Debra K. Brazzel - Sermon Untitled (July 12, 1992)

Download
- Rights
- Limited Re-Use
  CC BY-NC 4.0
  More Rights Info
- Files (1)
- MP4
- Please be patient with media downloads. They are often large files.
Share

Embed Code
<iframe src='//idn.duke.edu/ark:/87924/r4gf0nb26?embed=true' height='500px' width='100%' frameborder='0' marginwidth='0' marginheight='0' scrolling='no' allowfullscreen></iframe>
Permalink

https://idn.duke.edu/ark:/87924/r4gf0nb26
Skip to Item Info

Loading the media player...

Files for this Item

Transcript

Transcripts may contain inaccuracies.

	(organ music)	0:00
-	Good morning, and welcome to Duke Chapel	2:08
	on this warm summer day.	2:10
	Please stand and join with me for the greeting.	2:13
	On this day, we gather in oneness	2:22
	with our brothers and sisters to celebrate God's gifts.	2:24
	(congregation chants)	2:29
	On this day we will share the bread and wine,	2:36
	which are symbols of God's power and love.	2:39
	(congregation chants)	2:44
	(organ music)	2:53
	(vocalizing)	3:28
-	Brothers and sisters of the household of faith,	6:47
	the scriptures remind us in various places	6:49
	that all have sinned and come short of the glory of God.	6:52
	Therefore, let us make our common confession of sin.	6:57
	God, our mother and father, how often we have tried	7:01
	to escape your watchful eye.	7:06
	Whenever we measure ourselves by your intention for us,	7:09
	we are found wanting.	7:13
	We have resisted change and growth,	7:16
	we have seen your suffering people and passed them by.	7:18
	Your children cry out for mercy and compassion,	7:24
	and we harden our hearts and focus	7:27
	on more immediate concerns.	7:31
	We resent the intrusion of your Word	7:34
	into the cozy arrangements we have made for our own benefit.	7:36
	Save us from ourselves, we pray, Amen.	7:42
	Hear what comfortable words the scriptures say to all	7:48
	who truly turn to the Lord.	7:51
	Come to me, all who labor and are heavy-laden,	7:53
	and I will give you rest.	7:56
	God so loved the world that he gave his only son	8:00
	that whoever believes in him should not perish	8:02
	but have eternal life.	8:05
	The saying is sure and worthy of full acceptance	8:08
	that Christ, Jesus, came into the world	8:11
	to save sinners, Amen.	8:14
	Please be seated.	8:18
-	Let us pray together the prayer for illumination.	8:34
	Open our hearts and minds, oh God, by the power	8:38
	of your Holy Spirit so that, as the Word is read	8:43
	and proclaimed, we might hear, with joy, what you say	8:48
	to us this day, Amen.	8:52
	The first reading is taken from the book of Second Kings,	8:56
	chapter two, starting with the first verse.	9:00
	Now, when the Lord was about to take Elijah up to Heaven	9:06
	by a whirlwind, Elijah and Elisha were	9:10
	on their way from Gilgal.	9:14
	Then Elijah said to him, stay here	9:16
	for the Lord has sent me to the Jordan.	9:20
	But he said, as the Lord lives and as you, yourself, live,	9:24
	I will not leave you.	9:29
	So the two of them went on.	9:31
	50 men of the company of prophets also went and stood	9:34
	at some distance from them as they both were standing	9:39
	by the Jordan.	9:42
	Then Elijah took his mantle and rolled it up	9:44
	and struck the water.	9:47
	The water was parted to the one side and to the other	9:50
	until the two of them crossed on dry ground.	9:52
	When they had crossed, Elijah said to Elisha, tell me	9:57
	what I may do for you before I am taken from you.	10:01
	Elisha said, please let me inherit a double share	10:06
	of your spirit.	10:10
	He responded, you have asked a hard thing.	10:13
	Yet, if you see me as I am being taken from you,	10:17
	it will be granted to you.	10:21
	If not, it will not.	10:23
	As they continued walking and talking, a chariot of fire	10:26
	and horses of fire separated the two of them.	10:29
	And Elijah ascended in a whirlwind into Heaven.	10:32
	Elisha kept watching and crying out, Father!	10:37
	Father, the chariots of Israel and its horsemen!	10:40
	But when he could no longer see him,	10:44
	he grasped his own clothes and tore them in two pieces.	10:47
	This is the Word of the Lord.	10:53
	(congregation chants)	10:55
	Thanks be to God.
-	Today's Psalm is number 139, verses one through 12,	11:15
	found on page 854 in the hymnal.	11:19
	Please stand and sing responsively.	11:23
	(spiritual music)	11:28
	(vocalizing)	11:38
-	Our gospel reading is from the book of Luke, chapter 10,	14:35
	beginning at the 25th verse.	14:38
	Listen for God's Word to us.	14:41
	Just then, a lawyer stood up to test Jesus.	14:44
	Teacher, he said, what must I do to inherit eternal life?	14:48
	He said to him, what is written in the law?	14:53
	What do you read there?	14:57
	He answered, you shall love the Lord, your God,	14:59
	with all your heart and with all your soul and	15:02
	with all your strength and with all your mind	15:05
	and your neighbor as yourself.	15:08
	And he said to him, you have given the right answer.	15:12
	Do this, and you will live.	15:16
	But wanting to justify himself, he asked Jesus, and	15:20
	who is my neighbor?	15:24
	Jesus replied, a man was going down from Jerusalem	15:27
	to Jericho and fell into the hands of robbers	15:31
	who stripped him, beat him, and went away,	15:34
	leaving him half dead.	15:38
	Now, by chance, a priest was going down that road.	15:41
	And when he saw him, he passed by on the other side.	15:45
	So, likewise, a Levite when he came to the place	15:50
	and saw him, passed by on the other side.	15:54
	But a Samaritan, while traveling, came near him.	15:59
	And when he saw him, he was moved with pity.	16:03
	He went to him, bandaged his wounds, having poured oil	16:08
	and wine on them.	16:12
	Then he brought him, on his own animal, to an inn	16:14
	and took care of him.	16:18
	The next day, he took out two denarii, gave them	16:21
	to the innkeeper and said, take care of him.	16:25
	And when I come back, I will repay you	16:29
	whatever more you spend.	16:30
	Which of these three do you think was a neighbor	16:34
	to the man who fell into the hands of the robbers?	16:37
	He said, the one who showed him mercy.	16:41
	Jesus said to him, go and do likewise.	16:46
	This is the Word of the Lord.	16:51
	(congregation chants)
	This passage from Luke is well-known and beloved.	16:59
	The Good Samaritan.	17:04
	It reminds us of people we know who have gone out	17:08
	of their way to help us or someone else.	17:11
	I remember well the passerby who stopped to help me	17:16
	when I had an auto accident.	17:21
	Perhaps, there was a neighbor, a friend, a stranger	17:24
	who helped you when you needed it most.	17:29
	Perhaps you've even had the opportunity	17:33
	to be a good Samaritan by coming to the aide	17:36
	of someone in need.	17:41
	We all know people we would call good Samaritans.	17:44
	It's such a familiar expression in our culture,	17:49
	you can even find it in the dictionary.	17:52
	A good Samaritan is defined as a person who acts	17:56
	with compassion and who is helpful to one in distress.	18:00
	Yes, this is a beautiful story	18:07
	of human compassion and kindness.	18:09
	We are moved by the good Samaritan who stopped	18:12
	to help a neighbor in need and appalled	18:15
	at the hard-hearted behavior of the Levite	18:18
	and the priest who passed by on the other side.	18:22
	How could they call themselves religious and act so coldly?	18:26
	It's a familiar, comforting story.	18:34
	We know who the good guys are and who the bad guys are.	18:38
	There is no ambiguity in this story.	18:43
	It's clear, and we all know the moral of The Good Samaritan.	18:46
	But this is not how the story would have been heard	18:52
	by Jesus' listeners.	18:55
	Let me set the scene for you.	18:58
	Jesus was nearing the end of his ministry.	19:01
	He'd healed many and proclaimed that the kingdom	19:04
	of God is at hand to anyone who would listen.	19:07
	He'd had numerous conflicts with the religious authorities.	19:11
	And though they felt he was potentially a dangerous	19:16
	influence, they were intrigued by his power.	19:20
	And they wanted to know more about his religious beliefs.	19:24
	A lawyer, an expert in Jewish law,	19:31
	stood up in the crowd	19:35
	and asked Jesus what he must do to inherit eternal life.	19:36
	Now, this was a strange question, coming from one	19:42
	whose profession was to know the teachings	19:46
	of Jewish law inside and out.	19:49
	It was obvious that the purpose of this question	19:52
	was to test Jesus' knowledge of Jewish law.	19:56
	But Jesus threw the question back to him and asked,	20:01
	what is written in the law?	20:04
	What do you read there?	20:06
	The lawyer gave the orthodox, rabbinical answer.	20:09
	You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart	20:13
	and with all your soul and with all your strength	20:18
	and with all your mind and your neighbor as yourself.	20:22
	Jesus responded, that's right.	20:28
	Do this, and you will live.	20:31
	End of conversation, right?	20:33
	Well, that wasn't what the lawyer had in mind.	20:36
	He continued, but who is my neighbor?	20:38
	Now this was a question much debated in rabbinical circles.	20:44
	Some defined neighbor as any person	20:48
	who kept the orthodox Jewish laws, others as any Jew.	20:50
	But there was no definitive answer,	20:55
	and the lawyer thought he could get the best of Jesus	20:57
	with such a difficult question.	21:00
	So what did Jesus reply?	21:03
	As he so often did, he told a story.	21:06
	It started out as a familiar story.	21:11
	A man was robbed and beaten on the road	21:14
	between Jerusalem and Jericho.	21:17
	This was a notoriously dangerous road.	21:19
	It was steep and rocky, about 17 miles long	21:22
	between the two cities.	21:26
	It was fairly well-traveled	21:28
	as there was much commerce between the cities,	21:30
	but there were many hiding places	21:33
	for bandits and revolutionaries.	21:35
	Travelers, especially those who traveled alone,	21:38
	were frequently attacked on the road.	21:41
	Now, by chance, a priest came along after the robbery	21:45
	and saw the man lying by the side of the road.	21:50
	And he looked half dead.	21:53
	The priest wanted to stop to help him,	21:57
	and he thought about it.	22:00
	But he was forbidden by Jewish law from having anything	22:01
	to do, from touching, from being anywhere near anything	22:06
	that was dead.	22:10
	If he did, he would be considered unclean, contaminated,	22:11
	banned from his religious community.	22:15
	To be restored to the religious community, he would have	22:17
	to go through a long, complex, expensive ritual cleansing.	22:20
	His religious duty was clear, and he passed by	22:25
	on the other side of the road.	22:29
	Now the second person	22:32
	that happened along the road was a Levite,	22:33
	a temple assistant.	22:35
	He too saw the man by the side of the road,	22:37
	but he had heard recently of a ploy	22:40
	that the robbers were using.	22:43
	They would put someone who looked injured	22:45
	to entice travelers.	22:47
	And when the travelers stopped to help the person,	22:49
	they would jump out from behind the rocks and attack them.	22:51
	He also was forbidden from having anything to do	22:56
	with an unclean, dead body.	23:01
	And rather than be disqualified from his duties	23:05
	or risk attack, he hurried to the other side	23:07
	of the road and went quickly on his way.	23:10
	The next person who happened along was a Samaritan merchant,	23:15
	a foreigner, a traveler in that land.	23:19
	To us, the good Samaritan that we know and love.	23:22
	But to Jesus' Jewish listeners, the lowest of the low.	23:27
	Their enemy and rival for the past eight centuries.	23:33
	Now they had once been kindred Jews,	23:39
	but the Samaritans had intermarried with other races.	23:42
	And they were now considered unpure and defiled.	23:46
	They had also adopted the practices of other cultures	23:51
	and religions, and they were considered religious heretics	23:54
	and social outcasts.	23:57
	The Jews believed that the Samaritans would do anything	24:00
	to get ahead, that they would prostrate themselves	24:04
	before any power.	24:08
	They had even been known to claim kinship with the Jews	24:10
	when it was in their favor and	24:13
	to deny ever knowing them when it wasn't.	24:14
	There'd been numerous wars between the Samaritans	24:18
	and the Jews, and the hatred and the enmity	24:21
	between them was great.	24:24
	Good Samaritan would have been anathema,	24:27
	a contradiction in terms to Jesus' Jewish listeners.	24:31
	But the reviled Samaritan saw the man by the side	24:38
	of the road, a man who was most likely a Jew,	24:41
	since he was traveling in Jewish lands, a man forbidden	24:45
	by Jewish law from having anything to do with him,	24:49
	a man who would have looked down on him in disgust	24:53
	if he could have lifted his head.	24:58
	He saw this man, his enemy, and was moved to pity.	25:02
	He went to him.	25:08
	He cleaned and he bandaged his wounds.	25:10
	He put him on his own animal and took him to an inn.	25:12
	He paid for his care.	25:15
	He even promised to cover any additional expenses	25:18
	that the innkeeper incurred, and he promised to return	25:22
	to check on him.	25:25
	Surprising behavior for an unclean, religiously heretical,	25:28
	socially outcast foreigner.	25:32
	Surprising behavior for an enemy.	25:36
	Jesus asked the lawyer, which of these three, the priest,	25:42
	the Levite, or the Samaritan do you think was a neighbor	25:47
	to the man who fell into the hands of the robbers?	25:50
	Unable to even name the Samaritan,	25:55
	the lawyer said, "The one who showed him mercy."	26:00
	Jesus finally replied, "Go and do likewise,"	26:06
	a repetition of his earlier reply.	26:12
	"Do this, and you will live."	26:15
	The lawyer had asked, "Who is my neighbor?"	26:20
	seeking to put limits on duty.	26:24
	But Jesus had changed the question	26:27
	to who is a neighbor?	26:31
	The lawyer knew well the essence of the law was	26:34
	to love God and to love one's neighbor as oneself,	26:36
	but he had no intention of fulfilling the law.	26:40
	To Jesus, it was no light thing to know the command	26:44
	and refuse to obey it.	26:49
	But this would have been a shocking story	26:51
	to Jesus' Jewish listeners.	26:53
	It showed that a person they considered evil and unclean,	26:58
	an enemy, could act like a person who loved God.	27:02
	It showed that a person who met every requirement	27:07
	for religious responsibility	27:09
	and duty could act like a person who didn't love God.	27:11
	It showed that acts of love transcended acts of duty	27:16
	and that even one's enemies could be people of God,	27:20
	that even one's enemies could be neighbors.	27:24
	This would have threatened their entire worldview	27:29
	as Jesus admonished them:	27:32
	Go. Act like your enemy, the Samaritan.	27:34
	Be a neighbor.	27:39
	Now, luckily, we don't have quite the difficulty	27:42
	understanding this text	27:45
	that Jesus' Jewish listeners would have.	27:46
	After all, the Samaritans are no enemies of ours.	27:49
	In fact, we are the Samaritans, the Gentiles,	27:52
	the racially and religiously impure.	27:56
	And the claims of this text are nothing new to us.	28:00
	It's a familiar story.	28:03
	We know we're meant to love our neighbors as ourselves,	28:05
	and we try to be kind to each other.	28:08
	We even give money to help those	28:11
	who are less fortunate than us.	28:13
	But who is our neighbor, really?	28:16
	Is it those who live on our block?	28:19
	Is it those we work with?	28:21
	Is it those in our church?	28:23
	Is it those in our community?	28:24
	We help those we think deserve it,	28:27
	but what about those other people?	28:29
	You know the ones, those lazy bums on welfare	28:31
	who won't lift a finger to help themselves,	28:35
	the people who are taking our jobs.	28:38
	Surely, we're not meant to help them.	28:41
	Or the people who are taking over our inner cities	28:44
	and neighborhoods with gangs and drugs, or those people	28:47
	who are dying, maybe, as they deserve to, from AIDs.	28:51
	What about them?	28:56
	Wouldn't we also like Jesus to put limits	28:59
	on the neighborhood?	29:03
	To define clearly who we have to be compassionate to?	29:04
	Who we have to act like neighbors toward?	29:09
	It's easy to be merciful to people we like,	29:12
	or people we respect, or people we think deserve it!	29:15
	But what about those other people?	29:19
	And what about the times when our duty conflicts	29:22
	with the needs of others?	29:25
	When our obligation to our own family	29:26
	and children is more pressing?	29:29
	We're sorry about those black children not getting a quality	29:32
	education, and we know that they deserve it.	29:36
	And we're all for that, but now that the school systems	29:39
	in Durham are to be merged, the quality	29:42
	of my children's education is going to suffer.	29:45
	And I don't know how we'll come up with the money,	29:47
	but we're pulling our kids out.	29:50
	We're going to private school.	29:52
	Or what about the times when our need	29:56
	to protect ourselves and our families seems	29:58
	to take precedence?	30:01
	We're appalled at the number of homeless people in Durham,	30:04
	and somebody ought to do something about that.	30:07
	But we just can't let them put a shelter for the homeless	30:11
	in our neighborhood.	30:14
	We can't have those kind of people hanging out around here.	30:15
	It wouldn't be safe.	30:18
	Please, Jesus,	30:21
	couldn't you give us some limits	30:25
	on who we're supposed to love?	30:27
	Like the priest and the Levite, we would rather cross	30:32
	over to the other side than risk contamination	30:34
	with the human need we encounter.	30:38
	Only we're a bit more sophisticated	30:42
	in our avoidance techniques.	30:44
	We keep ourselves pure	30:47
	by locking away the people we encounter with need	30:49
	in our various institutions.	30:53
	We put the addicts, the illiterate criminals in our jails.	30:55
	We put the elderly in our hospitals and	30:59
	in our nursing homes, and we put the poor	31:02
	in housing projects as long as they're not	31:05
	in my neighborhood.	31:08
	Out of sight, out of mind.	31:09
	How desperately we try to limit the neighborhood,	31:12
	but ours is a city and a country desperately in need	31:17
	of people who see one another and act	31:21
	toward one another as neighbors.	31:24
	For the past decade, the social problems	31:27
	and pressures have been steadily building	31:30
	until we saw their eruption in the recent riots	31:32
	in Los Angeles.	31:35
	Neighbor turned on neighbor, and the city burned	31:37
	as we crossed by on the other side.	31:40
	Durham and cities all across America waited	31:44
	with held breath to see,	31:48
	would it happen in our city?	31:51
	There's been a dramatic increase in the number	31:55
	of incidents of racially motivated hatred	31:57
	and violence across the United States.	32:00
	More than 1,600 Korean stores were ransacked	32:03
	or burned during the riots.	32:06
	A black, homeless man in Raleigh was severely beaten	32:08
	by three white teenage youths	32:12
	only within the past few weeks.	32:15
	Last fall, there was an anti-holocaust anti-Semitic ad	32:18
	placed by a well-known neo-Nazi hate group	32:22
	in Duke College newspaper.	32:26
	And the same ad is being placed	32:28
	in college newspapers all across the country.	32:30
	David Duke came within a hair's breadth	32:33
	of being elected governor of Louisiana on the basis	32:35
	of a slick hate campaign pitting middle class whites	32:39
	against welfare freeloaders, i.e. blacks.	32:44
	And the KKK in Wisconsin has vowed	32:52
	to build a high-tech studio to turn	32:55
	out a thousand politically savvy, blow-dry clones	32:58
	of David Duke to preserve what they consider	33:03
	to be God's chosen people, the white race.	33:06
	The races have defined one another as enemies	33:11
	and crossed over to the other side,	33:15
	and the road has become a battlefront.	33:18
	Racial and ethnic intensities have multiplied worldwide,	33:22
	and you cannot turn on the news one single day	33:28
	without seeing some act of racial or ethnic violence	33:33
	across the world.	33:37
	Witness the recent tragedy in Yugoslavia.	33:38
	A little girl in Sarajevo who lost her mother	33:42
	to the violence and whose father is dead or missing	33:45
	has taught the other children in the orphanage	33:49
	to sing as loudly as they can	33:51
	when the bullets are flying and the bombs are exploding.	33:54
	They sing, our neighbors who were our friends	33:58
	are now our enemies.	34:03
	We try to kill our friends who are now our enemies.	34:07
	And when they die, we stand weeping over their bodies.	34:13
	Our world	34:21
	is greatly in need of people who will act	34:23
	toward one another as neighbors.	34:27
	It's easy to be neighbors with people like us.	34:31
	But what about the other people?	34:35
	What the world needs and what Jesus calls us to be	34:39
	are neighbors to those who are different from us,	34:44
	to those we might even define as our enemies.	34:48
	And that involves risk.	34:52
	For to act like a neighbor, we must bridge the gap	34:54
	between us and them.	34:56
	We must risk getting our hands dirty, becoming contaminated,	34:58
	becoming involved with them and their lives.	35:03
	One thing is certain.	35:08
	You cannot respond with compassion	35:09
	to another person's need and continue to treat	35:12
	that person like an enemy.	35:16
	When you act toward another in love, they become a neighbor.	35:19
	And your whole world shifts.	35:25
	It caused the Samaritan in the story to delay his journey,	35:28
	risk the danger of robbers, get down in the dirt	35:32
	to bandage his wounds, put him on his own animal,	35:35
	spend over two days' wages and commit to even more.	35:38
	You can be certain that this Jew	35:43
	and this Samaritan could never look at one another	35:46
	in the same way again.	35:50
	It's not easy to act like a neighbor to those in need,	35:53
	especially if they be enemies.	35:57
	If we take the logical, rational approach,	36:00
	we never will, because there are costs involved	36:03
	in being a neighbor.	36:07
	But if we allow ourselves to see and feel their pain,	36:09
	then we will be filled with compassion and moved to act	36:15
	with mercy as the people of God.	36:20
	Who among us will ever forget the image of Reginald Denny,	36:26
	beaten, stripped, half dead,	36:31
	lying in the road, helpless?	36:35
	And the man laughing and pointing,	36:39
	and the other man with his club raised, triumphant.	36:42
	How many passed by on the other side?	36:47
	But four men and women,	36:52
	four black men and women,	36:55
	saw his need, were moved to pity.	36:59
	They went to him, bandaged his wounds as best they could,	37:03
	put him in their own vehicle, risked the anger of the mob,	37:08
	and drove him to the hospital.	37:13
	Who was a neighbor to him?	37:18
	Go and do likewise.	37:23
-	The Lord be with you.	37:39
	(congregation chants)
	Let us pray.	37:43
	We praise you, King of Heaven, for your grace	37:48
	and favor toward us.	37:51
	And we love you that you tend and spare us,	37:53
	gently hearing and rescuing us from all our foes.	37:56
	But this day, we are burdened for our neighbors	38:02
	and our brothers and sisters around the world.	38:05
	You created us, oh God, for yourself and for each other.	38:10
	Lord, we do not understand why Christians kill Christians.	38:16
	We pray for our brothers and sisters in Eastern Europe,	38:21
	in Yugoslavia, what's left of it, in South Africa, in Peru.	38:26
	Lord, in your mercy.	38:34
	(congregation chants)
	Oh Lord, you are our loving creator.	38:39
	You have provided for us a wonderfully beautiful	38:42
	and variegated world, and you have made us brown and white,	38:45
	yellow and red.	38:50
	Yet, we are offended by our differences.	38:52
	Our faith is often inadequate to reveal	38:58
	to us our common Lord who shares	39:01
	upon all an all-encompassing love.	39:04
	We are burdened by the intolerance and hatred	39:10
	and stereotyping and impatience we see in our neighbors,	39:13
	black, white, yellow, red.	39:19
	Help us to love one another as you love us.	39:24
	Lord, in your mercy.	39:28
	(congregation chants)
	Oh God who has not only shown us mercy	39:33
	but taught us the true meaning of justice	39:35
	and neighborliness, we pray for the political process	39:38
	in our land.	39:42
	Too often, we appeal to what is base and shameful	39:44
	in our common life.	39:48
	We teach not passionate reason and common search	39:50
	for the good and true but pettiness and quarrelsomeness	39:54
	and suspicion and hatred.	39:59
	We refine the art of innuendo.	40:02
	We encourage smallmindedness and meanspiritedness.	40:07
	We lose our way and abort the healing	40:12
	of deeply ingrained racial and class distinctions.	40:14
	By the mystery of your grace, oh Lord, lead us	40:19
	to greater tolerance.	40:23
	Love and care for one another.	40:25
	Take us out of our selfishness and greed	40:28
	into a willingness to sacrifice for the common good	40:32
	for our land and for the whole world.	40:35
	Lord, in your mercy.	40:41
	(congregation chants)
	Lord, we acknowledge your gracious presence with us.	40:45
	Despite the troubles of our world and our troubles,	40:50
	we affirm and praise your redemptive and reconciling work	40:53
	in our world.	40:59
	You, who are king of kings and lord of lords, alpha	41:00
	and omega, in the name of our creator, our redeemer,	41:04
	our sustainer, Father, son, and Holy Spirit, we pray, Amen.	41:10
	Now, as a forgiven and reconciled people, let us rise	41:20
	and greet one another with signs	41:24
	of our reconciliation and love.	41:25
	Please be seated.	41:57
	Let us continue our worship with our gifts	42:04
	of tides and offerings.	42:06
	(organ music)	42:10
	(vocalizing)	43:44
-	The Lord be with you!	48:18
	(congregation chants)
	Lift up your hearts!	48:22
	(congregation chants)
	Let us give thanks to the Lord, our God.	48:26
	(congregation chants)	48:29
	It is right and a good and joyful thing, always	48:33
	and everywhere, to give thanks to you, God Almighty,	48:37
	creator of Heaven and Earth.	48:41
	You formed us in your image and breathed	48:44
	into us the breath of life.	48:47
	When we turned away and our love failed,	48:49
	your love remained steadfast.	48:52
	You delivered us from captivity, made covenant	48:55
	to be our sovereign God, and spoke to us	48:59
	through your prophets who look for that day	49:02
	when justice shall roll down like waters and righteousness,	49:05
	like an everflowing stream, when nation shall not lift	49:10
	up sword against nation,	49:15
	neither shall they learn war anymore.	49:16
	And so, with your people on Earth and all the company	49:21
	of Heaven, we praise your name and join their unending hymn.	49:24
	(spiritual music)	49:29
	(vocalizing)	49:39
	Holy are you and blessed is your son, Jesus Christ,	50:22
	who came in your name as our king.	50:26
	Your spirit anointed him to preach good news to the poor,	50:30
	to proclaim release to the captives and recovering	50:34
	of sight to the blind, to set at liberty those	50:38
	who are oppressed, and to announce	50:41
	that the time had come when you would save your people.	50:44
	He healed the sick, fed the hungry, and ate with sinners.	50:48
	By the baptism of his suffering, death and resurrection,	50:53
	you gave birth to you.	50:56
	You gave birth to your church.	50:59
	You delivered us from slavery to sin and death and made	51:02
	with us a new covenant by water and the spirit.	51:05
	At his ascension, you exalted him to sit and reign	51:10
	with you at your right hand.	51:13
	On the night in which he gave himself up for us,	51:15
	he took the cup, gave it to his disciples and said,	51:20
	drink from this, all of you.	51:24
	This is the sign of the new covenant poured out for you	51:26
	and for many for the forgiveness of sin.	51:30
	Likewise, he took the bread, gave thanks to you,	51:33
	offered it to his disciples and said, eat from this,	51:38
	all of you.	51:41
	This is my body, which is given for you.	51:43
	And so in remembrance of these, your mighty acts	51:48
	in Jesus Christ, we offer ourselves in praise	51:50
	and thanksgiving as a holy and living sacrifice	51:54
	in union with Christ offering for us	51:58
	as we proclaim the mystery of faith.	52:01
	(hymnal music)	52:05
	(vocalizing)	52:15
	Pour out your Holy Spirit on us gathered here and	52:28
	on these gifts of bread and wine.	52:32
	Make them be, for us, the body and blood of Christ	52:35
	that we may be for the world the body of Christ redeemed	52:37
	by his blood.	52:42
	By your spirit, make us one with Christ, one	52:43
	with each other, and one in ministry to all the world	52:47
	until Christ comes in final victory.	52:50
	And we feast at his Heavenly banquet through your son,	52:53
	Jesus Christ, with the Holy Spirit in your holy church.	52:57
	All honor and glory is yours, Almighty God, now	53:01
	and forever, Amen.	53:05
	(organ music)	53:08
	(vocalizing)	53:10
	Let us pray together as Jesus taught us.	53:23
	Our Father, who art in Heaven, hallowed be thy name.	53:26
	Thy kingdom come, thy will be done on Earth	53:31
	as it is in Heaven.	53:35
	Give us this day our daily bread	53:37
	and forgive us our trespasses as we forgive those	53:39
	who trespass against us.	53:43
	Lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil	53:45
	for thine is the kingdom and the power	53:50
	and the glory forever, Amen.	53:53
	Because there is one loaf, we, many as we are,	53:58
	are one body for we all partake of the one loaf.	54:03
	The bread which we break is a sharing in the body of Christ.	54:08
	The cup over which we give thanks is a sharing	54:16
	in the blood of Christ.	54:19
	You are all invited to come to the Lord's table.	54:57
	(spiritual music)	55:04
	(vocalizing)	55:32
	Please stand with me for the benediction.	1:04:23
	Eternal God, we give you thanks for this holy mystery	1:04:34
	in which you have given yourself to us.	1:04:38
	Grant that we may go into the world in the strength	1:04:42
	of your spirit to give ourselves for others, in love,	1:04:45
	as neighbors to one another.	1:04:50
	Now go forth into the world in peace as neighbors,	1:04:54
	and may the love of God and the grace of our Lord,	1:04:58
	Jesus Christ and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit, be	1:05:02
	with you and keep you.	1:05:05
	(hymnal music)	1:05:08
	(vocalizing)	1:05:10

Item Info

Title:

Debra K. Brazzel - Sermon Untitled (July 12, 1992)

Description:

Sermon start time: 16:59. Sermon end time: 37:27.
It’s easy to be merciful to people we like or think deserve it, but what about other situations? We should listen to Jesus’ instruction to not limit who is our neighbor. (Abstract created by Duke Divinity School staff.)
Key quotation: “The lawyer had asked ‘who is my neighbor,’ seeking to put limits on duty, but Jesus had changed the question to ‘who is a neighbor.’”

Permalink:

https://idn.duke.edu/ark:/87924/r4gf0nb26

Date:

July 12, 1992

Speaker:

Brazzel, Debra K.

Liturgical Calendar:

Ordinary Time

Biblical Book:

Luke

Chapter and Verse:

Luke 10:25-37

Subject:

Contributor:

Duke University. Chapel

Identifier:

UA.17.01.0003 VHS-0289
ref9126_l0o
uachapelsermaud
duke:321704
dcrmv001276
ark:/87924/r4gf0nb26
452deedb-d902-4b7d-bd05-78762292a1ee

Digital Collection:

Duke Chapel Recordings

Source Collection:

Duke University Chapel recordings

Language:

English

Location:

United States
North Carolina
Durham (N.C.)

Format:

Provenance:

The Duke University Chapel Recordings were transferred to the Duke University Archives beginning in 1970.

Rights:

Limited Re-Use

CC BY-NC 4.0

Rights Note:

This recording may contain 3rd party materials, such as music or readings that are therefore not covered by the Creative Commons license indicated here. For more information see https://library.duke.edu/rubenstein/research/citations-and-permissions.

Sponsor:

Sponsor this Digital Collection