J. Michael Laidlaw - "God's Ultimate Self-Disclosure" Parents' Weekend (October 2, 1983)

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	(imposing organ music)	0:03
	♪ Beautiful Savior ♪	5:25
	♪ Lord of the nations ♪	5:32
	♪ Son of God and Son of Man ♪	5:40
	♪ Glory and honor ♪	5:55
	♪ Praise, adoration ♪	6:02
	♪ Now and forever more be thine ♪	6:09
	♪ Now and forever more ♪	6:22
	♪ Be thine ♪	6:37
	(imposing organ music)	6:50
	(imposing organ music)	7:16
	(congregation singing)
-	Grace and peace to you from the blessed Lord our God,	11:26
	and our Savior Jesus Christ.	11:30
	Amen.	11:33
	When we gather to praise God,	11:46
	we remember that we are God's people	11:49
	who have preferred our wills to that of our Lord.	11:51
	Accepting God's power to become new persons in Christ,	11:56
	let us confess our sin before God and one another.	12:00
-	Eternal and every merciful Lord, our God.	12:06
	We confess that often we have failed	12:09
	to be an obedient church.	12:12
	We have not done your will.	12:14
	We have broken your law.	12:17
	We have rebelled against your love.	12:19
	We have not loved our neighbors.	12:22
	We have not heard the cry of the needy.	12:25
	Forgive us, we pray.	12:28
	Free us for joyful obedience.	12:30
	Through Jesus Christ, our Lord.	12:33
	Amen.	12:36
-	Hear the good news.	12:57
	Christ died for us while we were yet sinners.	12:58
	That is God's own proof of his love toward us.	13:02
	In the name of Jesus Christ, you are forgiven.	13:06
-	In the name of Jesus Christ, we are forgiven.	13:11
	Glory to God.	13:15
-	Amen.	13:17
-	Let us pray.	13:31
	Prepare our hearts, oh Lord, to accept Your word.	13:38
	Silence in us any voice but Your own.	13:42
	That hearing we may also obey Your will.	13:46
	Through Jesus Christ, our Lord.	13:52
	Amen.	13:56
	Reading from the Old Testament,	14:01
	the book of the prophet Isaiah,	14:03
	chapter 53, verses four through 12.	14:05
	Listen, listen for the Word of God.	14:09
	"Yet on himself he bore our sufferings,	14:15
	"our torments he endured,	14:18
	"while we counted him smitten by God,	14:21
	"struck down by disease and misery;	14:23
	"but he was pierced for our transgressions,	14:27
	"tortured for our iniquities;	14:29
	"the chastisement he bore is health for us	14:34
	"and by his scourging we are healed.	14:36
	"We had all strayed like sheep,	14:40
	"each of us had gone his own way;	14:43
	"but the Lord laid upon him the guilt of us all.	14:46
	"he was afflicted, he submitted to be struck down,	14:50
	"and did not open his mouth.	14:52
	"He was led like a sheep to the slaughter	14:55
	"like a ewe that is dumb before the shearers.	14:57
	"With protection, without justice, he was taken away;	15:01
	"and who gave a thought for his fate,	15:06
	"how he was cut off from the world of living people,	15:07
	"stricken to the death for my people's transgression?	15:11
	"He was assigned a grave with the wicked,	15:15
	"a burial-place among the refuge of mankind,	15:18
	"though he had done no violence	15:22
	"and spoken no word of treachery.	15:24
	"And yet the Lord took thought for his tortured servant	15:26
	"and healed him who had made himself a sacrifice for sin	15:29
	"so shall he enjoy long life	15:35
	"and see his children's children.	15:36
	"And in his hand the Lord's cause shall prosper.	15:39
	"After all of his pains he shall be bathed in light,	15:43
	"after his disgrace he shall be fully vindicated;	15:47
	"so shall he, my servant, vindicate many,	15:51
	"himself bearing the penalty of their guilt.	15:54
	"Therefore, I will alot him a portion with the great,	15:58
	"and he shall share the spoil with the mighty,	16:01
	"because he exposed himself to face death	16:05
	"and was reckoned among transgressors	16:08
	"because he bore the sin of many	16:11
	"and interceded for their transgressions."	16:14
	Here ends the reading from the Old Testament.	16:17
	Reading from Acts, chapter two, verses 42 through 47.	16:23
	"They met constantly to hear the apostles teach,	16:30
	"and to share the common life, to break bread, and to pray.	16:33
	"A sense of awe was everywhere,	16:38
	"and many marvels and signs	16:41
	"were brought about through the apostles.	16:42
	"All whose faith had drawn them together	16:45
	"held everything in common;	16:47
	"they would sell their property and possessions	16:50
	"and make a general distribution as the need required.	16:52
	"With one mind they kept up their daily attendance	16:57
	"at the temple, and, breaking bread in private houses,	17:00
	"shared their meals with unaffected joy,	17:04
	"as they praised God	17:07
	"and enjoyed the favor of the whole people.	17:08
	"And day by day the Lord added to their number	17:11
	"those whom he was saving."	17:15
	The gospel reading this morning,	17:21
	rather than the one announced in our bulletin,	17:23
	is from the gospel of Mark,	17:26
	a passage from the 14th chapter,	17:28
	and a reading from the 15th chapter.	17:31
	Will the congregation please stand	17:35
	for the reading of the gospel.	17:36
	"When they reached a place called Gethsemane,	17:51
	"he said to his disciples, sit here while I pray.	17:53
	"And he took Peter and James and John with him.	17:57
	"Horror and dismay came over him and he said to them,	18:01
	"My heart is ready to break with grief;	18:04
	"stop here and stay awake.	18:07
	"And then he went forward a little,	18:10
	"threw himself on the ground and prayed that,	18:11
	"if it were possible, this hour might pass him by.	18:14
	"Abba, Father, he said,	18:19
	"all things are possible to thee;	18:21
	"take this cup away from me.	18:25
	"Yet not what I will, but what thou wilt.	18:28
	"At midday a darkness fell over the whole land,	18:35
	"which lasted till three in the afternoon;	18:37
	"and at three Jesus cried aloud,	18:41
	"Eli, Eli, lema sabachthani, which means	18:44
	"My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?"	18:48
	Here ends the reading of the gospel.	18:56
	Amen.	19:00
	Praying together.	19:15
	Oh God whose mercies are in,	19:20
	under, over, beside all things and peoples,	19:23
	let Your work move among the word	19:27
	spoken in Your name this day	19:29
	that they bear though brokenly the mark of Your truth,	19:33
	its fire, its vast intention,	19:36
	and persuade in the minds and hearts of all who hear	19:40
	a new desire to let Your truth break forth clamorously	19:44
	and with compassion in our homes, our neighborhoods.	19:48
	This Your world, in the name of Your son, the Christ.	19:55
	Amen.	20:02
	I'm Scottish you see,	20:08
	with a sufficient dose of Welsh tossed in	20:11
	to confound things and people and make my dilemma worse	20:14
	if dilemma is what it can be called.	20:18
	Because what I've discovered about myself is this.	20:22
	That in addition to a hankering for salt air	20:27
	and ocean's roar,	20:30
	like my ancestors, I also have a stubborn streak	20:33
	that puts me in league with Thomas	20:36
	when it comes to raising faith questions.	20:38
	But I'm coming around.	20:43
	I'm coming to believe it, Him,	20:45
	when Jesus says that to see Him is to see the Father,	20:48
	which is to say to see God.	20:54
	Not in person of course, not anymore than to see my sons	20:57
	Michael or Chris is to see me.	21:03
	But it is to say that you know something more about me	21:06
	when you meet Michael and Chris and come to know them.	21:10
	And that's what Jesus is saying	21:15
	when it comes right down to it.	21:16
	That to see Jesus is to know a lot more	21:19
	about who God is and what God is up to	21:22
	on this fine gypsy planet.	21:25
	And maybe, maybe even why he's up to it in the first place.	21:28
	And I don't feel bad about all of this,	21:34
	my stubbornness I mean,	21:36
	my tendency to press these questions of faith,	21:38
	because I have come to take God seriously	21:43
	when he says, Laidlaw,	21:46
	love me with all of who you are.	21:49
	Your heart, your soul, your strength	21:52
	and your mind too, Laidlaw.	21:57
	Don't forget that.	21:59
	And so I don't feel guilty or hesitant anymore	22:02
	because I'm finding, you see,	22:05
	that God is abundantly patient with me in these matters,	22:07
	abundantly patient.	22:12
	But as I say, I'm coming around on this point,	22:15
	which does bring us to this question,	22:20
	well, if this is so, if this is so	22:22
	then who is this God, this Elohim, this Yahweh,	22:25
	this feisty creator who we come to meet and hear	22:29
	and know something about in Jesus, Jesus the Christ?	22:34
	My guess is this.	22:41
	My guess is that for most of us	22:43
	the dominant image of God is God Almighty.	22:45
	God the all powerful one.	22:49
	Or if we're theologically sophisticated	22:53
	it's God as the power of being,	22:55
	overcoming the power of non-being.	22:57
	God is the one whose sends both weal and woe,	23:02
	life and death.	23:06
	The one for whom, in Jesus' words, all things are possible.	23:08
	But then we have Jesus' final words, that final prayer.	23:18
	Not so much uttered or spoken, as pushed out of his mouth	23:23
	by the anguish of his body and the torment of his soul.	23:28
	My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?	23:32
	And how good we are at fleeing that prayer,	23:43
	how clever really.	23:46
	As if somehow we've got to get God off the hook,	23:48
	or ourselves off the hook,	23:52
	or Jesus off the cross if need be.	23:54
	Jesus don't you know?	23:58
	God is practicing self-restraint.	24:01
	God is holding back the kingly power.	24:04
	You are the ransom, Jesus, to trick the devil.	24:08
	You are the necessary price to appease God's wrath	24:12
	for all of those centuries of accumulated human sin.	24:16
	Or so the dominating traditions of the church	24:23
	would have us believe.	24:27
	God is like a king, omnipotent, all powerful.	24:30
	Don't believe otherwise, we're told,	24:34
	even though Jesus hangs there on the cross,	24:36
	nailed there on the cross.	24:41
	Dead there on the cross.	24:46
	It doesn't matter that we confess Jesus	24:52
	as the revelation of God,	24:56
	as the human face of God, if I may say it that way.	24:58
	We cannot, it seems, stop thinking of God	25:04
	after the model of kings and Caesars,	25:07
	absolute rulers whose power has no bounds,	25:11
	no serious limits.	25:16
	Lord of Lords we say, King of Kings.	25:19
	The throne of God.	25:24
	But I have come to suspect,	25:30
	I have come to suspect that we say these things	25:33
	and use these images more for our own benefit	25:36
	than for God's.	25:40
	In fact, in fact I suspect that God	25:42
	is quite uncomfortable with these images,	25:46
	because I have come also to suspect,	25:51
	with scripture as the fertile soil for my suspicions,	25:54
	that Dietrich Bonhoeffer was closer to the truth	25:58
	when back in 1944,	26:03
	in a prison in Nazi Germany,	26:06
	Bonhoeffer came to understand God not as monarch,	26:09
	but as a fellow sufferer.	26:15
	"People go to God", wrote Bonhoeffer	26:18
	just a few months before his execution,	26:20
	"people go to God when God is sore bestead.	26:22
	"Find God poor and scorned without shelter or bread,	26:26
	"whelmed under the weight of the wicked, the weak, the dead.	26:31
	"Christians stand by God	26:35
	in God's hour of grieving."	26:39
	What is this?	26:45
	Standing by God.	26:47
	God whelmed under the weight	26:50
	of the wicked, the weak, the dead.	26:52
	This morning I suggest to you this is God.	26:56
	And because this is God, you and I will do well	27:02
	to cease our thinking about God in monarchial images.	27:06
	We will do well to stop thinking of God's crown	27:11
	as a crown of gold.	27:14
	We will do well to stop thinking,	27:18
	to cease our thinking about God in terms of coercive power.	27:20
	Because only when we cease such thinking, can this event,	27:26
	this feast at once joyful and mysterious and awful,	27:32
	make any sense and afford us any sort of hope.	27:39
	Let me ask you.	27:47
	Let me ask you in the presence of the table,	27:49
	can you and I begin to experience God's power as creative	27:52
	because God is with us,	27:58
	beckoning us to unknown possibilities?	28:02
	Can you and I begin to experience God's power	28:08
	and God as redemptive,	28:12
	because God's intention is to increase our concern	28:15
	for the other and the future of the other?	28:19
	Can you and I,	28:25
	can we begin to experience God's power as healing	28:27
	because God's very soul is with us,	28:33
	with us in our various griefs and brokenness?	28:37
	I am speaking now out of the life of Christian discipleship,	28:44
	this life in which we feel the world	28:47
	the way that God feels the world.	28:50
	This life in which we know God is suffering with us,	28:53
	suffering on the cross of course,	28:59
	but not only on the cross.	29:02
	Suffering also in the village streets,	29:05
	and in the cancer ward,	29:10
	and in the room where the infant hovers	29:12
	between death and life,	29:14
	and in the broken heart of the old black man	29:17
	as he hears himself called again a useless nigger,	29:19
	and in the tender psyche of a young boy	29:23
	as he tries to understand the senseless abuse	29:25
	that is heaped upon him by his stepfather.	29:31
	In all of these places and experiences	29:34
	and a thousand times a thousand times a thousand more.	29:37
	This is My body which is for you.	29:43
	Can we live with this vision of God?	29:51
	This vision intimated in the life an death of Jesus.	29:53
	This vision of God's suffering	29:57
	the open wounds of life itself,	29:59
	suffering even the faintest quiver of pain,	30:01
	your pain, my pain, the world's pain.	30:04
	Can you and I come to realize that the horrors of human evil	30:13
	are not just matters of private suffering,	30:17
	but that they do enter into the very life,	30:21
	the very soul of God?	30:23
	Can we accept the knowledge, you and I,	30:28
	that all of those woes that we create	30:30
	or tolerate or ignore,	30:34
	that all of these woes add to God's suffering	30:35
	no less than those nails driven into that Galilean	30:39
	2000 years ago?	30:43
	This cup is the new covenant,	30:47
	sealed in My blood.	30:51
	Frankly I don't find much gospel in those old notions	30:55
	about God as monarch, I believe.	31:01
	Frankly the life and death of Jesus makes no sense at all,	31:03
	no sense at all if they're true.	31:08
	But you and I are spared that dreadful judgment,	31:12
	that idea that in the midst of all that's happening	31:16
	on the cross and around the cross,	31:18
	that there's no gospel, no good news, no new reality.	31:20
	There is after all more than meets the eye here,	31:27
	and the mind too, for that matter.	31:32
	Because we find that this story of God,	31:36
	like all true stories of God,	31:38
	is not told in terms of the dynasties of kings,	31:42
	but rather it is to be told as you and I	31:47
	tell the saga of the suffering servant.	31:49
	That's what the sacred feast is all about,	31:54
	and that's why along with Jesus' favorite prophet, Isaiah,	31:59
	you and I can too declare,	32:04
	see, see this is our God,	32:07
	for whom we have waited to deliver us.	32:12
	Welcome, my friends,	32:17
	to this joyful feast of God's people.	32:20
	Amen.	32:26
-	Christ, our Lord, invites to His table all who love Him,	32:52
	and who desire to live in peace with one another.	32:56
	May the peace of the Lord be with you.	33:00
-	And also with you.	33:03
-	As forgiven and reconciled people,	33:05
	let us offer ourselves and our gifts to God.	33:08
	(soft organ music)	33:15
	♪ Worthy is the Lamb ♪	33:33
	♪ That was slain ♪	33:39
	♪ And hath redeemed us ♪	33:44
	♪ To God by his blood ♪	33:49
	♪ To receive power and riches ♪	33:57
	♪ And wisdom and strength ♪	34:00
	♪ And honor and glory and blessing ♪	34:03
	♪ Worthy is the Lamb ♪	34:11
	♪ That was slain ♪	34:19
	♪ And hath redeemed us ♪	34:24
	♪ To God by his blood ♪	34:34
	♪ To receive power and riches ♪	34:42
	♪ And wisdom and strength ♪	34:45
	♪ And honor and glory and blessing ♪	34:48
	♪ Blessing and honor, glory and power ♪	34:55
	♪ Be unto Him, be unto Him ♪	34:58
	♪ That sitteth upon the throne ♪	35:02
	♪ And unto the Lamb ♪	35:05
	♪ Blessing and honor, glory and power ♪	35:08
	♪ Be unto Him, be unto Him ♪	35:10
	♪ That sitteth upon the throne ♪	35:14
	♪ And unto the Lamb ♪	35:17
	♪ That sitteth upon the throne ♪	35:19
	♪ Forever and ever ♪	35:22
	♪ That sitteth upon the throne ♪	35:26
	♪ Forever and ever ♪	35:27
	♪ That sitteth upon the throne ♪	35:32
	♪ And unto the Lamb ♪	35:34
	♪ That sitteth upon the throne ♪	35:37
	♪ And unto the Lamb ♪	35:39
	♪ Blessing and honor, glory and power ♪	35:42
	♪ Be unto Him forever ♪	35:45
	♪ Blessing and honor, glory and power ♪	35:48
	♪ Be unto Him ♪	35:51
	♪ That sitteth upon the throne ♪	35:53
	♪ That sitteth upon the throne ♪	36:01
	♪ Blessing and honor, glory and power ♪	36:11
	♪ Be unto Him forever ♪	36:14
	♪ Blessing and honor, glory and power ♪	36:19
	♪ Be unto Him, be unto Him ♪	36:22
	♪ Blessing and honor, glory and power ♪	36:25
	♪ Be unto Him, be unto Him ♪	36:28
	♪ Blessing ♪	36:32
	♪ Honor ♪	36:33
	♪ Glory ♪	36:35
	♪ And power be unto Him ♪	36:36
	♪ That sitteth upon the throne ♪	36:39
	♪ That sitteth upon the throne ♪	36:42
	♪ Forever, forever ♪	36:48
	♪ Forever, forever and ever ♪	36:51
	♪ Forever and ever ♪	36:56
	♪ Forever and ever ♪	36:59
	♪ Forever and ever ♪	37:02
	♪ Forever ♪	37:05
	♪ Forever and ever ♪	37:06
	♪ Forever and ever ♪	37:13
	♪ Amen ♪	37:32
	♪ Amen ♪	37:40
	♪ Amen ♪	37:44
	♪ Amen ♪	37:48
	♪ Amen ♪	38:01
	♪ Amen ♪	38:03
	♪ Amen ♪	38:07
	♪ Amen ♪	38:10
	♪ Amen ♪	38:21
	♪ Amen ♪	38:24
	♪ Amen ♪	38:26
	(soft organ music)	38:28
	♪ Amen ♪	38:54
	♪ Amen ♪	38:57
	♪ Amen ♪	39:06
	(soft organ music)	39:08
	♪ Amen ♪	39:13
	♪ Amen ♪	39:19
	♪ Amen ♪	39:25
	♪ Amen ♪	39:33
	♪ Amen ♪	39:49
	♪ Amen ♪	40:00
	♪ Amen ♪	40:09
	♪ Amen ♪	40:13
	♪ Amen ♪	40:21
	♪ Amen ♪	40:34
	♪ Amen ♪	40:44
	♪ Amen ♪	40:46
	♪ Amen ♪	41:04
	♪ Amen ♪	41:10
	♪ Amen ♪	41:19
	♪ Amen ♪	41:27
	♪ Amen ♪	41:33
	♪ Amen ♪	41:44
	(imposing organ music)	41:53
	♪ Praise God from whom all blessings flow ♪	42:15
	♪ Praise Him all creatures here below ♪	42:21
	♪ Hallelujah, hallelujah ♪	42:26
	♪ Praise Him above ye heavenly host ♪	42:34
	♪ Praise Father, Son and Holy Ghost ♪	42:40
	♪ Hallelujah, hallelujah ♪	42:47
	♪ Hallelujah, hallelujah ♪	42:53
	♪ Hallelujah, hallelujah ♪	43:00
	♪ Hallelujah ♪	43:09
-	Lift up your hearts.	43:22
-	Lift them up to the Lord.	43:24
-	Let us give thanks to the Lord, our God.	43:26
-	It is right to give You thanks and praise.	43:29
-	Oh God, it is right that we should always and everywhere	43:33
	give You thanks and praise.	43:36
	Only You are God, You created all things and call them good.	43:39
	You made us in Your image.	43:44
	Even when we rebelled against Your love,	43:47
	You did not desert us.	43:50
	You delivered us from captivity,	43:52
	made covenant to be our God and King,	43:54
	and spoke to us through Your prophets.	43:57
	Therefore, we join the entire company of heaven	44:01
	and all Your people now on earth	44:04
	in worshiping and glorifying You.	44:07
-	Holy, holy, holy Lord,	44:10
	God of power and might,	44:13
	heaven and earth are full of your glory.	44:16
	Hosanna in the highest.	44:19
	Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord.	44:21
	Hosanna in the highest.	44:25
-	We thank You, Holy God, that You love the world so much	44:28
	You sent Your only son to be our savior.	44:32
	The Lord of all life came to live among us.	44:36
	He healed and taught people, ate with sinners	44:40
	and won for You a new people by water and the Spirit.	44:43
	We saw His glory,	44:48
	yet He humbled himself in obedience to Your will,	44:50
	freely accepting death on a cross.	44:54
	By dying He freed us from unending death.	44:57
	By rising from the dead He gave us everlasting life.	45:01
	We remember that on the night	45:06
	in which He gave himself up for us,	45:08
	the Lord Jesus took bread.	45:10
	After giving You thanks, he broke the bread,	45:13
	gave it to His disciples, and said,	45:16
	"Take, eat, this is My body which is given for you."	45:19
	When the supper was over he took the cup.	45:25
	Again he returned thanks to You,	45:28
	He gave the cup to His disciples, and said,	45:30
	"Drink from this, all of you,	45:34
	"this is the cup of the new covenant in My blood,	45:36
	"poured out for you and many, for the forgiveness of sins."	45:40
	When we eat this bread and drink this cup,	45:45
	we experience anew the presence of the Lord Jesus Christ	45:49
	and look forward to His coming in final victory.	45:53
-	Christ has died, Christ has risen, Christ will come again.	45:58
-	We remember and proclaim with gratitude, Holy God,	46:03
	what Your son has done for us in His life and death,	46:07
	in His resurrection and ascension.	46:11
-	Accept our sacrifice of praise and thanksgiving,	46:15
	in union with Christ's offering for us,	46:19
	as a reasonable and holy surrender of ourselves.	46:22
	Send the power of your Holy Spirit on us,	46:26
	gathered here out of love for You, and on these gifts.	46:29
	Help us know in the breaking of this bread	46:34
	the presence of Christ who gave his body and blood for all.	46:37
	Make us one with Christ, one with each other,	46:42
	and one in service to all the world.	46:47
	Through Your Son Jesus Christ	46:49
	with the Holy Spirit in your holy Church,	46:52
	all glory and honor is Yours, Almighty Father.	46:55
-	In unity with Christ and each other we pray.	46:59
-	Our Father, who art in heaven, hallowed be thy Name,	47:03
	thy kingdom come, thy will be done,	47:08
	on earth as it is in heaven.	47:11
	Give us this day our daily bread.	47:13
	And forgive us our trespasses,	47:16
	as we forgive those who trespass against us.	47:18
	And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil.	47:22
	For thine is the kingdom,	47:27
	and the power, and the glory, forever.	47:28
	Amen.	47:32
-	Because there is one loaf,	47:35
	we, many as we are, are one body;	47:37
	for it is one loaf of which we all partake.	47:41

-	The body of Christ, given for you.	0:08
	Blood of Christ, given for you.	0:25
-	Body of Christ, broken for you.	0:41
-	Amen.	0:43
-	Blood of Christ, shed for you.	0:50
-	Be seated.	1:02
	(organ music)	1:03
-	Jesus said, I am the light of the world.	6:00
	You who follow me will not walk in darkness,	6:03
	but will have the light of life.	6:07
	Arise, and go in peace,	6:10
	and may the light of the world shine on your pathway	6:12
	and in your heart forever, amen.	6:15
	(gentle organ music)	6:25
	The ushers will come and guide groups of you	6:56
	here in concentric circles around the table.	7:00
	You are invited to come and be served the Eucharist.	7:04
	If any of you would like to be served	7:08
	in your pew or chair, please notify an usher,	7:10
	and we will be glad to serve you.	7:14
	(light organ music)	7:19
	(organ and choir together)	9:38
-	Jesus said, I am the vine, and you are the branches.	14:44
	By this my father is glorified that you bear much fruit	14:47
	and prove to be my disciples.	14:51
	Go in peace, and may the glory of your life	14:54
	bear the fruits of the spirit, amen.	14:56
	(organ music)	15:14
	(organ and choir together)	16:06
-	Jesus said, I am the way and the truth and the life.	20:55
	No one comes to the father but by me.	21:00
	Arise, and go in peace, and may you ever walk	21:04
	in the way of life and truth, amen.	21:07
	(organ and choir together)	21:13
-	What does the Lord require of us,	27:58
	but to do justice, to love kindness,	28:01
	and to walk humbly with our God.	28:03
	Arise, go forth in peace,	28:06
	may God's justice and righteousness	28:09
	be alive in each of you, amen.	28:11
	(gentle organ music)	28:16
	(organ and choir together)	28:36
-	Jesus said I am the door, if anyone enters by me,	36:24
	you will be saved and will go in and out and find pasture.	36:28
	Arise and go in peace, and in Christ's service	36:33
	may you find perfect freedom, amen.	36:37
	(gentle organ music)	36:53
-	Let us join together in the prayer	39:34
	of Thanksgiving and commitment.	39:36
	You have given yourself to us, oh Lord.	39:40
	Your love has made us a new people.	39:46
	Your glory has filled our hearts.	39:52
	(organ music)	40:01
	(organ and choir together)	40:55
-	The peace of God, which passes all understanding,	43:59
	keep your hearts and minds and the knowledge	44:03
	and love of God, and of his son, Jesus Christ, our Lord.	44:06
	And the blessings of God almighty,	44:11
	creator, redeemer, sustainer,	44:14
	be among you and remain with you always.	44:17
	(choir sings)	44:24
	(joyful organ music)	45:50

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J. Michael Laidlaw - "God's Ultimate Self-Disclosure" Parents' Weekend (October 2, 1983)

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We need to cease thinking about God in images of kings and caesars, for such images lead us to know God through acts of coercive power. Rather, we need to learn to know God through Jesus as the suffering servant. Only then will we truly know the healing God offers us in the Eucharist. (Abstract created by Duke Divinity School staff.)
Sermon start time: (Part 1) 20:08. Sermon end time: (Part 1) 32:28.
Key quotation: “This story of God, like all true stories of God, is not told in terms of the dynasties of kings, but rather it is to be told as you and I tell the saga of the suffering servant.”

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October 2, 1983

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Laidlaw, J. Michael

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