Debra K. Brazzel - Sermon Untitled (August 18, 1996)

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	(organ music)	0:02
-	Good morning, we'd like to welcome you to Duke Chapel.	1:50
	Our presiding minister this morning	1:54
	is the Reverend Cheryl Bissette,	1:56
	she is the chaplain to Westminster Presbyterian Fellowship	1:57
	here and we are grateful for her leadership.	2:01
	I'd like to say a special word of thanks	2:04
	to the Duke Chapel Summer Choir and their director,	2:06
	Mr. Tom Jaynes for their faithful ministry to us	2:09
	and wonderful gift of music that they have provided	2:12
	for us this summer.	2:15
	Immediately following the service of worship today,	2:18
	there will be coffee and fellowship time provided	2:20
	by the congregation at Duke Chapel,	2:23
	in the basement, which you will enter	2:26
	through the campus ministry offices on the Bryan Center	2:28
	side of the chapel.	2:31
	And now let us continue with the call to worship,	2:33
	please stand and read responsibly.	2:35
	Let us come together and worship the Lord.	2:41
	(congregation speaking)	2:45
-	How good it is to live together in unity.	2:49
	(congregation speaking)	2:53
	(organ music)	2:57
	(choir singing)	3:45
-	The Lord is near to the brokenhearted and will help those	7:09
	who are crushed in spirit.	7:13
	In faith let us draw near to God,	7:15
	together let us pray the prayer of confession found	7:17
	in the hymn book.	7:20
	Most merciful God,	7:22
	we confess that we have sinned against you in thought,	7:24
	word and deed.	7:28
	By what we have done and by what we have left undone.	7:30
	We have not loved you with our whole heart,	7:34
	we have not loved our neighbors as ourselves.	7:37
	We are truly sorry and we humbly repent.	7:41
	For the sake of your son Jesus Christ,	7:45
	have mercy on us and forgive us,	7:48
	that we may delight in your will and walk in your ways	7:51
	to the glory of your name, amen.	7:56
	Friends, believe the good news of the gospel,	8:00
	Jesus Christ came to save sinners,	8:02
	this is our affirmation, amen.	8:06
	You may be seated.	8:11
-	Let us pray together the prayer for illumination.	8:23
	Open our hearts and minds O God by the power	8:30
	in your Holy Spirit so that as the word is read	8:35
	and proclaimed, we may hear your message with joy this day.	8:38
	Amen.	8:44
	The New Testament reading is from the apostle Paul's	8:46
	letter to the Romans, 11:1-2a, and 29-32.	8:50
	I ask then, has God rejected His people?	9:05
	By no means.	9:11
	I myself am an Israelite and descendant of Abraham,	9:13
	a member of the tribe of Benjamin.	9:18
	God has not rejected his people whom He foreknew.	9:21
	The gifts and the calling of God are irrevocable.	9:26
	Just as you were once disobedient to God,	9:31
	but have now received mercy because of their disobedience,	9:35
	so they have now been disobedient in order that by the mercy	9:40
	shown to you, they too, may now receive mercy.	9:45
	For God has imprisoned all in disobedience	9:51
	so that God may be merciful to all.	9:55
	This is the word of the Lord.	10:00
	Thanks be to God.	10:03
	The gospel reading is found in the book of Matthew 15:10-28.	10:06
	Then He called the crowd to Him and said to them,	10:18
	"Listen, and understand it is not what goes into the mouth	10:24
	that defiles a person,	10:30
	but it is what comes out of the mouth that defiles."	10:32
	Then the disciples approached and said to him,	10:39
	"Do you know that the Pharisees took offense	10:44
	when they heard what you said?"	10:46
	He answered, "Every plant that my Heavenly Father	10:49
	has not planted will be uprooted.	10:54
	Let them alone.	10:58
	They are blind guides of the blind	11:00
	and if one blind guides another,	11:03
	both will fall into the pit."	11:07
	But Peter said to Him, "Explain this parable to us."	11:11
	Then He said, "Are you also still without understanding?	11:17
	Do you not see that whatever goes into the mouth	11:23
	enters the stomach and goes out into the sewer?	11:27
	But what comes out of the mouth proceeds from the heart,	11:31
	and this is what defiles.	11:36
	For out of the heart come evil intentions, murder,	11:39
	adultery, fornication, theft, false witness, slander.	11:44
	These are what defile a person,	11:51
	but to eat with unwashed hands does not defile."	11:54
	Jesus left that place and went away to the district	12:01
	of Tyre and Sidon.	12:04
	Just then a Canaanite woman from that region came out	12:07
	and started shouting,	12:13
	"Have mercy on me Lord, Son of David,	12:14
	my daughter is tormented by a demon."	12:17
	But He did not answer her at all.	12:23
	And his disciples came and urged him saying,	12:27
	"Send her away for she keeps shouting after us."	12:31
	He answered, "I was sent only to the lost sheep	12:36
	of the house of Israel."	12:40
	But she came and knelt before him saying,	12:44
	"Lord help me."	12:48
	He answered, "It's not fair to take the children's food	12:51
	and throw it to the dogs."	12:56
	She said, "Yes Lord, yet even the dogs eat the crumbs	12:59
	that fall from their master's table."	13:06
	Then Jesus answered her,	13:10
	"Woman great is your faith,	13:13
	let it be done for you as you wish."	13:16
	And her daughter was healed instantly.	13:20
	This is the word of the Lord,	13:24
	thanks be to God.	13:27
-	Our gospel reading about the Canaanite woman	13:43
	is one of the more difficult passages of scripture	13:47
	in the New Testament.	13:49
	Were it not for our regular practice	13:52
	of following the lectionary cycle of reading	13:54
	through the scripture in three years,	13:57
	it is one of those passages	14:00
	that we might be tempted to skip.	14:01
	The picture of Jesus that it presents	14:05
	doesn't square very well	14:07
	with our sentimental image of a gentle, compassionate Lord.	14:09
	It tells of a particular incident where Jesus is first rude	14:14
	and then down right harsh to a woman who comes to Him	14:19
	seeking help for her daughter.	14:23
	She cried out to Him, "Have mercy on me Lord, Son of David,	14:26
	my daughter is tormented by a demon."	14:30
	But Jesus didn't even bother to answer her,	14:35
	He just kept walking.	14:39
	Perhaps He was hoping that if He ignored her,	14:41
	she would just go away.	14:45
	Have you ever been in a situation like that?	14:48
	I moved here from Dallas,	14:52
	where it was much more common to be confronted	14:54
	by the homeless and destitute.	14:56
	It isn't that there aren't any homeless	15:00
	in the triangle area, they're just not quite as visible.	15:02
	I remember one particular incident very well,	15:07
	when I parked my car and I was downtown for an appointment.	15:11
	And I was waiting for the light to change	15:15
	so that I could cross the street,	15:18
	and I saw this homeless man in the next block	15:20
	and I quickly looked away knowing that	15:24
	if I made eye contact with him, I was in for it.	15:26
	But he started walking for me,	15:31
	and as he got closer he started yelling,	15:34
	"Hey, hey, hey lady!"	15:36
	I kept my eyes straight ahead,	15:41
	hoping that the light would change,	15:44
	hoping that he would get the idea and leave me alone.	15:46
	But he kept coming closer.	15:50
	And just when I was getting really nervous and wondering	15:54
	what I should do the light did change	15:57
	and I scrambled across the street.	15:59
	It was a frightening incident that has stayed with me.	16:03
	Maybe Jesus was hoping, if He kept his eyes straight,	16:07
	and ignored her shouts and kept walking,	16:11
	that she would get the message and go away.	16:16
	Or at least it would give Him time enough	16:18
	to put some distance between them,	16:20
	for this woman was an undesirable on several counts.	16:23
	It was unseemly for any woman in that culture	16:28
	to approach Jesus directly, but she was also a Canaanite,	16:31
	which one scholar describes as one of the great unwashed,	16:36
	whom good Jews of Jesus's time were to have no contact with.	16:40
	She was from the coastal region of Syria,	16:45
	where strange gods were worshiped and the ritual laws	16:47
	of cleanliness were unknown,	16:50
	in other words she was a Gentile,	16:53
	which is the Jewish name for anyone who is not a Jew.	16:55
	And as such, she was both an outsider and an outcast.	16:59
	But in this particular story,	17:04
	Jesus and the disciples were in Tyre and Sidon,	17:05
	cities in the Canaanite region.	17:09
	One might ask what Jesus was doing in their land	17:12
	if He didn't want anything to do with the Canaanite people.	17:15
	But there was also a large Jewish population in this region	17:19
	that Jesus would've wanted to reach.	17:23
	And some scholars have speculated that it was prudent	17:26
	for him to get out of Galilee for a time	17:29
	to let things cool off because of the conflicts	17:31
	He'd been having with the religious authorities.	17:34
	Most recently He'd had it out with them	17:37
	regarding the laws of purity.	17:39
	They had taken issue with Jesus and His disciples	17:41
	because they didn't observe	17:44
	the ritual practice of hand washing.	17:46
	They would've been really upset if they'd seen Him talking	17:49
	to a Canaanite woman.	17:52
	For Jesus had accused the Pharisees and scribes	17:55
	of defiling the very laws that they claimed to uphold.	17:58
	Purity He said, was found in the heart	18:02
	rather than in religious ritual.	18:05
	He had called them hypocrites for honoring God	18:08
	with their lips but not their hearts,	18:11
	and to put it mildly, they were offended with Jesus.	18:14
	So it was with good reason that He left Galilee	18:18
	and walked to the region of Tyre and Sidon,	18:22
	a considerable journey of at least 25 miles.	18:25
	And when He finally arrived,	18:28
	we can assume after several long, hot days of travel,	18:29
	He was immediately confronted	18:33
	with this pagan, unclean woman shouting at Him.	18:35
	We can imagine that it was almost too much for Jesus.	18:41
	Everywhere He went among the Jews, people wanted something	18:45
	from Him, but they didn't understand who He was	18:48
	or what He would be for them.	18:52
	Even after He taught them and healed them and fed them	18:55
	they still didn't get it.	18:58
	And now this, this foreigner, this pagan, this unclean woman	19:01
	had the nerve to call Him, Son of David, Messiah.	19:06
	It was exactly what He'd been trying to get across	19:13
	to His own people, every way He knew how,	19:16
	and they missed the point.	19:19
	But this stranger, this unclean woman, this outsider	19:21
	somehow got it.	19:27
	What irony, to get what you've been wanting	19:30
	from the one you least want it from.	19:32
	Maybe that's why Jesus tried to ignore her.	19:36
	But the woman wouldn't go away	19:39
	and she was starting to attract attention.	19:42
	Even the disciples who were used to the crowds pressing in	19:44
	on Jesus and the constant cries for help,	19:48
	were beginning to get embarrassed.	19:50
	So they went to Jesus and urged Him to send her away.	19:53
	Biblical scholarship says that the implication was,	19:57
	give her what she wants so she'll leave us alone.	20:00
	For goodness sake she's making a scene.	20:03
	But He answered them,	20:07
	I was sent only to the lost sheep of the house of Israel."	20:10
	It was as if Jesus was saying to them,	20:17
	give me a break, don't you remember that just a few days ago	20:19
	we were swamped with the 5,000	20:23
	that we fed in the wilderness?	20:25
	There are more Jews who need me than I can begin to help.	20:28
	I have to draw the line somewhere.	20:32
	Don't you remember when I sent you out to preach I told you	20:35
	to stay away from the Gentiles,	20:38
	this is exactly what I was talking about.	20:42
	Where will we be if we don't stick to our mission?	20:44
	We've got to serve the needs of our own,	20:47
	there just isn't enough to go around.	20:50
	Have you ever felt like there were more needs pulling on you	20:55
	than you could possibly meet?	20:58
	You already pay taxes and give to your church	21:00
	and the United Way,	21:03
	but still there are the daily appeals that come in the mail,	21:05
	the Cancer Foundation, Amnesty International,	21:09
	The Sierra Club, The American Red Cross.	21:11
	Good causes all of them, but how is one to decide	21:15
	which appeal to answer and which one to throw in the trash?	21:19
	And what about the telemarketers	21:24
	that catch you right at dinnertime for a worthy cause?	21:26
	Or the commercials of the sad-eyed children	21:31
	who need your help or the sixth girl scout	21:33
	in your neighborhood who wants you to buy cookies?	21:37
	Where will it end?	21:39
	We can understand that Jesus felt overwhelmed	21:42
	and even a bit irritable.	21:45
	We can understand the need to draw the line	21:48
	and say enough is enough.	21:51
	We can do this and no more.	21:54
	We will provide education and healthcare benefits,	21:57
	but only for U.S. citizens.	22:02
	Illegal immigrants will have to fend for themselves,	22:05
	it isn't that we don't care about their needs,	22:08
	there just isn't enough to go around.	22:10
	We have to take care of our own.	22:13
	Enough is enough.	22:16
	We will provide support for the firstborn child	22:20
	of a single mother on welfare but that's it,	22:25
	if she has a second child or a third child	22:28
	or a fourth child, she's on her own, enough is enough.	22:30
	We will support the unemployed for two years while they work	22:38
	to find employment,	22:42
	but if they don't go to work within that time,	22:43
	I'm sorry they just have to be on their own,	22:47
	enough is enough.	22:49
	We understand the need to set limits on what we can do	22:54
	and cannot do for people in need.	22:58
	We know about the need to decide who we will help	23:01
	and who we will turn away.	23:05
	It isn't that we don't care,	23:07
	it is simply that our resources are overwhelmed	23:10
	by the demands made upon them.	23:13
	So Jesus, perhaps feeling overwhelmed drew the line.	23:16
	But the Canaanite woman stepped right over it.	23:26
	When He wanted to turn her away,	23:31
	she got right up in His face.	23:33
	When He tried to keep His distance,	23:36
	to move away from her and her need,	23:39
	she kept moving closer to Him until she was face-to-face	23:41
	and she knelt before Him and said,	23:47
	"Lord, help me."	23:50
	It's so much easier to turn away from another's need	23:54
	when you don't have to look in their eyes.	23:58
	As long as they remain part of the nameless masses,	24:01
	we can objectively examine those people and their problems	24:05
	and make rational decisions	24:10
	about how we will limit our response to them.	24:11
	But some people just won't go away.	24:15
	They won't take no for an answer.	24:18
	Lord help me she says.	24:21
	Can you imagine how Jesus must've felt?	24:25
	How do you feel when someone you've tried	24:28
	to politely get rid of keeps coming at you?	24:30
	How do you feel when you've diplomatically explained	24:34
	why you can't help at this time,	24:38
	and the person still persists in asking?	24:40
	We can imagine that Jesus might've been just a bit irritated	24:46
	when no longer able to avoid her He answered,	24:51
	"It is not fair to take the children's food	24:55
	and throw it to the dogs."	24:59
	Some of the scholars have said that He must have said it	25:04
	with a twinkle in His eye, so that the woman knew	25:07
	that He was really speaking tongue-in-cheek.	25:10
	It's not fair to take the children's food	25:14
	and throw it to the dogs.	25:16
	Maybe, maybe He spoke those words that a typical Jew	25:20
	might have said just to test her response.	25:24
	But on the other hand, it could have simply been a blunt way	25:28
	to say what we mean when we say, sorry, I can't help you,	25:32
	I've gotta take care of my own.	25:37
	It is obvious that in whatever sense Jesus intended her	25:41
	to hear His response,	25:46
	this woman refused to be intimidated by Him,	25:47
	and interpreted His comments in the way	25:51
	that best suited her needs.	25:53
	She said, "Yes Lord, yet even the dogs eat the crumbs	25:55
	that fall from their master's table."	26:01
	Yes, I agree that you were sent first	26:04
	to the house of Israel,	26:08
	yes I understand that we may not be your first priority,	26:09
	but I also believe that there is more than enough	26:14
	to feed all of us.	26:17
	If we are dogs, then at least let us have a dog's rations.	26:19
	You have more than enough to feed us with the crumbs	26:25
	that are left over from your table.	26:28
	Perhaps she sees more in Jesus than He is able to see	26:32
	in Himself.	26:36
	She didn't get offended at His words,	26:39
	she just called Him to do what He was able to do.	26:42
	And in all the stories in the gospel,	26:47
	this is the only time that anyone ever got the best of Jesus	26:49
	in an argument.	26:54
	We can only imagine what this moment must've been like	26:58
	as He realized that this audacious,	27:02
	persistent woman was right.	27:05
	Perhaps He threw back His head and laughed,	27:08
	but in that moment something changed in Him.	27:12
	There is a softening in His voice when He says,	27:16
	"Woman, great is your faith, let it be done for you	27:20
	as you wish."	27:24
	And in that instant her daughter was healed.	27:26
	Through this pagan woman's faith,	27:31
	Jesus learned that God's purpose for Him was even greater	27:35
	than He had imagined.	27:39
	And as one preacher says,	27:41
	"The line that He had drawn between Him	27:43
	and the woman disappeared."	27:45
	The limits that He had placed on Himself vanished	27:49
	and you could almost hear the huge wheel of history turning	27:53
	as Jesus came to a new understanding of who He is	27:58
	and what He's been called to do.	28:03
	He is no longer a Messiah called only to the lost sheep	28:06
	of the house of Israel, but God's chosen redeemer	28:10
	of the whole world, Jews and Gentiles alike,	28:15
	beginning with this Canaanite woman.	28:21
	In the Canaanite woman's appeal to Him for compassion	28:25
	and the healing of her daughter,	28:28
	Jesus heard God's call to extend compassion and healing	28:30
	to all the world.	28:35
	In God's love there was more than enough to go around.	28:37
	She came to Him seeking God's help,	28:43
	but in the process, she mediated God to Him,	28:46
	by enlarging His boundaries and expanding His vision	28:50
	of what God wanted to do through Him.	28:54
	Her faith works in Him like a lever opening His arms	28:58
	wider and wider until there is room for the whole world	29:03
	in them, until He allows them	29:07
	to be nailed open to the cross.	29:10
	You and I owe that Canaanite woman a great deal,	29:19
	because we are the Gentiles who were on the outside	29:24
	of the promise until she challenged Jesus to open up	29:28
	His boundaries and let us in.	29:32
	Now we are insiders, recipients of the blessings	29:35
	and the promises of God and Jesus Christ.	29:39
	We are invited to the table,	29:43
	not just for the crumbs,	29:46
	but for the full feast of God's love.	29:48
	The feast is given to us so that we might be empowered	29:52
	through Christ to open our own lives to all that God	29:57
	can do in us and among us.	30:01
	It means being willing to have our boundaries pushed back	30:05
	and to let go of the limits we set on what we can do	30:09
	and be and give.	30:12
	It isn't always easy for us to let go,	30:15
	but it is always possible.	30:19
	One volunteer with the Sisters of Mercy in Calcutta	30:24
	tells this story of her first day in a home for the dying.	30:27
	She says, "It was terribly traumatic for me	30:31
	being a beauty therapist,	30:35
	I was used to having everything spic and span	30:37
	and smelling nice, so it was quite a shock.	30:40
	When one of the sisters asked me to wash this woman,	30:44
	I just thought, there's no way, I just couldn't.	30:47
	I just stood there.	30:51
	She called me over and said, 'Penny, please take her.	30:54
	I just cried and said I couldn't.	30:59
	So she said, 'All right, come with me.'	31:02
	And she picked up this little bundle of bones,	31:06
	because that's what this lady was,	31:10
	and took her into the bathroom.	31:12
	Even now it makes me cry.	31:15
	There wasn't a lot of light in the room and I was still	31:18
	absolutely catatonic.	31:21
	Then all of a sudden the whole room just lit up.	31:24
	One minute I was saying, 'I can't,'	31:28
	and the next I realized I could.	31:31
	It suddenly struck me seeing one of those religious pictures	31:35
	they have on the wall, it was the body of Christ	31:39
	that anybody can be Christ.	31:43
	It wasn't just that that little old lady covered in scabies	31:46
	was Christ, it was the whole world	31:50
	that was the body of Christ.	31:53
	And I realized that what I was doing for one,	31:56
	I could do for anybody."	31:59
	We don't have to go to Calcutta	32:04
	to have our boundaries pushed back.	32:06
	We can discover the body of Christ in a lonely neighbor,	32:10
	an immigrant, a troubled child, a single parent,	32:14
	a shut-in, someone dying from AIDS.	32:18
	Wherever we are tempted to draw back, to turn away,	32:23
	to avoid someone's eyes, to tighten our protective circle,	32:29
	that's where God is calling us, to let go of our limits.	32:35
	To develop a relationship	32:39
	with someone outside our boundaries.	32:41
	To do what we can do with what is ours to give.	32:44
	With Jesus as our model and our Lord,	32:51
	we are called to step over the lines	32:54
	we have drawn for ourselves,	32:56
	not because we have to and not because we ought to	32:59
	and not even because we want to,	33:03
	but because we know that it is God's own self	33:06
	who waits for us on the other side.	33:09
-	The Lord be with you.	33:24
	Let us pray.	33:28
	Lord, Son of David, like the Canaanite woman who begged	33:34
	for your mercy, we too come begging.	33:37
	Begging for help and health and whatever crumbs of kindness	33:41
	you might be willing to throw our way.	33:44
	Begging for the lives of our daughters and our sons,	33:48
	our friends and our loved ones, even ourselves.	33:52
	Perhaps it is not our place Lord,	33:58
	but please do not be indifferent to our pleas.	34:01
	Lord in your compassion.	34:05
Congregation	Amen.	34:08
-	Lord, Son of David, you call us to examine our hearts	34:13
	but when we do we see that we live in a world	34:18
	where almost all human hearts from the smallest	34:21
	to the largest, from the youngest to the oldest	34:24
	get broken and bruised and mishandled	34:28
	and we are sore pressed to know how to heal	34:32
	such hearts as these.	34:35
	Come Lord Jesus,	34:38
	come and show us how to mend what has been broken.	34:39
	Teach us how to protect what has been bruised,	34:44
	with patience, loving kindness and as much clarity	34:48
	as is possible in times such as ours,	34:51
	tell us the way to properly care for the affairs	34:56
	of the heart, Lord in your compassion.	35:00
Congregation	Amen.	35:05
-	Lord, Son of David you know our blindness	35:08
	and our propensity for being blindly led,	35:11
	as we face another election year,	35:15
	the pit yawns before us and we do not even see it.	35:17
	Take our hands and the hands of those	35:22
	who would lead us Lord, and direct us along a better path,	35:24
	with justice and mercy and liberty for all,	35:30
	give our nation and every nation the will to be faithful	35:32
	to the people it serves and the land it protects.	35:36
	Indeed Christ, give us a larger vision of a world	35:41
	that is wholly at peace with itself and it's God,	35:44
	Lord in your compassion.	35:48
Congregation	Amen.	35:50
-	Lord, Son of David, demons plague our children	35:54
	and ourselves, but with your blessing,	35:58
	with only the crumbs of your blessing, help is possible.	36:02
	Grant us this help Jesus.	36:08
	The help that can make even beggars heirs to your kingdom.	36:11
	Help that can steady the beating of our hearts	36:16
	with the calm reassurance of your love	36:19
	and can send us bursting forth in joy and thanksgiving	36:22
	to a world desperately in need of whatever happiness	36:25
	we can offer it,	36:28
	whatever hope we can bring it and whatever service	36:30
	we can work on it's behalf.	36:33
	Help that can open our eyes to the wisdom we need	36:36
	to steer around life's ditches,	36:39
	or to recover from those we have managed	36:42
	to fall into anyway.	36:44
	Help that can cast out that can cast out the demons	36:47
	that threaten our future	36:50
	and the futures of our children, Lord in your compassion.	36:51
Congregation	Amen.	36:56
-	Lord, Son of David, hear all our prayers, amen.	36:58
	I invite you now to stand and pass the peace of Christ	37:06
	with one another.	37:09
	You may be seated.	37:36
	You know the love of our Savior,	37:43
	for though he was rich for our sakes became poor,	37:46
	that we might be made rich.	37:49
	Let us keep the faith.	37:52
	Let us bring the gifts of our life and our labor to God.	37:54
	(organ music)	38:01
	♪ Amazing grace how sweet the sound ♪	39:14
	♪ That saved a wretch like me ♪	39:26
	♪ I once was lost but now I'm found ♪	39:37
	♪ Twas blind but now I see ♪	39:49
	♪ Twas grace that taught my heart to fear ♪	40:02
	♪ And grace my fears relieved ♪	40:13
	♪ How precious did that grace appear ♪	40:23
	♪ The hour I first believed ♪	40:34
	♪ Through many dangers toils and snares ♪	40:44
	♪ I have already come ♪	40:55
	♪ Twas grace that brought us safe thus far ♪	41:06
	♪ And grace will lead me home ♪	41:17
	♪ The Lord hath promised good to me ♪	41:29
	♪ His word my hope secures ♪	41:38
	♪ He will my shield and portion be ♪	41:48
	♪ As long as life endures ♪	41:58
	♪ Amazing grace how sweet the sound ♪	42:08
	♪ That saved a wretch like me ♪	42:21
	♪ I once was lost but now am found ♪	42:33
	♪ Twas blind but now I see ♪	42:45
	♪ I once was lost but now I'm found ♪	43:05
	♪ Was blind but now I see ♪	43:13
	(organ music)	43:30
	(choir singing)	44:18
-	The Lord be with you.	45:20
	(congregation answering)	45:23
	Lift up your hearts.	45:24
	(congregation answering)	45:26
	Let us give thanks to the Lord our God.	45:27
	(congregation answering)	45:31
	It is right and a good and joyful thing always	45:33
	and everywhere to give thanks to you Almighty God,	45:37
	Creator of Heaven and Earth.	45:40
	You formed us in your image and breathed into us	45:42
	the breath of life.	45:45
	When we turned away and our love failed,	45:47
	your love remained steadfast.	45:50
	You delivered us from captivity,	45:52
	made covenant to be our sovereign God	45:54
	and spoke to us through your prophets	45:57
	who look for that day when justice shall roll down	46:00
	like waters and righteousness like an ever flowing stream.	46:02
	When nations shall not lift up sword against nation,	46:07
	neither shall they learn war anymore.	46:11
	So with your people on Earth and all the company of Heaven,	46:14
	we praise your name and join their unending hymn.	46:18
	(organ music)	46:21
	(choir singing)	46:31
	holy are you and blessed is your son Jesus Christ.	47:07
	Your spirit anointed Him to preach good news	47:11
	to the poor, to proclaim release to the captives	47:13
	and recovering of sight to the blind.	47:17
	To set at liberty those who are oppressed and to announce	47:19
	that the time had come when you would save your people.	47:23
	He healed the sick, fed the hungry and ate with sinners.	47:26
	By the baptism of His suffering, death and resurrection,	47:31
	you gave birth to your church.	47:34
	Delivered us from slavery to sin and death	47:37
	and made with us a new covenant by water and the spirit.	47:40
	At His ascension you exalted Him to sit and reign with you	47:44
	at your right hand.	47:47
	On the night on which He gave himself up for us,	47:49
	He took bread, gave thanks to you, gave it to His disciples	47:53
	and said, "Take, eat, this is my body given for you.	47:57
	Do this is remembrance of me."	48:03
	And when the supper was over He took the cup,	48:08
	gave thanks to you,	48:12
	offered it to His disciples and said,	48:14
	"Drink from this all of you, for this is the blood	48:16
	of the new covenant poured out for you and for all	48:19
	for the forgiveness of sins.	48:23
	Do this as often as you drink it in remembrance of me."	48:26
	So in remembrance of these, your mighty acts in Jesus Christ	48:34
	we offer ourselves in praise and thanksgiving,	48:38
	as a holy and living sacrifice,	48:41
	in union with Christ offering for us,	48:44
	as we proclaim the mystery of faith.	48:46
	(organ music)	48:50
	(choir singing)	48:56
	Pour out your Holy Spirit on us gathered here	49:04
	and on these gifts of bread and wine.	49:06
	Make them be for us the body and blood of Christ.	49:10
	That we may be for the world the body of Christ redeemed	49:13
	by His blood.	49:17
	By your spirit, make us one with Christ, one with each other	49:18
	and one in ministry to all the world.	49:23
	Until Christ comes in final victory and we feast	49:25
	at His heavenly banquet, through your son Jesus Christ,	49:29
	with the Holy Spirit in your holy church,	49:33
	all honor and glory is yours Almighty God,	49:36
	now and forever.	49:39
	(organ music)	49:42
	(choir singing)	49:47
	And now with the confidence of the children of God	49:57
	who are invited to this table,	49:59
	we pray together saying,	50:01
	our Father who art in Heaven, hallowed be thy name.	50:03
	Thy kingdom come, thy will be done,	50:08
	on earth as it is in Heaven.	50:12
	Give us this day our daily bread	50:14
	and forgive us our trespasses as we forgive those	50:17
	who trespass against us	50:20
	and lead us not into temptation,	50:22
	but deliver us from evil.	50:25
	For thine is the kingdom and the power	50:27
	and the glory forever, amen.	50:30
	When we break the bread,	50:37
	is it not a means of sharing in the body of Christ.	50:39
	When we give thanks over the cup,	50:48
	is it not a means of sharing the blood of Christ,	50:51
	which cleanses us from sin.	50:54
	The body of Christ given for you.	51:03
	The blood of Christ, the cup of salvation.	51:15
	The feast is prepared, come now to the Lord's table.	51:43
	(organ music)	51:51
	(choir singing)	52:15
	Please stand.	59:42
	Eternal God, we give you thanks for this holy mystery	59:48
	in which you have given yourself to us.	59:52
	Grant that we may go into the world,	59:55
	in the strength of your spirit to give ourselves for others,	59:57
	in the name of Jesus Christ our Lord, amen.	1:00:02
	(organ music)	1:00:07
	(choir singing)	1:00:47
	Go forth in peace, may the grace of the Lord Jesus Christ	1:03:40
	and the love of God and the communion of the Holy Spirit	1:03:44
	be with you all.	1:03:47
	(choir singing)	1:03:52
	(organ music)	1:04:04

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Debra K. Brazzel - Sermon Untitled (August 18, 1996)

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Sermon start time: 13:43. Sermon end time: 33:14.
Preaching on the Gospel on the Canaanite woman’s faith, the preacher encourages listeners to see Christ in everyone, especially those in need. (Abstract created by Duke Divinity School staff.)
Key quotation: I realized that what I was doing for one, I was doing for everyone. We can find the body of Christ in a lonely neighbor, an immigrant, a troubled child, a single parent, a shut-in, someone dying from AIDs. Wherever we are tempted to draw back, to turn away, to avoid someone’s eyes, to tighten our protective circle, that’s where God is calling us to let go of our limits, to develop a relationship with someone outside our boundaries, to do what we can do with what is ours to give.

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August 18, 1996

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Brazzel, Debra K.

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