Dennis M. Campbell - "Everything Has Its Price" (September 4, 1983)

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	(pipe organ)	0:05
	(choir singing)	6:09
-	Beautiful Savior Lord of the nations	6:10
	Son of God and Son of Man	6:25
	Glory and honor praise adoration	6:39
	Now and forever more be Thine	6:55
	Now and forever more be Thine	7:08
	(pipe organ)	7:35
	(congregation singing)	8:15
-	Grace, mercy and peace be unto you from God	12:47
	our creator and Jesus Christ our redeemer.	12:51
	If we say we have not sinned,	12:56
	the truth is not in us and we deceive ourselves.	12:59
	Let us therefore confess our sins before	13:04
	Almighty God and in the presence of one another.	13:07
	Let us pray.	13:11
	Keeper of the universe, creator of life,	13:24
	Lord of all souls, one and all we have raged against the	13:27
	heavens, wasted our substance, feared our mortality,	13:32
	avoiding timelessness we become enslaved to time,	13:38
	careless with means we go corrupt towards ends,	13:43
	strangers before death, we are not at home with life.	13:47
	Therefore, great Lord, in these days of fresh beginnings,	13:52
	recall us to the majesties beyond our words.	13:57
	Turn us to handle, with all the	14:01
	lively world, that we do not earn.	14:04
	Return us to yourself, that we may live without fear	14:07
	and seize our days with days with bold exaltation.	14:12
	In the name of Jesus of Nazareth the Christ, amen.	14:16
	The Lord is my light and my salvation, whom shall I fear?	14:42
	The Lord is the stronghold of my life,	14:47
	of whom shall I be afraid?	14:50
	In the name of Jesus the Christ, our sins are forgiven.	14:53
	Let us then give thanks for God is good	14:58
	and Gods love is everlasting.	15:01
	(congregation in unison) Thanks be to God,	15:05
	His love creates us.	15:06
	Thanks be to God, who's mercy redeems us.	15:09
	Thanks be to God, who's grace leads us into the future.	15:13
	It is a joy to welcome you here,	15:19
	Sunday morning in the Duke University Chapel.	15:22
	It is the fifteenth Sunday after Pentecost	15:25
	and also opening Sunday for the life	15:28
	of the University and here at the chapel.	15:31
	We want to extend a warm welcome to all of you,	15:35
	particularly students both new and returning ones.	15:39
	We welcome members of the faculty and administration	15:43
	and our friends from the Duke and Durham families	15:47
	that come to join us here in worship.	15:51
	Our prayer for you, not only this day,	15:55
	but in the year ahead is that your spirit will be refreshed	15:57
	in this place and that your life	16:02
	and service will also be inspired.	16:04
	We invite you in many ways to participate	16:09
	in the life of the chapel.	16:12
	There are still auditions being held for the chapel choir	16:15
	and you are invited to call and make an appointment	16:19
	if you would like to be in the choir.	16:22
	We still need volunteer ushers	16:25
	and attendants for this next academic year.	16:27
	If you are interested, whether you are a student,	16:31
	a towns person or someone in the Duke community,	16:34
	we ask that you leave your name	16:38
	and telephone number at the hostess desk	16:41
	in the front of the chapel as you leave today.	16:44
	We have received sad word last evening	16:50
	of the death of Professor Fred George.	16:54
	He retired from Duke two years ago	16:58
	in the Department of Business Administration.	17:00
	He suffered a massive heart attack	17:04
	at his home in New Hampshire.	17:06
	There will be a memorial service planned	17:09
	and held here in the chapel.	17:12
	That announcement will come at a later date.	17:15
	Also, we are well deeply saddened this week,	17:20
	at the tragic death of a Duke student, Serena Wooden.	17:24
	Serena was one of the victims of the Korean Air Flight	17:29
	which was shot down by Soviet gun fire.	17:33
	She was a junior here at Duke	17:37
	on her way to participate in a year abroad program of study.	17:39
	This news has come as a shock to all of us	17:45
	and grieves us all.	17:49
	Not only is our personal loss keen,	17:52
	but Serena's unrealized potential is a loss to the world.	17:55
	She was a very bright student,	18:01
	who was gifted in many abilities.	18:03
	A memorial service for Serena will be planned	18:06
	and an announcement about time	18:10
	and further details will be early in this week.	18:12
	We extend our heartfelt sympathy to	18:16
	Serena's family and her friends here at Duke.	18:19
	We are very pleased this morning to have as guest preacher	18:26
	for opening Sunday here in the chapel,	18:31
	Dean Dennis M. Campbell, who is dean	18:34
	of the Duke Divinity School.	18:37
	Dennis, as many of you know,	18:40
	has been in the Duke community for many years now,	18:42
	did part of his graduate study here,	18:46
	has been loved among us all as a campus minister,	18:49
	a church pastor, a college and university administrator.	18:55
	Dr. Campbell has been busy this week in the orientation	19:01
	and beginning of the Divinity School community.	19:05
	We are truly grateful that he	19:08
	is sharing himself with us this morning.	19:09
	We look forward to the word that he will bring.	19:13
	His sermon title for today is "Everything has it's Price."	19:16
-	Let us pray.	19:28
	Almighty God, and whom are hid all	19:31
	the treasures of wisdom and knowledge.	19:36
	Open our eyes that we may behold	19:38
	wondrous things out of your word.	19:41
	And give us grace that we may clearly understand	19:43
	and heartily choose the way of your love.	19:46
	Through Jesus Christ, our Lord, amen.	19:50
	The old testament lesson is from Proverbs.	19:56
	"Do not reprove a scoffer, or he will hate you.	20:00
	Reprove a wise man, and he will love you.	20:04
	Give instruction to a wise man, and he will be still wiser.	20:07
	Teach a righteous man, and he will increase in learning.	20:13
	The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom	20:17
	and the knowledge of the Holy One is insight."	20:20
	Here ends the reading from the old testament, amen.	20:24
	(pipe organ)	20:34
	(choir muffled singing)	20:40
-	Will the congregation please stand	24:42
	for the reading of the gospel lesson?	24:44
	The gospel lesson is from St. John.	24:49
	"Now great multitudes accompanied him and turned to them	24:53
	and said to them, 'if anyone comes to me	24:57
	and does not hate his own father and mother	25:00
	and wife and children and brothers and sisters,	25:03
	yes even his own life, he can not be my disciple.	25:05
	Whoever does not bear his own cross	25:11
	and come after me, can not be my disciple.	25:13
	For which of you desiring, to build a tower,	25:17
	does not first sit down and count the cost,	25:19
	whether he has enough to complete it?	25:22
	Otherwise when he has laid a foundation	25:26
	and is not able to finish, all who see it begin to mock him	25:28
	saying this man begin to build and was not able to finish.	25:32
	Or what king going to encounter another king in war,	25:37
	will not sit down and take council,	25:41
	whether he is able with 10,000 to meet him	25:43
	who comes against him with 20,000?	25:46
	And if not while the other is yet a great way off,	25:50
	he sends an embassy to ask terms of peace.	25:53
	So therefore, whoever of you who does not renounce	25:58
	all that he has, can not be my disciple.'"	26:02
	Here ends the reading from the gospel lesson, amen.	26:06
	(pipe organ playing)	26:11
	(organ drowns out singing)	26:19
-	Let us pray.	27:15
	Come holy spirit, heavenly,	27:21
	dove with all they quickening powers.	27:23
	Kindle a flame of sacred love	27:29
	in these cold hearts of ours.	27:33
	Amen.	27:38
	Some years ago now,	27:46
	Ross Laboratories of Columbus, Ohio,	27:49
	held a conference titled,	27:52
	Ethical Dilemmas in Current Obstetric	27:55
	and Newborn Care.	27:59
	In the course of the conference, one participant,	28:02
	Richard Hatwick an economist,	28:06
	commented on the economical impact of modern medicines	28:10
	capacity to preserve the lives of infants,	28:14
	who under different circumstances would die.	28:18
	This is what he said,	28:24
	"it is obvious from the data presented at this conference,	28:26
	that the expenditures of large sums	28:30
	of money for intensive care,	28:33
	could save the lives of many infants	28:35
	who would ordinarily die without such care.	28:39
	However, some of these infants,	28:43
	will be mentally and/or physically handicapped.	28:46
	The care, which a society must then provide	28:50
	for those that are handicapped,	28:54
	forces substantial cost on that society over	28:57
	and above the cost for intensive care.	29:02
	These additional cost may exceed the benefits	29:07
	of saving the infants lives in the first place."	29:10
	Hatwick went on to say, "while some may find	29:17
	the economist's viewpoint repelling,	29:21
	it's virtue stems from the fact that it recognizes	29:25
	what none of the other disciplines seems to recognize,	29:29
	everything has its price."	29:33
	In our own great medical center,	29:38
	here on the Duke campus,	29:41
	ethical decisions involving priority	29:43
	and cost are being made everyday.	29:46
	Choice and decision are painful	29:49
	because we can't have or do everything,	29:53
	as individuals we can't, we can't as a society.	29:56
	So the economist asserts,	30:02
	"everything has a price."	30:05
	But it certainly is not only economics	30:10
	which teaches us this hard lesson,	30:13
	Christian faith also recognizes that	30:16
	everything has its price.	30:19
	Choices are necessary,	30:22
	and priorities must be set.	30:25
	Jesus continually emphasized the	30:29
	inevitability of hard choices.	30:32
	Hard choices require the careful establishment of cost.	30:35
	In our gospel lesson for today,	30:42
	we find Jesus surrounded by a crowd of people,	30:44
	as he always was, or at least often was.	30:47
	Those crowds sometimes called by the gospel writers,	30:52
	multitudes, thought that Jesus was	30:55
	going to be an earthly messiah.	30:58
	They expected him to become a king	31:01
	and they wanted to be on the right side.	31:04
	Jesus tried to set them straight	31:08
	and to indicate that being a disciple would be difficult.	31:10
	It would be a matter of hard choices	31:14
	and high cost.	31:19
	"If anyone comes to me and does not hate his own father	31:22
	and mother and wife and children and brothers and sisters,	31:25
	yes and even his own life, he can not be my disciple."	31:30
	Now Jesus does not literally mean that	31:38
	one must hate ones family or ones self.	31:41
	Indeed, Matthew in his gospel uses the language	31:46
	of comparison saying that "one must not love	31:51
	family more then Jesus."	31:54
	The point is that to be a disciple	31:58
	of Jesus Christ is to put the love God	32:01
	ahead of all else.	32:05
	Discipleship involves setting priorities.	32:08
	For the Christian there is only one priority	32:12
	and that is obedience to God in Jesus Christ.	32:17
	Jesus further says, "whoever does not bare his own cross	32:22
	and come after me, can not be my disciple.	32:27
	For which of you desiring to build a tower does not first	32:32
	sit down and count the cost,	32:37
	whether he has enough to complete it."	32:40
	Everything has its price.	32:44
	The cost of discipleship is high.	32:47
	The cost is nothing less then placing the love	32:51
	of God in Jesus Christ, first in our lives.	32:54
	If we do this, then everything else is judged	32:59
	in relation to this first priority.	33:04
	Everything else comes into perspective.	33:08
	Jesus uses a parable to further make his point.	33:13
	If you are going to build a tower, or a house,	33:18
	or any building for that matter,	33:21
	or actually perhaps if you are	33:24
	going to undertake any great thing,	33:25
	won't you first sit down and make plans	33:30
	and then ascertain the cost so you will know	33:34
	if you have enough money?	33:38
	I have to do that as a dean.	33:41
	President Sanford has to do it as the president	33:44
	of this university and everyone of us here this morning	33:47
	has to do it as an individual.	33:50
	Otherwise, we might lay a foundation only	33:53
	to find that we don't have the money	33:57
	to go on with the project,	33:59
	and only a fool would do that.	34:02
	In life, and certainly in Christian faith,	34:06
	you've got to set priorities and count cost.	34:10
	The recognition that everything has its price,	34:16
	has implications for everyone of us as individuals	34:20
	and for the communities in which we live.	34:25
	This morning I want to look first	34:29
	at some of the individuals issues	34:31
	and then at some of the issues	34:34
	for this university community.	34:36
	In the first place, the great	34:41
	individual question is "who are you?"	34:43
	What is the nature of your identity?	34:48
	Ourself identity determines our	34:53
	ability to deal with priorities,	34:56
	to count cost and to make choices.	35:00
	Who will tell you who you are?	35:05
	Will it be your parents?	35:09
	Will it be your friends?	35:13
	Will it be your professors?	35:15
	This university?	35:18
	William Sloane Coffin tells in his autobiography about	35:21
	visiting a Yale alumnus in California.	35:24
	Coffin, who was at that time Chaplin to Yale University,	35:27
	was struck by the way in which	35:32
	this outwardly successful man,	35:34
	still looked for approval from Yale.	35:37
	He had never established a confident self identity.	35:41
	We all know persons whose ideas	35:47
	and opinions simply reflect those around them.	35:50
	But persons who make a difference in this world,	35:56
	are those that have some clarity about themselves.	35:59
	I was stricken thinking this week about the great march	36:04
	in Washington D.C. last Sunday,	36:07
	commemorating the anniversary of the great speech	36:10
	by Martin Luther King.	36:13
	If he had not been informed by Christian faith	36:16
	and let that faith shape his self identity,	36:20
	he would have never have made the impact on this nation	36:23
	and world that he did.	36:27
	You who are students will encounter, in this university,	36:30
	all manner of opinion and all manner of lifestyle.	36:35
	If you do not have a clear sense of your own identity,	36:41
	you'll lose yourself.	36:46
	There are many competing ideas about truth in this world.	36:51
	They all involve cost.	36:56
	Christian faith is vital and compelling because the truth	37:00
	of God in Jesus Christ frees us for others.	37:05
	The Christian disciple is freed from undue	37:09
	and paralyzing self concern	37:13
	and freed for self giving.	37:17
	Why are we all here in this university?	37:22
	And what after all is education for?	37:27
	Is the high cost of a Duke education to prepare you	37:31
	for making a living, or for living a life?	37:35
	I hope it is the latter.	37:41
	And I hope you'll remember that you are living a life	37:43
	even while you are in this university.	37:48
	Your education won't really be worth anything	37:52
	if it is isolated from the realities of our world.	37:56
	There are many groups of students	38:01
	and faculty within this university deeply involved	38:03
	in service to our local community	38:07
	and to the larger community.	38:11
	I hope that all of us here this morning will take a part.	38:13
	Duke is, in some respects, an island of pleasure	38:21
	and privilege in a world of deprivation.	38:25
	If we don't see and hear,	38:31
	then we all have failed.	38:35
	Christian faith compels attention to great ideas	38:39
	and great service.	38:44
	The gospel disciplines us and makes us set priorities	38:46
	and count cost.	38:52
	Edward Pusey, a 19th century Oxford University professor,	38:55
	once said, "acute and and subtle intellect,	39:00
	if undisciplined, are destructive both to themselves	39:04
	and to the body politic, in proportion to their very power."	39:09
	Christ invites disciples, but there is a cost.	39:17
	The price is the disciplining of our wills.	39:22
	The shaping of our identities.	39:26
	Discipleship is a great adventure.	39:30
	An adventure that gives life value	39:33
	and meaning and purpose.	39:37
	Who will tell you who you are?	39:42
	Communities and institutions also have identities	39:49
	and those identities shape the persons who make them up.	39:54
	Twenty years ago this month,	40:00
	I entered Duke as a freshman in Trinity College.	40:02
	Although, I was away for graduate work	40:07
	and taught elsewhere before coming back to Duke,	40:10
	I am keenly aware that I am who I am in large	40:14
	measure because of this university.	40:19
	I am glad that Duke stands in the tradition	40:23
	which seeks to unite learning and vital piety.	40:28
	The founder of this university clearly intended	40:34
	that Christian values of education and service	40:37
	inform all decisions and directions of the school.	40:42
	As Mr. Duke wrote, "education, next to religion,	40:47
	is the greatest civilizing influence."	40:52
	And as he saw rightly, the two must go together.	40:55
	This is not a matter of small importance.	41:02
	We live in a world gone mad.	41:08
	The senseless tragedy of an airplane shot out of the sky	41:12
	by the Soviet Union last week is especially poignant for	41:16
	us at Duke because one of our	41:21
	own students was on that plane.	41:23
	The terror that we all feel about the possibility	41:28
	of nuclear destruction is intensified when we think	41:32
	that this whole world can be destroyed as instantly	41:36
	and surely as that fated jumbo jet.	41:41
	It should not be lost upon us that the technology	41:47
	to wage war has been greatly aided	41:52
	by research in countless universities.	41:54
	Indeed as Margaret Clapp,	41:58
	a former president of Wellesley has written,	42:00
	evidence can be amassed that universities have	42:03
	been more effective in scientific	42:07
	research to help the world wage war,	42:10
	then to help the world wage peace.	42:14
	Education is not neutral,	42:18
	everything has its price.	42:24
	At a meeting I recently attended,	42:29
	the president of another American university,	42:31
	characterized American higher education	42:34
	as dominantly secular and materialistic.	42:37
	No wonder higher education is in trouble.	42:42
	Secular materialism is bankrupt because it has no great	42:47
	vision, no compelling meaning,	42:52
	no motivating purpose.	42:57
	Not long ago, Jean-Marie Cardinal Lustiger,	43:00
	the remarkable Roman Catholic Cardinal Archbishop of Paris	43:03
	said publicly, "look friends, the West is born	43:07
	of Christianity, and the crisis	43:11
	of the West is that it isn't Christian anymore.	43:14
	Period.	43:18
	The West was born of Christianity	43:19
	and that's the whole story."	43:23
	There is urgent need for universities, such as our own,	43:26
	to maintain a concern for the meaning, purpose,	43:31
	and unity of education.	43:36
	As Samuel Johnson said,	43:39
	"no one can think deeply without thinking religiously."	43:41
	I hope and trust that we here at Duke	43:47
	will always proclaim that education has meaning	43:52
	and that it has purpose and that it has unity.	43:56
	Our vision is of service to persons	44:02
	in a world gone wild.	44:05
	It should be clear that such affirmation	44:09
	is not without cost,	44:12
	but everything has its price.	44:17
	The invitation to Christian discipleship is an invitation	44:21
	in which offers us identity.	44:25
	There is a cost to discipleship, everything has its price.	44:29
	But there is also a payoff.	44:34
	Discipleship offers us perspective, it offers us purpose,	44:38
	and it offers us power.	44:44
	Christian faith puts everything else into perspective.	44:48
	Everything that happens to us,	44:52
	and all our decisions are seen in relation to God.	44:54
	Decisions about the care of severely handicapped infants	45:00
	can not be made on the basis of economic priorities alone.	45:04
	In a Christians sense, a severely handicapped persons	45:09
	are no different in value or potential from the rest of us	45:13
	because the measurement belongs to God.	45:17
	Christian faith offers a perspective which challenges	45:22
	a simple and selfish secular materialism.	45:26
	Christian faith also gives purpose to our individual	45:32
	and corporate lives.	45:37
	Life is not meaningless, it is fundamentally purposeful.	45:40
	Most significantly, Christian faith gives power.	45:46
	Power to live in a world gone mad.	45:51
	It is the power of God's presence.	45:56
	The power of God's presence in all that we do.	45:59
	Everything has its price.	46:05
	In the case of Christian discipleship, the value is clear,	46:08
	for those who have ears to hear	46:12
	and eyes to see, amen.	46:16
	(pipe organ)	46:24
	(pipe organ drowning out singing)	46:32

	(congregation sings)	0:03
	(lively organ music)
-	We have been challenged.	1:00
	Let us now affirm what we believe.	1:02
-	We believe in God who has created and is creating,	1:06
	who has come in the truly human Jesus	1:11
	to reconcile and make new,	1:14
	who works in us and others by the Spirit.	1:16
	We trust God who calls us to be the church,	1:20
	to celebrate life and its fullness,	1:24
	to love and serve others,	1:27
	to seek justice and resist evil,	1:30
	to proclaim Jesus crucified and risen,	1:33
	our judge and our hope.	1:36
	In life, in death, in life beyond death,	1:39
	God is with us.	1:43
	We are not alone.	1:45
	Thanks be to God.	1:47
-	The Lord be with you.	1:50
-	And also with you.	1:52
-	Let us pray.	1:53
	Eternal God, source of all life,	2:08
	the energy behind the vast universe,	2:12
	we praise you.	2:16
	We joyfully declare your Lordship.	2:18
	Since time and space began,	2:22
	the created order has borne witness to your power	2:24
	but ours is now the privilege of bearing witness	2:29
	to your love as revealed in Jesus Christ.	2:31
	Christ be with us all.	2:36
	Into our prayers, oh Lord, we pour ourselves,	2:40
	our gasps, our yearnings, our fatigues,	2:45
	our confusions, our worries, our failures, our expectations.	2:49
	Hear us.	2:56
	Let our cries come, broken though they may be,	2:58
	selfish they sometimes are,	3:03
	as groans though they may sound to our own ears,	3:06
	let them come.	3:11
	By your Spirit, grasp and transform them,	3:13
	that truth they may express	3:18
	and that healing they may accomplish.	3:21
	Remind us that even our groans	3:25
	are to you as a poet's eloquence.	3:27
	Christ be with us all.	3:32
	Know that we are grateful, Lord of the universe,	3:37
	keeper of the high spaces,	3:40
	watcher beyond time,	3:43
	grateful for returning us from our summer journeys	3:46
	and bringing us again to this campus, this windowed church,	3:50
	the family of friends.	3:56
	We thank you for this season	4:00
	that now awaits the blazon trees,	4:02
	the fire tastes, the dark birds going down the ancient sky.	4:06
	We thank you for the great works before us,	4:13
	the new beginnings,	4:16
	hope riding high on the mornings,	4:18
	life gathering us in the nightfall of a million stars.	4:22
	Christ be with us all.	4:27
	Almighty God, we pray unto your grace and power	4:33
	for this Earth beset by earthquakes and famine,	4:37
	the nations broken by war,	4:42
	the peoples crippled by disease,	4:46
	this university community stunned	4:50
	and saddened by the death of one of our own,	4:52
	protect us when nature goes berserk,	4:58
	inspire in all lands the desire	5:02
	to live as one family.	5:05
	Restore health to the ailing,	5:08
	Christ be with us all.	5:13
	Hear oh Lord, our prayers for your daughter	5:18
	and servant Serena	5:21
	who died her promise still ablaze.	5:24
	To your care we entrust her.	5:28
	And for her family and friends we also pray.	5:32
	Grant them a bold faith,	5:36
	even now when a faith in any goodness	5:39
	is sorely challenged.	5:42
	Embrace them, hear their sighs of sorrow,	5:45
	show them how to be angry but not embittered.	5:51
	Help them to cry and not be ashamed.	5:56
	Teach them how to rage but not destroy.	6:01
	Enable them to pour forth their grief	6:06
	that it might not consume them from within.	6:10
	Help them to claim and to experience the hope	6:14
	and the healing of your presence.	6:17
	Christ be with us all.	6:21
	Come now, oh majestic one,	6:26
	to these days of study	6:28
	and our pursuit of truth	6:31
	and our times of play.	6:32
	Inhabit this place and its peoples,	6:35
	let neither towers nor books nor stones	6:39
	nor silences blind us to our own humanity	6:42
	nor to the humanity of others.	6:47
	Each of us, all of us created in your image.	6:50
	When we take ourselves too seriously,	6:57
	tease us into laughter.	7:00
	When we neglect ourselves, alarm us.	7:04
	When we take too lightly the world's injustices,	7:08
	provoke us into deeds of mercy.	7:12
	And as we discover something of justice	7:16
	and art and nature and society	7:18
	and the human heart,	7:21
	we ask for a commitment to make good use	7:23
	of what we understand,	7:26
	through what we do with our lives,	7:29
	may walls of misunderstanding be breached,	7:32
	old prejudices destroyed, new visions emerge	7:36
	of a world where goodwill takes preeminence over power	7:40
	and where righteousness	7:46
	will be both politic and possible.	7:47
	Christ be with us all.	7:52
	Praying together the prayer of Christ's community.	7:56
-	Our Father who art in heaven,	8:03
	hallowed be thy name,	8:07
	thy kingdom come, they will be done	8:09
	on Earth as it is in heaven.	8:12
	Give us this day our daily bread	8:15
	and forgive our trespasses	8:18
	as we forgive those who trespass against us	8:21
	and lead us not into temptation	8:25
	but deliver us from evil	8:27
	for thine is the kingdom and the power	8:30
	and the glory forever.	8:33
	Amen.	8:36
	(tranquil organ music)	8:43
	(lively organ music)	10:21
	(choir sings)	10:26
	(lively organ music)	13:44
	(congregation sings)	14:06
	♪ Hallelujah ♪	14:18
	♪ Hallelujah ♪	14:20
	(congregation sings)	14:25
	♪ Hallelujah ♪	14:38
	♪ Hallelujah ♪	14:40
	♪ Hallelujah ♪	14:43
	♪ Hallelujah ♪	14:47
	♪ Hallelujah ♪	14:50
	♪ Amen ♪	14:59
-	Remember the words of the Lord Jesus	15:10
	how he said it is more blessed to give than to receive.	15:13
	Open wide your hands now, oh God,	15:18
	to receive these gifts of our lives and service,	15:20
	in your holy name we pray, amen.	15:24
-	Be seated.	15:38
	God of Abraham, Isaac,	15:44
	of apostles and prophets, in every age you call people	15:47
	to work for you showing justice,	15:50
	doing mercy, giving purpose	15:54
	to an aimless humanity.	15:56
	By your truth, darkness is dispelled	15:59
	and all people set free to mature in wisdom.	16:02
	In pursuit of that truth,	16:06
	we now take our place at Duke University,	16:07
	receive us unto yourself, oh God	16:11
	to use us to accomplish your sacred intention.	16:14
-	Amen.	16:18
-	That in this place we will remember those	16:20
	who love us, and whose hopes follow us here.	16:22
	(congregation mumbles)	16:27
	That we may accept the responsibility of our freedom	16:30
	and the burden of our privilege.	16:34
	(congregation mumbles)	16:36
	That we will be curious, imaginative	16:40
	and sufficiently patient to labor for end's sight.	16:43
	(congregation mumbles)	16:47
	That with courage we may doubt	16:50
	but that we will also hold our doubts	16:53
	in the larger faith of Jesus Christ.	16:55
	(congregation mumbles)	16:59
	From insulating ourselves with books and words.	17:02
	(congregation mumbles)	17:06
	From ignorance that feeds injustice,	17:09
	from indifference that yields to cruelty	17:13
	and from blind loyalty to worn out values.	17:16
	(congregation mumbles)	17:20
	From hopelessness that will cripple us,	17:23
	a self-consciousness that would paralyze us	17:26
	and from temptations that would destroy us.	17:30
	(congregation mumbles)	17:33
	Lord God, in a world where justice	17:37
	does not yet roll down as waters	17:39
	nor righteousness as a mighty stream,	17:42
	where knowledge floods in but there's only a trickle	17:45
	of wisdom, we pray for this school,	17:48
	its students and faculty,	17:52
	staff and administrators	17:54
	and for the task in which we now unite,	17:57
	turn our efforts to good	18:00
	that as our understanding increases,	18:04
	our responsibility will deepen.	18:07
	Cause us to finish this year	18:10
	having made ourselves more humane	18:13
	and the world more habitable	18:16
	for our sakes and for the sake of the future	18:19
	that you give us to create.	18:22
-	Oh Lord, please hear us, amen.	18:24
	(lively organ music)	18:30
	(congregation sings)	19:10
	(lively organ music)	21:24
-	Deep peace of the running wave to you,	22:23
	deep peace of the flowing air to you,	22:26
	deep peace of the quiet Earth to you,	22:29
	deep peace of the shining stars to you,	22:33
	deep peace of the Prince of Peace,	22:37
	to each of you now and always.	22:40
	♪ Amen ♪	22:49
	♪ Amen ♪	22:56
	♪ Amen ♪	23:08
	♪ Amen ♪	23:22
	♪ Amen ♪	23:31
	♪ Amen ♪	23:44
	(lively organ music)	24:08
	(people murmuring)	29:01
	(tranquil organ music)	29:17
	(lively organ music)	32:54
	(clapping)	37:05
	(people murmuring)	37:17

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Title:

Dennis M. Campbell - "Everything Has Its Price" (September 4, 1983)

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Though economics teaches us that everything comes with a cost, it does not rightly teach us what to value or which costs are worth paying. Jesus' demands on the disciple are steep and more than we can meet on our own, but discipleship can be received as a gift from God. (Abstract created by Duke Divinity School staff.)
Sermon start time: (Part 1) 27:15. Sermon end time: (Part 1) 46:21.
Key quotation: “The values and assumptions that characterize so much of secular human thought and action are turned upside down in God’s economics. Everything has its price, but the terms and conditions are not those of our modern market economy. Ultimately, the terms and conditions are those of God.

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September 4, 1983

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Campbell, Dennis M.

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