Thomas G. Long - "When Jesus Is Ashamed" (February 27, 1994)

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	♪ And Heaven and earth ♪	0:01
	♪ Hosanna in the highest ♪	0:08
	♪ Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord ♪	0:14
	♪ Hosanna in the highest ♪	0:21
Song Leader	That's just great.	0:29
	And as you'll see on page 24,	0:30
	the responses are based on what you've just sung.	0:33
	Let's just try them once.	0:37
	Christ has died, and go.	0:40
	♪ Christ the Lord will rise again ♪	0:43
Song Leader	Yeah, terrific.	0:52
	And amen.	0:54
	♪ Amen amen ♪	0:56
	♪ Amen ♪	1:01
	Great, we hope this change will be welcome	1:08
	and not disconcerting.	1:11
	And Reverend Willimon will now	1:14
	teach you a congregational response to prayer	1:18
	that'll be new for us.	1:22
-	If you'll look at	1:24
	the prayers of the people on page two,	1:25
	the congregation responds to each petition by singing	1:28
	Lord have mercy.	1:32
	At the end of each petition,	1:33
	I will say.	1:35
	♪ Let us pray to the Lord ♪	1:37
	♪ Have Mercy ♪	1:41
	Yours is the Lord have mercy.	1:44
	Let us try that.	1:46
	♪ Let us pray to the Lord ♪	1:47
	♪ Have mercy ♪	1:50
	♪ Have mercy ♪
-	Good, this is the second Sunday of lent	1:55
	and these new responses are sort of part of the	1:59
	reflective meditational, penitential emphasis	2:04
	of this season here in the chapel,	2:08
	and throughout Christendom.	2:10
	We also want to recognize some people who are here today	2:13
	that are going on the Honduras mission trips.	2:17
	We have during spring break,	2:21
	beginning next week,	2:22
	a student mission team that will be going out	2:24
	to the Mosquito Coast of Honduras	2:27
	to work with the indigenous peoples there.	2:29
	We also have a medical mission team	2:32
	that will be going to the mountains of Honduras,	2:35
	people from the Duke Medical Center and others,	2:40
	going out there to do health related work.	2:42
	If there are members of the mission teams	2:45
	with us this morning,	2:48
	how 'bout standing up so we can see you.	2:49
	We have some around here.	2:53
	We recognize you because	2:57
	the offering at Duke Chapel is helping to finance	2:59
	these two mission teams.	3:01
	And we thank you who have given for your generosity.	3:03
	And we pray Godspeed upon you as you do this important work	3:07
	during spring break.	3:11
	And now let us join for the greeting.	3:14
	Let us stand.	3:19
	Create in me a clean heart oh God.	3:24
Congregation	And renew a right spirit within me.	3:27
-	[Reverend Willimon] Open my lips oh Lord.	3:30
Congregation	And my mouth shall proclaim your praise.	3:32
	(light organ music)	3:36
	(congregation notes ringing)	4:12
-	These 40 days of lent	8:43
	are a time of penitence and introspection,	8:45
	a time of confession.	8:49
	Therefore, let us confess our sin	8:51
	before God and one another.	8:54
	Be seated.	8:57
	Let us pray.	9:07
	Most merciful God,	9:09
	we confess that we have sinned against you	9:11
	in thought, word, and deed,	9:14
	by what we have done,	9:17
	and by what we have left undone.	9:18
	We have not loved you with our whole heart;	9:21
	we have not loved our neighbors as ourselves.	9:24
	We are truly sorry and we humbly repent.	9:27
	For the sake of your son Jesus Christ,	9:31
	have mercy on us and forgive us;	9:34
	that we may delight in your will,	9:37
	and walk in your ways	9:39
	to the glory of your name, amen.	9:42
	The saying is true and worthy of full acceptance	9:53
	that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners	9:57
	in the name of Christ,	10:01
	you are forgiven, amen.	10:03
-	Let us pray the prayer for illumination together.	10:15
Congregation	Open our hearts and minds oh God	10:21
	by the power of your Holy Spirit	10:24
	so that as the word is read and proclaimed,	10:27
	we may hear your message to us this lent and season, amen.	10:31
-	The lesson is selected verses	10:46
	from the 17th chapter of Genesis.	10:48
	When Abram was 99 years old,	10:55
	the Lord appeared to Abram and said to him,	10:58
	I am God Almighty.	11:03
	Walk before me and be blameless.	11:06
	And I will make my covenant between me and you	11:11
	and will make you exceedingly numerous.	11:16
	Then Abram fell on his face	11:21
	and God said to him	11:23
	as for me, this is my covenant with you.	11:25
	You shall be the ancestor of a multitude of nations.	11:31
	I will make you exceedingly fruitful;	11:37
	and I will make nations of you,	11:40
	and kings shall come from you.	11:43
	I will establish my covenant between me and you,	11:47
	and your offspring after you	11:52
	throughout their generations,	11:55
	for an everlasting covenant,	11:58
	to be God to you	12:00
	and to your offspring after you.	12:03
	God said to Abraham,	12:08
	As for Sarah your wife,	12:10
	you shall not call her Sarai,	12:12
	but Sarah shall be her name.	12:15
	I will bless her,	12:19
	and moreover I will give you a son by her.	12:21
	I will bless her,	12:26
	and she shall give rise to nations;	12:28
	kings of peoples shall come from her.	12:31
	This is the word of the Lord.	12:36
Congregation	Thanks be to God.	12:39
-	The gospel lesson is from the eighth chapter of Mark	12:48
	beginning with the 31st verse.	12:52
	Then he began to teach them	12:56
	that the Son of Man must undergo great suffering,	12:58
	and be rejected by the elders,	13:03
	the chief priests,	13:05
	and the scribes,	13:08
	and be killed,	13:09
	and after three days rise again.	13:11
	He said all this quite openly.	13:15
	And Peter took him aside and rebuked him.	13:18
	But turning and looking at his disciples,	13:22
	he rebuked Peter and said,	13:25
	get behind me, Satan!	13:28
	For you are setting your mind not on divine things	13:30
	but on human things.	13:34
	He called the crowd with his disciples,	13:37
	and said to them,	13:39
	if any want to become my followers,	13:41
	let them deny themselves	13:44
	and take up their cross and follow me.	13:47
	For those who want to save their life will lose it,	13:52
	and those who lose their life for my sake,	13:57
	and for the sake of the gospel will find it.	14:00
	For what will it profit them to gain the whole world	14:04
	and forfeit their life?	14:08
	Indeed, what can they give in return for their life?	14:11
	Those who are ashamed of me and my words	14:17
	in this adulterous and sinful generation,	14:21
	of them the Son of Man will also be ashamed	14:24
	when he comes in the glory of his Father	14:29
	with the holy angels.	14:33
	This is the word of the Lord.	14:36
Congregation	Thanks be to God.	14:38
-	What I would like to do this morning	14:51
	is to explore that last and somewhat chilling line	14:53
	that we just heard in the reading if the New Testament	14:58
	in which Jesus says to all of his followers,	15:02
	if you are ashamed of me and my words	15:06
	in this sinful and adulterous world,	15:10
	I will be ashamed of you in glory.	15:14
	I can lean toward the loving Jesus.	15:20
	I can bow in obedience to the demanding Jesus.	15:25
	I can be embraced by the tender Jesus.	15:30
	I can even respond to the angry Jesus.	15:35
	But what are we going to do with the Jesus	15:38
	who is ashamed of us?	15:42
	Because what this line implies is that	15:47
	when we get up from this service of worship,	15:50
	and leave this chapel,	15:53
	and go back out there into that world,	15:54
	if we are in any way ashamed out there	16:00
	of the gospel we celebrate in here,	16:05
	it evokes shame in the very heart of God.	16:09
	If you are ashamed of me and my words	16:15
	in this sinful and adulterous world,	16:18
	I will be ashamed of you in glory.	16:21
	What does that mean?	16:27
	Well we have to begin I think	16:30
	by recognizing that this text is candid	16:31
	about what we already know.	16:35
	And that is there is something about the public expression	16:38
	of the Christian faith	16:42
	that is potentially embarrassing and shameful.	16:44
	We're comfortable in here.	16:49
	I'm comfortable in here preaching the gospel.	16:50
	We're all comfortable in here praying the prayers,	16:54
	and singing the responses,	16:57
	and saying the creeds.	16:59
	We're comfortable in here.	17:01
	But we know don't we,	17:04
	that when we move from in here to out there,	17:05
	the stakes get higher.	17:10
	That if we try to live out there what we say in here,	17:13
	there is something potentially alienating,	17:17
	rejecting, embarrassing,	17:20
	and shameful at the heart of it.	17:23
	The novelist and essayist Frederick Buechner,	17:28
	who is also a preacher,	17:31
	in one of his sermons imagined a man driving down	17:33
	a country highway.	17:38
	He sees signs along the side of the highway.	17:41
	Speed limit 55.	17:44
	Eat at the prince of pizza.	17:47
	Burma-Shave.	17:49
	There is however a sign he sees unlike all the other signs.	17:52
	It's painted in clumsy and jagged white-washed letters	17:56
	on a bridge abutment,	18:01
	and it says Jesus saves.	18:02
	Buechner says, when the man sees that sign,	18:08
	it's unlike all the other signs.	18:12
	And if the man is like all of us,	18:14
	he sees this sign and he winces with embarrassment.	18:17
	And that is very interesting said Buechner.	18:22
	Both the message Jesus saves and the embarrassment.	18:25
	It is as if there is something embarrassing	18:31
	about the gospel itself,	18:34
	something like very personal things,	18:36
	inappropriately placed in a public arena,	18:39
	like the lovers names and affections carved	18:42
	into a park bench.	18:47
	There's something about the public expression	18:50
	of the Christian faith that is potentially embarrassing	18:53
	and shameful.	18:57
	One Sunday morning,	19:00
	I had preached in a service,	19:01
	and I was shaking hands with the congregation	19:03
	at the church door.	19:06
	A very nice family moved through the line,	19:08
	a husband, wife,	19:11
	and a teenage son,	19:12
	and the man said, have you got plans for lunch.	19:14
	I said, well as a matter of fact no I don't.	19:18
	He said, listen we're just going down the road	19:20
	to a nice little restaurant.	19:22
	Would you be willing to join us for lunch.	19:24
	I said I'd be happy to do that.	19:26
	Well we went to the restaurant.	19:29
	We were seated at the table.	19:30
	The waitress took our order.	19:32
	We were having a nice conversation.	19:34
	Our food came.	19:35
	And then there was a crisis,	19:38
	an awkward silence.	19:40
	I could see the wheels turning in the man's head.	19:42
	I don't usually ask a blessing in a restaurant like this.	19:45
	But I got this preacher with me	19:49
	and I don't know what to do.	19:50
	You could see him toss an imaginary coin	19:54
	and it landed heads.	19:58
	Let us pray, he said.	20:01
	(congregation laughing)	20:03
	At which point his teenage son	20:04
	looked like he wanted to crawl	20:06
	under the table from embarrassment.	20:08
	I can appreciate that.	20:11
	There is something about the public display	20:13
	of the Christian faith	20:16
	that is embarrassing.	20:18
	If you are ashamed of me and my words	20:21
	in this sinful and adulterous world,	20:27
	I will be ashamed of you	20:29
	in glory.	20:33
	I used to think that I knew what that meant.	20:36
	What it meant was,	20:41
	there are opportunities out there in the world,	20:42
	like that prayer in a restaurant,	20:45
	when we can use the name of Jesus	20:48
	and bear witness to our faith.	20:50
	We can speak about Jesus to our neighbor	20:53
	across the backyard fence.	20:55
	We can read from the Bible at our work.	20:56
	I know it's an embarrassing thing to do.	21:00
	But you remember if you are ashamed of me and my words.	21:01
	I was on the right track I suppose.	21:08
	But I now understand	21:10
	that that is far too shallow an interpretation	21:13
	of this word from Jesus.	21:17
	It's much more radical,	21:20
	much more threatening,	21:23
	much deeper than that.	21:27
	It begins with the concept of shame.	21:33
	What is shame?	21:37
	What makes you ashamed?	21:38
	Shame is not an emotion like anger.	21:43
	It's not even an emotion like guilt.	21:45
	Shame is when we are exposed	21:50
	to the judgment of others.	21:55
	When something about us is exposed to public condemnation,	21:57
	that's what shame is.	22:01
	As one person said,	22:03
	the thing that would make me most ashamed	22:04
	is if my college transcript were published	22:06
	on the front page of the newspaper.	22:09
	That's shame.	22:12
	If I steal $10 from a wallet,	22:13
	I may feel guilt,	22:16
	but I don't yet feel shame.	22:18
	Somebody has to find out about it	22:20
	before I feel shame.	22:22
	Shame is a public exposure	22:24
	of the truth about us.	22:27
	At Princeton Seminary,	22:30
	we were having a conversation not long ago	22:31
	about gender issues,	22:33
	men and women in the circle,	22:35
	talking about the relationships between men and women.	22:37
	And the speaker was saying,	22:40
	you know what we need to do is to transcend	22:42
	this adolescent and puerile cultural sense	22:45
	of how men and women are supposed to relate to each other.	22:49
	Men aren't supposed to view women,	22:52
	and women aren't supposed to view men	22:53
	in a kind of sexual sort of way.	22:55
	What we need to do is to get beyond that,	22:57
	to transcend that to a harmonious gender relationship.	22:59
	And everybody in the room was nodding,	23:03
	while secretly thinking about sexuality.	23:05
	As one person said after the conversation,	23:10
	I am so glad that people cannot read my thoughts.	23:12
	I would have been so ashamed.	23:15
	Shame is when something true about you	23:21
	is exposed to public view.	23:25
	Erik Erikson, the psychoanalyst,	23:29
	uses this illustration in his writing about shame.	23:31
	It's a quote from a Southern folk song.	23:35
	The song is about a criminal	23:39
	who is being executed.	23:41
	He is standing on the scaffolding	23:42
	with a noose around his neck.	23:44
	And the whole town is gathered	23:47
	at the foot of the scaffolding	23:49
	and they are looking at him	23:50
	with judgment and condemnation in their eyes.	23:53
	And as he looks at their stares all around,	23:56
	he sings in the song Damn Your Eyes,	23:59
	Damn Your Eyes.	24:05
	That, said Erikson,	24:09
	is shame.	24:12
	The staring eyes of public condemnation	24:15
	before one whose truth is naked and exposed	24:22
	to the world.	24:28
	Shame.	24:30
	Here's where it becomes intricate.	24:34
	Jesus himself	24:38
	was the criminal who stood on the scaffolding	24:42
	before whom the world stared with condemning	24:47
	and judging eyes.	24:51
	He endured the cross.	24:55
	He did not despise the shame.	24:59
	And he did not say damn their eyes,	25:04
	but Father forgive them.	25:09
	They know not what they do.	25:14
	Jesus lived a shameful life.	25:17
	In all the categories of the world,	25:24
	he violated them at risk of embarrassment and shame.	25:26
	When the world said success,	25:30
	he said suffering.	25:31
	When the world said live for yourself,	25:33
	he took up his cross.	25:35
	When the world said make something of yourself,	25:38
	he exposed himself to rejection.	25:40
	He carried the cross,	25:43
	the instrument of shame.	25:46
	And in the paradox of the gospel,	25:48
	not to be ashamed of Jesus in the world,	25:50
	is to be unashamed of the shame.	25:55
	To live the kind of shameful life	26:01
	that he lived.	26:06
	Mary-Lou Weisman has written a beautiful book	26:10
	called Intensive Care.	26:13
	It is a description of the death	26:15
	of her 15 year old son by muscular dystrophy.	26:18
	She said in the last hour of his life,	26:23
	she and her husband were at his bedside.	26:26
	His body had deteriorated to the point	26:30
	that he was paralyzed.	26:33
	It was clear that death was placing a choke-hold on him.	26:35
	There was nothing anyone could do.	26:39
	Her husband said to her son,	26:42
	can I move you so that you would be more comfortable.	26:45
	And with death advancing toward him he said,	26:49
	place me in an impudent position.	26:55
	The medicines could not heal him.	27:02
	The doctors could not save him.	27:06
	And with death moving in on him he said,	27:09
	place me in an impudent position.	27:14
	Against the forces of death in the world,	27:20
	Jesus placed himself in an impudent position.	27:24
	He took up the cross,	27:31
	enduring it,	27:33
	despising the shame,	27:35
	and calling all of us	27:39
	to a shameful life like that.	27:42
	If we do so,	27:48
	we bear in our own life	27:51
	the honor of God.	27:55
	Jean Anouilh's play Becket,	27:59
	there is a moving final scene.	28:01
	You remember the story.	28:04
	King Henry the second has had trouble	28:05
	manipulating the church.	28:08
	But he has a solution.	28:09
	He will make his old hunting companion	28:12
	and carousing partner Thomas Becket Archbishop.	28:14
	And with his friend as Archbishop,	28:19
	he will be able to manipulate the church.	28:22
	But a strange thing happens.	28:25
	As soon as Thomas is ordained and takes his vows,	28:28
	he is seized with loyalty to the honor of God.	28:33
	He begins to fulfill his vows,	28:38
	to live out of the gospel,	28:40
	to resist the king.	28:41
	And in that final scene,	28:45
	the king puzzled, says,	28:46
	Thomas you remember we are friends.	28:50
	10 years hunting, carousing,	28:52
	the brothels, the taverns.	28:55
	You're not like yourself.	28:56
	Yes he said, it is true.	29:00
	I am not like myself.	29:03
	When I was in that cathedral about to take my vows,	29:07
	I was a man without honor.	29:10
	But I felt in that moment,	29:14
	something was entrusted to me.	29:17
	And I began to fall in love	29:21
	with the honor of God.	29:25
	I began to fall in love	29:29
	with the honor of God.	29:32
	What we celebrate in here	29:38
	is that something has been entrusted	29:40
	to all of us.	29:44
	And if we leave this place	29:47
	and over against all the forces of death	29:50
	and destruction out there,	29:53
	place ourselves in an impudent,	29:55
	cross-like position.	29:59
	All heaven	30:03
	will resound with glory.	30:06
	In the name of the Father,	30:11
	and the Son,	30:13
	and the Holy Spirit, amen.	30:14
-	[Reverend Willimon] Having heard the word	30:26
	read and preached,	30:27
	let us join together in prayer for the church and the world.	30:28
	The Lord be with you.	30:33
Congregation	And also with you.	30:36
-	Let us pray.	30:37
	Oh God,	30:43
	we now intercede for your church	30:46
	and for your world.	30:51
	♪ Let us pray to the Lord have mercy ♪	30:54
	Grant almighty God	31:03
	that all who confess your name	31:05
	may do so with boldness	31:09
	so that you may not be ashamed of your disciples.	31:12
	May we be united in your truth.	31:17
	May we live together in your love	31:18
	and thereby reveal your peculiar glory	31:22
	to the world.	31:27
	♪ Let us pray to the Lord have mercy ♪	31:29
	Guide the people of this land and of all the nations	31:37
	in the ways of justice and peace.	31:42
	Particularly this day we pray for the inhabitants	31:45
	of Israel and Palestine	31:47
	in these days of their common tragedy and struggle.	31:50
	Grant us grace to honor one another	31:55
	and to serve the common good.	31:58
	♪ Let us pray to the Lord have mercy ♪	32:02
	Give us all a reverence for the earth as your own creation,	32:10
	that we may use its resources rightly	32:13
	in the service of others and to your honor and glory.	32:16
	♪ Let us pray to the Lord have mercy ♪	32:20
	Bless all whose lives are closely linked with ours.	32:29
	Our families, our friends,	32:34
	our colleagues here at the university.	32:38
	And grant that we may serve Christ in them,	32:42
	and love one another as Christ	32:45
	has so dramatically loved us.	32:48
	♪ Let us pray to the Lord have mercy ♪	32:52
	Comfort and heal all those who suffer in body,	33:01
	mind, or spirit.	33:04
	Particularly those who are patients in Duke Hospital.	33:06
	Give them courage and hope in their troubles,	33:10
	and bring them the joy of your salvation.	33:13
	♪ Let us pray to the Lord have mercy ♪	33:17
	We commend to your mercy all who have died,	33:27
	that your will for them may be fulfilled;	33:32
	and we pray that they may share	33:35
	with all your saints in your eternal kingdom.	33:37
	♪ Let us pray to the Lord have mercy ♪	33:42
	We offer these prayers	33:52
	through our crucified and risen Lord Jesus Christ, amen.	33:55
	As the forgiven,	34:03
	as a reconciled people,	34:05
	let us stand and offer one another signs of God's peace.	34:07
	(congregation buzzing)	34:12
	God's love has given so much to us.	34:30
	Let us be generous in giving back to God	34:33
	for God's work in this world.	34:36
	Be seated.	34:38
	(light organ music)	34:41
	♪ I was glad ♪	35:48
	♪ Glad when they said unto me ♪	35:54
	♪ We will go ♪	36:01
	♪ We will go ♪	36:05
	♪ We will go ♪	36:09
	♪ Into the house of the Lord ♪	36:13
	♪ Our feet shall stand in thy gates ♪	36:29
	♪ Our feet shall stand in thy gates ♪	36:34
	♪ Our feet shall stand ♪	36:44
	♪ Our feet shall stand ♪	36:48
	♪ Shall stand in they gates ♪	36:52
	♪ Shall stand in they gates ♪	36:56
	♪ Our feet shall stand ♪	37:00
	♪ Our feet shall stand ♪	37:03
	♪ Oh Jerusalem amen ♪	37:12
	♪ Jerusalem ♪	37:28
	♪ Is builded ♪	37:36
	♪ As a city ♪	37:43
	♪ As a city ♪	37:46
	♪ As a city ♪	37:49
	♪ That is ♪	37:53
	♪ At unity ♪	37:55
	♪ With itself ♪	38:04
	♪ Oh pray for the peace of Jerusalem ♪	38:44
	♪ They shall prosper that love thee ♪	38:54
	♪ Pray for the peace of Jerusalem ♪	39:06
	♪ They shall prosper that love thee ♪	39:20
	♪ Peace be within thy walls ♪	39:48
	♪ And plenteousness ♪	39:56
	♪ Within thy palaces ♪	40:03
	♪ Within thy palaces ♪	40:12
	♪ Within thy palaces ♪	40:18
	♪ Within they palaces ♪	40:21
	♪ Praise God from whom all blessings flow ♪	41:43
	♪ Praise God all creatures here below ♪	41:52
	♪ Praise God above ye heavenly host ♪	42:00
	♪ Praise Father ♪	42:08
	♪ Son and Holy Ghost ♪	42:11
-	Please join me in the prayer of thanksgiving.	42:42
	The Lord be with you.	42:45
Congregation	And also with you.	42:47
-	Lift up your hearts.	42:48
Congregation	We lift them up to the Lord.	42:49
-	Let us give thanks to the Lord our God.	42:50
Congregation	It is right and we give our thanks to Him.	42:53
-	It is right, a good joyful thing,	42:55
	always and everywhere to give you thanks	42:57
	Father Almighty creator of Heaven and earth.	43:00
	You brought all things into being and called them good.	43:03
	From the dust of the earth,	43:06
	you formed us in your image	43:09
	and breathed the breath of life.	43:10
	Even when we turned away and our love failed,	43:13
	your love remained steadfast.	43:17
	And so with your people on earth	43:21
	and all the company of Heaven,	43:23
	we praise your name and join	43:25
	in their unending hymn.	43:27
	(light organ music)	43:30
	♪ Holy holy holy Lord ♪	43:39
	♪ God of power and might ♪	43:44
	♪ Heaven and earth are full of your glory ♪	43:48
	♪ Hosanna in the highest ♪	43:53
	♪ Blessed is he who comes to the name of the Lord ♪	43:59
	♪ Hosanna in the highest ♪	44:06
-	Holy are you	44:14
	and blessed is your son Jesus Christ.	44:15
	When you gave him to save us from our sin,	44:18
	your spirit led him into the wilderness	44:22
	40 days and 40 nights in preparation for his ministry.	44:24
	When he suffered and died on a cross for our sin,	44:29
	you raised him to life	44:32
	and presented him alive to the apostles during 40 days.	44:34
	By the baptism of his suffering,	44:38
	death and resurrection,	44:40
	you gave birth to your church,	44:42
	delivered us from slavery to sin and death,	44:44
	and made new covenant by water in the spirit.	44:46
	On the night in which he gave himself up for us,	44:49
	he took bread,	44:51
	he gave thanks to you,	44:53
	he broke the bread,	44:55
	gave it to his disciples and said take, eat,	44:56
	this is my body given for you.	45:00
	Do this in remembrance of me.	45:02
	And when the supper was over,	45:05
	he took the cup.	45:07
	He gave thanks to you	45:08
	and gave it to this disciples and said	45:11
	drink from this all of you.	45:14
	This is my blood of the new covenant	45:16
	poured out for you and many	45:18
	for the forgiveness of sins.	45:20
	Do this as often as you drink it in remembrance of me.	45:22
	And so in remembrance of these	45:26
	your mighty acts in Jesus Christ	45:28
	we offer ourselves in praise and thanksgiving	45:31
	as a holy and living sacrifice,	45:33
	in union with Christ's offering for us	45:36
	as we proclaim the mystery of faith.	45:38
	♪ Christ has died ♪	45:50
	♪ Christ is risen ♪	45:52
	♪ Christ will come again ♪	45:55
-	Pour out your Holy Spirit on us gathered here	46:01
	and on these gifts of bread and wine.	46:03
	Make them be for us the body and blood of Christ	46:06
	that we may be for the world the body of Christ,	46:09
	redeemed by his blood.	46:12
	By your spirit, make us one with Christ,	46:14
	and one with each other.	46:16
	Through your son Jesus Christ,	46:19
	with the Holy Spirit in your holy church,	46:21
	all honor and glory is yours Almighty Father	46:23
	now and forever.	46:27
	♪ Amen amen ♪	46:36
	♪ Amen ♪	46:43
Congregation	Our father who art in Heaven,	46:50
	hallowed be thy name.	46:53
	Thy kingdom come.	46:55
	Thy will be done,	46:56
	on earth as it is in Heaven.	46:58
	Give us this day our daily bread.	47:00
	And forgive us our trespasses	47:03
	as we forgive those who trespass against us.	47:05
	And lead us not into temptation,	47:08
	but deliver us from evil.	47:11
	For thine is the kingdom,	47:12
	and the power, and the glory,	47:14
	forever, amen.	47:16
-	When we break the bread,	47:19
	is it not a means of sharing	47:21
	in the body of Christ.	47:24
	When we give thanks over the cup,	47:26
	is it not a means of sharing	47:29
	in the blood of Christ.	47:30
	Come to the Lord's table.	47:34
	(light organ music)	47:42
	(congregation singing)	48:16
	♪ Though I speak with the tongues of men ♪	54:36
	♪ And of angels ♪	54:41
	♪ And have not charity charity ♪	54:47
	♪ I have become as sounding brass ♪	54:55
	♪ Or a tinkling cymbal ♪	55:00
	♪ And though I have the gift of prophecy ♪	55:04
	♪ And understand all mysteries ♪	55:10
	♪ And all knowledge ♪	55:17
	♪ And though I have all faith ♪	55:25
	♪ So that I could remove mountains ♪	55:32
	♪ And have not charity charity ♪	55:42
	♪ I am nothing ♪	55:49
	♪ And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor ♪	55:55
	♪ And though I give my body to be burned ♪	56:03
	♪ And have not charity ♪	56:09
	♪ It profiteth me nothing ♪	56:16
	♪ Charity suffereth long and is kind ♪	56:28
	♪ Charity envieth not ♪	56:38
	♪ Charity vaunteth not itself ♪	56:44
	♪ Is not puffed up ♪	56:49
	♪ Beareth all things ♪	56:55
	♪ Believeth all things ♪	56:58
	♪ Hopeth all things ♪	57:01
	♪ Endureth all things ♪	57:04
	♪ Charity never faileth ♪	57:17
	♪ But whether there be prophecies ♪	57:26
	♪ They shall fail ♪	57:31
	♪ Whether there be tongues ♪	57:33
	♪ They shall cease ♪	57:36
	♪ Whether there be knowledge ♪	57:39
	♪ It shall vanish away ♪	57:45
	♪ For now we see ♪	58:06
	♪ Through a glass darkly ♪	58:11
	♪ But then face to face ♪	58:18
	♪ Now I know in part ♪	58:25
	♪ Now I know in part ♪	58:29
	♪ But then I shall know ♪	58:35
	♪ Even as I'm known ♪	58:44
	♪ Even as I am also known ♪	58:53
	♪ And now abideth faith ♪	59:08
	♪ Hope and charity ♪	59:14
	♪ But the greatest of these ♪	59:23
	♪ Is charity ♪	59:30
	♪ Charity ♪	59:39
	♪ Charity ♪	59:54
-	Please stand for the prayer.	1:00:10
	Gracious God,	1:00:16
	every time we have come before you hungry,	1:00:19
	you have never sent us away empty.	1:00:23
	For your grace and your goodness,	1:00:27
	we give thanks, amen.	1:00:30
	(light organ music)	1:00:35
	(congregation singing)	1:01:07
	The grace of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ,	1:04:16
	the love of God and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit	1:04:19
	be with you now and always.	1:04:22
	♪ God be in my head ♪	1:04:27
	♪ And in my understanding ♪	1:04:34
	♪ God be in mine eyes ♪	1:04:44
	♪ And in my looking ♪	1:04:51
	♪ God be in my mouth ♪	1:05:01
	♪ And in my speaking ♪	1:05:08
	♪ God be in my heart ♪	1:05:21
	♪ And in my thinking ♪	1:05:28
	♪ God be at my end ♪	1:05:38
	♪ And in my departing ♪	1:05:51
	(lively organ music)	1:06:16

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Title:

Thomas G. Long - "When Jesus Is Ashamed" (February 27, 1994)

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If we are to live honorably before God, then we must embrace the shameful life of Christ, taking on the cross and enduring the scorn of the world, as he did. (Abstract created by Duke Divinity School staff.)
Sermon start time: (Part 1) 14:51. Sermon end time: (Part 1) 30:18.
Key quotation: “In the paradox of the Gospel, not to be ashamed of Jesus in the world, is to be unashamed of the shame. To live the kind of shameful life that he lived.”

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February 27, 1994

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Long, Thomas G., 1946-

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Thomas G. Long - "When Jesus Is Ashamed" (February 27, 1994)

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