dominion	38:22
	in various parts of the world.	38:25
	People who are the brothers and sisters	38:28
	of our common Father Mother God.	38:31
	What then is the art of human relations	38:36
	as we ponder these two stories?	38:39
	It is people skilled in relating to people	38:43
	in ways that are caring, meaningful,	38:47
	helpful and responsible,	38:51
	irrespective of differences in circumstance	38:54
	or advantage or color	38:59
	or religion or time and place.	39:02
	The art of human relations is the cultivation	39:06
	of the capacity to act toward others	39:10
	as God in Christ has already	39:14
	acted toward us.	39:18
	Now there are particular challenges	39:21
	in the two stories that were read	39:24
	by our lector this morning.	39:26
	But first a brief analysis of our stories.	39:30
	It is more than of passing interest that a Samaritan	39:34
	offered aid to the one who fell among the robbers.	39:38
	A Samaritan, mind you,	39:42
	one whose race was often cursed,	39:45
	whose word was unacceptable in any court of law,	39:49
	who could not co-mingle	39:54
	with other religious people of his time.	39:56
	A Samaritan saw him and had compassion.	40:00
	A Samaritan went to him and bound up his wounds.	40:04
	A Samaritan took him to a hotel and provided	40:09
	for his future care.	40:14
	The story on Cain and Abel and the parable	40:18
	of the Samaritan are very clear,	40:21
	very direct and very simple statements	40:24
	about Christian human relations.	40:28
	And they say two things.	40:31
	We are our brother's keeper.	40:33
	We are our neighbor's neighbor.	40:36
	The revolutionary nature of these statements	40:41
	must be understood against a background	40:45
	of that period of time.	40:48
	In the Old Testament, neighbor clearly referred	40:51
	only to Israelites.	40:55
	In the time of Jesus, neighbor referred only to Jews.	40:57
	Neighbor did not include Romans.	41:02
	Neighbor did not include Greeks or Syrians.	41:05
	Most of all, it did not include Samaritans.	41:09
	Not a single hero of that parable failed	41:13
	to get that message.	41:16
	Here Jesus was laying bare the barriers	41:19
	to good human relations,	41:23
	which include racial exclusiveness,	41:26
	which include social snobbery,	41:30
	which include cultural conceit	41:33
	and spiritual arrogance.	41:36
	He was getting, therefore, at the very basic principles	41:39
	of good human relations.	41:43
	Care, respect, and responsibility.	41:45
	It is this word care then that Erik Erikson tells us	41:51
	is "a deep concern for the life	41:55
	and development of persons."	41:59
	It comes from the word charis which means love	42:02
	of a deep kind.	42:05
	Cain did not care about his brother, Abel.	42:09
	Some friends do not care for each other.	42:14
	They simply want to use each other.	42:18
	This is an example of poor human relations.	42:21
	Some couples are going together	42:26
	who are supposedly in love,	42:30
	but their relationship is simply one	42:32
	of mutual exploitation.	42:35
	Some husbands and wives after they do not care	42:38
	for each other enough, do not extend their marriages	42:42
	to seek every possible recourse before taking	42:46
	the easy course of divorce.	42:50
	These are poor human relations.	42:54
	Parents sometimes do not really care enough	42:57
	for their children to give their lives for them.	43:00
	Often they view them as burdens, as troublesome.	43:05
	The result, therefore, could easily be child abuse.	43:09
	This is an example of a poor human relationship.	43:14
	The second foundation of good relationships is respect.	43:21
	It is a way of looking at people	43:27
	from their inside situation outward.	43:29
	Not just a sense of muted awe in the presence	43:34
	of some person we respect, but a concern	43:37
	that people become who they are.	43:41
	Respect is the absence of the need to change people	43:45
	before we can love them.	43:50
	We love people for what they are	43:53
	and not for how they could be if we could remake them.	43:56
	We love people for what they can be	44:02
	and we help them to become that.	44:05
	This is respect.	44:08
	This is looking at them until we see	44:10
	what God has truly placed within them	44:13
	that it is our task to bring out.	44:16
	If we could see the peoples of our world	44:20
	in terms of what God's intention was for them,	44:24
	we could indeed be for them	44:28
	as the Samaritan was to the robber.	44:31
	In keeping with this then, Christians and others,	44:34
	all people of good will,	44:39
	should engage those issues of human rights	44:42
	in our world that affect good human relations.	44:45
	We become concerned, therefore, about,	44:51
	and we become involved in programs to resolve	44:54
	the inequity syndrome affecting the poor people	44:58
	and the hungry people of our world.	45:02
	Our planet earth is really divisible	45:06
	into two large segments.	45:09
	One is very rich, and one is very poor.	45:11
	On the rich side are two dozen or so industrialized states	45:17
	whose one billion people control and produce	45:23
	and consume most of the world's resources.	45:28
	On the other side,	45:32
	about 100 so-called underdeveloped states and nations	45:33
	comprising three billion people control very little,	45:39
	produce very little, and consume very little.	45:44
	They consequently exist in the shadow of death	45:50
	and starvation and deprivation	45:54
	almost 24 hours a day.	45:58
	Respect then means seeing these as children of God	46:01
	for what they can become with our help	46:07
	and through our sharing.	46:10
	Helping them to become that is our mission.	46:13
	This is the person we encounter on our Jericho road.	46:16
	Helping them at our level of competence,	46:22
	whether it is person to person,	46:26
	whether it is as a citizen,	46:28
	whether it is as a Christian or a religious person of faith,	46:31
	or whether it is simply as a member of the human community.	46:35
	The third keystone for good human relations	46:42
	is responsibility.	46:45
	Basic to the word of responsibility	46:48
	is the word to respond.	46:51
	The root meaning then means to discover the needs of others	46:54
	and do something about them.	46:59
	This was Cain's sickness,	47:02
	and often it is ours.	47:06
	After murdering his brother	47:08
	and being called to account for it,	47:11
	he asks a very stupid question.	47:14
	Am I my brother's keeper?	47:17
	Well, of course, he was his brother's keeper.	47:19
	And the Lord made that quite plain to him,	47:23
	but he wanted to cop out of the situation.	47:26

Male Speaker	As we so often do.	0:03
	Now how does this relate itself	0:06
	to the distribution of wealth for example	0:11
	especially in America,	0:13
	how does this relate itself to the plants	0:16
	that close almost each month?	0:19
	And in their wake we find unemployment,	0:23
	social chaos, the ruination of whole communities.	0:27
	How does this relate to oppressive labor	0:32
	and or management practices?	0:35
	How does this relate to the arrogance of power	0:38
	and the inordinate national pride	0:41
	which is leading us headlong in many cases	0:44
	into a third world war?	0:47
	The life and welfare of our brothers and sisters	0:51
	is not their problem only.	0:55
	It is our problem, and we forget this	0:58
	at the peril of our own souls, and at the peril	1:03
	of the displacement and disappearance	1:07
	of the planet Earth.	1:10
	The art of human relations is understanding	1:14
	what it means to be created in God's image,	1:18
	and to seek to actualize that image in persons.	1:21
	The art of human relations is celebrating the uniqueness	1:25
	of every person, and creating the environment	1:29
	in which all people and all kinds of people	1:34
	can grow and develop and become	1:38
	who they were intended to be, regardless	1:42
	of race or color or class.	1:46
	The art of human relations is doing all we can	1:50
	to see to it that our Earth home	1:53
	is not obliterated by a nuclear bomb,	1:57
	which would bring to zero minus	2:00
	both humans and relationships.	2:03
	In closing, let us remember the words	2:08
	of Walt Whitman, in his famous salute to the world.	2:10
	All you continentals of Asia, Africa, Europe,	2:17
	Australia, and different places,	2:21
	all you on the numberless islands	2:25
	and archipelagos of the sea, and you	2:28
	of the centuries hence, when you listen to me,	2:31
	and you each and every where who I specify not,	2:36
	but include just the same, health to you	2:40
	and goodwill to you all.	2:44
	Each of us is inevitable.	2:47
	Each of us limitless.	2:50
	Each of us with his own right upon the Earth.	2:53
	Each of us allowed the eternal support of the Earth.	2:58
	Each of us here as	3:03
	divinely ordained as any is here.	3:05
	We may not always see eye to eye	3:11
	on all issues, but we must learn	3:13
	that we can walk hand in hand toward	3:17
	a common goal, and that goal is goodwill	3:20
	and peace, and justice, and righteousness	3:24
	and truth for all people, all communities,	3:27
	and all nations, let us pray.	3:31
	All people of the Earth,	3:40
	share but one common birth, one destiny.	3:43
	One sun shines o'er us all.	3:50
	Alike we rise and fall.	3:54
	One night shall spread its pall eternally.	3:58
	Great God of all the Earth, teach us	4:04
	to know the worth of sympathy.	4:08
	Let fellowship increase, let all contention cease.	4:11
	Oh may we dwell in peace and unity,	4:17
	Amen.	4:22
	(church organ playing)	4:33
	(congregation singing with organ)	5:24
	(congregation singing with organ)	6:04
	(congregation singing with organ)	6:52
	(congregation singing with organ)	7:45
Male Speaker	We have been challenged.	8:17
	Let us now affirm what we believe.	8:20
Congregation	We believe in God,	8:24
	who has created and is creating,	8:26
	who has come in the truly human Jesus,	8:29
	to reconcile and make new, who works in us	8:32
	and others by the spirit.	8:36
	We trust God, who calls us to be the church,	8:39
	to celebrate life and its fullness,	8:44
	to love and serve others, to seek justice	8:47
	and resist evil, to proclaim Jesus crucified and risen,	8:50
	our judge and our hope.	8:56
	In life, in death, in life beyond death,	8:59
	God is with us, we are not alone,	9:04
	thanks be to God.	9:08
Male Speaker	The Lord be with you.	9:11
Congregation	And also with you.	9:13
Male Speaker	Let us pray.	9:14
	Praise to you, oh Lord of us all,	9:25
	the holy one who presides among the stars,	9:29
	yet teaches the human heart,	9:33
	who gives the seasons that both flesh and nations	9:36
	shall know their mortal boundaries,	9:40
	who authors the mystery of our freedom,	9:44
	and risks the divine love among our human choices.	9:47
	Who intends that each one of us	9:52
	shall go without fear, and that all	9:54
	shall share the music of the deep heavens.	9:59
	Who gathers us to this moment, to discover together	10:03
	who we are in your presence.	10:08
	Praise to you oh lord, our health, and our salvation.	10:11
	Oh creator God, who wills for your creation	10:20
	wholeness of spirit and health of body,	10:24
	hear our intercessions for all who need your blessing,	10:28
	for those chronically ill, to whom no hope	10:33
	of bodily strength can be given,	10:36
	bless them with your presence, and the strength	10:40
	to rise above their reasons for despair	10:43
	into a higher hope.	10:46
	For all who seek in earnest but do not find you,	10:49
	help them to perceive you in the common things around them,	10:53
	that in these things,	10:58
	they begin their journey to meet the Christ.	11:00
	For all who lack food and shelter,	11:04
	may our daily comforts chafe us,	11:07
	and move us to share more and more.	11:10
	Oh God of hope, may the vision of a new Jerusalem infect us,	11:15
	and move us to undertake its building in our own lives,	11:21
	and in our own society.	11:25
	Make us firm against all arguments from despair,	11:28
	that our enemies are less than human,	11:33
	that the poor are poor because they are lazy,	11:37
	that military force is the only language	11:41
	that nations understand, that all other leopards	11:43
	will never change their spots,	11:48
	grant lord God the deep understanding	11:52
	that we were not born to die,	11:56
	but to begin, to interrupt the flow of despair,	11:59
	to start something new, for God's sake.	12:05
	Oh Yahweh, we seek a new dedication	12:12
	to your will in our lives.	12:16
	Grant that we have no lower estimate of humanity	12:20
	than you showed by your passion on the cross,	12:23
	and seeing anew how precious is the life you create in us,	12:27
	grant us the courage to measure ourselves	12:32
	by the stature that you have given us.	12:35
	Do not allow us to concede to cynicism.	12:39
	Keep alive in us such courage of faith	12:43
	that our eyes will not wander from the cross,	12:46
	though many about us brood	12:50
	on the prospect of an empty heaven,	12:51
	and a soulless humanity, and grant	12:54
	oh magnificent one, that we will not think ourselves	12:58
	more virtuous than we are, nor imagine ourselves	13:03
	less worthy than you regard us, in Christ's name.	13:08
	let us now pray together, our Lord's prayer.	13:15
Congregation	Our father, who art in heaven,	13:20
	hallowed be thy name.	13:24
	Thy kingdom come, thy will be done	13:26
	on Earth as it is in heaven.	13:30
	Give us this day our daily bread,	13:33
	and forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive those	13:36
	who trespass against us, and lead us not	13:39
	into temptation, but deliver us from evil,	13:42
	for thine is the kingdom, and the power,	13:47
	and the glory, forever, Amen.	13:50
	(church organ)	14:10
	(church organ)	15:37
	(church organ)	16:41
	(choir singing over organ)	16:53
	(choir singing over organ)	17:40
	(choir singing over organ)	17:41
	(choir singing over organ)	18:52
	(choir singing over organ)	20:37
	(choir singing over organ)	22:01
Male Speaker	Oh merciful one,	22:41
	on this week's first day, day of resurrection,	22:44
	day of soul's replenishment,	22:47
	receive now these gifts of money.	22:50
	If we have been charitable, thank you	22:54
	for teaching us such virtue.	22:56
	If we have been stingy, forgive us	22:58
	and enable us to be more generous.	23:02
	And now by your holy spirit, be with us	23:05
	in our use of these offerings, that despair	23:08
	will give way to hope, pain and suffering	23:11
	to healing, evil to goodness, sin to redemption.	23:14
	That all people shall experience your evangel.	23:20
	In your son's name, Amen.	23:24
	(church organ)	23:38
	(congregation singing over organ)	24:01
	(congregation singing over organ)	25:31
	(church organ)	26:55
	And now, may grace, mercy and peace	27:07
	from God the father, son, and holy spirit	27:11
	be with you and with all whom you love.	27:14
	Go out in joy, and remember, by the goodness of God	27:17
	you were born, by the providence of God	27:21
	you are kept all the day long,	27:24
	by the love of God fully revealed to us	27:27
	through Jesus Christ our living lord,	27:29
	you are being redeemed.	27:32
	(choir singing)	27:43
	(church organ)	28:46
	(church organ)	30:58
	(church organ)	32:21
	(church organ)	33:25
	(church organ)	34:49
	(congregation chatting amongst themselves)	35:35

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Title:

Grant S. Shockley - "The Art of Human Relations" (February 19, 1984)

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At the heart of the problem of race relations is a broader issue of human relations in general. The stories of Cain and Able in Genesis and the Good Samaritan in Luke show us what it means to relate well toward one another, namely, with care, respect, and responsibility. We must tend to our (global) neighbor's welfare for the sake of our souls and for the sake of the earth. (Abstract created by Duke Divinity School staff.)
Sermon start time: (Part 1) 26:32. Sermon end time: (Part 2) 04:24.
Key quotation: “The art of human relations is the cultivation of the capacity to act toward others as God in Christ has already acted toward us.”

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February 19, 1984

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Shockley, Grant S.

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