Nancy Ferree-Clark - "One in Christ" (June 22, 1986)

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	(congregation speaking softly)	0:05
	(solemn organ music)	6:54
-	Praise and peace to you in the name	16:57
	of the Lord Jesus Christ.	16:59
	We welcome you to this service of worship	17:01
	at Duke University Chapel	17:03
	on this fifth Sunday after Pentecost.	17:05
	It's our privilege to welcome many of you	17:08
	from around the country at this time of year	17:10
	to visit our campus.	17:12
	Especially, we are delighted to welcome participants	17:14
	in the various camps which take place at Duke	17:17
	during the summer, including the athletic camps,	17:20
	computer camp, talent identification program,	17:23
	and others of which I'm not even aware.	17:26
	We hope that you will have other occasions	17:29
	to visit us here at the chapel.	17:31
	We also send our prayers and best wishes	17:34
	with members of the Duke Africa Initiative,	17:36
	who leave town this week for travel to Africa	17:39
	where they will participate in hunger relief projects	17:42
	for the remainder of the summer.	17:45
	This is a student initiated project	17:47
	which is supported through private donations	17:50
	including the Duke Student Foreign Mission Fund.	17:53
	One of our chapel endowments.	17:56
	If you have an interest in this project	17:59
	or any other chapel endowments, please contact	18:01
	any member of the chapel staff.	18:05
	And I would ask you to please note the other announcements	18:08
	as they are printed in your bulletin.	18:11
	Remember, this is the day that the Lord have made.	18:14
	Let us rejoice and be glad in it.	18:17
	♪ Praise ye the Lord of hosts ♪	18:31
	♪ Sing His salvation ♪	18:35
	♪ Bless His name ♪	18:40
	♪ Show forth His praise in His holy house ♪	18:42
	♪ Praise ye the Lord of hosts ♪	18:50
	♪ Sing His salvation, bless His name ♪	18:53
	♪ Show forth His praise in His holy house ♪	19:00
	♪ Thou shall be named, all men shall be joyful ♪	19:07
	♪ Blessed is the name of the Lord ♪	19:16
	♪ Alleluia ♪	19:22
	(bright organ music)	19:31
	(organ obscuring lyrics)	19:57
	(organ obscuring lyrics)	23:05
-	Of our lives to examine the shape of our days.	23:50
	And when we are truly honest with ourselves,	23:55
	we recognize that we have failed in our obligations	23:58
	to God and to one another.	24:01
	Let us now offer God our confession	24:04
	with humble and penitent hearts.	24:07
	We give thanks merciful God	24:19
	that in Christ, you seek to unite all things	24:22
	in heaven and in earth.	24:25
	And to reconcile all people to one another and to you.	24:27
	We confess that the new creation is not yet complete in us.	24:32
	And that we feel everywhere the barriers	24:38
	that separate human kind.	24:40
	Forgive us.	24:43
	And fill us with your spirit of oneness.	24:45
	Reveal to us those places where pride and selfishness	24:48
	rebuild the walls once torn down in Christ.	24:53
	Through the power of your spirit, amen.	24:58
	Hear the good news.	25:03
	Christ died for us while we were yet sinners.	25:05
	That is God's own truth of his love toward us.	25:10
	In the name of Jesus Christ, you are forgiven.	25:15
-	In the name of Jesus Christ, you are forgiven.	25:21
-	Let us pray.	25:35
	Open our hearts and minds oh God.	25:37
	By the power of your holy spirit.	25:41
	So that His word is read and proclaimed.	25:44
	We might hear with joy what you say to us this day.	25:48
	Amen.	25:52
	The first lesson is taken from the first book of Kings.	25:55
	And there, he came to a cave and lodged there.	25:59
	And behold, the word of the Lord came to him	26:03
	and He said to him, "What are you doing here, Elijah?"	26:06
	He said, "I have been very zealous for the Lord.	26:11
	"The God of hosts.	26:14
	"For the people of Israel have forsaken thy covenant,	26:16
	"thrown down thy altars, and slain thy prophets	26:20
	"with the sword.	26:23
	"And I, even I only, am left.	26:25
	"And they seek my life to take it away."	26:28
	And he said, "Go forth and stand upon the mount."	26:32
	Before the Lord passed by.	26:36
	And a great and strong wind rent the mountains	26:38
	and broken pieces, the rock before the Lord.	26:42
	But the Lord was not in the wind	26:46
	and after the wind, an earthquake.	26:48
	But the Lord was not the in the earthquake.	26:51
	And after the earthquake, a fire.	26:54
	But the Lord was not in the fire.	26:57
	And after the fire, a still, small voice.	27:00
	And when Elijah heard it, he wrapped his face in his mantle	27:04
	and went out and stood at the entrance of the cave.	27:09
	And behold, there came a voice to him and said,	27:12
	"What are you doing here, Elijah?"	27:17
	He said, "I have been very jealous	27:20
	"for the Lord, the God of Host.	27:22
	"For the people of Israel have forsaken thy covenant,	27:25
	"thrown down thy altars and slain thy prophets	27:29
	"with the sword.	27:32
	"And I, even I only, am left.	27:34
	"And they seek my life, to take it away."	27:38
	This ends the reading of the first lesson.	27:41
	(soft organ music)	27:50
	(choir singing in foreign language)	27:56
	("Gloria Patria")	29:29
	♪ Glory be to our Creator ♪	29:38
	♪ Praise to our Redeemer ♪	29:46
	♪ Lord Glory be to our Sustainer ♪	29:55
	♪ Ever three and ever one ♪	30:03
	♪ As it was in the beginning ♪	30:11
	♪ Ever shall be, amen ♪	30:20
-	The second lesson is taken from Paul's letter	30:41
	to the Galatians.	30:44
	Now, before faith came, we were confined under the law.	30:46
	Kept under restraint until faith should be revealed.	30:51
	So that the law was our custodian until Christ came.	30:55
	That we might be justified by faith.	31:00
	But now, that faith has come, we are no longer	31:04
	under a custodian.	31:08
	For in Christ Jesus, you are all sons of God through faith.	31:10
	For as many of you as were baptized into Christ	31:15
	have put on Christ.	31:19
	There is neither Jew nor Greek.	31:21
	There is neither slave nor free.	31:24
	There is neither male nor female.	31:27
	For you are all one in Christ Jesus.	31:31
	And if you are Christ, then you are Abraham's offspring.	31:34
	Heirs according to promise.	31:39
	This ends the reading of the second lesson.	31:41
	The gospel according to the Saint Luke,	31:46
	chapter nine verses 18 through 24.	31:48
	Now, what happen that as he was praying alone.	31:53
	The disciples were with him.	31:57
	And they asked him, "Who did the people say that I am?"	31:59
	And they answered, "John the Baptist."	32:05
	But others say Elijah.	32:08
	And others that one of the old prophets has risen.	32:12
	And he said to them, "But who do you say that I am?"	32:15
	And Peter answered, "The Christ of God."	32:20
	But he charged and commanded them to tell this to no one.	32:25
	Saying, "The Son of Man must suffer many things.	32:30
	"And be rejected by the elders and the chief priests	32:34
	"and scribes and be killed.	32:38
	"And on the third day, be raised."	32:40
	And he said to all, "If any man would come after me,	32:43
	"let him deny himself and take up his cross daily	32:48
	"and follow me.	32:52
	"For whoever would save his life would lose it.	32:54
	"And whosoever loses his life for my sake, he will save it."	32:59
	This ends the reading of the gospel.	33:04
-	Just about a month ago today, I had a good fortune	33:22
	of worshiping at Westminster Abbey on a Sunday morning.	33:26
	It was Pentecost, in fact.	33:30
	And what a glorious occasion it was.	33:32
	Having stood as a house of worship since the year 1066,	33:36
	the Abbey emanates an overpowering aura of holiness	33:42
	as such places seem to do when enough people prayed there	33:46
	over enough years.	33:50
	I was thrilled over the prospect,	33:53
	not only of participating in the liturgy.	33:55
	But of hearing their outstanding cathedral choir.	33:58
	The anthems were to include Igor Stravinsky's Mass,	34:02
	And the stunning Messiaen motet, "O Sacred Feast."	34:07
	No sooner had I taken my seat that I realized	34:12
	the large number of Americans who were there.	34:15
	Like myself, they were including the Abbey	34:19
	on their holiday tour.	34:21
	Now, I'll admit, this often provokes a bit of anxiety in me.	34:24
	Will we, as uninitiated visitors to such a place,	34:30
	not always so well-informed about high church liturgy,	34:34
	know what to do during the service?	34:38
	Fortunately, all was well.	34:42
	Until time for the communion to be served.	34:44
	And the choir began its eloquent rendition of the Messiaen.	34:47
	I thought surely, I was attending	34:52
	the final feast itself, that sacred feast.	34:54
	So holy was I feeling.	34:58
	Just then, from the ethereal ecstasy	35:01
	in which I had immersed myself, a loud voice emerged.	35:04
	And behold, it happened to have an American accent.	35:08
	Rising above the mystical strains of the cathedral choir,	35:12
	these words rang out.	35:16
	"Why, it's Pentecost Sunday, and I didn't even wear red."	35:18
	She then proceeded to offer an unsolicited exposition	35:24
	on the reasons why she simply didn't have room	35:28
	in her suitcase for anything red on this trip.	35:31
	And therefore, was completely unprepared for Pentecost.	35:34
	Clearly, she was not wearing red on this occasion.	35:39
	But I certainly was seeing it.	35:42
	As her inane comments completely obliterated	35:45
	my sense of sacred time and space	35:48
	and the Messiaen was destroyed.	35:50
	I shall always remember receiving holy communion	35:54
	at Westminster Abbey on Pentecost.	35:56
	Not because of the new heights of spiritual awareness	35:59
	to which I was propelled, but rather	36:03
	because of the new depths of annoyance in church	36:06
	to which I had fallen.	36:09
	Who was this woman anyway	36:12
	that she should spoil my day in church?	36:14
	I couldn't help thinking to myself.	36:17
	I'm only slightly comforted by the fact	36:22
	that my own tendency to want to offer an opinion	36:24
	about those who would sit beside me in church	36:28
	is not without historical precedent.	36:31
	As we read on today's Epistle lesson,	36:35
	Saint Paul os attempting to address the issue	36:37
	in the Galatian church	36:40
	of what constitutes proper membership in the church?	36:42
	Who belongs and who doesn't?	36:46
	And on what basis should they be allowed to belong?	36:49
	The Galatians were all in a stew over deciding	36:54
	if the Gentiles had to live under the law	36:57
	as the Jews were accustomed to doing, specifically,	37:00
	did they have to undergo circumcision?	37:04
	Resentments were beginning to divide the congregation.	37:08
	And so Saint Paul, in his usual forthright manner	37:11
	expresses his frustrations with the young church.	37:14
	"Oh, foolish Galatians.	37:17
	"Who has bewitched you?"	37:19
	They should've known a spirit came to them through	37:22
	believing the gospel message	37:24
	and not through keeping the law, he implied.	37:26
	Paul cites Abraham as the example of one who was reckoned	37:31
	as righteous by God because of his faith in God's promise.	37:35
	Not because of his good works,	37:40
	ritual observances or the like.	37:42
	He further reasoned that if Abraham were accepted by God	37:46
	because he believed, justification by faith	37:50
	is the established precedent	37:54
	antedating the giving the law by more than 400 years.	37:56
	In the giving of the law, God had provided a guardian	38:01
	or custodian whose role was that	38:04
	of temporary caretaker for his people.	38:06
	But this caretaker was replaced once and for all	38:09
	in the coming of Christ where faith was reestablished	38:13
	as the final basis for justification.	38:17
	It is in and through Christ, Paul argues,	38:21
	that all who live in faith are able to become God's children	38:24
	and claim their rightful place in Christ's church.	38:29
	And so, we have it.	38:33
	Paul states as clearly as he knows how to do in this lesson,	38:36
	his vision of a new humanity.	38:39
	An entirely new order of existence	38:42
	where distinctions within the church	38:45
	are to be fully embraced as one family of God.	38:47
	There is neither Jew nor Greek.	38:52
	There is neither slave nor free.	38:55
	There is neither male nor female.	38:58
	For you are all one in Christ.	39:01
	The form of the language suggest this verse	39:06
	was part of the baptismal liturgy in the early church.	39:08
	Baptism into Christ meant putting on Christ	39:12
	as one would don a new garment.	39:16
	And in so doing, newly baptized Christians	39:19
	acknowledged from the very beginning of their relationship	39:22
	with the church, a new world that sought to embody unity.	39:25
	This was not an admonition, reserved simply	39:30
	for the more mature or sophisticated members of the church.	39:33
	Rather, it constituted a part	39:37
	of the very definition of the church.	39:39
	Which every member was called to embrace.	39:41
	I guess the experience of the Galatians	39:46
	stands to remind us this is easier said than done.	39:48
	Try putting yourself in the shoes of a Jewish male	39:53
	who previously had always given thanks	39:57
	in traditional prayers for not being born a woman.	39:59
	Or of the master, accustomed to lording over the slave,	40:03
	or of the circumcised Jew accustomed to resenting	40:08
	the uncircumcised Greek.	40:11
	Clearly, Paul was calling for a radically new way	40:14
	of thinking about and acting in the world.	40:18
	This may be a difficult for us as enlightened	40:22
	church goers of the 1980s to appreciate fully.	40:26
	We believe in equal work for equal pay.	40:30
	Why, we even allow women into the pulpit.	40:34
	But to understand Paul's context a little more	40:37
	and the radical nature of his call,	40:40
	let us consider in more detail, one aspect	40:42
	of his baptismal formula.	40:46
	The plight of the women in biblical times.	40:48
	From a reading of the Old Testament,	40:52
	Rabbinical teachings and the writings of Jewish	40:54
	historians and philosophers, we can readily detect	40:57
	the decidedly male bias of the culture.	41:01
	In Deuteronomy for instance	41:04
	women are considered to be among the spoils of battle.	41:07
	"When you go forth to war against your enemies	41:10
	"and see among the captives, a beautiful woman	41:13
	"take her for yourself as wife."	41:16
	It was within the family that the women in Israel	41:20
	gained the greatest respect.	41:23
	But even there, a wife was considered to be	41:25
	the property of the husband.	41:28
	Divorce was a man's prerogative and not a woman's.	41:31
	A bride, if challenged, must submit proof of her virginity	41:35
	at the time of her marriage.	41:39
	But not the groom.	41:41
	If her virginity could not be established,	41:43
	the town's people were to take her to her father's door	41:45
	and stone her to death.	41:49
	A male Hebrew slave was automatically freed after six years	41:52
	but a female came under a different set of rules.	41:57
	A father could even sell his own daughter as a slave.	42:01
	Concubinage was also acceptable under Hebrew law	42:07
	creating a class of women living under a virtual	42:10
	sexual slave-master relationship	42:14
	without the legal protections of marriage.	42:17
	As a case in point, we read in Judges 19	42:21
	of a concubine who had become angry	42:24
	with her master, a Levite	42:27
	and decided to leave him to return	42:30
	to the home of her father.	42:32
	The master proceeded to retrieve her from her father,	42:34
	saying he wanted to speak kindly to her	42:39
	and the father gladly consented.	42:41
	On the return trip home, the master and the concubine	42:44
	spent the evening as guests of an old man	42:48
	who came upon them on the city square.	42:51
	Some raucous men of the city had seen them	42:54
	and knocked on the old man's door,	42:56
	demanding the Levite, that they might violate him sexually.	42:58
	The old man refused	43:03
	explaining that the Levite was his guest.	43:05
	He pleaded with the avengers, behold,	43:09
	"Here are my virgin daughter and his concubine."	43:12
	"Ravish them, and do with them what seems good to you	43:15
	"but against this man, do not do so vile a thing."	43:19
	The would-be assailants would not listen	43:24
	and insisted on the Levite.	43:26
	So the Levite seized his concubine,	43:28
	whom he had intended to speak kindly to,	43:31
	and put her out to the crowd of men	43:35
	where she was raped and tortured until morning.	43:36
	At dawn, the men let her go	43:40
	and the woman struggled to the door of the old man's house	43:42
	where she collapsed with her hands on the threshold.	43:45
	"Get up and let us be going,"	43:50
	the master says to her.	43:52
	But there was no answer.	43:55
	Was she still alive?	43:57
	The text doesn't tell us.	43:59
	The Levite then put her upon the ass and carries her home.	44:02
	And as the account in Judges reads,	44:06
	"When he entered his house, he took the knife	44:09
	"and laying hold of his concubine, divided her limb by limb	44:13
	"into 12 pieces and sent her throughout	44:19
	"all the territory of Israel."	44:23
	This story is not told with any regularity within the church	44:26
	nor is it included within the lectionary readings.	44:31
	Too painful to hear, too dark to imagine	44:35
	on a bright, sunny morning in Duke Chapel,	44:39
	I completely agree.	44:41
	Yet even in such tales of horrors,	44:44
	sad stories may yield new beginnings	44:47
	according to Professor Phyllis Trible	44:50
	of Union Theological Seminary.	44:52
	"Reflections themselves neither mandate	44:55
	"nor manufacture change, yet by enabling insight,	44:58
	"they may inspire repentance,"	45:02
	she writes in her book "Texts of Terror."	45:04
	She calls on Christians to use scripture	45:08
	to interpret scripture in order that even a story	45:11
	like the dismembered concubine does not paralyze us.	45:16
	The radical claim which Paul made to the church	45:21
	in today's reading establishes freedom in Christ	45:24
	as the final word over slavery and victimization.	45:27
	We therefore, need not be afraid to confront oppression	45:32
	within scripture itself, when we can hold fast	45:36
	to Paul's words, "There is neither slave nor free,	45:39
	"male nor female, for you are all one in Christ."	45:43
	Neither do we need to be afraid to confront	45:50
	the harsh realities of oppression in our own time.	45:53
	In New Bedford, Massachusetts, a woman is hoisted	45:58
	to a pool table where she is repeatedly raped	46:01
	by a group of men while others in the tavern stand watching.	46:04
	On college campuses, date rape	46:09
	grows increasingly more common.	46:12
	And over 50 gang rapes reported on American campuses	46:14
	this past year alone.	46:18
	Women are not the only victims in our culture, however.	46:21
	With North Carolina continuing to head	46:25
	up the list of states presently experiencing KKK activity	46:28
	according to klan watch.	46:33
	We have ample opportunity to watch at close hand	46:35
	the ways in which racial	46:39
	and religious minorities are victimized.	46:41
	North Carolinians against racist and religious violence	46:44
	based here in Durham	46:47
	report that in 1985, there were over 30 incidents	46:49
	of bigoted violence in this state	46:54
	including cross burnings and often in the name	46:57
	of white Christian supremacy.	47:00
	The gay community faces a similar level	47:04
	of societal antagonism, on a less violent scale perhaps,	47:07
	but on an equally intense level of feeling it seems.	47:11
	Witness the reaction in our own city	47:15
	to the upcoming gay pride week	47:18
	and its accompanying library exhibit.	47:21
	What is the church doing in 1986 to make	47:25
	Saint Paul's vision a reality?	47:28
	To take seriously its responsibilities	47:31
	to be an agent of reconciliation?	47:34
	Are we continuing to search for new ways	47:37
	to affirm an inclusive Christian community?	47:40
	Or have we become complacent with the significant strides	47:43
	that have been made in recent years?	47:47
	Have we become so lukewarm in our identity as Christians	47:50
	that we would choose to play it safe	47:55
	rather than stepping out to take an unpopular stand?	47:57
	How concerned are we really about our Christian	48:02
	sisters and brothers whom we see suffering	48:04
	from discrimination even within the church?	48:07
	And how do our lives reflect our concern?	48:11
	Paul's word to us on our oneness in Christ	48:16
	seems an especially fitting call to--	48:20

-	Communion table.	0:03
	Were it possible to gather up all the wounds	0:06
	of those victims, both past and present	0:08
	as well as our own,	0:12
	we should bring those wounds here	0:13
	for this is the place of belonging,	0:16
	of nurture and of healing.	0:19
	Jew or Gentile, slave or free,	0:23
	social status or sexual orientation are irrelevant here,	0:28
	only faith in Jesus Christ who became the sacrifice	0:32
	for the sin of all men and women	0:36
	and overcame it with love.	0:39
	Come to the table with thanksgiving that Christ	0:42
	has redeemed us as we claim our place	0:45
	alongside all the rest of God's children who believe.	0:49
	Nothing in this century or any other	0:53
	can separate us from the love of God.	0:57
	Amen.	1:01
	(lively organ music)	1:07
	(congregation singing)	1:50
-	The Lord be with you.	4:19
-	And also with you.	4:20
-	Let us pray.	4:22
	Most holy God, creator, redeemer	4:32
	and sustainer of all that is,	4:36
	we give thanks to you for the beauty of this day	4:39
	and for this gathering of your people.	4:42
	From the particularities of our lives	4:45
	and our individual histories,	4:47
	we come together as your children,	4:50
	claiming the privilege of worshiping you	4:52
	and glorifying your holy name.	4:54
	As heirs of the risen Christ,	4:57
	we give thanks for the gift of your Son,	4:59
	for his life, death and resurrection	5:02
	by which we come to know ourselves	5:06
	and know how we are meant to live in this world.	5:08
	We remember this morning, holy God	5:14
	that our world is filled with hate,	5:15
	with jealousy, with anger,	5:18
	with war and the rumors of war.	5:22
	In South Africa and Iraq and Iran,	5:26
	in Northern Ireland and in El Salvador,	5:30
	there are political tensions	5:33
	which deny your children peace and safety,	5:34
	for these peoples and others who know injustice,	5:39
	oppression and political tensions,	5:42
	we offer our prayers.	5:45
	In this country and around the world, Lord,	5:48
	there are peoples who went to bed last night hungry	5:50
	and who woke this morning to another day	5:54
	of hunger and physical pain.	5:56
	For the street people of this community	5:59
	and of this country,	6:01
	for those on the continent of Africa	6:03
	who must endure the ravages of drought,	6:05
	for the poor of Mexico and Latin America	6:09
	who know rampant malnutrition,	6:12
	we offer our prayers.	6:14
	We recall too, holy God,	6:18
	those individuals who mourn for the deaths of loved ones,	6:20
	those persons who know loneliness and fear,	6:24
	those men and women who are beset by terminal disease,	6:28
	those individuals who face the waning days	6:31
	of their lives with worry and weakened strength,	6:34
	those who live their lives behind the walls of prisons	6:37
	and those farmers who face foreclosure on their lands.	6:41
	For all persons who suffer physically,	6:45
	mentally, emotionally and spiritually,	6:48
	we offer our prayers.	6:51
	As we lift up these persons to you	6:54
	and pray for their well-being,	6:56
	help us, Lord, know in the very depths of our beings	6:58
	that prayer is more than pretty words	7:02
	and kind thoughts,	7:04
	that our prayers, if genuinely offered,	7:06
	compel us into the world as your servants	7:08
	to relieve pain and misery	7:11
	and to work for peace and justice for all peoples.	7:14
	In the name of your Son who offered his life	7:19
	as a prayer to you,	7:22
	and who taught us to pray to you through	7:24
	and by the service of our lives, amen.	7:26
	Because we have received bountifully	7:36
	from the riches of God's world,	7:38
	it is right and a good thing for us	7:41
	to return a portion of our resources	7:43
	to the work of the Lord.	7:45
	Let us now worship God	7:48
	with the offering of our gifts.	7:49
	(tranquil organ music)	7:55
	(choir singing)	9:23
	(lively organ music)	12:00
	(congregation singing)	12:25
	♪ Hallelujah, Hallelujah ♪	12:38
	♪ Hallelujah, Hallelujah ♪	12:58
	♪ Hallelujah ♪	13:05
	♪ Hallelujah ♪	13:08
	♪ Hallelujah ♪	13:11
	♪ Amen ♪	13:19
-	The Lord be with you.	13:50
-	And also with you.	13:52
-	Lift up your hearts.	13:54
-	We lift them up to the Lord.	13:55
-	It is truly right to glorify you, oh God	13:58
	and to give you thanks	14:01
	for you alone are God,	14:03
	living and true dwelling in light, inaccessible,	14:04
	from before time and forever.	14:08
	Fountain of life and source of all goodness,	14:11
	you made all things and filled them with your blessing.	14:15
	You created them to rejoice	14:19
	in the splendor of your radiance.	14:20
	Countless throngs of angels stand before you	14:23
	to serve you night and day	14:26
	and beholding the glory of your presence,	14:28
	they offer you unceasing praise,	14:31
	joining with them and giving voice	14:35
	to every creature under Heaven,	14:37
	we acclaim you and glorify your name	14:39
	as we say.	14:42
-	Holy, holy, holy Lord,	14:43
	God of power and might,	14:46
	Heaven and Earth are full of your glory,	14:48
	Hosannah in the highest.	14:51
	Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord,	14:53
	Hosannah in the highest.	14:57
-	We remember with joy the grace	15:00
	by which you created all things	15:02
	and made us in your own image.	15:05
	We rejoice that you called a people in covenant	15:07
	to be a light to the nations,	15:10
	yet we rebelled against your will,	15:13
	in spite of prophets and pastors sent froth to us,	15:16
	we continue to break your covenant.	15:20
	In the fullness of time, you sent your only son	15:23
	to save us,	15:26
	incarnate by the Holy Spirit,	15:28
	born of your favorite one Mary,	15:30
	sharing our life,	15:33
	he reconciled us to your love.	15:34
	At the Jordan, your spirit descended upon him,	15:38
	anointing him to preach the good news of the kingdom.	15:41
	He healed the sick and fed the hungry,	15:47
	manifesting the power of your compassion,	15:49
	he sought out the lost	15:52
	and broke bread with sinners,	15:54
	witnessing the fullness of your grace.	15:56
	We beheld his glory.	15:59
	On the night before he died for us,	16:02
	Jesus took bread, giving thanks to you,	16:05
	he broke the bread,	16:07
	offered it to his disciples saying,	16:09
	"Take, eat, this is my body	16:11
	"which is given for you.	16:14
	"Do this in remembrance of me."	16:16
	Taking a cup, again he gave thanks to you,	16:21
	shared the cup with his disciples	16:24
	and said, "This is the cup of the new covenant in my blood.	16:27
	"Drink from this, all of you.	16:31
	"This is poured out for you and for many	16:33
	"for the forgiveness of sins."	16:36
	After the meal, our Lord was arrested,	16:41
	abandoned by his followers and beaten.	16:43
	He stood trial and was put to death on a cross.	16:47
	Having emptied himself in the form of a servant	16:51
	and being obedient even unto death,	16:54
	he was raised from the dead	16:57
	and exulted as Lord of Heaven and Earth.	16:59
	Through him, you bestow the gift of your Spirit,	17:03
	uniting your church, empowering its mission	17:06
	and leading us into the new creation you have promised.	17:09
	Gracious God, we celebrate with joy	17:13
	the redemption won for us	17:16
	in Jesus Christ.	17:18
	Grant that in praise and thanksgiving,	17:20
	we may be a living sacrifice,	17:22
	holy and acceptable in your sight	17:25
	that our lives may proclaim the mystery of faith.	17:28
-	Christ has died, Christ is risen,	17:33
	Christ will come again.	17:37
-	Send the power of your Holy Spirit	17:39
	on us gathered here out of love for you	17:41
	and on these gifts.	17:44
	May the Spirit help us to know	17:46
	in the breaking for this bread	17:48
	and the drinking of this wine the presence	17:50
	of Christ who gave his body and blood for all	17:53
	and may the Spirit make us one with Christ,	17:58
	one with each other	18:01
	and one in service to all the world.	18:03
	Through your son, Jesus Christ,	18:06
	with the Holy Spirit in your holy church,	18:08
	all glory and honor is yours, almighty God,	18:11
	now and forever.	18:15
-	Amen.	18:17
	Our Father who art in Heaven,	18:19
	hallowed be thy name.	18:22
	They kingdom come, thy will be done	18:24
	on Earth as it is in Heaven.	18:27
	Give us this day our daily bread	18:30
	and forgive us our trespasses	18:32
	as we forgive those who trespass against us	18:35
	and lead us not into temptation	18:39
	but deliver us from evil	18:41
	for thine is the kingdom, the power and the glory forever.	18:43
-	Amen.	18:49
	The gifts of God for the people of God.	19:07
	(tranquil organ music)	19:12
	(congregation singing)	26:02
	(tranquil organ music)	29:05
	(congregation singing)	30:02
	Let us pray.	32:44
	We give you thanks, Almighty God	32:47
	that you have refreshed us through the healing power	32:49
	of this gift of life	32:53
	and we pray that in your mercy	32:56
	you would strengthen us through this gift	32:58
	in faith toward you and in fervent love	33:01
	toward one another	33:04
	for the sake of Jesus Christ our Lord, amen.	33:07
	(lively organ music)	33:14
	(congregation singing)	34:13
	Go forth from this place, rejoicing in the power	38:33
	of God which makes us one in Christ	38:36
	and in the love of Christ Jesus	38:39
	which is ever renewed at his table,	38:41
	and in the fellowship with each other	38:44
	and all of creation given by the Holy Spirit.	38:46
	May the blessing of God Almighty be with you now and always.	38:49
	Amen.	38:55
	♪ Amen ♪	39:01
	♪ Amen ♪	39:08
	♪ Amen ♪	39:14
	♪ Amen ♪	39:23
	(lively organ music)	39:40
	(people murmuring)	42:30

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Nancy Ferree-Clark - "One in Christ" (June 22, 1986)

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Sermon start time: (Part 1): 33:22. Sermon end time: (Part 2) 01:04.
In his letter to the Galatians, Paul claims that our membership in the Church (which we gain through faith and baptism) constitutes us as a new humanity, which is marked by a radical oneness and unity. In the body of the church, all are made one. This should call us to root out all divisions and oppression based on gender, sexuality, race, etc. (Abstract created by Duke Divinity School staff.)
Key quotation: “Paul’s word to us on our oneness in Christ seems an especially fitting call to the communion table. Were it possible to gather up all the wounds of those victims, both past and present, as well as our own, we should bring those wounds here, for this is the place of belonging, of nurture and of healing.”

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June 22, 1986

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