Paul Moore, Jr. - "The Open Church" (March 2, 1980)

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-	Duke University chapel service of worship,	0:04
	March second, 1980.	0:06
	(organ music)	0:09
	(light organ music)	3:33
	(organ music)	4:51
	(organ music)	10:17
	(choir singing)	17:17
	(organ music)	18:27
	(choir singing)	19:00
	(organ music)	19:37
-	Friends, I greet you today in the name of the one	21:43
	who creates and sustains us,	21:47
	who saves us, and who walks with us.	21:50
	We are come together this morning	21:54
	in the presence of Almighty God,	21:55
	and of the whole company of heaven,	21:57
	to make humble confession of our sins and to our God,	22:00
	to set forth praise worthy of God,	22:04
	to hear God's most holy word,	22:07
	to declare our faith in God,	22:10
	to ask for ourselves in all people	22:13
	those things that are necessary for the body and soul,	22:16
	and to offer unto God the service of our lives,	22:20
	and to receive God's blessing.	22:25
	Therefore, let us begin by confessing our sins	22:28
	that we may claim again the forgiveness	22:32
	already offered unto us.	22:35
	Let us pray.	22:38
	Almighty God who art rich in mercy	22:46
	to all those who call upon thee,	22:49
	hear us, we beseech thee,	22:53
	as we confess our sins before thee.	22:55
	In the presence of thy love and our neighbor's need,	22:59
	we acknowledge our disobedience and ingratitude,	23:03
	our pride and willfulness,	23:07
	our heedlessness and indifference.	23:10
	We confess that we are not worthy to be called thy children,	23:13
	yet do thou in mercy keep us as thine own.	23:18
	Grant us true repentance,	23:23
	and forgive us all our sins	23:25
	through Jesus Christ our Lord, amen.	23:28
	Let us confess in silence our personal sins.	23:33
	There is no sin so terrible that God's love cannot forgive.	24:06
	In the name of Jesus Christ, your sins are forgiven.	24:12
-	There is no sin so terrible	24:18
	that God's love cannot forgive.	24:20
	In the name of Jesus Christ, your sins are forgiven.	24:24
-	Let us give thanks, for God is good,	24:29
	and God's love is everlasting.	24:32
	Thanks be to God whose love has made us,	24:35
	thanks be to God whose mercy forgives us,	24:39
	thanks be to God whose promise secures us, amen.	24:43
	There is a car parked out front which has its lights on.	24:53
	It's a North Carolina license plate, HLK 939.	24:57
	There will be an organ recital tonight at seven p.m.	25:08
	by Grigg Fountain.	25:11
	Today in the memorial chapel to my right	25:16
	immediately following this service,	25:19
	there will be a service of holy communion.	25:21
	We welcome to the pulpit today	25:26
	the Right Reverend Paul Moore,	25:28
	bishop of New York, the Episcopal Church.	25:31
	We look forward to the message he will bring to us.	25:34
	Let us pray.	25:42
	Prepare our hearts, O Lord, to accept your word.	25:47
	Silence in us any voice but your own,	25:52
	that hearing we may also obey your will	25:56
	through Jesus Christ our Lord, amen.	25:59
	The Old Testament lesson is from the 61st chapter of Isaiah,	26:05
	verses one through nine.	26:09
	"The spirit of the Lord God is upon me,	26:13
	"because the Lord has anointed me	26:17
	"to bring good tidings to the afflicted,	26:18
	"He has sent me to bind up the brokenhearted,	26:21
	"to proclaim liberty to the captives,	26:25
	"and the opening of the prison to those who are bound,	26:28
	"to proclaim the year of the Lord's favor,	26:31
	"and the day of vengeance of our God,	26:35
	"to comfort all who mourn,	26:38
	"to grant to those who mourn in Zion,	26:41
	"to give them a garland instead of ashes,	26:44
	"the oil of gladness instead of mourning,	26:47
	"the mantle of praise instead of a faint spirit,	26:51
	"that they may be called oaks of righteousness,	26:55
	"the planting of the Lord, that He may be glorified.	26:58
	"They shall build up the ancient ruins,	27:04
	"they shall raise up the former devastations,	27:07
	"they shall repair the ruined cities,	27:10
	"the devastations of many generations.	27:13
	"Aliens shall stand and feed your flocks,	27:16
	"foreigners shall be your plowmen and vine dressers,	27:20
	"but you shall be called the priests of the Lord,	27:24
	"men shall speak of you as the ministers of our God,	27:27
	"you shall eat the wealth of the nations,	27:31
	"and in their riches you shall glory.	27:34
	"Instead of your shame you shall have a double portion,	27:37
	"instead of dishonor you shall rejoice in your lot,	27:41
	"therefore in your land you shall possess a double portion,	27:45
	"yours shall be an everlasting joy.	27:49
	"For I the Lord love justice,	27:53
	"I hate robbery and wrong,	27:57
	"I will faithfully give them their recompense,	28:00
	"and I will make an everlasting covenant with them.	28:03
	"Their descendants shall be known among the nations,	28:07
	"and their offspring in the midst of the peoples,	28:10
	"all who see them shall acknowledge them,	28:13
	"that they are a people whom the Lord has blessed."	28:16
	Here ends the reading from the Old Testament.	28:22
	(organ music)	28:26
	(choir singing)	28:55
-	The gospel lesson is from the 16th chapter of Matthew,	32:27
	verses 24 to 27.	32:31
	Please stand for the reading of the gospel.	32:34
	"Then Jesus told His disciples,	32:41
	"If anyone would come after me,	32:44
	"let him deny himself and take up his cross and follow me.	32:46
	"For whoever would save his life will lose it,	32:51
	"and whoever loses his life for my sake will find it.	32:55
	"For what will it profit a person,	33:00
	"if he gains the whole world and forfeits his life?	33:03
	"Or what shall a person give in return for his life?	33:07
	"For the Son of man is to come with his angels	33:12
	"in the glory of his Father,	33:15
	"and then he will repay everyone for what he has done."	33:17
	Praise be to God.	33:24
	(organ music)	33:26
	(choir singing)	33:34
-	Almighty God,	34:29
	open our hearts	34:32
	and open our minds	34:35
	and open our lives to your love, amen.	34:38
	It is good to be in the sunny south once more,	34:49
	having come down from a lovely day in New York City	34:55
	to celebrate winter sports.	34:58
	I think if they're worried about	35:02
	where to have the next Winter Olympics,	35:04
	I've got a nomination for them.	35:05
	But I must say, I'm impressed by those of you who are here,	35:09
	and who have come out through the snow for this service,	35:15
	and it's a great privilege for me to preach here	35:19
	for the first time in this beautiful chapel.	35:21
	I can't believe that this is not an Episcopal institution,	35:25
	(Congregation laughs)	35:29
	but it makes our cathedral in New York	35:31
	look like a humble little chapel in the wilderness.	35:34
	It is beautiful though, seriously,	35:37
	and I feel very much at home here,	35:39
	and very grateful to Bob and the others	35:42
	who invited me to be at Duke today.	35:44
	The first lesson this morning from Isaiah	35:49
	is the famous passage which our Lord Himself used	35:52
	when He first preached in the synagogue,	35:55
	proclaiming liberty to the captives.	35:59
	The second lesson spoke of our Lord	36:04
	saying to His disciples,	36:09
	"If any man would come after me,	36:12
	"let him deny himself and take up his cross and follow me."	36:14
	And the other text I'd like to use this morning,	36:23
	"I, if I be lifted up,	36:28
	"will draw all men unto me."	36:31
	The theme being the openness of Christ	36:37
	and how this is deeply part of the passion,	36:42
	the suffering, and the love of Christ.	36:46
	Did it ever occur to you that the way Jesus died	36:51
	was no accident of history?	36:55
	Not just because the Romans happened, at that time,	36:59
	to execute most criminals by means of a cross,	37:02
	but rather that there was a much deeper significance	37:07
	about the way He died,	37:10
	so that the symbol of His church coming down	37:12
	through the ages would always be the cross,	37:15
	always symbolize the openness of Jesus	37:19
	whereby His hands were nailed open,	37:25
	and His arms stretched open forever	37:29
	in the symbol of the openness of His love.	37:34
	We believe that the church, you and I,	37:40
	are the body of Christ.	37:44
	This is not just an easy symbol, a word picture,	37:48
	but it has a very, very deep reality,	37:53
	and if indeed we are the body of Christ,	37:58
	then we must be exposing our whole body,	38:01
	our arms nailed open as a church,	38:08
	our arms nailed open as individuals.	38:12
	So I'd like to talk through a little bit today	38:17
	about the physical openness of the church,	38:21
	the intellectual openness of the church,	38:23
	and the openness of the church	38:26
	in its heart and in its love.	38:28
	Around so many of our congregations,	38:33
	our invisible doors,	38:37
	the first parish I ever went to symbolized it so well,	38:42
	it was an inner city parish	38:48
	in a very poor neighborhood of Jersey City,	38:49
	and they had this lovely Old English lychgate	38:53
	over the entrance to the garden,	38:57
	having been built in more prosperous times,	38:58
	and across it were inscribed in gothic letters,	39:03
	"Enter His gates with thanksgiving."	39:06
	Beneath, on the iron gate, were the signs: Keep Out.	39:09
	This is what we keep saying in our churches	39:16
	again and again and again, oh yes,	39:20
	we welcome all people, but when they come into the churches,	39:22
	they do not feel at home	39:25
	for so many, many different reasons,	39:28
	and it isn't just that the Christians	39:31
	are keeping out those who are not Christians,	39:33
	the Christians are keeping each other	39:35
	out of each other's churches.	39:37
	We pray for the unity of the church,	39:40
	and we bemoan our divisions,	39:42
	so often blamed on doctrinal differences, and	39:46
	we labor hours in our seminaries trying to resolve these.	39:49
	That's not the real reason we're separate,	39:55
	I think if tomorrow morning all the doctrines	40:00
	of all the churches were made exactly the same,	40:02
	we would still be separate.	40:05
	It was a very convenient thing,	40:09
	I know to my grandparents and parents, that when the Irish,	40:11
	the unwashed Irish came into America,	40:16
	they were Roman Catholics,	40:20
	and therefore in another church.	40:22
	It's been a very convenient thing that most black people	40:25
	have been Baptists	40:27
	for those white churches that were not,	40:30
	because then we didn't really have to mingle very much,	40:33
	and so on and so on and so on,	40:36
	and then some of the cultural differences.	40:37
	What keeps, I think,	40:40
	the Episcopalians apart from the Methodists	40:41
	more than anything else is that one uses grape juice	40:43
	at the Eucharist and the other uses wine.	40:46
	Don't think our Lord is too concerned about that,	40:49
	of course He would have...	40:52
	He used wine, and that's quite clear but...	40:53
	(Congregation laughs)	40:56
	What I'm trying to say is these differences	40:59
	really have more to do with culture	41:02
	and with differences of economy,	41:04
	of class, of money, of race,	41:08
	and of culture than of doctrine.	41:11
	And we do close ourselves one to another.	41:15
	I remember feeling so strongly in the 60s	41:19
	when the younger generation	41:22
	was so culturally different from the old,	41:23
	I thought there was a border of invisible doors there	41:27
	which were keeping our young people	41:31
	out of church because of their hair.	41:32
	And it would be wonderful, wouldn't it,	41:39
	someday, if people looked around a community,	41:41
	and said isn't it strange	41:47
	that the only place in this community	41:49
	where all the different parts of the city	41:52
	come together in love are the churches of God?	41:54
	That's a long ways away,	42:00
	but also, we have to be concerned	42:05
	about the openness of every part	42:07
	of church's life to everybody.	42:09
	Finally, in the Episcopal church,	42:12
	we've caught up with the rest of Protestantism,	42:13
	and now have women in the priesthood,	42:16
	and that was not an easy fight.	42:19
	But it is beginning, I think,	42:23
	to deal with a much more subtle kind	42:24
	of theological closedness,	42:28
	the cosmic sexism of a male God,	42:32
	which is another invisible door	42:39
	keeping out many of the levels of the psyches of our women	42:41
	as well as much of the sensitivity of response of men	42:47
	who are responding unconsciously	42:53
	to a maleness in God rather than understanding God	42:56
	to be full of all kinds of personal being.	43:01
	Another great battle in the church	43:09
	has been the battle to accept homosexual people	43:11
	equally to all others.	43:16
	Gay people, as they're now called,	43:20
	who over generations and centuries	43:22
	have been loving pastors,	43:26
	have been martyrs in the life of the church,	43:29
	but now we say no, they may not be part of us.	43:34
	Is God as interested in what people do in private	43:41
	to give each other pleasure	43:44
	as He is interested in starvation,	43:46
	as He is interested in unemployment,	43:50
	in the breaking of people's spirits in war,	43:53
	in injustice?	43:56
	These are the things He's interested in	43:58
	if you read your Bibles	44:00
	from the Old Testament to the New,	44:03
	rather than the petty littlenesses	44:05
	of some aspects of our personal life.	44:09
	And it may be that our corporate sin	44:12
	is much more grievous to Him than our individual sin.	44:16
	But the point is the reverse	44:23
	is to be physically open in our churches	44:26
	to all people,	44:30
	and all parts of the life of our church,	44:33
	judging each person hopefully	44:37
	the way in which God judges us.	44:39
	Sinners, yes, but everyone made equally precious	44:44
	in God's own image. Everyone,	44:50
	no matter how repulsive or difficult for us to accept,	44:54
	having down there deep within him or her,	44:58
	the image, the glorious image of God Himself,	45:04
	ultimate dignity, ultimate glory	45:08
	in the heart of every single human being,	45:12
	every being for whom Christ died.	45:18
	Jesus said I have got many things to say unto you,	45:25
	but you cannot bear them now.	45:28
	Albeit, when he, the spirit of truth, has come,	45:30
	he will guide you into all truth.	45:33
	There are invisible doors locking people out	45:37
	of the church on the intellectual level.	45:42
	I don't think there is anything more heretical	45:46
	than this kind of rigid fundamentalism,	45:50
	whether it be a fundamentalism of Bible or of doctrine	45:56
	whereby we say you cannot come in	45:59
	because you have ideas which I cannot handle.	46:04
	And we say to our people close your mind	46:10
	when you enter the church.	46:13
	This kind of dogmatic rigidness has been more damaging	46:17
	than anything else in the life of the church,	46:23
	and only intellectually and in terms of evangelism,	46:26
	but also this is what has cost lives	46:29
	in the wars of religion down over the centuries,	46:33
	and still does.	46:36
	Now remember that when God Almighty	46:39
	wanted to totally reveal Himself,	46:43
	He did not write theology.	46:45
	He came into the changing, dynamic actions of history,	46:49
	and the response of people to that.	46:55
	He took on a human person,	46:58
	person of Jesus,	47:03
	a person remains the same person,	47:06
	but a person can always change,	47:09
	a person responds to different events that come upon him,	47:13
	and he can respond differently now	47:17
	than he will tomorrow,	47:19
	because the constancy of his loving personality	47:21
	needs different responses today than tomorrow,	47:26
	and therefore in order to remain the same,	47:29
	the person of Christ keeps responding differently.	47:33
	Because what was loving yesterday is not loving today.	47:38
	Time makes ancient good uncouth,	47:43
	in the words of that old hymn,	47:46
	so in order to remain the same open, compassionate Jesus,	47:48
	Jesus must continue to express love in different ways.	47:55
	And this is where we find God,	48:00
	not in any rigid doctrine.	48:04
	Well, think then of the church, the body of Christ,	48:09
	clumsily trying over the ages	48:14
	to respond differently to different times.	48:18
	And think of the image now for a moment	48:25
	of Jesus as the word made flesh,	48:28
	word, mind made flesh,	48:32
	and think of the unfolding by the action of the Holy Spirit	48:37
	of the mind God gave us	48:43
	responding to the word made flesh	48:47
	as the mind of man through the grace of God	48:52
	reveals deeper and deeper truths about reality.	48:57
	Well now, the body of Christ must be opened to respond	49:03
	to these new truths,	49:07
	whether it be Darwin, whether it be Freud,	49:09
	whether it be Marx,	49:11
	the mainstream of the Protestant tradition	49:15
	and the Anglican tradition has been this,	49:18
	not being willing to close our mind	49:24
	in the fundamentalism of scripture or doctrine	49:29
	or even in the fundamentalism of morality,	49:32
	because we reject any kind of infallibility,	49:36
	we reject any kind of total fundamentalism	49:44
	because it is intellectually dishonest,	49:50
	and God gave us our mind.	49:52
	We reject any kind of puritan legalism,	49:55
	which brings us back to the closed Old Testament law	50:01
	which Christ died to free us from.	50:06
	Therefore, as I say, we can look at Darwin,	50:10
	we can look at Freud, we can look at Marx,	50:13
	we can look at biblical criticism	50:16
	knowing and having faith, and here's the important thing,	50:18
	having faith in the mind that God gave us,	50:22
	that if we use that mind with discipline and integrity,	50:25
	we'll go deeper and deeper and deeper and deeper	50:28
	into that new truth, that new intellectual truth,	50:31
	and we'll find there what?	50:33
	Find there the truth of Almighty God we never knew before,	50:37
	and it will coincide with the truth	50:42
	we learned in Revelation.	50:45
	So the Darwin makes more glorious and rich	50:48
	the doctrine of creation,	50:52
	Freud makes more glorious and mysterious	50:55
	the depths of our unconscious,	51:00
	out of which our love of God comes	51:02
	as well as our sexual love one for another.	51:05
	And the spiritual life can be much better understood	51:10
	and more deeply entered into	51:12
	because of the discoveries of that Jewish, atheist, strange,	51:14
	and biblical criticism certainly makes us know more fully	51:22
	how the word of God came to be in the Bible.	51:26
	And you see it's so exciting to be open,	51:33
	open to other persons of different kinds and one's self,	51:40
	open to new ideas and not being afraid to look at them,	51:44
	and open, open in your very life,	51:49
	'cause you never know what's gonna happen next.	51:53
	And instead of being afraid of it	51:56
	and pulling back in the corner,	51:57
	and hiding yourself under the skirts of Jesus,	52:00
	rather, you are open as He is to whatever is coming next,	52:05
	to respond with your whole being,	52:09
	your mind and your body and your heart.	52:11
	With the great courage that He showed us upon the cross	52:15
	with His open heart,	52:21
	and there comes together,	52:25
	there coincides openness and passion,	52:29
	because there is a price	52:38
	to this openness of mind and heart and life,	52:41
	and that price may be	52:49
	the price Jesus Himself was willing to pay.	52:53
	If the church only will look like Him,	53:03
	if the church only will nail open her arms,	53:10
	then the chances are she will look more like Him	53:14
	because she will begin to be scarred	53:19
	with the whips and lashes and nails	53:23
	of those who killed Him.	53:29
	Then perhaps we can bear with Him in pride	53:33
	these scars and wounds of conflict,	53:41
	perhaps the years that are just ahead	53:45
	with all the danger we see coming upon us	53:47
	will be a time when the church will be asked	53:51
	to once more bear the scars of loving.	53:55
	So how much better,	54:00
	how much better to be loving and to be wounded	54:03
	than to be afraid and to be guarded	54:08
	and to be careful and to be clean?	54:12
	How much better?	54:16
	How much more thrilling?	54:20
	And how much closer to understanding	54:22
	what life is really all about?	54:25
	Throwing yourself with passion as Christ did,	54:28
	the word passion, meaning suffering and love,	54:33
	loving with enough passion	54:37
	to be willing to be passionate in your suffering,	54:39
	how much better to throw yourself into this?	54:43
	And in doing so, exploring the depths of the pain of Christ	54:47
	until you know the depths of the love of Christ,	54:55
	and getting far enough down into the darkness,	54:59
	into the fear, into the loneliness,	55:02
	and the hurt and the pain,	55:04
	getting far enough down to understand	55:06
	the depths of His suffering so that with Him	55:09
	you will be able to come up in the glory of Easter,	55:13
	because that glory is not easily won,	55:19
	it is no cheap grace,	55:23
	it comes only after we dare go down with Him	55:26
	that He will bring us up with Him.	55:33
	And we go down with Him, as it were, with open arms,	55:40
	opening our arms in love,	55:47
	our minds in truth,	55:50
	to share the openness of Jesus Christ.	55:53
	This is how our church must be	55:58
	if our church is to be His body.	56:02
	And then...	56:08
	then there may be...	56:12
	a touch of real glory upon us.	56:15
	A touch of real glory,	56:20
	and we will be lifting His cross up so high	56:23
	that all persons will see it	56:29
	and will be drawn as by a magnet of love	56:34
	to His image of openness,	56:40
	compassion, peace, and glory.	56:43
	Let us pray.	56:55
	We kneel, O Lord,	57:05
	before your cross	57:09
	in wonder	57:13
	at those open arms.	57:18
	Withdraw us to your love,	57:23
	give us courage to open our arms in love,	57:30
	our minds to truth,	57:38
	our lives to courage,	57:43
	that we may dare to stand with you	57:47
	as you share our pain.	57:54
	And grant, O Lord,	58:00
	that we may dare to go down into the darkness	58:04
	with you	58:08
	so that you may raise us on Easter day	58:11
	to the glory of the risen life of your kingdom, amen.	58:16
	(organ music)	58:28
	(choir singing)	58:52
-	Having heard the word sung, read, and proclaimed,	1:01:08
	let us now one voice affirm what we believe.	1:01:14
	We believe in God who has created and is creating,	1:01:19
	who has come in the truly human Jesus	1:01:24
	to reconcile and make new,	1:01:27
	who works in us and others by the spirit.	1:01:30
	We trust God who calls us to be the church,	1:01:33
	to celebrate life and its fullness,	1:01:38
	to love and serve others,	1:01:41
	to seek justice and resist evil,	1:01:44
	to proclaim Jesus crucified and risen,	1:01:47
	our judge and our hope,	1:01:51
	in life, in death,	1:01:53
	in life beyond death,	1:01:56
	God is with us, we are not alone,	1:01:58
	thanks be to God.	1:02:02
	The Lord be with you.	1:02:05
-	And also with you.	1:02:07
-	Let us pray.	1:02:08
	O Lord our God, on this day,	1:02:17
	we worship you in wonder and in love.	1:02:21
	Our minds cannot contain all we know and believe about you,	1:02:26
	nor can our words express you, O Lord.	1:02:32
	Yet in Christ we see your glory and hear your word	1:02:36
	and know your love.	1:02:39
	Open our eyes to see you now,	1:02:43
	open our ears to hear your command,	1:02:46
	open our hearts to love you and our neighbor more	1:02:49
	through Jesus Christ our Lord.	1:02:53
	For all your goodness and grace,	1:02:58
	we thank you, O God,	1:02:59
	for life and health, for family and friends,	1:03:02
	for all the good gifts of your love	1:03:08
	by which we are sustained from day to day,	1:03:10
	for every pure and lovely joy,	1:03:14
	even the purity of cold and wind and snow	1:03:16
	and all its raw beauty,	1:03:19
	for every true joy and every good gift	1:03:23
	we give thanks to you, O God.	1:03:26
	We bring to you now in our prayer	1:03:31
	the needs of your children everywhere.	1:03:35
	We pray for all those millions of persons,	1:03:39
	strangers, perhaps to us,	1:03:42
	but known, surely, and loved, surely, by you,	1:03:45
	all those who this day hurt and starve	1:03:49
	while we and others waste our bread.	1:03:52
	O God, let not our consciences rest at peace	1:03:57
	until the good harvest of this earth	1:04:00
	is freely shared with every person in need.	1:04:03
	We pray for those whose lives are shadowed by sorrow,	1:04:08
	those whose sickness knows no cure,	1:04:13
	those whose sadness knows no comfort,	1:04:17
	those whose loneliness cannot be filled,	1:04:20
	those who in bitterness will not forget,	1:04:24
	bind up their wounds, O Lord,	1:04:27
	and lift their hearts for healing to your presence.	1:04:30
	We pray, O Lord, for your church throughout the world,	1:04:37
	make it truly open in the name	1:04:41
	and spirit of Christ our Lord.	1:04:44
	Where it is strong, make it gentle,	1:04:47
	where it is weak, make it strong,	1:04:50
	where it is honored, make it humble,	1:04:53
	where it is persecuted, lift up its head,	1:04:56
	where it is wrong, overrule it,	1:05:00
	where it is right, make it stand.	1:05:03
	Give us strength for this day,	1:05:09
	and for this life,	1:05:13
	but give us life not for this world alone,	1:05:16
	but through Christ bring us to that new age,	1:05:21
	and new life with you.	1:05:24
	Hear us in these words and through these prayers,	1:05:27
	and hear us as we pray together now	1:05:33
	as our Lord has taught us,	1:05:35
	saying our Father who art in heaven,	1:05:36
	hallowed be thy name, thy kingdom come,	1:05:41
	thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven.	1:05:45
	Give us this day our daily bread,	1:05:50
	and forgive us our trespasses,	1:05:53
	as we forgive those who trespass against us.	1:05:55
	And lead us not into temptation,	1:05:59
	but deliver us from evil,	1:06:02
	for thine is the kingdom	1:06:04
	and the power and the glory forever, amen.	1:06:06
	(organ music)	1:06:32
	(choir singing)	1:07:36
	(organ music)	1:08:35
	(choir singing)	1:09:13
	(organ music)	1:12:14
	(choir singing)	1:13:12
	(organ music)	1:14:12
	(choir singing)	1:14:49
	(organ music)	1:16:26
	(choir singing)	1:16:51
-	We pray, O Lord our God,	1:17:32
	that you will accept this offering	1:17:34
	which we make in your holy name.	1:17:36
	And as we make this offering, send down your Holy Spirit,	1:17:39
	the Lord and giver of life,	1:17:44
	to bless and consecrate our bodies, minds, and spirit,	1:17:46
	that we may give ourselves to you	1:17:52
	as a living daily sacrifice,	1:17:53
	a reasonable and desirable gift to offer through your Son,	1:17:57
	our Savior, even Jesus the Christ, amen.	1:18:01
	(organ music)	1:18:07
-	Now may the grace of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ,	1:21:43
	the love of God,	1:21:47
	the communion and fellowship of the Holy Spirit,	1:21:49
	be with you and with those whom you love	1:21:52
	this day and forevermore.	1:21:55
	(choir singing)	1:22:00
	(organ music)	1:23:07

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Paul Moore, Jr. - "The Open Church" (March 2, 1980)

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Sermon start time: 34. Sermon end time: 56:48.

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March 2, 1980

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