Judi J. Smith - "Definitely Different" (July 20, 1986)

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	(organ music)	0:03
	(organ music)	5:31
	(Pachelbel's Canon)	9:35
	(harp music)	15:38
-	Welcome to Duke Chapel.	19:18
	We have been brought to worship through the music	19:20
	of Karen Havinghurst who is our guest musician	19:23
	joining the Duke Chapel Summer Choir for today's service.	19:27
	Although it's hard to speak of Miss Havinghurst as a guest	19:31
	since she is a frequent artist here in the Chapel	19:34
	and we thank her for her contribution in today's service.	19:38
	Last Sunday our preacher was the Reverend Jake Smith	19:44
	from Asheville, North Carolina, a member of the	19:47
	Western North Carolina Conference of the Methodist Church,	19:50
	and today our preacher is the Reverend Judy Smith,	19:54
	pastor of Edgerton Memorial United Methodist Church	19:57
	in Selma, North Carolina.	20:00
	Although Duke Chapel is an interdenominational	20:03
	place of worship, we enjoy a strong relationship	20:06
	with both conferences of the United Methodist Church	20:11
	here in North Carolina and we feel privileged to have	20:14
	both of these distinguished preachers as guests	20:18
	in our pulpit over the past two weeks.	20:21
	We're glad that you're with us today here in the chapel.	20:24
	Let us fill this great church with praise	20:28
	as we continue our service.	20:31
	♪ Praise ye the Lord of hosts ♪	20:46
	♪ Sing his salvation ♪	20:51
	♪ Bless his name ♪	20:55
	♪ Show forth his praise ♪	20:57
	♪ In this holy house ♪	21:00
	♪ Praise ye the Lord of hosts ♪	21:05
	♪ Sing his salvation ♪	21:09
	♪ Bless his name ♪	21:14
	♪ Show forth his praise ♪	21:16
	♪ In this holy house ♪	21:19
	♪ And shall he come ♪	21:24
	♪ Oh ye heavens now be joyful ♪	21:27
	♪ Christ with his to be heard ♪	21:33
	♪ All earth shall sing alleluia ♪	21:37
	(organ music)	21:53
	(indistinct congregational singing)	22:34
-	Oh eternal God, Who has taught us	26:34
	to keep all Thy commandments by loving Thee	26:38
	and our neighbor, grant us the grace of Thy Holy Spirit	26:41
	that we may be devoted to Thee with our whole heart	26:47
	and united to one another with pure affection.	26:51
	Through Jesus Christ our Lord Who liveth and reigneth	26:55
	with Thee in the same spirit,	26:59
	one God forever and ever, amen.	27:01
-	Let us pray.	27:14
	Open our hearts and minds, oh God,	27:17
	by the power of Your Holy Spirit so that as the Word	27:21
	is read and proclaimed we might hear with joy	27:25
	what You say to us this day, amen.	27:29
	The first lesson is taken from the Second Book of Kings.	27:35
	One day Elisha went on to Shunem	27:39
	where a wealthy woman lived who urged him to eat some food.	27:43
	So whenever he passed that way,	27:48
	he would turn in there to eat food.	27:51
	And she said to her husband,	27:54
	"Behold now, I perceive that this is a holy man of God	27:57
	"who is continually passing our way.	28:03
	"Let us make a small roof chamber with walls	28:06
	"and put there for him a bed, a table, a chair, and a lamp	28:10
	"so that whenever he comes to us he can go in there."	28:16
	One day he came there and he turned into the chamber	28:23
	and rested there.	28:27
	And he said to Gehazi, his servant,	28:29
	"Call this Shunemmite."	28:32
	When he had called her, she stood before him	28:35
	and he said to him, "Say now to her see, you have taken	28:39
	"all this trouble for us.	28:46
	"What is to be done for you?	28:49
	"Would you have a word spoken on your behalf to the king	28:53
	"or to the commander of the army?"	28:56
	She answered, "I dwell with my own people."	28:59
	And he said, "What then is to be done for her?"	29:05
	Gehazi answered, "Well, she has no son	29:09
	"and her husband is old."	29:13
	He said, "Call her."	29:16
	And when he had called her, she stood in the doorway.	29:19
	And he said, "At this season when the time comes round,	29:23
	"you shall embrace a son."	29:29
	And she said, "No, my lord, oh man of God.	29:32
	"Do not lie to your maidservant."	29:35
	But the woman conceived and she bore a son	29:39
	about that time the following year	29:42
	as Elisha had said to her.	29:46
	This ends the reading of the first lesson.	29:50
	♪ The earth is the Lord's ♪	30:14
	♪ And the fullness thereof ♪	30:20
	♪ The earth is the Lord's ♪	30:27
	♪ And the fullness thereof ♪	30:33
	♪ The earth is the Lord's ♪	30:40
	♪ And the fullness thereof ♪	30:44
	♪ The earth is the Lord's ♪	30:53
	♪ And the fullness thereof ♪	30:57
	♪ All creatures who live ♪	31:21
	♪ Alleluia ♪	31:25
	♪ On the earth are the Lord's ♪	31:28
	♪ All creatures who live ♪	31:35
	♪ Alleluia ♪	31:39
	♪ On the earth are the Lord's ♪	31:41
	♪ Alleluia ♪	31:45
	♪ All creatures who live ♪	31:48
	♪ On the earth are the Lord's ♪	31:52
	♪ Are the Lord's ♪	31:57
	♪ All creatures who live ♪	32:02
	♪ On the earth are the Lord's ♪	32:05
	♪ For who can rightly ascend ♪	32:20
	♪ The hill of the Lord ♪	32:26
	♪ And who may stand in his house ♪	32:34
	♪ To stand in his house ♪	32:41
	♪ The pure in heart and hands ♪	32:48
	♪ The pure in heart and hands ♪	32:55
	♪ Such shall be called of God ♪	33:03
	♪ Who are his hands ♪	33:09
	♪ The earth is the Lord's ♪	33:18
	♪ Alleluia ♪	33:23
	♪ And the fullness thereof ♪	33:25
	♪ Alleluia ♪	33:28
	♪ The earth is the Lord's ♪	33:31
	♪ Alleluia ♪	33:35
	♪ And the fullness thereof ♪	33:38
	♪ Alleluia ♪	33:42
	♪ The earth is the Lord's ♪	33:45
	♪ And the fullness thereof ♪	33:48
	♪ Alleluia ♪	33:56
	♪ The earth is the Lord's ♪	33:59
	♪ And the fullness thereof ♪	34:02
	♪ Alleluia ♪	34:10
	♪ Alleluia, Alleluia ♪	34:12
	♪ Amen ♪	34:17
	(organ music)	34:33
	(indistinct congregational singing)	34:42
-	The Gospel lesson is taken from Luke.	35:44
	Now as they went on their way he entered a village.	35:49
	And a woman named Martha received him into her house.	35:53
	And she had a sister called Mary who sat at the Lord's feet	35:59
	and listened to his teaching.	36:04
	But Martha was distracted with much serving.	36:08
	And she went to him and said, "Lord, do you not care	36:11
	"that my sister has left me to serve alone?	36:15
	"Tell her then to help me."	36:20
	But the Lord answered her, "Martha, Martha,	36:23
	"you are anxious and troubled about many things.	36:26
	"One thing is needful.	36:30
	"Mary has chosen the good portion which shall not	36:33
	"be taken away from her."	36:36
	This ends the reading of the Gospel.	36:39
	♪ Be Thou my vision, O Lord of my heart ♪	37:02
	♪ Naught be all else to me, save that Thou art ♪	37:11
	♪ Thou my best Thought, by day or by night ♪	37:20
	♪ Waking or sleeping, Thy presence my light. ♪	37:29
	♪ Be Thou my Wisdom, and Thou my true Word ♪	37:51
	♪ I ever with Thee and Thou with me, Lord ♪	38:00
	♪ Thou my great Father, I Thy true son ♪	38:09
	♪ Thou in me dwelling, and I with Thee one. ♪	38:19
	♪ Riches I heed not, nor man's empty praise ♪	38:32
	♪ Thou mine Inheritance, now and always ♪	38:40
	♪ Thou and Thou only, first in my heart ♪	38:50
	♪ High King of heaven, my Treasure Thou art ♪	38:59
	♪ High King of heaven, my victory won ♪	39:17
	♪ May I reach heaven's joys, O bright heaven's Sun ♪	39:26
	♪ Heart of my own heart, whatever befall ♪	39:35
	♪ Still be my Vision, O Ruler of all ♪	39:45
-	The Epistle lesson is taken from Paul's letter	40:14
	to the Colossians.	40:17
	And you, who once were estranged and hostile in mind,	40:20
	doing evil deeds, he has now reconciled in his body of flesh	40:25
	by his death, in order to present you holy and blameless	40:31
	and irreproachable before him,	40:37
	provided that you continue in the faith,	40:40
	stable and steadfast, not shifting from the hope	40:43
	of the gospel which you heard,	40:47
	which has been preached to every creature under heaven,	40:50
	and of which I, Paul, became a minister.	40:53
	Now I rejoice in my sufferings for your sake,	40:58
	and in my flesh I complete what is lacking	41:02
	in Christ's afflictions for the sake of his body,	41:04
	that is, the church, of which I became a minister	41:08
	according to the divine office which was given	41:12
	to me for you, to make the word of God fully known,	41:16
	the mystery hidden for ages and generations	41:23
	but now made manifest to his saints.	41:27
	To them God chose to make known how great	41:31
	among the Gentiles are the riches of the glory	41:34
	of this mystery, which is Christ in you, the hope of glory.	41:38
	Him we proclaim, warning every one	41:45
	and teaching every one in all wisdom,	41:49
	that we may present every one mature in Christ.	41:53
	For this I toil, striving with all the energy	41:58
	which he mightily inspires within me.	42:03
	This ends the reading of the Epistle lesson.	42:07
-	Let us pray.	42:20
	By your presence, Lord, bless and inspire	42:24
	all that is said and heard.	42:27
	Take my words and make them thine.	42:31
	Grant to us the ability to understand	42:35
	and the strength to act upon that which we know is true.	42:38
	This I pray in Christ's name, amen.	42:44
	My paternal grandmother raised a large family	42:51
	and lived and died with many firm convictions.	42:55
	One of her convictions was that things	43:01
	were either right or they were wrong.	43:04
	They were either good or they were bad.	43:07
	There was no middle ground.	43:11
	There was no in between, no gray area.	43:13
	And I like to think that the world she lived in	43:18
	was less complex than the one that we know today	43:21
	and that there were not as many voices clamoring	43:26
	for attention as we know today.	43:28
	And yet in my better moments I doubt that that is true.	43:33
	The apostle Paul writing to the church at Colossae	43:39
	was aware that the Christians there	43:43
	were struggling to survive.	43:45
	Not physically perhaps, but spiritually.	43:48
	There abounded in that city teachers and preachers	43:53
	of many different faiths, those who obviously believed	43:57
	that a simple faith and trust	44:02
	in Jesus Christ was not enough.	44:05
	There were those who sought to inmesh Judaic	44:09
	and pagan practices and doctrines with the fundamental truth	44:12
	of the good news, the gospel of Christ,	44:18
	and the result was a severe ascetic morality	44:23
	and a diminishing of the glory of Christ	44:27
	and the freedom of the Christian life.	44:31
	Redemption was offered but it was not compatible	44:34
	with the Christian gospel, for it consisted not	44:39
	in the forgiveness of sins mediated through Christ	44:43
	and his passion and resurrection,	44:46
	but of a higher knowledge coupled with legalism.	44:50
	It was an attractive heresy that small church	44:54
	struggled against.	44:58
	A heresy that attacked the adequacy	45:01
	and unique supremacy of Christ.	45:03
	A heresy that belittled his redeeming work	45:08
	done in the flesh.	45:11
	Hence the apostle's great concern that they continue	45:14
	in the faith, the hope of the gospel	45:18
	which they had heard, stable and steadfast,	45:21
	not shifting from it, this gospel of which Paul	45:24
	had become a minister.	45:29
	I think one major fear has dogged my steps ever since	45:32
	I reached the age of accountability and some awareness	45:37
	of the world around me.	45:41
	And perhaps it is your fear too.	45:43
	I have always been afraid that the advance of years	45:47
	would bring in their wake an inability	45:51
	and an unwillingness to grow mentally,	45:55
	would bring a fixity of opinion so that old concepts	45:59
	and beliefs never had any new light cast upon them.	46:05
	A fear that mental exploration	46:10
	and spiritual seeking would stop.	46:12
	Perhaps it is this fear that has helped to create in people	46:17
	in every age a kind of restless seeking	46:21
	for that which gives meaning to life.	46:25
	Adopting and then casting off new	46:28
	and strange philosophies,	46:32
	a striving to find a fixed foundation upon which	46:34
	to rest the weight of our life.	46:38
	And if we are not careful, we waste	46:42
	the greater part of our years because we are deaf to	46:44
	that old, unchanging message of the church,	46:47
	that in Jesus Christ and Him alone	46:51
	there is fullness of life,	46:55
	freedom, and hope.	46:58
	That in Jesus Christ the fullness of God	47:02
	was pleased to dwell and to reconcile	47:05
	to Himself all things.	47:08
	Our death.	47:13

-	Unwillingness to grasp that simple message	0:04
	often leads us down strange paths	0:08
	and produces in us terrible consequences.	0:10
	Pity the one who has never reached the place	0:16
	where he can say with the apostle,	0:19
	I know in whom I have believed	0:21
	and I am convinced	0:26
	that he is able to keep, to sustain,	0:28
	to bring to completion all that I have committed to him.	0:34
	In whom I have believed.	0:41
	Not what, but whom.	0:45
	I know, I am convinced	0:49
	he is able.	0:54
	Now there is stability for you.	0:56
	Sureness, unquestioning acceptance.	0:59
	We should rejoice when we come to the place	1:04
	or the time where our faith in Christ	1:07
	is no longer uncertain or unsure.	1:10
	When we are no longer tossed to and froe	1:15
	by every doctrinal wind that blows.	1:18
	When we are deaf to the whisperings	1:23
	of every new philosophy of life that comes upon the scene,	1:26
	we should rejoice.	1:30
	When the sureness, the stability of faith in Jesus Christ	1:32
	marks your life.	1:37
	And you need not fret that you are being closed minded	1:40
	and unthinking, for it is only now that you can	1:44
	begin to comprehend the meaning of continuing in the faith.	1:49
	For now there is something that can be continued.	1:54
	Something that can grow and develop	1:58
	and mature and flower and bare fruit in your life.	2:00
	When the root is secure, only then can something grow.	2:06
	I know nothing about horticulture,	2:12
	but I know some people who do.	2:16
	And this is what they tell me.	2:19
	That even the strongest of shrubs,	2:22
	if moved every week will soon die.	2:26
	Even if it is skillfully moved once a year,	2:31
	it will bear no fruit.	2:36
	Oh the misery that comes to life.	2:39
	The spiritual distress	2:43
	when our faith and beliefs	2:46
	are determined by the last speaker that we heard.	2:49
	Or the last book that we read.	2:54
	Or even by our own present circumstances.	2:58
	Faith may be informed by such,	3:03
	maybe clarified or refined.	3:07
	But the foundation, the root is secure.	3:09
	Next Sunday in Selma I'm going to baptize a man	3:15
	who has lived the majority of his years	3:19
	without any fixity of belief in Jesus Christ.	3:22
	But the time has come for him when he is willing	3:26
	to stand before God and the congregation	3:29
	and affirm this, I believe.	3:33
	And publicly profess his belief in Jesus Christ.	3:36
	And that is a wonderful thing.	3:42
	But what is even more wonderful is his belief	3:44
	and his excitement that he is simply	3:47
	on the threshold of the greatest adventure of life.	3:50
	All that comes after that.	3:53
	The continuing.	3:55
	The growth and the development.	3:57
	The taking of Christ's yoke and the learning of him.	3:59
	Finding that Christ is adequate, more than adequate.	4:04
	For his life, it stresses and it strains.	4:10
	Finding that life that is definitely different.	4:15
	The acid test of Christianity, its beliefs,	4:21
	and its practices is not here	4:25
	in this place of worship.	4:29
	But is in your home, your office, your shop.	4:32
	The cornfield, the golf course, wherever you play,	4:39
	wherever you live.	4:45
	And if it doesn't work there then it's doubtful	4:47
	that it works any place at all.	4:49
	God's work of reconciliation gets verified in those places.	4:53
	And we are compelled to give more than lip service	4:59
	to our loyalties in those places.	5:03
	And to live up to and live upon our convictions.	5:07
	I really believe there is no separation	5:14
	between the secular and the sacred.	5:17
	For once you know and affirm that Jesus Christ is Lord,	5:20
	then that lordship extends to and flows over into	5:25
	your work, your play, your relationships.	5:31
	For Christ is there.	5:37
	Perhaps Robert Browning put it best.	5:41
	I tread no path in life to him unknown.	5:45
	I lift no burden, bear no pain alone.	5:51
	Don't fear your convictions.	5:56
	Don't fear you certitude of faith.	6:00
	Shape it, illuminate, prune and refine it.	6:04
	Test and try it, but don't fear it.	6:10
	For it is the foundation upon which	6:15
	the holy spirit can begin to build and to produce	6:17
	fruit in your life.	6:21
	To produce the beauty of Christ's life within you.	6:24
	Life that is issues in holiness,	6:29
	that which is different, set apart.	6:33
	Now the way that you recognize when something is different	6:38
	is not when you move it from all else,	6:41
	but when you put it in context.	6:44
	When you see it alongside everything else.	6:46
	Have you seen that commercial on television	6:49
	when they're proclaiming the superiority	6:51
	of one particular brand of mattress over another?	6:54
	Well, they don't put this mattress that they're	6:58
	advertising out by itself somewhere.	7:00
	The camera shows you a whole span of mattresses.	7:03
	And gradually you begin to be aware that there	7:07
	is one among those mattresses that is different,	7:10
	for it is seen in context.	7:13
	There are no glass houses put around Christians.	7:17
	There is no point at which we become so spiritual	7:20
	and holy that we are relieved from the basic	7:23
	physical necessities that make up the lives of all people.	7:26
	It is always questionable when one becomes	7:30
	so heavenly minded, he is of no practical earthly use.	7:33
	And yet the difference comes in that as we work	7:38
	or as we play, we know in whom we trust.	7:41
	And it gives our words a different tone.	7:47
	It gives our tone a different meaning.	7:50
	It gives our life new hope.	7:52
	Holiness.	7:57
	And then Paul said there is developed	8:00
	within you blamelessness.	8:03
	That word is strange, but not the condition.	8:07
	For it is not only how God in Christ sees us,	8:11
	but how we can see ourselves.	8:16
	Paul says that God in Christ has reconciled us to himself.	8:20
	That Jesus Christ by his cross has made possible	8:27
	the cleansing and the renewing of life.	8:31
	That we may stand before God unspotted,	8:36
	without blemish, forgiven and recreated.	8:40
	That's good news.	8:46
	That's the hope of the gospel.	8:49
	And here we have a responsibility too	8:52
	because God forgives us, cleanses and renews us,	8:56
	we can forgive ourselves.	9:01
	How many people live life reproaching themselves	9:05
	for their past?	9:09
	Never able to forgive themselves	9:12
	for something that was said or done	9:14
	or lived through so many years ago.	9:17
	And they're hindered from living a full life, a free life.	9:23
	They know nothing of the freedom of the Christian life.	9:27
	Continually calling to mind their past	9:31
	and blaming and reproaching themselves.	9:34
	And perhaps here also is where our forgiveness	9:36
	of each other is tested.	9:39
	To be able to allow another to have the freedom	9:43
	from our digging up their past.	9:47
	Pulling out the old.	9:51
	Never moving on.	9:54
	If in God's sight of us through Christ	9:56
	we are forgiven and cleansed and stand before him	10:01
	without reproach then we can turn to face the future,	10:05
	and perhaps irreproachablenesd aptly describes	10:10
	the quality of that future.	10:14
	A life of such quality that no charge	10:18
	can be leveled against it.	10:21
	The quality of life that becomes a walking advertisement	10:24
	for the Christian faith.	10:28
	Because our commitment to Christ is not only	10:30
	a matter of the heart, but also of the will,	10:33
	then it becomes a willful decision to continue	10:37
	stable and steadfast, not shifting.	10:40
	There is a song in our Methodist hymnal	10:46
	that I think I cherish above all the others.	10:51
	It poetically expresses Paul's prose.	10:55
	My hope is built on nothing less	11:02
	than Jesus' blood and righteousness.	11:06
	I dare not trust the sweetest frame,	11:10
	but holy lean on Jesus' name.	11:15
	On Christ, the solid rock I stand.	11:19
	All other ground is sinking sand.	11:23
	All other ground is sinking sand.	11:27
	And you who once were estranged and hostile in mind	11:34
	doing evil deeds, he has now reconciled	11:39
	in his body of flesh by his death.	11:43
	In order to present you holy and blameless	11:46
	and irreproachable before him, provided that you	11:51
	continue in the faith, stable and steadfast.	11:55
	Not shifting from the hope of the gospel which you heard.	12:01
	Do you know Christ?	12:08
	Have you faith in him?	12:11
	Is your faith in him the central	12:15
	certitude of your life?	12:18
	I pray God, it is so.	12:23
	Amen.	12:27
	(traditional Catholic music)	12:34
-	The Lord be with you.	16:20
-	And also with you.	16:22
-	Let us pray.	16:25
	Lord God, help us to pray as Jesus Christ has taught us.	16:40
	So that our prayers for others be of the kind	16:48
	which you want and not just ways of getting what we want.	16:52
	We who already have so much.	16:59
	In Jesus Christ, our savior.	17:02
	Let us pray for the world.	17:07
	Lord of all the worlds that are,	17:10
	we pray for the whole of creation.	17:13
	Order the unruly powers.	17:16
	Deal with injustice.	17:20
	Feed and satisfy the longing peoples	17:23
	so that in freedom your children may enjoy the world	17:27
	you have made and cheerfully sing your praises.	17:32
	Let us pray for the church.	17:38
	Gracious God you called us to be the church of Jesus Christ.	17:42
	A distinctive and holy people called for faith,	17:48
	but leave service telling good news to the world.	17:51
	That all may believe you are love	17:56
	and live to give you glory.	18:00
	Let us pray for peace.	18:05
	Eternal God send peace on this troubled earth	18:08
	and put down greed, pride, and anger.	18:12
	Which turn nation against nation.	18:16
	Speed that day when wars will end	18:19
	and all shall call upon you as savior and Lord.	18:23
	Let us pray for enemies.	18:28
	Oh God whom we cannot love unless we love our neighbors,	18:32
	remove hate and prejudice from us	18:37
	so that your children may be reconciled	18:41
	with those whom they fear, resent, or threaten	18:43
	and live together in your peace.	18:48
	Let us pray for those who govern us.	18:52
	Almighty God, ruler of all direct those	18:57
	who make, administer, and judge our laws.	19:00
	The president of these United States.	19:05
	Our senators and representatives.	19:08
	The mayor and counsel of this city.	19:11
	That led by your wisdom they may lead us	19:15
	in the way of righteousness.	19:19
	Let us pray for the sick.	19:23
	Merciful God, you bear the hurt of the world.	19:27
	Look with compassion upon those who are sick this day,	19:33
	especially those in Duke Hospitals.	19:37
	Cheer them by your word and bring health	19:41
	as a sure sign to them that in your kingdom	19:44
	there will be no more pain or crying anymore.	19:48
	Let us pray for rain.	19:55
	Creator of the world, we are dependent upon you	19:59
	to give us what we need to live.	20:01
	For crops and bread.	20:04
	For cattle and all living things,	20:07
	we pray for life giving water.	20:09
	In remembrance of your daily kindnesses to us,	20:13
	we pray for those in our region who suffer	20:17
	because of heat or drought.	20:20
	And let us pray for friends and families.	20:25
	Oh God, whom we call upon his father,	20:30
	bless us and those whom we love.	20:33
	Our friends and our families.	20:38
	That drawing close to you, we may be drawn	20:41
	closer to one another.	20:45
	These things we pray in the name of Jesus Christ our Lord.	20:49
	Amen.	20:54
	And now as the people who have been blessed much	21:00
	by a loving and gracious God, let us offer ourselves	21:03
	and our gifts for the work of God.	21:07
	(traditional Catholic music)	21:16
-	Oh eternal God, the author and giver of all good things.	27:58
	We thank thee for all thy mercies	28:03
	and for thy loving care over all thy creatures.	28:07
	We bless thee for the gift of life,	28:11
	for thy protection round about us.	28:14
	For thy guiding hand upon us.	28:16
	And for the tokens of thy love within us.	28:19
	We thank thee for friendship and duty.	28:23
	For good hopes and precious memories.	28:26
	For the joys that cheer us and the trials	28:29
	that teach us to trust in thee.	28:33
	Most of all, we thank thee for the saving knowledge	28:36
	of thy son, our savior.	28:40
	For the living presence of thy spirit of the comforter.	28:42
	For thy church, the body of Christ.	28:46
	For the ministry of word and sacrament	28:49
	and all the means of grace.	28:51
	In all these things, oh God, make us wise	28:54
	and to a right use of thy benefits	28:58
	that we may render an acceptable thanksgiving unto thee	29:01
	all the days of our life.	29:05
	Through Jesus Christ our Lord who taught us	29:07
	to pray with confidence.	29:10
	Our father who art in heaven, hallowed be thy name.	29:13
	Thy kingdom come, thy will be done	29:17
	on earth as it is in heaven.	29:21
	Give us this day our daily bread	29:23
	and forgive us our trespasses	29:26
	as we forgive those who trespass against us.	29:29
	And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil.	29:32
	For thine is the kingdom, the power, and the glory forever.	29:37
	Amen.	29:43
	(traditional Catholic music)	29:46
-	And now may the grace of our Lord and savior,	33:21
	Jesus Christ, the love of God, and the fellowship	33:24
	of the holy spirit be with you now and always.	33:28
	(traditional Catholic music)	33:37
	(people chattering)	42:02

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Title:

Judi J. Smith - "Definitely Different" (July 20, 1986)

Description:

As humans we are constantly seeking for something stable on which to stake our lives. Paul reminds us in Colossians that it is only in Jesus Christ that we can find fullness of life, freedom, and hope. This faith does not remove us from the rest of the world, but is evidenced in a difference in the way we live in our daily lives. (Abstract created by Duke Divinity School staff.)
Sermon start time: (Part 1) 41:51. Sermon end time: (Part 2) 12:30.
Key quotation: “The acid test of Christianity, its beliefs and its practices, is not here in this place of worship, but is in your home, your office, your shop. The cornfield, the golf course, wherever you play, wherever you live. And if it doesn’t work there, then it’s doubtful that it works any place at all.”

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July 20, 1986

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Smith, Judi J.

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Duke University. Chapel

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