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Karen Tucker for being our organist this morning.
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She has helped us out frequently this summer.
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She's a professor at the Divinity School,
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teaching in areas of worship, but she is obviously
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a multi-talented person, and we thank her
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for her presence with us this summer.
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Next Sunday, the school year begins here in Duke Chapel,
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with a glorious service for orientation Sunday.
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Please note the note in the bulletin
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about our choir auditions.
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Let us stand for the greeting.
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Come to this place of God's visitation and blessing.
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Every one is welcome here.
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(congregation mumbling)
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In Christ, there is neither Jew nor Greek,
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slave nor free, male nor female.
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We gather to celebrate God's revelation in Jesus,
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while others worship the same God in other ways.
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(lively organ music)
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♪ A mighty fortress is our God ♪
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♪ A bulwark never failing ♪
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♪ Our helper, He amid the flood ♪
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♪ Of mortal ills prevailing ♪
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♪ For still our ancient foe ♪
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♪ Doth seek to work us woe ♪
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♪ His craft and power are great ♪
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♪ And armed with cruel hate ♪
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♪ On Earth is not his equal ♪
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♪ Did we in our strength confide ♪
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♪ Our striving would be losing ♪
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♪ Were not the right man or side ♪
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♪ The man of God's own choosing ♪
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♪ You ask who that may be ♪
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♪ Christ Jesus it is he ♪
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♪ Lord Sabaoth his name ♪
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♪ From age to age the same ♪
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♪ And he must win the battle ♪
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♪ And though this world with devils filled ♪
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♪ Should threaten to undo us ♪
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♪ We will not fear for God has willed ♪
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♪ His truth to triumph through us ♪
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♪ The prince of darkness grim ♪
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♪ We tremble not for him ♪
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♪ His rage we can endure ♪
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♪ For lo his doom is sure ♪
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♪ One little word shall fell him ♪
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♪ That word above all earthly powers ♪
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♪ No thanks to them abideth ♪
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♪ The spirit and the gifts are ours ♪
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♪ Through him who with us sideth ♪
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♪ Let goods and kindred go ♪
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♪ This mortal life also ♪
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♪ The body they may kill ♪
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♪ God's truth abideth still ♪
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♪ His kingdom is forever. ♪
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Let us pray.
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Oh God, you have created us for yourself.
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You have made our minds restless until they embrace
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your purpose as our own.
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Our hearts aimless, until they adopt your will as our own.
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And our hands profitless, until they seize your task
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as our own.
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We praise you in the name of Jesus Christ, our Lord,
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in whom you have revealed the person you created us to be.
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Let your revelation never cease, until our minds and hearts
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and hands, are wholly committed to your service, amen.
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You may be seated.
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Please join me together
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as we pray the Prayer for Illumination.
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Open our hearts and minds
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Oh God, by the power of your Holy Spirit,
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so that as the word is read and proclaimed,
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we might hear your message with joy this day, amen.
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A reading from the gospel, according to Saint John.
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Chapter six, versus 56 through 69.
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"Those who eat my flesh and drink my blood, abide in me.
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"And I in them, just as the living father sent me.
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"And I live because of the Father, so whoever eats me
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"will live because of me.
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"This is the bread that came down from Heaven,
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"not like that which your ancestors ate, and they died.
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"But the one who eats this bread will live forever."
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He said these things while he was teaching
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in the Synagogue at Capernaum.
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When many of his disciples heard it, they said,
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"This teaching is difficult.
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"Who can accept it?"
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But Jesus, being aware
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that his disciples were complaining about it, said to them,
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"Does this offend you?
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"Then what if you were to see the Son of Man
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"ascending to where he was before?"
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"It is the spirit that gives life, the flesh is useless.
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"The words that I have spoken to you are spirit and life.
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"But among you, there are some who do not believe."
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For Jesus knew from the first, who were the ones
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that did not believe and who was the one
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that would betray him.
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And he said, "For this reason, I have told you
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"that no one can come to me,
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"unless it is granted by the Father."
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Because of this, many of his disciples turned back
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and no longer went about with him.
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So Jesus asked the 12, "Do you also wish to go away?"
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Simon Peter answered him, "Lord, to whom can we go?
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"You have the eternal words of life.
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"We have come to believe and know
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"that you are the holy one of God."
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This is the word of the Lord.
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Praise be to God.
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Today's Psalm is number 84,
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found on page 805 in your hymnal.
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Please stand and sing the Psalm responsively.
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♪ How lovely is your dwelling place, oh Lord of Hosts ♪
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♪ My soul longs, faints for the courts of the Lord ♪
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♪ My heart and flesh sing for joy to the living God ♪
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♪ Oh God of hosts, my ruler and my God ♪
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♪ At your alters even the sparrow finds a home ♪
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♪ And the swallow a nest for herself ♪
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♪ where she may lay her young ♪
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♪ Blessed are those who dwell in your house ♪
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♪ Ever singing your praise ♪
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♪ Blessed are those whose strength is in you ♪
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♪ And om whose hearts are the highways to Zion ♪
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♪ As they go through the valley of tears ♪
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♪ They make it a place of springs ♪
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♪ The early rain also covers it with pools ♪
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♪ They go from strength to strength ♪
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♪ The God of gods will be seen in Zion ♪
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♪ Oh Lord God of Hosts, hear my prayer ♪
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♪ Give ear, oh God of Jacob ♪
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♪ Behold our shield, oh God ♪
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♪ Look upon the face of your anointed ♪
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♪ For a day in your courts is better ♪
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♪ Than a thousand elsewhere ♪
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♪ I would rather be a doorkeeper in the house of my God ♪
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♪ Than dwell in the tents of wickedness ♪
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♪ For the Lord God is a sun and shield ♪
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♪ And bestows favor and honor ♪
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♪ No good thing does the Lord withhold ♪
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♪ From those who walk uprightly ♪
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♪ Oh Lord of Hosts blessed are those who trust in you ♪
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(congregation singing)
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You may be seated.
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(tranquil organ music)
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(soloists singing in foreign language)
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The Epistle lesson for today
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is from Ephesians 6.
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Finally, be strong in the Lord
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and in the strength of his might.
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Put on the whole armor of God
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that you may be able to stand against the wiles
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of the Devil
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for we are not contending against flesh and blood
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but against the principalities,
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against the powers, against the world rulers
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of this present darkness,
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against the spiritual host
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of wickedness in the heavenly places.
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Therefore take the whole armor of God
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that you may be able to withstand the evil day
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and having done all to stand,
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stand therefore having girded your loins
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with truth and having put on the breastplate
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of righteousness and having shod your feet
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with the equipment of the Gospel of peace.
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Besides all these, taking the shield of faith
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with which you can quench the flaming darts
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of the evil one
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and take the helmet of salvation
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and the sword of the spirit
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which is the word of God.
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Pray at all times in the spirit
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with all prayer and supplication.
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To that end, keep alert with all perseverance
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making supplication for all the saints.
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And also for me
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that utterance may be given me in opening my mouth boldly
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to proclaim the mystery of the Gospel
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for which I am an ambassador in chains
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that I may declare it boldly as I ought to speak.
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This is the word of the Lord.
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Thanks be to God.
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Be strong in the Lord.
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Put on the whole armor of God
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that you may be able to stand.
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Now, one of the reasons that we love the Bible,
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one of the reasons we keep reading it over
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and over again
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is that you find that it's not the same Bible.
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Oh, it's the same words
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but we're not the same readers.
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And that accounts for why many you've had the experience
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of hearing some biblical text
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over and over again
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and yet there is that moment
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when you hear that text
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as if for the first time.
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There are texts, there are biblical stories
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that mean absolutely nothing to you at 19
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but you wake up at 30
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and it's as if a hand reaches out
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and grabs you by the neck
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and shakes you up and down.
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And you're changed.
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The world is re-described accurately.
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And that's one reason we keep reading scripture.
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And for me, this describes my own impression
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with Ephesians 6.
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Ephesians 6 has never been one
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of my favorite passages of scripture.
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All this talk about the sword
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and the shield and taking the armor of God
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and I think it's because of the opinion engendered in me
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in college ROTC toward the U.S. Army.
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I was in ROTC
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I eventually was commissioned a first lieutenant
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in the armored division
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even though I never saw a tank.
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And I have often wondered
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what on Earth is all this talk
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about these military metaphors of the sword and the shield
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and the armament.
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And what does that have to do with the religion
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of the prince of peace?
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I am uncomfortable as mixing of these crusading metaphors
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with the religion of Jesus.
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And yet, it may be
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that we've come again to the right time
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to hear this scripture right.
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I met him about this time of the year.
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It was his first week.
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New student on the Duke campus.
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First year student, freshman
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and I could tell he was a little tentative,
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a little anxious about being a new student here on campus
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and we talked
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and when I saw him about three weeks later
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and I asked him, "Well, how are you fitting in
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"in the university?
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"How are things going?"
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And he said, "Fine, I really like it.
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"I'm really liking the place."
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And he said,
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"I'm really finding it quite an amazing experience."
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And I said, "In what way is it an amazing experience?"
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He said, "Well, take just this morning.
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"I went to breakfast in the U Room
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"and it was eight o'clock and the place was filled
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"right before morning classes and I had to look around
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"to get a table
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"and I saw this guy sitting over at a table,
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"I asked him if I could sit with him.
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"He said yes.
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"We sat down, we are our cornflakes in silence
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"and then he asked me well,
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"what year are you here at Duke?
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"And I said that I was a freshman.
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"And he said well, I'm a freshman too.
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"And we started talking
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"and he asked me the same question you asked,
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"how do you like it here at the university?
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"And I said well, fine.
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"Of course, there's been things to adjust to
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"and there've been things that I've encountered
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"that make me kind of uncomfortable
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"but I'm dealing with that.
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"He asked me well, what are the things
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"that you've been dealing with that kind
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"of make you uncomfortable.
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"I said, well, I guess I kinda look
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"at things differently than a lot of people around here.
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"You see, I'm a Christian."
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With that he said this guy drops his fork,
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his mouth drops open
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and he says, "I don't believe that.
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"You, a Christian?"
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He said, "That's unbelievable, I'm a Christian too.
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(congregation laughing)
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"Right here at breakfast in the university
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"run into a Christian, I can't believe that.
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"Well, we exchanged phone numbers
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"and all of sudden we'd have to get together again."
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Now I tell you, that conversation
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would not have been held here 30 years ago.
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20 years ago.
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I tell you something,
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something is new.
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There has been a kind of seismic shift
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in American public life
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and things are different for us.
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I'm wondering, maybe this Ephesians 6,
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telling you don't go out there unarmed,
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don't go out there ill-equipped,
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you better get your sword and a shield,
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I'm wondering if that kind of talk makes more sense
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to people say of today's younger generation
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than it did to my generation?
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'Cause I grew up in Bible Belt Greenville, South Carolina
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where home and church and school
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all worked together in a vast conspiracy,
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to kind of make us Christian.
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Being Christian was kind of the normal,
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natural American thing to do.
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You became Christian just by drinking the water,
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breathing the air.
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You couldn't even buy a gallon of gas on Sunday morning
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when Sunday school was in session.
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I don't think my parents ever worried
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about whether or not I would grow up Christian.
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It was the only game in town.
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And yet I woke up a few years ago
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and realized that whether or not my parents
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were justified in believing that,
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I don't meet anybody who believes that today.
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I don't meet any young parents,
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Baptists, Pentecostals, Roman Catholics, Lutherans.
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I just don't meet anybody who thinks their children
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will grow up affirming this faith
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just by living in a certain neighborhood
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and drinking the water,
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breathing the air.
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There is a new sense
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that if our young will affirm this faith,
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it will be as a kind of counter-cultural act.
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We'll have to be intentional about it.
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And so suddenly this talk of defensive armament begins
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to make sense.
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But we're not contending just against flesh and blood,
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we're contending, it's like there's something,
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somebody in charge of some kind of an assault
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against the faith.
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You better not go out there unarmed.
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And from what I can observe,
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main line liberal Protestantism
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has been the last to get the message of this.
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That the world has shifted,
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that that comfortable arrangement we once had
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with this culture has ended.
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There'll be no more props or free passes or crutches
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for the church.
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If our young grow up affirming this faith,
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we'll have to do it to them.
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We'll have to be intentional about it.
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Of course, I woke up this week
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to be informed by Bob Booth,
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on Good Morning America
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that I was fortunate enough to live
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in the best city in the United States.
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(congregation laughing)
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And I confess, I went through the day a little depressed
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worrying about the people like in Des Moines.
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If this is the best place anyway,
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(congregation laughing)
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even in this good place,
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increasing numbers of people
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are starting to feel like that freshman,
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like it's if you're Christian,
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it's like you're a member of some kind
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of new minority faith.
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It's no longer the natural, normal thing to do.
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I was out in Texas speaking
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and after my series of sermons,
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we had a kind of discussion session
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and during the discussion session,
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my host preacher said to me
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with the laypeople there,
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"You know, you seem to have such a negative view of culture.
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"You seem to have such a negative view of the world."
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And I said "Well, yes, I'm from South Carolina.
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"Maybe that has something to do with it.
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"But okay, maybe this is a great place to live
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"but I notice you have a burglar alarm on your church.
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"Let's turn it off tonight
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"and just see if Wichita Falls is a great place to live."
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I think we're just reading the situation a bit differently.
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On the way out, after the discussion,
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I passed a group of women in animated conversation.
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One of the group said to me,
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"We're talking about you."
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I said, "What?"
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And she said, "Well, we don't know
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"that you preachers know how tough it is out there."
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"Tough?"
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She said, "Yeah.
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"We're all public school teachers here in town.
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"And we don't know if you know what it's like.
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"I'm talking about a sixth grader on heroin.
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"I'm talking about an eighth grader
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"who's been abandoned by her parents
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"both of whom are physicians in Wichita Falls.
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"I'm talking about that kind of thing."
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and I said, "Well, your preacher thinks
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"this is a great place to live."
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And said, "Yeah, he's never been in a middle school
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"in his life.
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"He doesn't know."
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I said, "Well, get back in there
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"and tell your minister what you need to survive."
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You come to church on Sunday morning,
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we're talking about the birds and the bees
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and the flowers
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and you're thinking about what you'll encounter
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on Monday morning in the office.
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I thought about those teachers
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when a little later I was in a church
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where this woman told me
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that she was the convener
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of the public school teachers prayer group.
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Meets every Wednesday morning in that church at six o'clock.
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They have prayer, somebody presents a case study
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from some aspect of her work
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that calls into question her faith,
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her ethical responsibilities of Christian
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and then they pray for God to give them strength
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to resist in an inhuman situation.
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I predict, you heard it here first,
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I predict that is the wave of the future
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for the American church.
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It's as if we're up against something.
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And so a popular book this year
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has been by Yale Law professor, Stephen Carter.
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"The Culture of Disbelief."
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And Carter analyzing legal decisions
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in the last couple of decades looking at the treatment
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of religion and the media says,
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we live in a culture of disbelief
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where it's as if there's a sort of policing function
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in the media
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on TV, in the movies, in our law courts
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which makes sure that if religion is spoken of in public,
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it is mostly as a matter of ridicule.
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If you look at court briefs about religion,
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Carter says it is as if there is only one explanation
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that there are still people running loose
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who honor God
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and that is they are mentally unbalanced in some way
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and need to be protected from themselves.
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And I recall years ago, William Buckley saying,
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"It maybe at a nice dinner party in the northeast
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"you can bring up religion around the dinner table once
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"but if you bring it up twice,
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"you will never be invited back to dinner."
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The culture of disbelief.
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Even in my nice number one city, Durham,
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middle-class, manicured neighborhood,
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there is an increasing awareness
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on Sunday morning that we're moving
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to something different than the rest of the world.
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It's as if the world is buying a different set of goods,
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marching to the beat of a different drummer.
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These words from Ephesians,
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the writer says were written in chains.
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The writer to the Ephesians wrote these words in jail,
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the source of some of the best early Christian writing.
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His world looked at Christians then
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and saw in them a challenge
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to the way the world does business.
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Our world looks at us and deals with us
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not by throwing us in jail
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but rather by ignoring, ridiculing us
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but still, we're up against something.
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You better not go out of those doors unarmed.
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A recent study of college students
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who became involved
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in harmful religious cults said
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that the one thread running through the history
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of these students' lives
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was that they came to college
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with very little religious education,
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with very little sophisticated understanding
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about religious faith,
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very little grounding
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and this, the study said, left them peculiarly vulnerable
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for the first religious claims
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that came blowing through town
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promising to overwhelm their great sense of inadequacy.
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You better not go out there unarmed.
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In fact, I'm saying that's probably a reason
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that you've gotten out of bed
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and come over today.
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You're seeking to be equipped
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and my role as a preacher
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is not as it once might have been
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to sort of helpfully nudge basically nice people
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toward basically good majority American goals.
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My job is to give you a shield and a buckler
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and a sword and armament.
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Notice that all the armament mentioned here in Ephesians
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is mainly of a defensive nature.
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What you need to resist.
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There is a new awareness
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that as you go about your life Monday through Saturday,
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you're up against something.
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So pray for me.
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Pray that I might speak the word of God boldly
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and pray for yourselves that you might be given the grace
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to resist, to go against the grain,
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to be named by other powers
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than the principalities and powers
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which have us in their grip.
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Pray that we might speak the word of God
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with a new boldness.
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Amen.
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(tranquil organ music)
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(congregation singing)
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The Lord be with you.
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And also with you.
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Let us pray.
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You may be seated.
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Oh God, your word of centuries ago reaches our ears.
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Speaking in images that are sometimes foreign
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but sometimes so familiar we are stunned
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by their power.
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Be strong in the Lord.
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Put on the whole armor of God
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that you may be able to stand.
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We hear these words spoken in triumph
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by one in chains.
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Beaten but not broken,
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persecuted but not forsaken.
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Quite honestly we don't know whether to be terrified
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or comforted by these words.
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They terrify us
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because they proclaim the reality
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that following Jesus is not always easy.
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We want it to be easy,
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we want our Christianity to be something pleasant
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that completes a full and productive life.
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We want a world where everyone holds Christian values,
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even if they don't hold Christian beliefs.
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We want a gentle, caring world,
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characterized by politeness, if not love.
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But that's not the world we live in.
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In fact, it is often a hostile, brutal world.
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At best, it has become indifferent
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to Christian beliefs,
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at worst, openly antagonistic.
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We don't want to need the armor of God
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but it is promised to us nevertheless
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for times such as these.
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For times when violence is a daily fact of reality
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and human life is held cheaply.
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For times when value systems conflict
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and Christian beliefs are considered naive and ignorant.
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For times when our planet
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and our very existence is endangered
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by self-serving, callous exploitation.
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For times when power is sought for its own sake
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and wielded as a weapon.
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For times when our economic, cultural
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and spiritual survival are threatened
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from without and within.
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For times when the power of evil seems so strong
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and the power of peace so inadequate.
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For times like these
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when we are at risk of dangers, real and imagined
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which we name before you.
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The promise of strength
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and protection in the midst of danger
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is a bittersweet word of comfort.
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It opens our eyes to the reality
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of the world we live in
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yet also assures us that no matter what,
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we are never alone.
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We may be beaten but not broken,
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persecuted but not forsaken.
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Give us courage to face the world with confidence
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guided by your truth,
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emboldened by your spirit.
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Help us stand firmly against evil
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in whatever forms we find it
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and help us live as those who display love
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as a shield of strength
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to a world which finds love in oddity.
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Through Jesus Christ our Lord
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who shows us the triumphant power of love.
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Amen.
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Let us offer ourselves
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and our gifts in thanksgiving to the Lord.
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(tranquil organ music)
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(lively organ music)
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♪ The Lord is Christ given ♪
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(soloists singing)
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♪ The Lord is Christ given ♪
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(soloists singing)
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♪ My salvation ♪
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(lively organ music)
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♪ Praise God, from Whom all blessings flow ♪
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♪ Praise Him, all creatures here below ♪
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♪ Hallelujah, hallelujah ♪
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♪ Praise Him above, ye heavenly host ♪
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♪ Praise Father, Son, and Holy Ghost ♪
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♪ Hallelujah, hallelujah ♪
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♪ Hallelujah, hallelujah ♪
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♪ Hallelujah ♪
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Let us pray.
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Almighty God, giver of every good and perfect gift,
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teach us to render to you all that we have
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and all that we are
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that we may praise you not with our lips only
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but with our whole lives,
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resisting evil with the armor of love
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that we may turn the duties,
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the sorrows and the joys of all our days
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into a living sacrifice to you
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through our Savior Jesus Christ
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who taught us to pray.
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Our Father, who art in Heaven,
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hallowed by thy name,
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thy kingdom come, thy will be done
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on Earth as it in Heaven.
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Give us this day our daily bread
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and forgive us our trespasses
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as we forgive those
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who trespass against us
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and lead us not into temptation
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but deliver us from evil
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for thine is the kingdom, and the power
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and the glory forever.
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Amen.
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(lively organ music)
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♪ Joyful, joyful, we adore Thee, God of glory, Lord of love ♪
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♪ Hearts unfold like flowers before Thee ♪
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♪ Opening to the sun above ♪
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♪ Melt the clouds of sin and sadness ♪
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♪ Drive the dark of doubt away ♪
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♪ Giver of immortal gladness, fill us with the light of day ♪
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♪ All Thy works with joy surround Thee ♪
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00:54:31.736 --> 00:54:36.580
♪ Earth and Heaven reflect Thy rays ♪
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♪ Stars and angels sing around Thee ♪
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♪ Center of unbroken praise ♪
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♪ Field and forest, vale and mountain ♪
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♪ Flowery meadow, flashing sea ♪
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00:54:55.700 --> 00:55:00.700
♪ Singing bird and flowing fountain call us ♪
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♪ To rejoice in Thee ♪
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00:55:08.180 --> 00:55:12.500
♪ Thou art giving and forgiving ♪
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♪ Ever blessing, ever blessed ♪
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♪ Wellspring of the joy of living ♪
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♪ Ocean depth of happy rest ♪
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♪ Thou our Father, Christ our Brother ♪
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♪ All who live in love are Thine ♪
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00:55:36.959 --> 00:55:41.700
♪ Teach us how to love each other ♪
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♪ Lift us to the joy divine ♪
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♪ Mortals, join the happy chorus ♪
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♪ Which the morning stars began ♪
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♪ Father love is reigning o'er us ♪
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♪ Brother love binds man to man ♪
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♪ Ever singing, march we onward ♪
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♪ Victors in the midst of strife ♪
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♪ Joyful music leads us Sunward in the triumph song of life ♪
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Let us pray.
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The Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ,
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the love of God
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and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit be with you now
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and always, amen.
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(lively organ music)