Roland P. Perdue III - "Well, Just Look Who's Here" (February 26, 1978)

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-	Duke University Chapel Service of Worship,	0:04
	February 26th, 1978.	0:06
	(gentle music)	0:46
	(choir singing faintly)	5:50
	(gentle music)	6:47
	(choir singing faintly)	7:17
-	May grace, mercy, and peace be with you	10:22
	through our Lord Jesus Christ.	10:27
	My dear friends, we in the church come together in honesty	10:31
	and sincerity to confess our sin to God.	10:36
	In the name of Christ, we ask God to forgive us.	10:43
	As we confess our sin, God surely hears and forgives.	10:49
	We are aware of some of our sin, we are not aware of all.	10:56
	Let us ask God now to forgive us the sin we knowingly	11:03
	or unknowingly have committed.	11:08
	Let us pray.	11:12
	Oh God have mercy, judge us with love	11:14
	and lift the burden of our sins.	11:19
	We confess that we are twisted by pride.	11:22
	We see ourselves pure when we are stained,	11:26
	and great when we are small.	11:30
	We have failed in love, forgotten to be just,	11:33
	and have turned away from your truth.	11:38
	Have mercy oh, God and forgive our sin	11:42
	for the sake of Jesus, your Son, our Savior,	11:47
	amen.	11:51
	Let us continue with our silent prayers.	11:53
	Unto God...	11:56
	Let us hear these words of assurance from the Psalmist,	12:23
	"In our despair and need, we cry to the Lord for help.	12:27
	We wait eagerly for the Lord's help and trust in God's word.	12:33
	Happy are those who sins are forgiven,	12:38
	whose transgressions are pardoned.	12:43
	The wicked indeed suffer.	12:46
	But those who trust in the Lord	12:50
	are protected by God's constant love."	12:53
	Let us now receive the joy that comes with our salvation	12:58
	through Jesus Christ, our Lord.	13:03
	Amen.	13:05
	Let us give thanks for God is good.	13:07
	And God's love is everlasting.	13:11
	Thanks be to God who forgives us.	13:15
	Thanks be to God whose tender mercy He owes us.	13:18
	Thanks be to God whose abundant grace sustains us.	13:23
	Amen.	13:29
	A word or two of announcement.	13:32
	For two weeks now we have had Lenten breakfasts	13:37
	with various persons in the university community	13:41
	sharing some of their own personal faith and testimony	13:44
	along the theme of emergings.	13:47
	This Wednesday at 7:45 on East Campus,	13:50
	7:45 am, that is.	13:53
	On West Campus Wednesday it is at 7:45	13:58
	and on East Campus on Thursday,	14:03
	Dr. Waldo Beach will share some reflections with us	14:08
	on Wednesday.	14:11
	And Dr. Pelham Wilder will share some reflections with us	14:13
	on Thursday.	14:16
	You're invited to come and share in this time together,	14:18
	get your breakfast and join us in the East Campus Union.	14:20
	And in 101 on West Campus.	14:25
	You're aware that many groups on campus,	14:28
	the music department, the drama department,	14:32
	the dance department, the Chapel Choir, the Chorale,	14:34
	many others are joining together	14:37
	to present Leonard Bernstein's mass	14:40
	four evenings beginning Easter Sunday evening.	14:44
	Immediately following service today for one hour,	14:50
	the page box office will be open.	14:54
	If you would like to get tickets at that time,	14:56
	please do so.	14:59
	Before we gather to worship all of us	15:02
	gathered to worship again here,	15:04
	many of you will have had time for a much needed,	15:06
	long awaited, few days of rest.	15:13
	And I guess in between now and Friday,	15:17
	when the break officially begins,	15:19
	there'll be a few exams and all.	15:20
	So let me wish you well,	15:23
	as you finish up before the break,	15:25
	and as you have a few days to rest and recover	15:28
	to complete this semester.	15:32
	Many members of the Chapel Choir	15:34
	will be joining the going with the Corral on tour	15:36
	in various places in the South.	15:40
	We wish you well and Godspeed as you travel.	15:42
	Our preacher for today is the senior pastor	15:48
	at the University Presbyterian Church in Austin, Texas,	15:53
	and outstanding churchman	15:59
	And native of Atlanta, Georgia.	16:03
	Educated at the university of North Carolina	16:07
	at Chapel Hill.	16:10
	And I must say that I thought the game	16:13
	would end differently,	16:15
	or we would not have invited	16:16
	him for today.	16:17
	(congregation laughing)
	He did his seminary work at Columbia Seminary	16:23
	in Atlanta, Georgia, served churches in Atlanta	16:26
	and served as the Presbyterian Campus Minister	16:30
	for a number of years	16:33
	at the University of Georgia in Athens,	16:35
	and has been for seven years	16:37
	at the University Presbyterian Church in Austin.	16:39
	He is a gifted preacher and writer,	16:42
	and we welcome you (indistinct) to Duke University	16:45
	and to Duke Chapel.	16:48
	And we look forward to God's word,	16:50
	as you will bring it to us at the appropriate time	16:52
	in the service.	16:55
	Blessings on you.	16:56
-	Let us pray.	17:03
	Prepare our hearts oh, Lord, to accept your word,	17:06
	silence in us any voice, but your own	17:10
	that hearing we may also obey your will	17:14
	through Jesus Christ our Lord.	17:18
	Amen.	17:21
	The epistle lesson is from the first chapter	17:23
	of first Corinthians verses 25:31,	17:25
	"For the foolishness of God is wiser than men,	17:31
	and the weakness of God is stronger than men.	17:35
	Take yourselves for instance, brothers and sisters	17:39
	at the time when you were called, not many of you were wise,	17:42
	according to worldly standards.	17:47
	Not many were powerful, not many were of noble birth,	17:49
	but God chose what is foolish in the world	17:54
	to shame the wise.	17:57
	God chose what is weak in the world to shame the strong.	17:59
	God chose what is low and despised in the world	18:04
	even things that are not to bring to nothing things that are	18:08
	so that no human being might boast in the presence of God.	18:13
	He is the source of your life in Christ Jesus,	18:17
	whom God made our wisdom,	18:21
	our righteousness and sanctification and redemption.	18:23
	Therefore, as it is written,	18:27
	let him who boasts boast of the Lord."	18:30
	Here ends the reading from the epistle.	18:34
	Amen.	18:37
	(soft piano music)	18:39
	(choir singing faintly)	19:32
	Well, the congregation stand	22:43
	for the reading of the gospel lesson.	22:44
	The lesson is from the second chapter of John	22:52
	verses 13 through 25,	22:55
	"The Passover of the Jews was at hand	22:59
	and Jesus went up to Jerusalem.	23:02
	In the temple He found those	23:05
	who were selling oxen, and sheep, and pigeons,	23:07
	and the money changers at their business.	23:10
	And making a whip of cords,	23:14
	He drove them all with the sheep and oxen out of the temple.	23:15
	And he poured out the coins of the money changers	23:20
	and overturned their tables.	23:24
	And he told those who sold the pigeons,	23:26
	'Take these things away,	23:29
	you shall not make my father's house a house of trade.'	23:31
	His disciples remembered that it was written,	23:36
	zeal for the house will consume me.	23:39
	The Jews then said to him,	23:43
	'What sign have you to show us for doing this?'	23:45
	Jesus answered them, 'Destroy this temple	23:49
	and in three days I will raise it up.'	23:53
	The Jews then said, 'It has taken 46 years	23:56
	to build this temple	24:00
	and will you raise it up in three days?'	24:02
	But he spoke of the temple of his body.	24:05
	When therefore he was raised from the dead,	24:09
	his disciples remembered that he had said this	24:11
	and they believed the scripture and the word	24:14
	which Jesus had spoken.	24:18
	Now when he was in Jerusalem at the Passover feast,	24:20
	many believed in his name when they saw his signs,	24:23
	which he did,	24:27
	but Jesus did not trust himself to them	24:28
	because he knew all men	24:32
	and needed no one to bear witness of man	24:34
	for he himself knew what was in man."	24:37
	Here ends the reading from the gospel,	24:41
	all power and glory be to God.	24:44
	Amen.	24:47
	(soft piano music)	24:49
	(choir singing faintly)	24:59
-	It is a pleasure	25:58
	to be in this magnificent house of worship	25:59
	in this land of blue devils.	26:03
	Let us pray.	26:07
	Dear God, our father cleanse us from all sin,	26:10
	anoint us thy Holy Spirit	26:16
	and clothe us in the righteousness of Christ.	26:19
	Amen.	26:22
	Daddy, look at that, they're bowlegged naked cowboy.	26:27
	My family had not been in Austin, Texas very long.	26:32
	Before one of our children	26:37
	spotted at University of Texas student,	26:39
	all dressed out in jeans, boots, and Stetson.	26:41
	And excited by the appearance and by the outward curve	26:46
	of his knees,	26:49
	the child responded by saying, "Daddy, look at that,	26:51
	they're bowlegged naked cowboy."	26:54
	My wife and I tried to explain to the child	26:59
	that you did not point at someone	27:01
	and you did not refer to someone,	27:05
	as that their bowlegged cowboy even if they were.	27:06
	In an effort to help the child overcome her inability	27:12
	to speak properly,	27:17
	we took that child to a professor at the University of Texas	27:19
	who worked in the English department	27:24
	and whose field of expertise	27:26
	was Shakespearean (speaks faintly).	27:28
	After several weeks of working with that professor	27:32
	and reading through the sonnets of Shakespeare	27:35
	and other portions of his work, we were back on the campus	27:38
	at the University of Texas in Austin.	27:42
	And sure enough, the student dressed in Western attire	27:44
	came across the campus.	27:49
	And my daughter said,	27:51
	"Hark, what manner of men are these that wear their pants	27:52
	in parentheses?"	27:55
	(congregation laughing)
	That's an old, old story.	28:06
	And I've been told by persons who should know	28:10
	that it's the oldest, Texas Aggie jokes still in existence.	28:12
	But regardless of the age of the story,	28:18
	the question it raises is new	28:20
	and also very old, much older than the story.	28:23
	What manner of men and women are we?	28:28
	What kinds of persons within the church of Jesus	28:32
	as the Christ?	28:37
	Indeed St. Paul must have wondered	28:40
	about the manner of men and women.	28:42
	Those brothers and sisters of his and Corinth.	28:44
	For Corinth was always that kind of a community of faith,	28:49
	which left Paul somewhere between heartache and headache.	28:52
	The Corinthian Christians were divided into cliques,	28:57
	expressing more loyalty to those men	29:01
	who had established them	29:03
	and been part and parcel of their founding	29:05
	than they did to the Christ in whose name they were founded.	29:08
	And in their divided cliqueishness they sloganized,	29:13
	I belong to Paul.	29:18
	I belong to a Polis.	29:19
	I belong to Peter.	29:21
	I belong to John Calvin.	29:22
	(speaks faintly) John Wesley.	29:24
	I belong to Jesus, the Christ.	29:25
	See if you can top that.	29:27
	Divided from one another.	29:30
	They were also those who expressed a confusion	29:33
	as they attempt to communicate	29:37
	the good news of the gospel.	29:40
	For some had been blessed with a certain amount of charisma,	29:43
	with the ability to interpret, to understand,	29:48
	and all of the gifts of charisma grace gift	29:52
	or gifts of grace, were to be used to communicate	29:55
	the good news of the gospel to reflect reconciliation.	30:00
	Instead, those who were blessed,	30:06
	use their blessings to draw attention to themselves	30:08
	rather than to the Christ,	30:13
	whose faith they sought to convey.	30:16
	Those who were to fluent use their grace gifts,	30:20
	their charisma of a fluence to add stature to themselves.	30:23
	And those who could become enthused by God	30:28
	with esoteric enthusiasm thought	30:31
	that everyone else had to be able to be just as enthused	30:34
	and utter the same kinds of expressions as they did.	30:38
	And so, these Corinthian Christians	30:44
	were the manner of men and women	30:46
	who were divided and who communicated confusion.	30:48
	Their moral strength was also corrupt.	30:54
	One slept with his stepmother,	30:56
	others were engaged with temple prostitutes	30:59
	as expressions of the new freedom.	31:03
	Still others use the occasion of the Lord's Supper	31:07
	an opportunity to level all their social differences	31:10
	and distinctions	31:14
	as an opportunity to enhance their division,	31:16
	their differences.	31:20
	Hark what manners of men and women were these?	31:23
	These were the kind of men and women of whom it's been said,	31:26
	"Why can't we be more like the early church,	31:30
	my Lord, who would want to be?"	31:33
	But we cannot really be too hard on these early Christians.	31:38
	What manner of men and women are we?	31:44
	what kinds of persons are we	31:48
	who gather in Duke University Chapel	31:50
	on this a Sunday in lent?	31:53
	A missionary was traveling from the United States	31:58
	into the East.	32:00
	She stopped at one of the ports of call and got off the ship	32:03
	was met by one of the customs officials	32:08
	and was requested to fill out some information	32:10
	among the questions was the question, religion.	32:13
	She wrote in the word Christian	32:19
	and the immigration officer said, "Yes, Madam Christian,	32:20
	but what damn nation do you belong to?"	32:24
	What nation damn indeed,	32:28
	for there are times when our denominational differences	32:32
	have more to do with the civil war	32:36
	than with anything related to Christian theology.	32:38
	Indeed, I may be long to one of the two denominations,	32:43
	which today is still fighting the civil war,	32:47
	the Southern and the Northern Presbyterians.	32:50
	And our division	32:54
	into different kinds of denominational structures	32:55
	not only corrupts our mission and weakens our witness,	32:59
	but it also confuses a great many people in our world today.	33:03
	I don't know about students here on this campus,	33:09
	but students on the campus that I serve,	33:12
	care not for denominational differences.	33:17
	They do care for the strength and the vitality	33:21
	of the witness of the local church wherever it is.	33:24
	And in our division, we have weakened our witness to Christ,	33:28
	but let's leave the church at large for the moment	33:38
	and draw our attention closer to home.	33:41
	What manner of men and women are we gathered in this place	33:44
	on this Sunday?	33:47
	Look around and in the words of Frederick Buechner,	33:49
	you will see old ladies in the front pews	33:52
	turn up their hearing aids	33:57
	while a young lady gives her a six year old,	33:58
	a lifesaver and a magic marker.	34:01
	You will see college sophomores	34:05
	who are worshiping with their parents,	34:07
	all of whom thought the other	34:11
	really wanted to come to worship this Sunday	34:12
	and they are bored out of their minds.	34:14
	You will see a young pregnant girl	34:19
	feel the stirred of life within a high school math teacher,	34:21
	who for 20 years has kept his homosexuality a secret	34:26
	for the most part, even from himself	34:31
	crease his order of worship	34:33
	down the center with his thumbnail	34:35
	and tuck it under his knee.	34:37
	And you will see also pilot here with his wet hands,	34:43
	king Lear with a bit of (speaks faintly)	34:48
	dried on his tie and his weak kidneys.	34:50
	You will see an old professor	34:54
	who for 30 years has carried a grudge against his colleague	34:55
	who received more credit for the book they authored.	35:00
	You will see the son here,	35:05
	the 50 year old son whose father died last week	35:06
	before they could begin to discuss	35:10
	their love, hate relationship.	35:13
	And you will see yourself and me,	35:17
	but wondered of wonders	35:23
	and it's still the best news in all the world,	35:24
	you will see here if you look beneath the surface,	35:26
	and if you look at the happenstance and the occasion	35:30
	in which he happens, you will also see God here.	35:34
	For God Himself is with us.	35:39
	And God is with us always happening between persons,	35:42
	always in the midst of our lives breaking forth.	35:47
	This is none other	35:53
	than the body of our Lord and savior Jesus, the Christ.	35:55
	This gathering of people in this chapel on this Sunday,	35:59
	this is the church of Jesus, the Christ.	36:04
	For the wisdom of God and the strength of God	36:09
	is made into an illustration of the people of God.	36:14
	And as Saint Paul dares	36:18
	to proclaim to those heartache, headache,	36:20
	Corinthian brothers and sisters of his,	36:25
	you are God's foolishness and you are God's wisdom.	36:29
	And in the midst of this people up, messed up,	36:34
	diverse mixture of men and women, God himself happens.	36:38
	And God's potent weakness embraces you	36:43
	and invades your stupid wisdom.	36:46
	And in the midst of that,	36:49
	you are made into his very own body,	36:51
	the church of Jesus, the Christ.	36:54
	If you want an illustration of God's foolishness,	36:58
	which is wisdom and God's weakness, which is strength,	37:02
	then take yourselves as an example for you.	37:06
	You are the church.	37:11
	You remember that conversation	37:14
	between the little prince and the fox in the little prince.	37:16
	The little prince wants the fox to come out	37:21
	and play with him and says to him,	37:23
	"Come out, be my companion."	37:25
	The Fox says, "I am not yet tamed and I cannot come out."	37:29
	The little prince asks the question,	37:36
	"What does it mean to be tamed?"	37:37
	And after several attempts at a definition,	37:40
	the little Fox says to the prince,	37:42
	"To be tamed means to establish ties.	37:46
	My life is very monotonous.	37:50
	I hunt chickens, men hunt me.	37:52
	And in consequence I am a little bored,	37:55
	but if you will tame me,	37:59
	it will be as if the sun came up to shine on my life,	38:02
	I shall know the sound of a step	38:06
	that will be different from all other steps.	38:08
	Other steps in me, hurrying back underneath the ground.	38:11
	Yours will call me like music out of my den."	38:16
	The step of God's presence among us in his potent weakness.	38:22
	And in his wise foolishness,	38:29
	the step of God's presence among us,	38:31
	tames us and draws us out of our holes of fear,	38:35
	out of our dins of betrayal,	38:40
	and enables us to live and breathe together.	38:43
	And to be those persons who in spite of ethnic	38:47
	and economic differences,	38:51
	in spite of our long history	38:53
	of failing to honor the place of women	38:55
	in spite of our social distinctions	38:59
	enables us to be that unique community,	39:02
	which unlike a mighty tortoise, but like a mighty army	39:06
	moves across the face of this land	39:11
	to create for all other persons,	39:14
	the presence of God in our myths.	39:17
	You see my friends St. Paul is big on faith,	39:23
	but it is not the faith of humans that Paul is big on,	39:26
	It is not our faith that is important to Paul,	39:30
	it is rather the sovereign faith of a sovereign God,	39:34
	the faith of a God who saves us because he is faithful,	39:39
	who makes us whole, who brings salvation.	39:43
	That is to say health and wholeness to this land	39:46
	because he is trustworthy.	39:50
	My daughter Sharon came home from a friend's house	39:55
	the other day distressed	39:58
	that her friend did not believe in God.	39:59
	And Sharon who's nine said,	40:02
	"Daddy, Mandy said she didn't believe in God."	40:05
	And one of Sharon's four brothers said,	40:08
	"Oh, Sharon, don't worry about it.	40:10
	God believes in Mandy."	40:12
	And that indeed is the good news of the gospel.	40:15
	God believes in us.	40:19
	God believes in the church.	40:22
	God believes that in this gathering of people,	40:25
	the church happens.	40:28
	The church is set free	40:30
	to share with God and the creation of new community	40:33
	in the midst of this old divided world.	40:37
	When I was a student at the University of North Carolina,	40:43
	a professor there listened to me, complain and gripe	40:49
	about the state of the local church.	40:53
	And after listening for a long time, he said,	40:58
	"Roland, let me share with you	41:00
	a positively offensive quotation from Karl Barth.	41:02
	Take good note that a Parson or person who does not believe	41:10
	that in this congregation of his,	41:15
	including these men and women, old wives and children,	41:19
	exists Christ congregation	41:24
	does not believe at all in the existence of the church.	41:28
	I believe in the church means	41:33
	that I believe that here in this place,	41:35
	in this visible assembly,	41:38
	the Spirit of Christ is at work	41:41
	happening among people creating new life."	41:44
	So, let us be proud on this Sunday of lent.	41:52
	Let us make our boast before one another	41:58
	and before the world,	42:01
	but let us as St. Paul puts it,	42:04
	if we must boasts, boast in the Lord	42:07
	who is here to among us and who has created in this place,	42:12
	the church of Jesus Christ.	42:17
	The Lord bless you, the church.	42:21
	The Lord make his face to shine up on you, the church.	42:25
	The Lord lift up the countenance of his love upon you,	42:29
	the church in this place now and forevermore,	42:33
	amen.	42:40
	(soft piano music)	42:51
	(choir singing faintly)	43:40
-	As the church, as the body of Christ,	46:21
	let us affirm what we believe.	46:25
	We believe in God who has created and is creating,	46:29
	who has come into truly human Jesus	46:34
	to reconcile and make new	46:37
	who works in us and others by the spirit.	46:40
	We trust God who calls us to be the church	46:44
	to celebrate life and its fullness,	46:49
	to love and serve others, to seek justice and resist evil,	46:52
	to proclaim Jesus crucified and risen,	46:58
	our judge and our hope.	47:02
	In life, in death, in life beyond death God is with us.	47:05
	We are not alone.	47:12
	Thanks be to God.	47:14
	The Lord be with you.	47:17
	(congregation speaks faintly)
	Let us pray.	47:20
	Let us offer to God our prayers of intercession	47:28
	and supplication.	47:31
	Dear God, God of love and mercy,	47:35
	God of each of us, and God have us all,	47:40
	help us as we pray, help us to pray as we hoped,	47:45
	help us to trust and believe not in our prayers,	47:52
	but to trust in your hearing and answering.	47:59
	We are in our moments of real honesty,	48:05
	not ashamed to admit openly our need to be loved,	48:09
	our need to be cared for, our need to be handled gently,	48:14
	our need for tenderness and for strength.	48:21
	You know us, oh God even as we know, not ourselves.	48:26
	We pray for all those, even ourselves	48:35
	who need a tender touch, who long for a gentle word,	48:40
	who wait for a comforting hand.	48:46
	There is, oh, Lord, much hurt, much pain, much suffering,	48:51
	much loneliness, much estrangement among us your people.	48:59
	Help us to know that we do belong to one another.	49:06
	That is one of us suffers, we all suffer.	49:13
	As one of us rejoices, we all rejoice together.	49:18
	We pray for others as we pray for ourselves	49:26
	ooh, loving God for the freedom to give the touch of love,	49:31
	the word of love, the patience of love,	49:40
	the persistence of love,	49:46
	the hope of love, and the ever lasting triumph of love.	49:49
	In our struggle to become who hoped,	50:00
	give us grace to be who you would have us to be.	50:04
	Ooh, God, as you have promised us never to leave us,	50:12
	come now to us in the church, now to us right here.	50:19
	Maybe have heard and understood and receive your word	50:26
	into our lives this day.	50:32
	May we not leave this place as we came,	50:36
	but may we be renewed through the love of Christ	50:42
	in body, mind, and spirit.	50:46
	We rest our weakness in your strength,	50:52
	our insufficiency in your wholeness.	50:56
	Take us and do for us what we cannot do	51:01
	and make us what we cannot be.	51:06
	Saved, but for your love,	51:10
	which we know in and through Jesus Christ, our blessed Lord,	51:13
	who taught us to pray as we pray.	51:20
	Our father who art in heaven,	51:24
	Hallowed be thy name.	51:28
	Thy kingdom come,	51:30
	Thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven.	51:33
	Give us this day our daily bread	51:38
	and forgive us our trespasses	51:41
	as we forgive those who trespass against us.	51:44
	And lead us, not into temptation,	51:48
	but deliver us from evil.	51:50
	For thy is the kingdom, and the power,	51:53
	and the glory, for ever.	51:56
	Amen.	51:59
	(soft piano music)	52:05
	(choir singing faintly)	54:06
	(soft piano music)	57:10
	(soft piano music)	57:32
	(choir singing faintly)	58:02
-	With grateful and loving hearts ooh, God,	58:47
	we approach your altar now,	58:51
	as we all turn to make our commitment to you,	58:55
	may we give thanks for all the gifts of life	58:59
	we have received through your grace	59:02
	and through the goodness of others.	59:05
	Give thanks for all those things we are	59:08
	not only because of our own strength,	59:11
	but also because of the help and support of others.	59:15
	We give thanks for those whose lives and spirits	59:20
	have touched and influenced and shaped our own.	59:24
	Now, oh God, receive and bless these gifts	59:31
	even as you receive and bless our lives	59:35
	through Jesus Christ, our blessing Lord and savior,	59:39
	amen.	59:45
	(soft piano music)	59:51
	(choir singing faintly)	1:01:15
-	And now without bowing heads or closing eyes,	1:04:45
	may I offer you this blessing as one Christian to others,	1:04:48
	the grace of our Lord and savior Jesus Christ,	1:04:54
	the love of God,	1:04:58
	the communion and fellowship of the Holy Spirit	1:05:00
	be with you and with those whom you love	1:05:04
	this day and forever.	1:05:09
	♪ Amen ♪	1:05:14
	♪ Amen ♪	1:05:18
	♪ Amen ♪	1:05:22
	♪ Amen ♪	1:05:27
	♪ Amen ♪	1:05:33
	♪ Amen ♪	1:05:40
	♪ Amen ♪	1:05:49
	(soft piano music)	1:06:01
	(soft piano music)	1:06:59

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Title:

Roland P. Perdue III - "Well, Just Look Who's Here" (February 26, 1978)

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Date:

February 26, 1978

Speaker:

Perdue, Roland P., III

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Duke University. Chapel

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UA.17.01.0003 RR-0941
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Duke University Chapel recordings, 1954-2005

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