Robert T. Young - "Church May Happen Anywhere" (November 25, 1973)

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	(orchestral music)	0:05
	(choir singing)	0:28
-	If we say that we are without sin,	3:31
	the truth is not in us.	3:34
	Therefore, let us humbly confess our sins to Almighty God,	3:37
	Almighty and most merciful Father,	3:42
	we have heard and strayed from thy ways	3:45
	like lost, sheep,	3:48
	we have followed too much the devices	3:50
	and desires of our own hearts.	3:53
	We have offended against thy Holy laws.	3:55
	We have left undone those things,	3:59
	which we ought to have,	4:01
	and there is no health in us,	4:03
	but thou Lord have mercy upon us	4:05
	miserable offenders,	4:08
	spare thou those of God who confess their faults	4:10
	restore thou those who are penitent,	4:14
	according to thy promises	4:17
	declared unto mankind	4:19
	in Christ Jesus our Lord,	4:21
	and grant almost merciful Father for his sake	4:24
	that we may hear after live a godly, righteous,	4:28
	and sober life	4:32
	to the glory of thy holy name, amen.	4:33
	Let's take a moment for our own personal confessions.	4:38
	The Lord is gracious and merciful,	4:52
	slow to anger and abounding	4:55
	and steadfast love.	4:57
	This is a message we have heard from him	5:00
	and proclaim to you	5:02
	that God is light	5:05
	and in him is no darkness at all.	5:07
	If we walk in the light	5:10
	as he is in the light,	5:12
	we have fellowship with one another	5:14
	and the blood of Jesus his son	5:17
	cleanses us from all sin.	5:19
	Almighty God, our heavenly Father,	5:23
	who of his great mercy has promised forgiveness of sins	5:26
	to all those who turn to him with true repentance	5:30
	and sincere faith,	5:34
	have mercy upon you,	5:36
	pardon and deliver you from all your sins,	5:38
	confirm and strengthen you in all goodness,	5:41
	and bring you everlasting life	5:44
	through Jesus Christ our Lord, amen.	5:47
	Our Father, who at in heaven,	5:52
	hallowed thy name,	5:55
	thy kingdom Come,	5:58
	thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven.	5:59
	Give us this day, our daily bread	6:04
	and forgive us our trespasses	6:07
	as we forgive those who trespass against us	6:10
	and lead us not into temptation,	6:14
	but deliver us from evil.	6:16
	For thine is the kingdom	6:19
	and the power	6:21
	and the glory forever and ever, amen.	6:22
	(orchestral music)	6:32
	(foreign music)	7:33
	Hear the word of God written in the gospel.	9:48
	According to Matthew 7:13-27.	9:51
	Enter by the narrow gate.	9:59
	For the gate is wide	10:01
	and the way is easy,	10:03
	that leads to destruction,	10:06
	and those who enter by it are many.	10:09
	For the gate is narrow	10:13
	and the way is hard	10:14
	that leads to life,	10:17
	and those who find it are few.	10:19
	Beware of false prophets,	10:23
	who come to you in sheep's clothing	10:25
	but inwardly are ravenous wolves.	10:27
	You will know them by their fruits.	10:31
	Are grapes gathered from thorns,	10:35
	are figs from thistles.	10:38
	So, every sound tree bears good fruit,	10:41
	but the bad tree bears evil fruit.	10:45
	A sound tree cannot bear evil fruit,	10:49
	nor can a bad tree bear good fruit.	10:53
	Every tree that does not bear fruit	10:57
	is cut down	11:00
	and thrown into the fire.	11:02
	Thus, you will know them by their fruits.	11:05
	Not everyone who says to me,	11:09
	'Lord, Lord' shall enter the kingdom of heaven,	11:11
	but he who does the will of my Father	11:16
	who is in heaven.	11:20
	On that day many will say to me,	11:22
	'Lord Lord, did we not prophesy in your name	11:25
	and cast out demons in your name	11:30
	and do many mighty works in your name?'	11:33
	And then I will declare to them,	11:37
	'I never knew you,	11:39
	depart from me you evil doers.'	11:41
	Everyone then who hears these words of mine	11:45
	and does them will be like a wise man	11:48
	who built his house up on a rock.	11:52
	And the rain fell,	11:55
	and the floods came,	11:57
	and the winds blew	11:58
	and beat up on that house.	12:00
	But it did not fall,	12:02
	because it had been founded on the rock.	12:04
	And everyone who hears these words of mine	12:07
	and does not do them	12:10
	will be like a foolish man	12:12
	who built his house up on the sands.	12:14
	And the rains fell,	12:17
	and the floods came,	12:20
	and the winds blew	12:21
	and beat against that house,	12:23
	and it fell,	12:25
	and great was the fall of it.	12:26
	Here endeth the mornings lesson.	12:30
	(orchestral music)	12:34
	(choir singing)	12:43
	Let us say together.	13:19
	our affirmation of faith,	13:21
	we believe in God	13:24
	who has created and is creating,	13:26
	who has come in the true man Jesus	13:29
	to reconcile and make new	13:32
	who works in us and others by his spirit.	13:36
	We trust him.	13:40
	He calls us to be in his church	13:41
	to celebrate his presence,	13:45
	to love and serve others,	13:47
	to seek justice and resist evil,	13:50
	to proclaim Jesus crucified and risen	13:53
	our judge and our hope	13:57
	in life in death.	14:00
	In life beyond death,	14:03
	God is with us.	14:05
	We are not alone.	14:07
	Thanks be to God.	14:09
	The Lord be with you.	14:11
congregation	Let us pray.	14:13
-	Let us pray.	14:14
	Almighty God,	14:21
	Father of all mercies,	14:23
	We thy unworthy servants do give thy most humble	14:25
	and hearty thanks.	14:29
	For all by goodness and loving kindness to us,	14:31
	and to all men.	14:34
	We bless thee,	14:36
	for our creation, preservation	14:37
	and all the blessings of this life,	14:40
	but above all	14:44
	for thine and inestimable love	14:45
	and the redemption of the world	14:47
	by our Lord Jesus Christ.	14:49
	For the means of grace	14:51
	and for the hope of glory.	14:53
	And we beseech thee,	14:55
	give us that do sense of all thy mercies,	14:57
	that our hearts may be infinitely thankful.	15:00
	And that we show forth thy praise	15:04
	not only with our lips,	15:06
	but in our lives,	15:08
	by giving up ourselves to thy service.	15:10
	And by walking before thee,	15:13
	in holiness and righteousness,	15:15
	all our days.	15:17
	Through Jesus Christ our Lord,	15:19
	to whom with thee,	15:21
	and the holy spirit,	15:23
	be all honoring glory world without end, amen.	15:24
	Remember Oh Lord, thy church upon earth,	15:31
	deepen her influence	15:34
	and extend her power for good.	15:36
	Till the kingdoms of this world	15:38
	become the kingdom of our Lord and his Christ.	15:41
	We pray for our beloved land	15:45
	for our leaders and governors.	15:48
	And for all who have part in public service,	15:51
	make them pure in motive,	15:55
	wise in counsel	15:58
	and strong in action,	16:00
	doing right in the fear of thy holy name.	16:02
	Father in heaven,	16:07
	look down in mercy upon our distraught	16:08
	and fevered world.	16:11
	Forgive the mistaken ambitions,	16:13
	the selfish passions	16:16
	and the presumptuous claims of men.	16:18
	Remove all suspicion and bitterness	16:21
	from among the nations,	16:24
	bring them to peace	16:26
	and Concord by the redeeming love of Christ.	16:27
	Have mercy, Oh Lord,	16:32
	upon those who are passing through sour trial,	16:34
	the poor,	16:38
	the sick,	16:39
	the anxious,	16:40
	the oppressed,	16:41
	those who are in danger from the fury of the elements	16:43
	or from the violence of men.	16:46
	Inspire in us and in our fellow men,	16:50
	the will to help our suffering brethren,	16:53
	heal, protect,	16:56
	and strengthen them according to their need,	16:58
	comfort those in sorrow with the comfort,	17:01
	which is in Christ Jesus, our Lord.	17:04
	And today,	17:08
	remember thy faithful servant John Fitzgerald Kennedy,	17:09
	Oh Lord, according to the favor,	17:13
	which the embarrassed unto thy people	17:15
	and grant that increasing in knowledge	17:18
	and love of thee,	17:20
	he may go from strength to strength	17:21
	in the life of perfect service,	17:24
	In thy heavenly kingdom.	17:27
	And we pray for our own dear ones	17:29
	where soever they might be at.	17:32
	That surrounded by thy love,	17:35
	they may be kept in health and joy	17:37
	and abide in safety and peace.	17:41
	And O gracious Father who through thy mercy	17:45
	has added another day to our lives.	17:48
	We hear dedicate both our souls	17:51
	and our bodies to thee,	17:53
	and thy service	17:55
	in a sober, righteous,	17:57
	and godly life.	17:59
	In which resolution do thou merciful God	18:02
	confirm and strengthen us.	18:05
	That as we grow in age,	18:08
	we may grow in grace	18:10
	and in knowledge of our Lord and savior Jesus Christ.	18:12
	But O God,	18:18
	who knows the weakness	18:19
	and corruption of our nature,	18:20
	and the manful temptations,	18:22
	which we daily meet with.	18:24
	We humbly beseech thee,	18:26
	to have compassion on our infirmities	18:28
	and to give us the constant assistance of thy holy spirit,	18:31
	that we may be effectually restrained from sin	18:36
	and incited to our duty.	18:40
	Imprint upon our hearts,	18:42
	such a dread of thy judgment	18:45
	and such a grateful sense of thy goodness to us.	18:47
	As may make us both afraid and ashamed to offend thee,	18:50
	and above all,	18:55
	keep in our minds a lively remembrance of that great day	18:56
	in which we must give a strict account	19:01
	of our thoughts, words, and actions	19:03
	to him who has appointed	19:07
	the judge of quick and the dead	19:09
	by son, Jesus Christ our Lord.	19:12
	In particular,	19:16
	we implore thy grace	19:17
	and protection for the ensuing day.	19:19
	Keep us temperate in all things	19:22
	and diligent in our several callings.	19:25
	Grant us patience under our flections.	19:28
	Give us grace to be just and upright	19:31
	in all our dealings,	19:34
	quiet and peaceable,	19:36
	full of compassion,	19:38
	and ready to do good to all men	19:40
	according to our abilities	19:43
	and opportunities.	19:45
	Direct us in all our ways,	19:47
	defend us from all dangers and adversities	19:50
	and be graciously pleased to take us	19:53
	and all who are dear to us	19:56
	under thy Fatherly care and protection.	19:58
	These things,	20:02
	and whatever else thy shall see to be necessary	20:03
	and convenient to us.	20:06
	We humbly beseech thee	20:08
	do the merits and mediation of thy son,	20:10
	Jesus Christ, our Lord, amen.	20:13
	(kid coughing)	20:32
	If I should sound a wee bit horse this morning,	20:35
	it's simply because I was one of those 45,000 or so,	20:40
	who yelled lustily	20:47
	yesterday afternoon.	20:51
	And my sentiments were expressed perfectly	20:54
	by some man sitting a couple rows behind us.	20:57
	When, with some two minutes to go,	21:00
	he yelled how sweet it is.	21:03
	Will you turn your attention to a word of scripture,	21:10
	As it is found in the gospel,	21:16
	according to Matthew 7:14.	21:18
	The gate is narrow	21:24
	and the way is hard	21:28
	that leads to life,	21:31
	and those who find it are few.	21:35
	Life, and those who find it are few.	21:40
	These are words of delight	21:45
	or words of doom.	21:49
	Life, and those who find it are few.	21:52
	These are words of fulfillment	21:58
	or are words of frustration.	22:00
	Life, and those who find it are few.	22:06
	These are words of hope	22:13
	or words of hopelessness.	22:16
	Life, and those who find it are few.	22:20
	Life, and Jesus,	22:25
	I think means more than breathing.	22:26
	Life, and Jesus indeed means more than food and water.	22:31
	Life, and surely Jesus means more than clothing,	22:38
	life, and Jesus,	22:41
	I believe touches at the heart of the purpose	22:43
	of the church of Jesus Christ.	22:46
	For church is where persons that is men,	22:50
	women, boys, and girls find life.	22:54
	Church is where persons may become whole.	23:00
	church is where the lonely find a sense of presence.	23:04
	Church is where in the company of others,	23:08
	you find meaning.	23:11
	Church is that place where others	23:14
	help you become who you really are.	23:18
	Church is as George Weber put it,	23:24
	that place where when others find out who I really am,	23:27
	they find me lovable.	23:31
	After all,	23:34
	church where you can be you.	23:38
	I can be me	23:41
	and we can love	23:42
	and be loved.	23:43
	After all life, church,	23:44
	why if being in church means finding life,	23:49
	discovering life, knowing life, living life,	23:52
	becoming who we really are,	23:55
	why church may happen anywhere.	23:57
	And I say, praise be to God.	24:00
	Yes, indeed.	24:03
	Church may happen anywhere.	24:04
	Life and those who find it are few.	24:08
	It was Pascal who once wrote,	24:12
	'when I consider the shortness of my life	24:16
	with an eternity before it	24:20
	and an eternity behind it,	24:22
	I am astonished that I live now	24:26
	rather than then	24:29
	and here rather than there.'	24:31
	Life and those who find it are few.	24:36
	Stephen Vincent Benet once said,	24:40
	'life is not lost by dying.	24:43
	Life is lost minute by minute,	24:48
	day by dragging day	24:50
	in all the thousand small uncaring ways.'	24:52
	Life is precious.	24:59
	Life is valuable.	25:02
	Life is irreplaceable.	25:04
	Life is meaning.	25:07
	Life is loving.	25:09
	Life is serving.	25:11
	Life is wanting, hoping, caring,	25:12
	giving life.	25:15
	And those who find it are few.	25:18
	And Carlyle Marney's latest book,	25:22
	"The Coming Faith", he writes,	25:24
	'I was learning the facts of how,	25:25
	an eyes list claim that all of life begins	25:29
	and ends with a gasp for air through a snout.'	25:33
	We have all begun life with a gasp for air,	25:41
	through a snout.	25:46
	And then what,	25:48
	and then what I say, not in judgment,	25:53
	but in sadness.	25:58
	Sadness, because it seems to me that there are so few of us	26:00
	who really do find life.	26:04
	And part of my sadness comes from a feeling	26:09
	that we in the church are most judgemental.	26:11
	When we hear these words,	26:14
	which I just read from Jesus.	26:16
	We think we are the ones who have found life.	26:18
	Many of you have,	26:25
	some of us have not.	26:28
	I heard recently that all preaching,	26:33
	is either arrogance or confession or both.	26:37
	This sermon may be arrogance.	26:45
	It may be some confession,	26:47
	or it may be both.	26:50
	The words of Jesus in Matthew 7:14	26:53
	used to strike terror	26:56
	and fear into my heart.	26:58
	As a little, I heard them preached by fired up.	27:02
	Well, meaning fire and brimstone preachers	27:06
	who wanted to scare the hell out of me,	27:09
	and get me on the straight and narrow road.	27:12
	And as a little boy,	27:18
	and as a teenager,	27:19
	I had visions and dreams of some long narrow,	27:20
	very narrow path,	27:24
	leading upward to heaven.	27:27
	And if I stayed on it, I'd make it.	27:29
	If I fell off	27:32
	or stepped off	27:33
	or strayed off	27:34
	or was pushed off	27:35
	or was led off,	27:36
	I had had it.	27:37
	In other words, I was doomed	27:38
	And I could see that little bitty narrow gate	27:42
	that I had to get through.	27:45
	And I'm not being facetious at all.	27:48
	When I say that my body in its present state	27:49
	would not get through.	27:52
	And as I look around this morning,	27:52
	I see a few others who might not have gotten through.	27:55
	I was told to look around me	28:03
	at the non-Christians.	28:06
	At those who were outside the church,	28:09
	at those who had never been save	28:11
	those who had never repented	28:14
	and confessed their sins	28:15
	and been baptized	28:17
	and joined the church.	28:18
	They were on the wide road,	28:19
	the easy and carefree road toward destruction.	28:22
	And if I wanted to keep from being like them,	28:26
	I'd better come in	28:29
	and I'd better come in now	28:30
	for tomorrow, maybe too late.	28:31
	What a dreadful,	28:34
	horrible, fearful	28:36
	picture to have in a child's mind	28:38
	of what it is to know God	28:41
	and to find life.	28:43
	How awful?	28:46
	And besides that it was all the future,	28:48
	the pain and the struggle,	28:51
	and the worry of walking on this narrow path	28:53
	were real for now,	28:55
	but the joy and the fulfillment	28:57
	and the wholeness of life	28:59
	were beyond, and we're much later,	29:00
	we're beyond death.	29:03
	Now, perhaps none of you has ever had such a picture	29:07
	of these words.	29:12
	Some of you may have.	29:15
	But I've had to come a long way	29:18
	to the point where these words could speak fully	29:20
	and meaningfully to me	29:23
	and they do now.	29:25
	The gate is narrow	29:28
	because life is worth straining through to get.	29:31
	It is not narrow	29:37
	because God only wants a few of us to get in, amen.	29:38
	The way is hard,	29:48
	because life is hard for all persons.	29:53
	Do you know anybody who has an easy time	30:00
	have it in life?	30:05
	The road is hard even for those quote	30:14
	on the way to destruction	30:18
	and perhaps God have mercy on us all.	30:20
	Maybe it's hardest of all for them	30:23
	or for us.	30:26
	Those who find life or few,	30:32
	not because life is not available to all.	30:35
	Not because all could not find life.	30:39
	Not because God's grace	30:43
	and mercy	30:45
	and forgiveness	30:46
	and acceptance	30:47
	and love are not present for all.	30:48
	Because I believe that if life is available for one,	30:51
	if the gate opens for one person,	30:54
	it must swing wide for every person.	30:56
	Life is available for all few.	31:02
	However, find it as a matter of fact,	31:06
	few of us really even look for much from life.	31:10
	We expect little	31:13
	and we get little,	31:16
	We seek little	31:19
	and we find little,	31:20
	we knock on few doors	31:23
	and consequently few doors open.	31:25
	Now Jesus is saying here,	31:28
	'I think life is yours.'	31:30
	It really is available to you and to me,	31:34
	find it.	31:39
	Few of us do.	31:43
	Now that's a whole lot different from saying,	31:45
	only a few get in.	31:47
	And different from saying that	31:49
	God doesn't want us all in,	31:51
	or it's different by a long shot	31:53
	from saying that God is going to close some of us out.	31:55
	No, it is not God's choice.	32:02
	The choice is ours,	32:06
	your choice and my choice.	32:08
	And this means that you and I may still,	32:10
	or if you have found life,	32:14
	it means that you may continue to find life.	32:16
	Victor Frankel who suffered unbearably	32:21
	during the second world war	32:24
	in a German concentration camp,	32:26
	says that, 'every person has one last freedom	32:28
	that no one and nothing can take away.	32:30
	Each person still has the freedom.	32:34
	He says, to choose one's attitude	32:36
	in any given set of circumstances.'	32:39
	That is every person has the freedom	32:42
	to choose one's own way.	32:44
	You and I have the freedom	32:47
	to choose our own way.	32:50
	It was Henry Ward Beecher who once wrote,	32:53
	'God asks no person whether or not he will accept life.'	32:55
	That is not your choice.	33:00
	The only choice is how.	33:02
	And so we come to the purpose of the church.	33:12
	The purpose of this fellowship of believers	33:15
	gathered here in duke chapel this morning.	33:18
	The purpose of any Christian group.	33:21
	The purpose of the existence of this beautiful building	33:24
	with its awesome beauty	33:28
	and majesty and inspiration.	33:30
	Our purpose,	33:32
	to receive,	33:36
	and then to share	33:38
	the love of God we see and know	33:41
	in Jesus Christ,	33:45
	or our purpose to find life,	33:48
	and then to help others find it also.	33:55
	Ren's Price.	34:01
	Who many of you know,	34:02
	author and member of this faculty	34:03
	writes and a generous man.	34:05
	'I have learned my lesson	34:09
	that the worst thing of all	34:12
	is not paying your debts	34:13
	and not paying on time.'	34:14
	You got to give people what they need in time,	34:17
	not years, too late.	34:20
	And so as we together here today,	34:24
	between thanksgiving	34:25
	and the beginning of advent	34:27
	between thanksgiving and Christmas,	34:30
	we have some debts to pay.	34:32
	Our biggest debt is simply to be the church	34:37
	and to help church happen	34:43
	Wherever you are.	34:45
	For church is where another person	34:47
	can be himself or herself	34:50
	and be loved by you.	34:53
	After all,	34:54
	church is where others can help you	34:56
	become who you really are.	34:59
	Will you see?	35:05
	None of us has arrived.	35:08
	No one has really reached his	35:11
	or her full potential.	35:13
	We are all in the process of becoming	35:15
	we're all still trying to find life	35:18
	more of life,	35:21
	life at its fullest.	35:23
	The woman wrote her pastime, she said,	35:27
	'if I had to answer one of those signs,	35:30
	one sees on the highway, are you saved?	35:32
	I would have to say, no,	35:37
	for I don't have the feeling that	35:40
	that is an accomplished fact.'	35:42
	I am not changed.	35:46
	I am changing.	35:48
	God is constantly making me aware that this is a long pull	35:50
	and that I am not in good condition.	35:55
	I need every bit of help, I can get,	35:59
	I am changing, Changing.	36:04
	Samuel Miller says,	36:09
	'this is the nature of a live human being,	36:10
	namely to become.'	36:13
	This is the mark of freedom.	36:16
	The Imago dei to become.	36:19
	Church is where, in the midst to finding,	36:25
	becoming, changing,	36:30
	we come to know that God loves us	36:32
	and accepts us just as we are.	36:36
	We don't have to work for acceptance or love.	36:40
	We don't have to prove our value	36:45
	or worth or goodness	36:47
	or ability,	36:49
	we are who we are.	36:51
	And it was for persons like you and me,	36:54
	that Jesus Christ showed how much God loves us	36:56
	while we were yet sinners	37:00
	we are and will be Christ died for us.	37:02
	Now I know why there are few of us who find life.	37:09
	We think we have to work for it,	37:18
	while we work for everything else.	37:20
	We think it's something we earn.	37:25
	We do all we can.	37:28
	We work hard as we can.	37:29
	We drive like fury	37:31
	and fight like dogs	37:32
	to prove that we can get life,	37:34
	to prove that we are really worth something.	37:36
	But do you know	37:41
	it's not the work we do	37:42
	that proves we are worth something,	37:43
	that really proves anything,	37:47
	for we have worth you do and I do	37:51
	and value and meaning	37:54
	not because of what we do,	37:57
	but because God has put worth	37:59
	and value and meaning in us.	38:02
	Life and purpose	38:07
	and satisfaction	38:10
	and fulfillment are a part of life,	38:11
	yours and mine.	38:14
	We don't have to struggle	38:17
	and sweat	38:18
	and fight	38:19
	and drive ourselves	38:20
	and walk ourselves frantically to have life.	38:21
	We only have to discover it.	38:24
	Find life.	38:26
	Jesus says, 'knock, seek, ask.'	38:28
	But there's an important point	38:36
	I want all of us to get though.	38:37
	And that is that for 99 and 44,	38:44
	100% of us,	38:47
	others have to help us find life.	38:49
	In fact, I'm all most convinced	38:54
	that you can't really find life alone	38:57
	and neither can I.	39:01
	And this is precisely why church	39:03
	is so important.	39:06
	For church is where persons are becoming,	39:08
	who they really are.	39:11
	This is why church may happen anywhere.	39:15
	Why it could happen here.	39:20
	George Batrick once told his Harvard university	39:25
	chapel congregation.	39:28
	'You'd better be careful	39:30
	when you come to church here,	39:32
	for you may be apprehended by that for which,	39:38
	you are ready to be apprehended.'	39:41
	And so if I may use Batrik's words,	39:46
	then you better be careful.	39:48
	When you walk around, wherever you go,	39:52
	for you may be ready to be apprehended.	39:55
	You may be apprehended,	39:58
	by God	40:01
	by that for which you are ready to be apprehended.	40:03
	A newspaper, religion editor	40:09
	who reported regularly on various churches	40:11
	and their services was asked once.	40:15
	If he saw any difference in the churches,	40:17
	He thought a minute in a replied,	40:23
	'Yes I do.	40:25
	In some of them I find love,	40:30
	In others I do not.'	40:35
	Church may happen anywhere.	40:40
	Church may happen here,	40:44
	no guarantee,	40:47
	but it may happen here.	40:50
	Church may happen in your home.	40:54
	Church may happen between two sisters	40:59
	or two brothers	41:03
	or brothers and sisters.	41:05
	Church may happen in a bible study group,	41:09
	or where you work	41:14
	Or drink coffee	41:17
	or eat lunch,	41:19
	or study English,	41:21
	or do research	41:23
	or get gas for your car.	41:25
	And I'm even bold enough to say,	41:29
	husbands look out,	41:30
	church may even happen between you	41:32
	and your wife,	41:36
	or it was for this cause,	41:41
	that Christ lived,	41:45
	was crucified	41:47
	and rose again.	41:49
	That church might happen to you	41:51
	and to me.	41:57
	And then that we might help church	41:58
	to happen to someone else.	42:01
	'For where two or three are gathered in my name, Jesus says,	42:06
	there am I,'	42:10
	or he says low,	42:14
	'I am with you always,	42:17
	or he says life.'	42:23
	And those who find it are few.	42:27
	Let us pray,	42:34
	O God,	42:40
	May we be sensitive to your presence	42:43
	in such a way	42:46
	that church really may happen between you and us,	42:50
	and then between our neighbors and ourselves.	42:59
	May we know truly that we are accepted,	43:05
	and then be truly accepting of others.	43:12
	In the name of our Lord and savior Jesus Christ.	43:21
	Amen.	43:26
	(orchestral music)	43:32
	(choir singing)	44:16
	(orchestral music)	47:14
	(choir singing)	47:56
	(orchestral music)	49:52
	(choir singing)	50:33
	(orchestral music)	51:28
	(choir singing)	51:50
	(orchestral music)	53:23
	(choir singing)	54:31
	O God, most merciful in gracious	55:49
	of who is about,	55:52
	we have all received.	55:53
	Accept this offering of thy people	55:55
	remember in thy love	55:58
	those who have brought it	56:00
	and those for whom it is given.	56:02
	And so follow it with thy blessing	56:05
	that it may promote peace	56:08
	and good will among men	56:09
	and advance the kingdom of our Lord and savior	56:12
	Jesus Christ, amen.	56:15
	(orchestral music)	56:21
	(choir singing)	57:06
	Let us pray.	1:00:22
	And now may the peace of God,	1:00:24
	which pass of all understanding,	1:00:25
	keep your hearts and minds	1:00:28
	and the knowledge	1:00:30
	and love of God	1:00:31
	and of his son, Jesus Christ, our Lord,	1:00:32
	and the blessing of God Almighty	1:00:36
	The Father, The Son,	1:00:39
	and The Holy Ghost,	1:00:40
	be amongst you	1:00:42
	and remain with you always, amen.	1:00:43
	(bell rings)	1:00:50
	(orchestral music)	1:01:15

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Robert T. Young - "Church May Happen Anywhere" (November 25, 1973)

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November 25, 1973

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Young, Robert T., 1935-2009

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