Robert T. Young - "Power to Become" (May 25, 1980)

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	(organ music)	0:04
	(organ music)	1:09
	(organ music)	4:11
	(hymnal singing)	7:16
	(organ music)	8:33
-	God's love has been poured into our hearts through	12:44
	the holy spirit which has been given to us.	12:47
	Let us prepare our hearts to receive again the holy	12:51
	spirit by confessing our sins before God and one another.	12:54
	You may be seated.	13:00
	Almighty God, who sent the promised power of the	13:10
	holy spirit to fill disciples with willing faith.	13:14
	We confess that we have held back the force of your	13:19
	spirit among us, that we have been slow to serve you	13:22
	and reluctant to spread the good news of your love.	13:27
	God have mercy on us.	13:31
	Forgive our divisions	13:34
	and by your spirit, draw us together.	13:36
	Fill us with flaming desire to do your will	13:40
	and be a faithful people for the sake of your son,	13:45
	our lord, Jesus Christ, amen.	13:49
	Let us make our personal confession in silence.	13:53
	Friends,	14:19
	hear and believe the good news of the gospel.	14:20
	There is no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus,	14:24
	who walk not according to the flesh	14:28
	but according to the spirit.	14:31
	In Jesus Christ we are forgiven.	14:33
	Let us forgive one another.	14:37
	Let us give thanks, for God is good	14:41
	and God's love is everlasting.	14:45
	Thanks be to God,	14:48
	by whose love we have been made.	14:50
	Thanks be to God, by whose grace we have been made whole.	14:53
	Thanks be to God, by whose resurrection we are promised	14:59
	life everlasting, amen.	15:03
	On Tuesday night at 8:00 p.m. there will be a service of	15:09
	prayer in the Memorial Chapel.	15:13
	The purpose of the service is to pray for the passage	15:16
	of the equal rights amendment in Illinois	15:19
	and North Carolina.	15:22
	As you may know, only three more states are needed	15:25
	to ratify this amendment to the Constitution.	15:28
	We're at a critical point in that process	15:31
	and the North Carolina Council of Churches	15:35
	has decided to sponsor these services	15:37
	at a number of points in North Carolina	15:40
	in an attempt to bring an assurance of justice	15:42
	to the women of this land.	15:46
	We invite you to be present on Tuesday night.	15:48
	Our preacher for today is the Reverend Robert T. Young,	15:54
	minister to the University.	15:58
	Let us open our minds and hearts to receive the message	16:00
	God speaks to us through him.	16:04
-	Let us pray.	16:18
	Prepare our hearts, oh lord,	16:20
	to accept your word.	16:22
	Silence in us any voice but your own.	16:24
	That hearing, we may also obey your will	16:28
	through Jesus Christ, our lord, amen.	16:31
	The Old Testament lesson is from Genesis,	16:36
	chapter 11, verses one through nine.	16:39
	Now the whole earth had one language and few words.	16:43
	And as men migrated from the east,	16:47
	they found a plain in the land of Shinar	16:49
	and settled there.	16:51
	And they said one to another, come let us make bricks	16:53
	and burn them thoroughly.	16:56
	And they had brick for stone and bitumen for mortar.	16:58
	Then they said, come, let us build ourselves a city	17:02
	and a tower with its top in the heavens	17:05
	and let us make us a name for ourselves	17:08
	lest we be scattered abroad upon the	17:10
	face of the whole earth.	17:12
	And the lord came down to see the city and the tower	17:14
	which the sons of men had built.	17:17
	And the lord said, behold, they are one people	17:19
	and they have all one language.	17:22
	And this is only the beginning of what they will do	17:24
	and nothing that they propose to do	17:27
	will now be impossible for them.	17:29
	Come, let us go down and there confuse their language.	17:32
	That they may not understand one another's speech.	17:36
	So the lord scattered them abroad from there over the	17:39
	face of all the Earth and they left off building the city.	17:42
	Therefore, its name was called Babel	17:46
	because there the lord confuse the language	17:49
	of all the earth and from there the lord scattered	17:51
	them abroad over the face of all the earth.	17:54
	The New Testament lesson is from Acts,	17:58
	chapter two, verses one through 21.	18:01
	When the day of Pentecost had come,	18:05
	they were all together in one place.	18:07
	And suddenly a sound came from heaven	18:10
	like the rush of a mighty wind	18:12
	and it filled all the house where they were sitting.	18:14
	And there appeared to them tongues as a fire	18:17
	distributed and resting on each one of them.	18:20
	And they were filled with the holy spirit	18:23
	and began to speak in other tongues	18:25
	and the spirit gave them utterance.	18:28
	Now they were dwelling in Jerusalem, Jews,	18:30
	devout men from every nation under heaven.	18:33
	And at this sound the multitude came together	18:36
	and they were bewildered because each one heard	18:38
	them speaking in his own language.	18:41
	And they were amazed and wondered, saying,	18:43
	are not all these who are speaking Galileans?	18:46
	And how is it that we hear each of us	18:49
	in his own native language?	18:51
	Parthians and Medes and Elamites	18:54
	and residents of Mesopotamia,	18:57
	Judea, Cappadocia,	19:00
	Pontus and Asia,	19:03
	Phrygia and Pamphylia,	19:05
	Egypt and the parts of Libya belonging to Cyrene	19:07
	and visitors from Rome both Jews and proselytes,	19:11
	Cretans and Arabians,	19:15
	we hear them telling in our own tongues,	19:17
	the mighty works of God	19:19
	and all were amazed and perplexed,	19:21
	saying to one another, what does this mean?	19:23
	But others, mocking, said, they are filled with new wine.	19:26
	But Peter, standing with the 11, lifted up his voice	19:31
	and addressed them.,	19:35
	Men of Judea and all who dwell in Jerusalem,	19:37
	let this be known to you.	19:40
	And give ear to my words.	19:42
	For these men are not drunk as you suppose.	19:44
	Since it is only the third hour of the day.	19:47
	But this is what was spoken by the prophet Joel,	19:50
	and the last days it shall be, God declares,	19:53
	that I will pour out my spirit upon all flesh.	19:56
	And your sons and your daughters shall prophesy,	20:00
	and your young men shall see visions,	20:03
	and your old men shall dream dreams.	20:05
	Yay, on my man servants and my maid servants in those days,	20:08
	I will pour out my spirit and they shall prophesy	20:12
	and I will show wonders in the heaven above	20:16
	and signs on the earth beneath.	20:19
	Blood and fire,	20:21
	vapor and smoke.	20:23
	The sun shall be turned into darkness	20:25
	and the moon into blood.	20:28
	Before the day of the lord comes,	20:30
	the great and manifest day	20:32
	and it shall be that whoever calls upon the name	20:34
	of the lord shall be saved.	20:36
	Here ends the reading from the New Testament, amen.	20:39
	(organ music)	20:44
	(hymnal singing)	21:30
	Will the congregation please stand for the reading	24:31
	of the gospel lesson?	24:34
	The gospel lesson is from John,	24:41
	chapter 15, verses 26 through 27	24:44
	and chapter 16, verses 4B through 11.	24:48
	But when the counselor comes,	24:52
	whom shall I send to you from the father?	24:54
	Even the spirit of truth,	24:57
	who proceeds from the father,	24:59
	he will bear witness to me.	25:01
	And you also are witnesses,	25:03
	because you have been with me from the beginning.	25:05
	I did not say these things to you from the beginning	25:09
	because I was with you.	25:11
	For now I am going to him who sent me	25:14
	yet none of you asks me, where are you going?	25:16
	But because I have said these things to you,	25:19
	sorrow has filled your heart.	25:22
	Nevertheless I tell you the truth.	25:24
	It is to your advantage that I go away.	25:27
	For if I go not away, the counselor will not come to you.	25:30
	But if I go, I will send him to you.	25:34
	And when he comes he will convince the world concerning	25:38
	sin and righteousness and judgment	25:41
	concerning sin, because they do not believe in me.	25:45
	Concerning righteousness because I go to the father	25:48
	and you will see me no more.	25:52
	Concerning judgment,	25:54
	because the ruler of this world is judged.	25:55
	Here ends the gospel lesson.	25:58
	(organ music)	26:00
	(hymnal singing)	26:08
-	May I take just a moment of personal privilege	27:04
	to express a word of gratitude not only for myself	27:07
	but also for all of the members of Religious Life staff	27:11
	at Duke University and the members of the Chapel staff.	27:14
	A word of gratitude to Juanita Wright	27:18
	who as of June one of this year,	27:22
	which is next Sunday,	27:26
	will resume her work with the Board of Global Ministries	27:29
	of the United Methodist Church in New York City.	27:33
	She has been with us since November one.	27:37
	Her ministry and her presence have blessed and	27:41
	enriched, challenged and confronted us in many, many ways.	27:44
	Her ministry we know will continue to be an effective	27:50
	and life changing witness in the name and in the spirit	27:54
	of Christ.	27:58
	Juanita, we have blessed to have you with us	28:00
	and as you go, we want to assure you,	28:04
	all of us who have come to Know you and love you,	28:07
	that our prayers and our presence will go with you	28:11
	and we will look forward to having you back with us,	28:15
	hopefully often in the future.	28:18
	Thank you very much.	28:21
	Let us pray.	28:26
	And now may the words of my lips	28:33
	and the meditations of our hearts	28:36
	be acceptable in thy sight, oh lord.	28:39
	Our strength and our redeemer, amen.	28:43
	This is the day of Pentecost.	28:51
	One of those high and holy days in the life of the church,	28:54
	50 days after the resurrection of Christ,	29:00
	10 days after the ascension of our lord,	29:05
	Jesus the Christ is gone.	29:09
	This is the day of the return of the living presence	29:14
	of Christ.	29:18
	The spirit, the counselor, the comforter,	29:20
	the one about whom Christ said,	29:25
	if I go I will send him to you.	29:27
	Pentecost, the day when the word of Christ is realized	29:31
	and confirmed as true and believable.	29:36
	Pentecost, when a broken, despirited, separated,	29:41
	fragmented, beaten, lost and confused people	29:47
	are visited by the living spirit of God.	29:52
	Pentecost, when the faith of others offers hope	29:56
	and rekindles our own faith.	30:02
	For surely it is true as the late Archbishop,	30:06
	William Temple once wrote,	30:08
	"It is by the faith of others that our own faith	30:10
	is kindled and kept alive."	30:14
	Pentecost, the day of the holy spirit,	30:18
	the day of power, the day of new life,	30:22
	a day of change, of transformation,	30:27
	a day when we may experience the power	30:30
	to become which God in Christ through the spirit	30:32
	offers us.	30:37
	Today, the ascended Christ has gone.	30:41
	The living spirit of Christ has come.	30:47
	I believe that Jesus is more present among us today	30:51
	than ever before.	30:54
	I also believe that Jesus is more ignored by us today	30:58
	than ever before.	31:03
	I further believe that Jesus is more needed by us today	31:06
	than ever before.	31:12
	Why?	31:15
	Because today is the only today that you and I have	31:17
	ever known.	31:21
	This is our time, this is our place,	31:22
	this is our now.	31:25
	So this is when and where the spirit is needed most.	31:26
	Today.	31:31
	Today.	31:34
	Listen.	31:35
	Now.	31:37
	Listen.	31:39
	Wait.	31:42
	Now.	31:44
	Wait.	31:46
	Be still.	31:50
	Now.	31:53
	Be still.	31:56
	Here.	31:59
	Feel.	32:01
	Know the presence of the spirit.	32:03
	Listen to the wind, Nicodemus.	32:06
	Listen to the wind, Nicodemus, Jesus said.	32:10
	You know not whence it comes nor whither it goes.	32:14
	So it is with the spirit of the living God.	32:18
	We do not know, we cannot tell.	32:23
	That first Pentecost, though, must have been some	32:28
	strange and power filled experience.	32:33
	When the day came, we are told by Luke in Acts,	32:37
	when the day came, they were all gathered together	32:41
	in one place and there appeared to them tongues as of fire.	32:44
	We do associate and symbolize the meaning	32:50
	of this day with fire.	32:52
	That's why the altar is covered with a beautiful paramount.	32:54
	Red with tongues of flame on it.	32:57
	The fire of the holy spirit.	33:01
	So it was on Pentecost and so it has been	33:02
	throughout the ages.	33:05
	When Blaise Pascal wanted to express the vivid character	33:08
	of his own personal life changing experience in	33:11
	November of 1654, he wrote in large, large letters	33:15
	on his own private personal papers,	33:20
	F-I-R-E.	33:23
	A century or so later,	33:28
	John Wesley picked up the same theme	33:30
	when he talked of his own life renewing experience	33:33
	at Aldersgate and said, my heart was strangely warmed.	33:36
	Nels Furay, in this century often an used an anonymous	33:42
	Christian prayer offered by those who were praying	33:47
	for the spirit.	33:51
	Come as the fire and burn.	33:52
	Come as the wind and cleanse.	33:56
	Come as the light and reveal.	34:00
	Convict, convert,	34:03
	consecrate until we are wholly thine.	34:06
	I do not know or understand fully what happened at this	34:15
	experience at Pentecost.	34:18
	But it does seem that Jesus' words in John	34:21
	truly were fulfilled and that his spirit did come again	34:23
	to his people.	34:26
	It does seem to me that in this experience,	34:28
	those who were gathered at Pentecost,	34:30
	were those who were bound together with God,	34:34
	those who were bound together with one another	34:37
	and those who were bound together with the world	34:40
	in which they lived.	34:43
	And so I believe then, that perhaps Pentecost today	34:45
	is a time for us to acknowledge, announce and act on	34:49
	our oneness with God,	34:54
	our oneness with each other	34:57
	and our oneness with the world in which we live.	35:00
	Some time ago in Nation magazine,	35:06
	C. Wright Mills wrote an article entitled,	35:11
	"A Pagan Sermon to the Christian Clergy."	35:16
	And he hit the clergy and the church with some pretty	35:22
	hard blows, he wrote,	35:25
	"Religion today does not originate,	35:28
	it reacts.	35:32
	It does not denounce,	35:35
	it adapts.	35:38
	It does not set forth new models of conduct and sensibility,	35:40
	it imitates.	35:45
	Its rhetoric is without deep appeal.	35:48
	The worship	35:51
	it organizes is without piety.	35:52
	Christianity is part of the moral defeat of men today.	35:56
	Perhaps, though, it is no longer important enough	36:01
	to be considered a cause."	36:04
	Did you by any chance read the article in yesterday's paper?	36:09
	Quoting a poll of some 2,000 plus	36:15
	clergy in the United States today,	36:18
	the poll's results are not surprising but they are shocking.	36:23
	They are not unexpected but they are both disturbing	36:29
	and disappointing.	36:32
	The article read,	36:34
	"While ministers cited for heresy, homosexuality	36:36
	or radical politics receive the most headlines,	36:40
	they're apparently the exception."	36:43
	A Gallup poll commissioned by the evangelical bimonthly	36:47
	magazine, Christianity Today reveals that most	36:51
	Protestant and Roman Catholic clergy	36:55
	are conservative, orthodox in theology	36:59
	and satisfied with their jobs.	37:03
	Can you believe that?	37:05
	Is that really true?	37:09
	Are those words normative and descriptive of the clergy	37:14
	today and of the church of our lord	37:18
	and savior, Jesus Christ?	37:20
	Conservative, orthodox in theology	37:21
	and satisfied with their jobs.	37:24
	Well, I'm afraid, my friends, that it is true.	37:32
	I'm afraid that C. Wright Mills' sermon is correct	37:38
	and that the Gallup poll is accurate	37:41
	but would these words have been true of Jesus Christ,	37:45
	our Lord?	37:49
	And would they have been true of the early church,	37:52
	the church that had been empowered by the spirit of God	37:54
	at Pentecost?	37:58
	Did Jesus, did the early church	38:01
	just react and adapt	38:05
	and imitate?	38:08
	Was Jesus or was the early church	38:11
	conservative, orthodox	38:15
	or satisfied with their jobs?	38:18
	Somehow I think Jesus and the early church,	38:22
	on fire with the spirit of God	38:26
	were life changers, society changers,	38:29
	law breakers, disturbers of the peace,	38:33
	radicals, rebels, even revolutionaries,	38:35
	pioneers of a new way, a new day, a new set of values	38:38
	and priorities and commitments, willing to risk life,	38:42
	limb and all that this world holds dear for the sake of	38:46
	being true to the word and the call and the claim of God.	38:49
	I don't see much of the power of the spirit of God	38:53
	in myself or in the church.	38:59
	But I see great and crying and desperate need	39:04
	for the strength and the courage and the grace	39:09
	and the will and drive and willingness to risk	39:12
	and dare and give and love.	39:14
	I see much need in the world today for what the church	39:16
	and for what our lord stood for and lived out.	39:20
	We live, you know as do I, in a time of brokenness,	39:25
	of fragmentation,	39:29
	of rioting, of death and destruction,	39:31
	a time of injustice and tyranny,	39:33
	a time of fear and restlessness and rootlessness	39:36
	and homelessness.	39:39
	And in such a time as this which probably is not greatly	39:41
	different from the time of our lord and the time of the	39:44
	early church, there are those among us in the church	39:47
	and in society who would have us pull back our arms	39:50
	of compassion.	39:54
	There are those who would have us close ourselves	39:56
	off from the world around us, seal our borders off	39:58
	and make higher our walls.	40:02
	There are those who would have us ignore the needs	40:04
	of the weary and the hungry	40:07
	and take care of ourselves and our own needs first	40:08
	and foremost of all.	40:12
	After all, these platitude pronouncing prophets remind us	40:13
	charity begins at home.	40:17
	There are those who would have us	40:22
	cut back our welfare roles,	40:26
	cut out food stamps for our own hungry and needy,	40:29
	make tougher our laws, enlarge our police forces,	40:32
	increase their weapons, show our force to the world	40:36
	and to our own people, flaunt our might and our	40:39
	power, become more strident, more tough and more selfish.	40:42
	There are those who preach these things today	40:46
	but on this holy day of Pentecost,	40:49
	I ask you, my friends, is there not, the majority of	40:52
	today's clergy notwithstanding, is there not a holy	40:56
	activistic way of living?	41:00
	Is there not a godly unorthodox way of believing?	41:03
	And is there not a sacred dissatisfaction which we are to	41:07
	have with our vocations, that the world and the church	41:11
	and you and I long for and need and perhaps even pray for?	41:15
	This is the day of Pentecost.	41:19
	Let us celebrate.	41:26
	That we are indeed bound together with the lord our God.	41:30
	Acts reminds us, and they were all filled with the holy	41:34
	spirit and that means being tied in in a oneness with God,	41:38
	which knows no separation.	41:42
	Let us pray that we may be receptive to the	41:44
	coming and the moving and the changing power of	41:48
	God's spirit.	41:51
	This is the day of Pentecost.	41:53
	Let us celebrate that we are bound together	41:56
	with one another.	41:59
	You notice Pentecost didn't happen to just one	42:01
	by himself or herself.	42:04
	It happened to all of them, all together.	42:06
	There is no such thing as having church all by yourself.	42:09
	And there is a binding together	42:17
	that takes place not only with those of us who belong	42:20
	to Christ and who belong to the church but also a	42:23
	binding together that takes place between us and all	42:26
	others of God's children.	42:30
	The word of Acts reminds us,	42:33
	and at this sound, the multitude came together.	42:34
	Let us pray that we may be open and accepting	42:41
	and receptive to one another.	42:44
	As Christ would have us to be.	42:48
	This is the day of Pentecost, let us celebrate	42:52
	that we are bound together with the world in which we live.	42:55
	The book of Acts reminds us, we hear them telling	43:01
	in our own tongues, the mighty works of God.	43:06
	The mighty works of God that are going on in us	43:11
	and in the world.	43:14
	Let us pray that God will remind us	43:17
	that we are all one.	43:21
	We are all children of one God	43:24
	and we are all brothers and sisters to one another.	43:27
	I think	43:37
	these words were written in either the sixth or the	43:38
	seventh century.	43:41
	They used some sexist language	43:43
	acknowledging that	43:47
	they are filled with power.	43:49
	(speaks foreign language)	43:54
	Come holy ghost,	43:57
	our souls, inspire, enlighten with celestial fire.	44:00
	Thou, the anointing spirit art who dost they sevenfold	44:06
	gifts impart.	44:12
	Thy blessed unction from above is comfort, life and fire	44:14
	of love.	44:20
	Enable with perpetual light	44:22
	the dullness of our blinded sight.	44:25
	Anoint and cheer our soiled face	44:29
	with the abundance of thy grace.	44:33
	Keep far our foes, give peace at home	44:37
	where thou art guide, no ill can come.	44:40
	Teach us to know the father, son and thee of both to be	44:45
	but one and through the ages all along, this may be our	44:51
	endless song, praise to thy eternal merit,	44:56
	father, son, and holy spirit.	45:00
	This is the day of Pentecost.	45:04
	The day when the power and the presence and the living	45:08
	reality of our risen lord came back to Earth to live	45:11
	among us, to renew us and to empower us.	45:16
	All thanks and praise be to God.	45:21
	Amen	45:26
	and amen.	45:28
	(organ music)	45:42
	(hymnal singing)	46:12
-	Let us affirm what we believe.	48:20
	We believe in God who has created and is creating.	48:24
	Who has come in the truly human Jesus	48:29
	to reconcile and make new.	48:32
	Who works in us and others by the spirit.	48:35
	We trust God, who calls us to be the church.	48:40
	To celebrate life and its fullness.	48:45
	To love and serve others.	48:48
	To seek justice and resist evil.	48:51
	To proclaim Jesus crucified and risen, our judge and our	48:54
	hope in life, in death, in life beyond death God is with us.	49:00
	We are not alone, thanks be to god.	49:08
	The lord be with you.	49:13
	Let us pray.	49:17
	Almighty and merciful God,	49:27
	we give thanks this day that you sent your holy spirit	49:31
	to kindle the zeal of Christ followers waiting in Jerusalem	49:34
	for his promised gift.	49:38
	We thank you that you continue to teach the hearts	49:40
	of your faithful people.	49:43
	That you have promised to remain with us	49:45
	and with your church forever	49:48
	and we give thanks that that same spirit leads us	49:51
	as a body and as individuals into truth,	49:54
	defends us from sin,	49:59
	enriches us with gifts,	50:02
	refreshes us with comfort,	50:04
	rules our hearts in all things	50:07
	and leads us into the life to come.	50:10
	We remember those who have gone before us into that life	50:15
	and continue to be with us in your universal church.	50:19
	For their steadfastness, faithfulness	50:23
	and example set before us, we are grateful	50:26
	and we rejoice in their presence and your unending joy	50:30
	and in our thankfulness may we too aspire in all our	50:35
	words and deeds to advance your glory and your kingdom.	50:40
	Unto you, the beginning and the end,	50:45
	lord of the living, refuge of the dying,	50:48
	be thanks and praise forever.	50:51
	On this Pentecost Sunday, oh God,	50:55
	our thoughts are with your church,	50:58
	our home through Jesus Christ.	51:00
	Remember the church at all times	51:04
	and in all places with forgiveness.	51:06
	We who people the church require your forgiving touch.	51:10
	Our faith is often as weak as wet paper.	51:15
	Our stubborn pride as strong as	51:19
	the cables of suspension bridges.	51:22
	We hesitate to speak your name in public.	51:25
	We claim the joy of your service when we're not	51:28
	otherwise engaged.	51:31
	Make us more like the men and women of your household	51:33
	on that first Pentecost so long ago.	51:37
	Like a mighty wind rushed through the church,	51:42
	gathered on all continents.	51:45
	Whatever the language in which people praise you	51:47
	and pray to you,	51:50
	make us one in Christ.	51:52
	Mock us when we mock you by pretending that one nation	51:55
	or one race or one denomination has a corner on Christ.	51:58
	Revive the power of your word in the churches of our land.	52:04
	Tempt us, oh God, to love you	52:10
	and to love one another more than we love social position,	52:13
	financial security, rock concerts,	52:16
	ball games, fine cars,	52:20
	and freshly waxed floors.	52:23
	Tempt us to love and guide your church in loving ways.	52:26
	Teach us in this congregation to be more vigilant	52:33
	in witness to you through word and deed.	52:36
	Open our eyes more widely to need within our own community	52:40
	and city and to the needs	52:43
	we can meet in the nation and the world.	52:46
	Keep us from self satisfaction and the warmth	52:50
	of our fellowship.	52:52
	And, oh God, we do pray for your church under persecution	52:56
	in the Soviet Union, in parts of Latin America	53:00
	and in some of the nations of Africa.	53:04
	We pray today especially for the church in Liberia.	53:07
	For the Liberian Christians and for the missionaries	53:11
	who have remained with the Christian community	53:14
	in these days of uncertainty.	53:17
	We are aware and do rejoice in the growth of the church	53:20
	in Africa and pray for peace in the nations	53:24
	of that continent.	53:28
	For those we love who hurt, oh God,	53:31
	we make humble supplication.	53:34
	We are grateful for all men and women who protect	53:37
	freedom and justice and we pray for all those who are	53:41
	victims of oppression and greed.	53:45
	And on this Memorial Day weekend	53:49
	we ask that you watch over those who gather in large	53:52
	crowds for entertainment	53:55
	and grant your traveling mercies to those who journey	53:57
	away from home in order that they may return safely.	54:00
	We pray in the name of your son, our savior, Jesus Christ	54:05
	who taught us to pray together,	54:10
	Our father who art in heaven,	54:13
	hallowed be thy name.	54:16
	Thy kingdom come, thy will be done,	54:19
	on earth as it is in heaven.	54:22
	Give us this day our daily bread,	54:25
	and forgive us our trespasses	54:28
	as we forgive those who trespass against us	54:31
	and lead us not into temptation,	54:35
	but deliver us from evil.	54:37
	For thine is the kingdom and the power	54:40
	and the glory forever, amen.	54:43
	(organ music)	55:02
	(hymnal singing)	55:39
	(organ music)	59:41
	Mighty God you do love us	1:01:32
	and in this act we present ourselves to you.	1:01:35
	Our work, our leisure, our joy,	1:01:40
	our sorrow, our thoughts, our deeds	1:01:44
	just as we are to be used by you in the world.	1:01:48
	We humbly ask you to accept our offering as the personal	1:01:53
	giving of our selves for the increase of good and in the	1:01:57
	service of truth here and all over the Earth, amen.	1:02:01
	(organ music)	1:02:07
	(hymnal singing)	1:02:48
	I would like to suggest to you that as you leave this	1:05:46
	sanctuary today that you greet one another with the	1:05:48
	words, the peace and spirit of God be with you	1:05:52
	and now with God's love deep in our hearts,	1:05:59
	with God's wisdom to know and understand,	1:06:04
	with the holy spirit stirring in our souls,	1:06:08
	let us go forth with power to care and share in our world	1:06:13
	and may the peace of almighty God go with you	1:06:21
	and remain with you and with those you love	1:06:25
	this day and forever more.	1:06:30
	(hymnal singing)	1:06:36
	(organ music)	1:07:33

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Title:

Robert T. Young - "Power to Become" (May 25, 1980)

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Sermon start time: 27:04. Sermon end time: 45:28.
Pentecost is a day in which we are empowered to live our oneness with God, with each other and with the world. The flame of the Holy Spirit also kindles us to live radical and revolutionary lives, loving the world as Jesus and the early church did. (Abstract created by Duke Divinity School staff.)
Key quotation: “Pentecost today is a time for us to acknowledge, announce, and act on our oneness with God, our oneness with each other, and our oneness with the world in which we live.”

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May 25, 1980

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Young, Robert T., 1935-2009

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Pentecost

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