William H. Willimon - "You've Got Spirit" (January 8, 1989)
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(bell ringers ringing) | 0:03 | |
- | We have been led in worship on this first Sunday | 8:01 |
after Epiphany by Mr. Philip Young | 8:03 | |
and the Bell Ringers of First Baptist Church, Henderson, | 8:06 | |
North Carolina, making their annual appearance with us. | 8:09 | |
It's always a most fitting way to end the days of Christmas | 8:13 | |
and to begin Epiphany with their beautiful music. | 8:17 | |
We're glad that you're here with us | 8:20 | |
for this service of worship. | 8:22 | |
Remind you that these services are now being broadcast | 8:25 | |
at 2 p.m. on Durham Cablevision and as always, | 8:28 | |
in the patient rooms live of the Duke Hospitals. | 8:33 | |
And now let us continue our worship. | 8:39 | |
(organ plays) | 8:43 | |
(everyone sings, accompanied by organ and bell ringers) | 9:10 | |
- | O living God, as a spirit descended on Jesus | 11:32 |
at his baptism in the Jordan waters, | 11:36 | |
so may your spirit descend on us gathered here this day. | 11:40 | |
Keep us your people who even as your son | 11:45 | |
had been born of water and the spirit | 11:49 | |
always faithful to him who is Lord forever and ever. | 11:52 | |
May we be empowered to do thy will on Earth | 11:58 | |
even as it is in heaven, amen. | 12:02 | |
Be seated. | 12:05 | |
- | Let us pray. | 12:20 |
Open our hearts and minds, O God, | 12:23 | |
by the power of Your Holy Spirit | 12:26 | |
so that as the word is read and proclaimed, | 12:29 | |
we might hear with joy what You say to us this day, amen. | 12:33 | |
The Old Testament lesson is from the book of Isaiah. | 12:41 | |
The Spirit of the Lord God is upon me, | 12:45 | |
because the Lord has anointed me | 12:49 | |
to bring good tidings to the afflicted; | 12:51 | |
he has sent me to bind up the brokenhearted, | 12:55 | |
to proclaim liberty to the captives, | 12:58 | |
and the opening of the prison to those who are bound; | 13:01 | |
to proclaim the year of the Lord's favor, | 13:05 | |
and the day of vengeance of our God; | 13:09 | |
to comfort all who mourn; | 13:13 | |
to grant to those who mourn in Zion, | 13:15 | |
to give them a garland instead of ashes, | 13:18 | |
the oil of gladness instead of mourning, | 13:22 | |
the mantle of praise instead of a faint spirit; | 13:25 | |
that they may be called the oaks of righteousness, | 13:30 | |
the planting of the Lord, that he may be glorified. | 13:34 | |
They shall build up the ancient ruins, | 13:39 | |
they shall raise up the former devastations; | 13:41 | |
they shall repair the ruined cities, | 13:45 | |
the devastations of many generations. | 13:47 | |
- | Will you join in reading responsively the 29th Psalm. | 14:09 |
Ascribe to the Lord, O heavenly beings, | 14:16 | |
ascribe to the Lord glory and strength. | 14:20 | |
Ascribe to the Lord the glory of his name; | 14:24 | |
worship the Lord in holy array. | 14:28 | |
Congregation | (murmuring) | 14:32 |
- | The voice of the Lord breaks the cedars, | 14:46 |
the Lord breaks the cedars of Lebanon. | 14:49 | |
He makes Lebanon to skip like a calf, | 14:52 | |
and Sirion like a young wild ox. | 14:55 | |
Congregation | (murmuring) | 14:59 |
- | The voice of the Lord shakes the wilderness, | 15:03 |
the Lord shakes the wilderness of Kadesh. | 15:07 | |
Congregation | (murmuring) | 15:11 |
- | The Lord sits enthroned over the flood; | 15:20 |
the Lord sits enthroned as king for ever. | 15:23 | |
Congregation | (murmuring) | 15:28 |
- | May the Lord bless his people with peace. | 15:31 |
(organ plays) | 15:35 | |
(everyone sings) | 15:42 | |
- | The second lesson is from the Acts of the Apostles. | 16:39 |
Now those who were scattered went about preaching the word. | 16:43 | |
Philip went down to the city of Samaria, | 16:47 | |
and proclaimed to them the Christ. | 16:50 | |
And the multitudes with one accord | 16:53 | |
gave heed to what was said by Philip, | 16:55 | |
when they heard him and saw the signs which he did. | 16:59 | |
For unclean spirits came out of many who were possessed, | 17:02 | |
crying with a loud voice; | 17:05 | |
and many who were paralyzed or lame were healed. | 17:08 | |
So there was much joy in the city. | 17:12 | |
Now when the apostles at Jerusalem | 17:15 | |
heard that Samaria had received the word of God, | 17:17 | |
they sent to them Peter and John, | 17:20 | |
who came down and prayed for them | 17:24 | |
that they might receive the Holy Spirit; | 17:26 | |
for it had not yet fallen on any of them, | 17:29 | |
but they had only been baptized | 17:33 | |
in the name of the Lord Jesus. | 17:35 | |
Then they laid their hands on them | 17:38 | |
and they received the Holy Spirit. | 17:40 | |
(bell ringers ringing) | 17:52 | |
The gospel lesson comes to us | 19:49 | |
from the gospel according to Luke. | 19:51 | |
Hear the word of the Lord. | 19:53 | |
As the people were in expectation, | 19:56 | |
and all men questioned in their hearts concerning John, | 19:58 | |
whether perhaps he were the Christ, | 20:02 | |
John answered them all, "I baptize you with water; | 20:04 | |
"but he who is mightier than I is coming, | 20:09 | |
"the thong of whose sandals I am not worthy to untie; | 20:12 | |
"he will baptize you with the Holy Spirit and with fire. | 20:17 | |
"His winnowing fork is in his hand, | 20:22 | |
"to clear his threshing floor, | 20:24 | |
"and to gather the wheat into his granary, | 20:26 | |
"but the chaff he will burn with unquenchable fire." | 20:29 | |
Now when all the people were baptized, | 20:33 | |
and when Jesus also had been baptized | 20:36 | |
and was praying, the heaven was opened, | 20:38 | |
and the Holy Spirit descended upon him in bodily form, | 20:41 | |
as a dove, and a voice came from heaven, | 20:46 | |
"Thou art my beloved Son; with thee I am well pleased." | 20:49 | |
The word of the Lord, thanks be to God. | 20:55 | |
(bell ringers ring) | 21:10 | |
- | Ned Arnett says I never hear | 24:34 |
about the Holy Spirit at Duke Chapel. | 24:38 | |
Why is that? | 24:41 | |
Though I'm loathe to explain anything | 24:45 | |
to a James B. Duke professor of anything, | 24:46 | |
let me try to explain. | 24:49 | |
Around here, you're apt to hear | 24:52 | |
about God the Father, God is the Creator, | 24:54 | |
who set the universe in motion like a great clock. | 24:59 | |
God is the creative but alas, | 25:04 | |
aloof hermit artist | 25:07 | |
who shapes and forms and sets the whole thing in motion | 25:11 | |
and then leaves, the deistic Deus absconditus. | 25:15 | |
Or you may hear about God the Son. | 25:21 | |
God is the young and fearless prophet of ancient Galilee, | 25:25 | |
the rabbinic teacher, the great ethical example. | 25:29 | |
Jesus the man for others, who exist mainly to set high | 25:35 | |
and unattainable ethical ideals for the rest of us. | 25:40 | |
But God the Holy Spirit, | 25:46 | |
Ned says he doesn't hear much about that aspect of Godness. | 25:50 | |
We honor God the Creator because we can see nature, | 25:56 | |
we can dissect its wonders and understand it. | 26:00 | |
We pay homage to God the Son | 26:05 | |
because even people who don't believe that Jesus was divine, | 26:07 | |
at least do believe that he was a marvelous person | 26:12 | |
and a great ethical example and after all, | 26:17 | |
they say isn't that really the purpose of religion, | 26:20 | |
to offer us ethical examples. | 26:23 | |
But God the Spirit? | 26:27 | |
That seems strange, exotic, optional equipment | 26:31 | |
for us moderns who live in this thinking, whirring, | 26:37 | |
clanking, clockwork world of a universe, | 26:41 | |
where people are busy helping themselves | 26:45 | |
and getting ahead and taking charge | 26:48 | |
and looking out for number one | 26:50 | |
and shaping their own destinies, | 26:51 | |
self-determining their future. | 26:54 | |
In this clanking, working, flattened out universe, | 26:58 | |
predictable human-centered world, | 27:02 | |
we have no need for a God | 27:05 | |
who comes to us as power and spirit. | 27:09 | |
Please God, we would rather do it ourselves. | 27:16 | |
But how small is this flattened out notion of God | 27:23 | |
when set next to the God depicted in today's Psalm. | 27:26 | |
The voice of the Lord is full of majesty. | 27:33 | |
The voice of the Lord breaks cedars. | 27:35 | |
The voice of the Lord flashes forth flames of fire. | 27:38 | |
The voice of the Lord shakes the wilderness, | 27:42 | |
makes mighty oaks to whirl, strips forest bare, | 27:45 | |
and all in his temple cry glory. | 27:50 | |
How puny is our little modern image of God | 27:55 | |
when compared to this cedar-breaking, flame-flashing, | 28:00 | |
oak-whirling epiphany of a living | 28:05 | |
God. | 28:10 | |
When Jesus was baptized in the muddy Jordan river, | 28:14 | |
the heavens cracked open and fire descended upon him | 28:19 | |
like a dove and there was a voice. | 28:22 | |
John the Baptist had predicted as much. | 28:27 | |
I baptize you with water | 28:30 | |
but there's one coming after me who's mightier. | 28:31 | |
He shall burn you with fire. | 28:34 | |
Thus began Jesus' work. | 28:40 | |
And his earthly work culminates with the risen Christ | 28:45 | |
come back to his disciples and he says to his people, | 28:49 | |
you wait in Jerusalem and I'll come to you | 28:52 | |
and I'll give you the same spirit which empowered me. | 28:56 | |
Then on the day of Pentecost, the heavens cracked open again | 29:03 | |
and there was fire again, | 29:08 | |
a rush of cedar-breaking, oak-whirling wind | 29:10 | |
and flames of fire descended on the church. | 29:14 | |
And that baptismal fire has since Pentecost | 29:20 | |
spread to every nation of the world | 29:23 | |
so that there is no corner of the Earth | 29:26 | |
where there is not somebody to rise up | 29:29 | |
and say, the Spirit of the Lord God is upon me. | 29:31 | |
The Lord has anointed me to bring good tidings | 29:38 | |
to the afflicted, to bind up the brokenhearted, | 29:42 | |
to set at liberty those who are imprisoned. | 29:45 | |
Isaiah 61. | 29:50 | |
Power. | 29:53 | |
Fire. | 29:54 | |
Voice. | 29:55 | |
Leaping over every boundary that we erect. | 29:57 | |
Racial or economic or political. | 30:01 | |
So that it is pushed in every corner of the world. | 30:04 | |
Wherever Jesus' people are, | 30:08 | |
there is the spirit at work. | 30:10 | |
Power. | 30:13 | |
Fire. | 30:14 | |
Spirit. | 30:15 | |
He had been, as they say, | 30:20 | |
born and bred in North Carolina. | 30:23 | |
Therefore as a child, it was quite natural for him | 30:29 | |
to live in a world where in the department stores | 30:32 | |
there were two water fountains, one marked Colored, | 30:34 | |
the other marked White. | 30:39 | |
Natural for him also | 30:42 | |
were people who never had last names, | 30:47 | |
only called Mary or Tom or worse, Buck or Boy, Uncle, Girl. | 30:49 | |
The others never entered through the front door. | 30:58 | |
The others always drank out of mayonnaise jars | 31:02 | |
when they came to work in your front yard. | 31:05 | |
But of course, that was yesterday, | 31:10 | |
mistakes made by his parents. | 31:13 | |
He had the privilege to be living in the new South | 31:17 | |
which meant that now things were done differently | 31:19 | |
which often means that now | 31:24 | |
things were done subtly, covertly. | 31:25 | |
That day they sat in big, leather-bound, brass-studded | 31:32 | |
chairs around a big oak table in the board room | 31:35 | |
and he had worked hard to sit around that table. | 31:39 | |
It's not that I dislike her, said the boss, it's just that, | 31:44 | |
well, it's just that she doesn't quite fit in. | 31:50 | |
She's not really part of the team if you know what I mean. | 31:52 | |
And of course, everybody knew what the boss meant. | 31:59 | |
But nobody said it and everybody reached down deep, | 32:04 | |
past the veneer to the prejudices and the past | 32:09 | |
and dredged up all of those unlearned, untaught, unstated | 32:14 | |
but nevertheless fixed in concrete boundaries | 32:18 | |
between us, between them and us, | 32:24 | |
and those customs and folk ways | 32:26 | |
who told you who you are. | 32:31 | |
But for some reason that day, he reached even deeper, | 32:36 | |
past the prejudices and past the folk ways. | 32:41 | |
And he found a voice to say, | 32:47 | |
Jack, you know and we all know that that's not right. | 32:48 | |
She has done the job, she deserves the promotion. | 32:56 | |
And I want our company to be a model | 33:00 | |
for how we treat our people | 33:04 | |
regardless of the color of their skin. | 33:06 | |
Power, power not of his own creation. | 33:11 | |
Something unnatural, beyond the natural. | 33:16 | |
From whence did it come? | 33:21 | |
One time Jesus told his disciples, | 33:26 | |
when they drag you in the court | 33:28 | |
and you have to testify before the princes, | 33:29 | |
don't worry about what you're going to say, how you testify. | 33:32 | |
The Holy Spirit will tell you how to testify. | 33:35 | |
What lawyer would have taken their case? | 33:40 | |
This group is so far out | 33:46 | |
they've got nobody to take their case except the Spirit. | 33:47 | |
She wanted, wanted more than anything, love. | 33:56 | |
She was so lonely, going at the end of every day, | 34:01 | |
back to the same drab cold lonely apartment. | 34:05 | |
And out of her desperation, | 34:12 | |
she started going to bars in the evenings, | 34:13 | |
not to drink but just to be with somebody else | 34:16 | |
and there she met other lonely people. | 34:20 | |
But one evening, she met someone and they talked | 34:25 | |
and it was right and she said to herself, | 34:29 | |
this is the way it can be. | 34:34 | |
Two people, adult, sharing, | 34:35 | |
and it was wonderful. | 34:40 | |
But then, toward the end of the evening, | 34:44 | |
he said to her, well he didn't really say to her | 34:45 | |
but he didn't have to say to her, she knew. | 34:48 | |
That she should share more than conversation and opinions | 34:51 | |
and she was frightened because she didn't want to lose him | 34:56 | |
and she didn't want to blow it, | 35:01 | |
her one chance for companionship and affection and love. | 35:03 | |
But from somewhere, somewhere deep inside her, | 35:11 | |
she found a voice to say, no, | 35:14 | |
no we're not ready for that now. | 35:20 | |
We need to spend more time together. | 35:23 | |
You see, as it turned out, she wasn't really alone. | 35:29 | |
There was Spirit, Spirit, empowering her | 35:34 | |
to be more than she could've been | 35:38 | |
if she had been left to her own. | 35:41 | |
Spirit. | 35:45 | |
Power. | 35:47 | |
The days following the funeral were like a dream to Martha. | 35:52 | |
Martha ate and then she slept | 35:57 | |
and then she got up in the morning | 35:59 | |
but she wasn't really living. | 36:00 | |
She didn't want to live anymore now that he was gone. | 36:03 | |
What have I to live for she would ask herself. | 36:07 | |
What reason have I to go on? | 36:12 | |
I have no purpose for my life, it's ended. | 36:14 | |
But then, | 36:22 | |
Martha was able to say later it was like a voice. | 36:25 | |
Not suddenly but gradually over the next days | 36:28 | |
a voice calling her name saying Martha, you can go on. | 36:31 | |
This is a chapter in your life that's ended | 36:37 | |
but a new chapter is beginning. | 36:40 | |
Reach for life. Go on. | 36:42 | |
Until there was that morning when she got up | 36:48 | |
and she put on her best dress and her favorite hat | 36:50 | |
and she strided forth to life. | 36:55 | |
A voice, liberating a captive. | 37:01 | |
A voice speaking words to her | 37:08 | |
she could've never spoken to herself. | 37:10 | |
Power. | 37:15 | |
Spirit. | 37:16 | |
Voice. | 37:18 | |
Jesus had promised to his disciples. | 37:23 | |
Just you wait, go wait in Jerusalem, | 37:27 | |
I'm gonna give you the same spirit that empowered me. | 37:31 | |
Spirit, but to be empowered by the Spirit | 37:39 | |
is not only to be comforted or to encourage, | 37:44 | |
it's also at times in life to be prodded. | 37:47 | |
As individuals, as a church, to be pushed, nudged. | 37:52 | |
Our first lesson today, our second lesson | 38:02 | |
is from the book of Acts, | 38:05 | |
the story of Phillip going down into Samaria. | 38:06 | |
It's a story about the Spirit. | 38:10 | |
It's a story not only about how the Samaritans | 38:13 | |
got the Spirit but how the church got some of the Spirit. | 38:16 | |
Now Phillip, we've asked you to come and to appear here | 38:23 | |
before the board of inquiry of First Church Jerusalem. | 38:25 | |
And we'd like you to explain Phillip if you can | 38:31 | |
just what you were doing over in Samaria? | 38:33 | |
I mean after all, we are reasonable people. | 38:37 | |
We don't want to jump to conclusion on the basis of rumors. | 38:39 | |
We'd like to hear in your own words | 38:43 | |
just what were you doing over there with them? | 38:45 | |
We hear that you were with them. | 38:52 | |
I mean we hear worse. | 38:56 | |
Now Phillip, you know you had no business doing that. | 39:00 | |
Did not the Lord clearly tell us in scripture, | 39:03 | |
go first to the lost sheep of the house of Israel? | 39:07 | |
Can't you understand plain Hebrew? | 39:11 | |
First, it means what it says, first, you know what first is, | 39:13 | |
first, Israel, the lost sheep of the house of Israel. | 39:16 | |
What were you doing over there in Samaria? | 39:20 | |
They're not us; they're not Israel. | 39:23 | |
And don't try quoting that stuff from Isaiah to us either, | 39:27 | |
about good tidings to the afflicted | 39:31 | |
and binding up the brokenhearted. | 39:34 | |
Don't you know Isaiah was talking about Israel? | 39:37 | |
Wasn't talking about the Samaritans, talking about Israel. | 39:40 | |
Besides, with the Romans here, who's more brokenhearted | 39:44 | |
and needs binding up more than us? | 39:47 | |
Charity begins at home. | 39:50 | |
Phillip who elected you Mr. Missionary of the year? | 39:56 | |
Don't you know Peter's supposed to be | 40:00 | |
in charge of these things. | 40:02 | |
Didn't Jesus call him the Rock? | 40:03 | |
Not you, you shoulda checked, | 40:05 | |
you should've wired the home office for instructions. | 40:07 | |
What were you doing out there? | 40:10 | |
You should've checked with the bishop. | 40:15 | |
Phillip replies, well we don't have bishops | 40:17 | |
until after the 2nd century. | 40:20 | |
Well you should've checked with somebody. | 40:21 | |
And then Phillip responded, well if you recall, | 40:26 | |
I mean we never intended to go out to Samaria, | 40:32 | |
to preach or do any good. | 40:35 | |
If you recall, after they killed Stephen, | 40:38 | |
and they started going house to house | 40:42 | |
and dragging people out | 40:43 | |
and throwing them in jail, we cut out of town. | 40:44 | |
And we went out to Samaria because the way we figured it, | 40:49 | |
no good person would be caught dead out in Samaria. | 40:52 | |
And we were just out there trying to keep our heads down, | 40:56 | |
just trying to keep our name out of the papers, | 40:58 | |
trying to keep the Romans away from us. | 41:00 | |
But then they started coming to us. | 41:04 | |
Who started coming to you? | 41:07 | |
Well people who were sick and paralyzed. | 41:09 | |
Samaritans? | 41:15 | |
Well I tell ya, you start looking at a paralyzed man, | 41:17 | |
you can't tell whether he's a Samaritan or a Jew. | 41:19 | |
He just needs you and we started healing to him | 41:21 | |
and then that's when they came and asked us for baptism. | 41:25 | |
Baptism? | 41:34 | |
Yeah, it was like the same voice, | 41:36 | |
the same Spirit | 41:41 | |
which enabled us to heal, enabled us to invite. | 41:43 | |
It was the Spirit that did it, don't blame it on us. | 41:50 | |
It wasn't our idea to be out there. | 41:55 | |
It was the Spirit. | 42:00 | |
I guess you'd say I'm just an ordinary guy | 42:02 | |
that got inspired, get it? | 42:05 | |
Toward the end of his ministry, in the Gospel of John, | 42:15 | |
Jesus tells his grieving disciples, don't worry. | 42:19 | |
I'm not gonna leave you alone. | 42:25 | |
I'm gonna send you the Spirit. | 42:28 | |
The same Spirit which empowered me, I'm gonna give to you. | 42:32 | |
I'm gonna send you the Holy Spirit, the comforter. | 42:36 | |
The Spirit as comforter. | 42:42 | |
Now that sounds very cozy and nice, doesn't it, | 42:45 | |
the Holy Spirit is our comforter. | 42:48 | |
Well the Latin means with strength, comfort, | 42:53 | |
and you know that there's comfort | 42:59 | |
but then there's also comfort. | 43:00 | |
In the Bayeux tapestry, there is a scene | 43:06 | |
in which a column of Norman soldiers is riding into battle | 43:10 | |
and at the end of the column is the Bishop of Bayeux, | 43:15 | |
riding behind them and he's prodding the soldiers | 43:20 | |
with this great, big, stout stick | 43:23 | |
and underneath the Bishop are the words, | 43:27 | |
Bishop Odo comforts his soldiers. | 43:32 | |
Power. | 43:39 | |
Spirit. | 43:41 | |
Voice. | 43:41 | |
You've got it. | 43:43 | |
Amen. | 43:46 | |
(organ plays) | 43:50 | |
(everyone sings) | 44:46 | |
Woman | The Lord be with you. | 47:31 |
Congregation | (murmuring) | 47:34 |
- | Let us pray. | 47:35 |
Oh God, whose mystery is as deep as the sea, | 47:45 | |
whose light is as bright as a thousand suns, | 47:49 | |
whose spirit fills the sanctuary | 47:53 | |
like the sweet air of a spring day, | 47:56 | |
we bow before you believing that in Jesus Christ | 47:59 | |
you have revealed yourself in a way we can understand. | 48:04 | |
In his love for his disciples and in his teaching, | 48:09 | |
we can perceive what it is that we must do. | 48:13 | |
In Christ's death, we can begin to see | 48:17 | |
the limits to which we must go. | 48:20 | |
In his resurrection, we can glimpse | 48:23 | |
the life that is promised us, | 48:26 | |
that the power these understandings | 48:29 | |
give effectiveness to our living, | 48:31 | |
let the gifts that are in us | 48:33 | |
become gifts for the world around us. | 48:36 | |
As we raise our voices in prayer for others, | 48:40 | |
we ask for the touch of your Spirit upon us | 48:43 | |
and upon all in need. | 48:47 | |
Continue to touch the grieving family and friends | 48:50 | |
of all those who died in and as a result of the tragic | 48:53 | |
air explosion over Scotland; | 48:57 | |
touch the thousands who continue to try | 49:00 | |
to put their lives back together | 49:02 | |
after the recent devastating earthquake in Armenia; | 49:04 | |
touch the terrorist in the world | 49:09 | |
who seek violence and destruction | 49:11 | |
in order to have their way, | 49:14 | |
may their angry and warring hearts | 49:17 | |
be softened with compassion; | 49:19 | |
touch the twisted minds of the murderers and drug abusers | 49:23 | |
so that evil might give way to good; | 49:27 | |
touch the leaders of all nations | 49:31 | |
especially those of our new administration | 49:33 | |
so that peace and good will might be their goal; | 49:36 | |
touch those who have lost spouses, children and friends | 49:41 | |
by death, violence and mean circumstance, | 49:45 | |
may they find comfort and rest; | 49:49 | |
touch the homeless and the victims of famine, | 49:53 | |
wars, poverty and injustice | 49:56 | |
who know only a fearful and hateful world; | 49:58 | |
touch the sick and the dying, | 50:04 | |
that they might experience healing and freedom from pain; | 50:07 | |
touch the spirit in us that is hungry | 50:12 | |
for your presence and make it joyful; | 50:14 | |
touch all of us with a new awareness of life | 50:20 | |
and of each other, take sin away | 50:23 | |
and make us new persons people of love and mercy. | 50:27 | |
For yours is the kingdom, now and forever, amen. | 50:32 | |
In return for God's eternal gifts | 50:40 | |
of love and sacrifice for us, | 50:43 | |
now may we bring in joyous thanksgiving, | 50:46 | |
our gifts to God, Father, and Son. | 50:49 | |
(bell ringers ring) | 50:59 | |
(organ plays) | 58:23 | |
(everyone sings) | 58:47 | |
We give you thanks most gracious and eternal God, | 59:45 | |
that you have refreshed us by your Holy Spirit, | 59:49 | |
that you have given us your loving presence | 59:53 | |
as we have praised your everlasting name | 59:56 | |
and listened to your holy word proclaimed. | 59:59 | |
Because of your gifts to us, | 1:00:02 | |
too numerous and limitless to measure, | 1:00:05 | |
we offer these gifts in thanksgiving | 1:00:07 | |
and profound gratitude to you | 1:00:11 | |
as we dedicate ourselves anew | 1:00:13 | |
to the continuing work of your kingdom. | 1:00:16 | |
And now as our Savior has taught us, let us pray saying, | 1:00:19 | |
Everyone | Our Father who art in heaven, | 1:00:24 |
Hallowed be thy name. | 1:00:27 | |
Thy kingdom come, Thy will be done | 1:00:30 | |
on earth as it is in heaven. | 1:00:33 | |
Give us this day our daily bread, | 1:00:36 | |
and forgive us our trespasses, | 1:00:38 | |
as we forgive those who trespass against us. | 1:00:41 | |
Lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil. | 1:00:45 | |
For thine is the kingdom, and the power, | 1:00:50 | |
and the glory, forever, amen. | 1:00:53 | |
(organ plays) | 1:00:58 | |
(everyone sings) | 1:01:36 | |
- | And now may the Spirit of the Living God | 1:04:26 |
be with you and abide with you, now and always, amen. | 1:04:28 | |
(organ plays) | 1:04:42 |
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