David G. Buttrick - "On Triumph and Sacrifice" Palm Sunday Service (April 15, 1984)

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	(gentle organ music)	0:02
	(somber organ music)	1:43
	(dramatic organ music)	2:32
	(gentle organ music)	3:37
	(dramatic organ music)	4:27
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	(gentle organ music)	8:54
	(bright organ music)	9:07
	(dramatic organ music)	9:59
	(somber organ music)	10:20
	(dramatic organ music)	10:29
	(bright organ music)	11:29
	(dramatic organ music)	12:07
	(somber organ music)	14:19
	(dramatic organ music)	15:06
	(bright organ music)	16:18
	(gentle organ music)	17:05
	♪ Hosanna in the highest ♪	17:32
	♪ An ancient song we sing ♪	17:36
	♪ For Christ is our Redeemer ♪	17:42
	♪ Our Lord, God and our King ♪	17:47
	(dramatic organ music)	18:00
	♪ All glory, laud and honor ♪	18:45
	♪ To Thee, Redeemer King ♪	18:51
	♪ To whom the lips of children ♪	18:57
	♪ Made sweet hosannas ring ♪	19:03
	♪ Thou art the King of Israel ♪	19:09
	♪ Thou David's royal Son ♪	19:15
	♪ Who in the Lord's name comest ♪	19:20
	♪ The King and Blessed One ♪	19:26
	♪ The company of angels ♪	19:33
	♪ Are praising Thee on high, ♪	19:38
	♪ And mortal men and all things ♪	19:44
	♪ Created make reply ♪	19:50
	♪ The people of the Hebrews ♪	19:56
	♪ With palms before Thee went ♪	20:02
	♪ Our praise and prayer and anthems ♪	20:08
	♪ Before Thee we present ♪	20:14
	("All Glory, Laud and Honor")	20:20
	♪ To Thee, before Thy passion ♪	23:20
	♪ They sang their hymns of praise ♪	23:25
	♪ To Thee, now high exalted ♪	23:31
	♪ Our melody we raise ♪	23:37
	♪ Thou didst accept their praises ♪	23:43
	♪ Accept the prayers we bring ♪	23:49
	♪ Who in all good delightest ♪	23:55
	♪ Thou good and gracious King ♪	24:00
-	Will you join with me in the call to worship.	24:13
	Blessed is the King who comes in the name of the Lord.	24:18
-	Peace in heaven and glory in the highest.	24:23
-	It is right to praise You Almighty God	24:27
	for the acts of love by which You have redeemed us	24:30
	through Your son Jesus Christ our Lord.	24:33
	On this day he entered the holy city of Jerusalem	24:37
	in triumph and was proclaimed as King of Kings	24:41
	by those who spread their garments	24:46
	and branches of palm along His way.	24:48
-	Let these branches be for us signs of His victory,	24:52
	and grant that we who bear them	24:57
	in His name may ever hail him as our King,	24:59
	and follow Him in the way that leads to eternal life.	25:03
-	Blessed is He who comes in the name of the Lord.	25:08
-	Hosanna in the highest.	25:12
-	Now in the spirit of praise and worship let every knee bow	25:16
	and every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord.	25:20
	Let us pray.	25:25
-	Oh God, we who proclaim with loud hosannas	25:38
	that Jesus is our Lord,	25:42
	are people who like Peter,	25:45
	will deny you three times and more.	25:47
	We sing your glory and praise	25:51
	but have difficulty being obedient	25:53
	to Your love and good will.	25:55
	We comfort ourselves with a thousand easy slogans	25:58
	and heroic fantasies.	26:02
	We forget those who suffer because of us.	26:04
	We do not see our involvement in social crime.	26:08
	We substitute benign indifference for active love.	26:12
	Teach us the joy of gratitude,	26:16
	expressed in waving of the palm branches	26:19
	and may this joy replace the bitterness	26:22
	of resentment in all our lives.	26:25
-	Hear this good news,	26:52
	triumphant and victorious is Jesus the Christ.	26:54
	For His dominion shall be from sea to sea	26:59
	and from the river to the very ends of the earth.	27:02
	In the name of Jesus Christ our sins are forgiven,	27:06
	let us then give thanks for God is good	27:11
	and God's love is everlasting.	27:14
-	Thanks be to God whose love creates us,	27:17
	thanks be to God whose mercy redeems us.	27:21
	Thanks be to God whose grace leads us into the future.	27:25
-	We welcome you this very special morning, Palm Sunday,	27:32
	during the Lenten season,	27:36
	to our worship service here in Duke University Chapel.	27:38
	We are glad that you have come to be with us	27:43
	and pray that God's spirit will bless you	27:45
	in a special way on this day.	27:48
	You will notice in the bulletin a schedule	27:52
	of our Holy Week services	27:55
	on the very back page of the bulletin.	27:57
	We invite you to come and participate in any	28:01
	and all of our services this week.	28:04
	Also, you will note that today is the communion service,	28:09
	you are invited to attend the service	28:13
	of Eucharist immediately following the morning worship.	28:15
	It will be in the Memorial Chapel and you are invited	28:20
	to attend following the service of worship today.	28:23
	As you will note by the special insert in your bulletin,	28:30
	the offering today has been designated	28:34
	by Duke Campus Ministry Advisory Council	28:37
	to go toward relief of recent tornado victims	28:42
	in both North and South Carolina.	28:46
	The offering will be channeled	28:49
	through the Durham County Chapter of the American Red Cross.	28:51
	We are pleased to participate in this effort	28:56
	and we urge each of you to give generously	28:59
	to help our brothers and sisters who are indeed close by	29:02
	to us in this very great time of need.	29:07
	It is our privilege today	29:14
	that we can welcome the Reverend Dr. David G. Buttrick	29:16
	to our pulpit as our guest preacher for Palm Sunday.	29:20
	Dr. Buttrick is certainly one	29:25
	of the outstanding preachers in the world today.	29:27
	We are honored to have him.	29:31
	He comes to us, he is currently	29:34
	Professor of Homoletics and Worship	29:37
	at Vanderbilt Divinity School.	29:40
	We are very glad that he has been able	29:44
	to come through the auspices	29:46
	of the James T. Cleland Visiting Preacher Fund	29:48
	and the cooperation of Duke Chapel.	29:52
	We are very honored to have David Buttrick as our preacher,	29:56
	we look forward to the special word that he will bring.	30:00
	The sermon title today is, On Triumph and Sacrifice.	30:04
-	Let us pray.	30:20
	Oh Lord our God, You have given Your Word	30:23
	to be a lamp unto our feet and a light unto our path.	30:26
	Grant us grace to receive Your truth in faith	30:31
	and love that by it we may be prepared	30:34
	unto every good word and work to the glory of Your name.	30:38
	Through Jesus Christ our Lord, amen.	30:42
-	The Epistle Lesson is from Philippians 2:5-11.	30:48
	Have this mind among yourself, which is yours	30:55
	in Christ Jesus, who, though he was in the form of God,	30:58
	did not count equality with God a thing to be grasped	31:02
	but emptied Himself, taking the form of a servant,	31:07
	being born in the likeness of men.	31:11
	And being found in human form, he humbled himself	31:15
	and became obedient unto death, even death on a cross.	31:18
	Therefore, God has highly exalted Him	31:24
	and bestowed on Him the name which is above every name,	31:26
	that at the name of Jesus, every knee should bow	31:31
	in heaven and on earth and under the earth	31:34
	and every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord	31:38
	to the glory of God the Father.	31:42
	Here ends the reading from the Epistle Lesson.	31:45
	(singing in foreign language)	31:57
-	Will the congregation please stand	33:58
	for the reading of the Gospel Lesson.	33:59
	The Gospel Lesson is from Matthew 20:20-28.	34:07
	Then the mother of the sons of Zebedee came up	34:14
	to him with her sons and kneeling before Him,	34:16
	she asked Him for something.	34:20
	And He said to her, "What do you want?"	34:22
	She said to Him, "Command that these two sons	34:25
	"of mine may sit, one at your right hand	34:29
	"and one at your left, in your kingdom."	34:32
	But Jesus answered, "You do not know what you are asking.	34:36
	"Are you able to drink the cup that I am to drink?"	34:39
	They said to Him, "We are able."	34:43
	He said to them, "You will drink my cup,	34:46
	"but to sit at my right hand and at my left is not mine	34:49
	"to grant, but it is for those	34:54
	"for whom it has been prepared by my Father."	34:56
	And when the ten heard it,	35:00
	they were indignant at the two brothers.	35:02
	But Jesus called them to Him and said,	35:05
	"You know that the rulers of the Gentiles lord it over them,	35:08
	"and their great men exercise authority over them.	35:12
	"It shall not be so among you.	35:16
	"But whoever would be great among you must be your servant,	35:18
	"and whoever would be first among you must be your slave,	35:22
	"even as the Son of Man came not to be served	35:26
	"but to serve, and to give His life as a ransom for many."	35:30
	Here ends the reading from the Gospel Lesson, amen.	35:34
	(dramatic organ music)	35:39
	♪ Glory be to God, Creator ♪	35:47
	♪ Praise to our Redeemer, King ♪	35:54
	♪ Glory be to God's own Spirit ♪	36:02
	♪ Hail the Prince of Peace ♪	36:09
	♪ How to those who call to Thee ♪	36:16
	♪ Those who want to follow Thee ♪	36:25
-	It is an honor to stand here under the name of	36:53
	James Cleland,	36:57
	who for so many years preached from this pulpit.	37:01
	A great, good preacher	37:07
	and a nifty human being.	37:11
	Let's say our prayers.	37:16
	Oh Mighty God without Your Word we have nothing to say.	37:25
	Without Your Spirit we cannot hear or obey.	37:31
	Give us Your Word and Spirit to speak and hear.	37:37
	And understand and obey.	37:43
	And praise and honor	37:47
	and glorify Jesus Christ the Lord.	37:51
	Amen.	37:57
	Have you ever noticed how	38:07
	devious children can be.	38:09
	How downright tricky kids are.	38:15
	Try to get you to promise	38:20
	without knowing what you're promising.	38:22
	Daddy, Daddy, will you do anything we ask you.	38:27
	If Daddy's smart he'll back off and see what's at stake.	38:34
	One day two disciples, James and John,	38:42
	came hustling up to Jesus.	38:45
	Teacher, Teacher, we want you to do whatever we ask you.	38:50
	And Jesus was cautious,	38:58
	so then it came out, their wild dream,	39:02
	grant us to sit at Your right	39:05
	and at Your left in glory.	39:10
	Did ever ambition reach so high.	39:16
	Grant us, to sit at Your	39:21
	right hand in glory.	39:25
	When we overhear the conversation	39:37
	and like the other disciples we are outraged.	39:39
	Is there anything more embarrassing	39:45
	than undisguised lust for power.	39:50
	Anything more crippling than power lust.	39:57
	Particularly among Christians.	40:04
	After all, haven't we been taught that the meek are blessed,	40:09
	that the lowly of heart are God's special friends.	40:14
	Oh, yes, according to Hadler there is	40:20
	in all of us a reach for power	40:23
	as passionate as sex or hunger.	40:27
	But, Christians can at least	40:32
	keep themselves under control.	40:36
	But here are two disciples,	40:41
	men who've lived their lives	40:45
	with Jesus and what are they after?	40:47
	Nothing less than raw power.	40:50
	Did you read James Dean's book, Blind Ambition,	40:58
	the Story of His Life.	41:03
	Brought up in a Christian family, was sent off	41:07
	to Sunday School and then to a Christian college,	41:10
	yet he succumbed to scandal.	41:14
	All my life he wrote, I wanted to see myself standing	41:19
	in the oval office on the right hand of the president.	41:24
	Grant us to sit at your right hand	41:34
	in glory sang out the disciples, blind ambition.	41:36
	We hear the words and like the disciples,	41:43
	we're outraged is there anything,	41:46
	anything more embarrassing	41:50
	than Christian lust for power.	41:52
	Of course, to be honest,	42:01
	the same impulse is among us.	42:06
	The same impulse lives here	42:13
	where the church is always trying to cash in	42:17
	on the glory of Jesus Christ.	42:21
	You see it in our local congregations,	42:26
	you see it in our denominations. You've sensed it	42:29
	in the world wide Christian church.	42:34
	All want to trade in on the power of Christ.	42:42
	Of course the logic's easy	42:49
	to follow if Jesus Christ is raised.	42:50
	If Jesus Christ now rules with God,	42:54
	then surely we ought to make it big.	42:58
	After all, are we not the body of Christ on earth,	43:02
	surely the church should succeed.	43:06
	So old Horace Bushnell speaking from his New England pulpit,	43:14
	voiced it simply, God, he cried,	43:20
	has reserved the world for us.	43:23
	Be honest. Isn't anyone here who doesn't want	43:33
	to see somehow the church more important than it is.	43:37
	A church which politicians heed.	43:44
	A church which leads in every community,	43:48
	a church filled every pew and	43:53
	every village in every place.	43:56
	A church making it big.	44:03
	Minister up in the city of Pittsburgh,	44:08
	building a new church building sent out engineers	44:10
	to survey the height of every building for 10 blocks	44:13
	in every direction because, cried he,	44:17
	the cross ought to stand on top of the earth.	44:21
	Grant us,	44:28
	to sit at Your right hand in power.	44:31
	Fact is, if we're honest,	44:37
	the same make-it-big impulse	44:42
	lives among us.	44:45
	So what does Jesus say?	44:54
	Jesus says, well can you drink	44:59
	the cup I drink,	45:03
	can you follow me.	45:07
	Follow.	45:11
	For He seemed to have the odd idea	45:14
	that we his disciples were supposed to go	45:17
	wherever He went.	45:21
	There's the rub isn't it. Because see where He went.	45:25
	Out in a messy world,	45:31
	where tears flow and hungry hands reach out.	45:36
	See Him hobnobbing with scaly lepers.	45:45
	Hoisting a few with the mafia types	45:51
	and rubbing with shoulders with the B-girls of Jerusalem.	45:55
	Follow me.	46:04
	So look, if we do follow Him,	46:08
	we're gonna end up on the wrong side of the street.	46:12
	My God, on the wrong side of the world.	46:15
	With all those people we've been tryin'	46:23
	to move away from all our lives.	46:26
	People we don't want to bring up our kids with.	46:30
	Nations we don't want to suffer with.	46:35
	Gonna end up un-rich.	46:41
	Un-in and probably un-American.	46:44
	Wonderful letter from a young Christian,	46:54
	trying to be a Christian.	46:57
	A few years ago in South Africa,	46:59
	wrote back to his church newspaper, he wrote,	47:02
	I'm trying to be a Christian.	47:06
	He said, I didn't think though, I'd end in jail.	47:09
	And then a postscript, how.	47:15

-	Well, it does sound a little more exciting, doesn't it?	0:02
	than an NBA and this little job, this little house	0:05
	and this little IRS account until we die.	0:10
	How exhilarating,	0:18
	follow me, said Jesus	0:23
	and you drink the cup I drink,	0:26
	follow me.	0:30
	You know what the disciple said?	0:38
	They said, sure.	0:43
	They said, sure we can, Lord,	0:48
	glib as can be.	0:52
	Yes, Lord, we've been baptized right here in your church	0:57
	and yes we take the cup, Lord, at least four times a year.	1:02
	Scaling down the cost of discipleship to a kind of	1:11
	bargain basement churchianity,	1:16
	what do you do to become a Christian	1:21
	well you get up and say you believe something	1:23
	about Jesus and you get a church membership certificate.	1:26
	You try to be nice.	1:31
	Saw a pamphlet the other day advertising a trip	1:41
	to the holy land, cover showed Christians getting	1:44
	into a jet plane and inside was the schedule a day in Rome,	1:49
	a day in Athens, three days in Jerusalem	1:54
	and a week in a mediterranean beach resort	1:59
	with the happy hour every afternoon.	2:01
	Title of the pamphlet: "Walking in the Steps of Jesus."	2:09
	That's the game we're playing here in this strange	2:22
	quote Christian land.	2:27
	Fill your churches, feel your Jesus,	2:31
	but don't go where he goes.	2:36
	Scaling down the strange demands.	2:41
	Can you drink the cup I drink, sure,	2:49
	sure we can.	2:55
	Scaling down, faith	2:59
	to a small time churchianity.	3:04
	Look here, we could get away with it,	3:16
	if it weren't for the cross,	3:18
	trouble is you can't forget the cross.	3:20
	Can't get the cross out of our minds, can we?	3:25
	I mean we can take the hung up Jesus pictures	3:31
	off the Sunday school walls and imitate a song	3:35
	and dance Godspell.	3:40
	But then every year there's holy week again	3:45
	and again. The garden,	3:50
	the cross and the tomb.	3:55
	Father cried Jesus, if it be thy will,	4:02
	take this cup from me,	4:06
	but God did not take away the cup and Jesus walked	4:09
	on the way to Golgotha.	4:13
	What was his baptism soldier's spit,	4:18
	what was his cup vinegar on a	4:23
	stick stabbed in his mouth?	4:26
	O the son of man, the son of man	4:31
	must suffer many things and die.	4:35
	Man walking down an alley in Boston,	4:48
	when all of a sudden the stone crucifix	4:51
	on the top of a church tower cracked in the wind	4:55
	and wheeled down and shattered on the cobblestones	4:58
	broken Jesus	5:03
	and days all the man could say,	5:07
	when interviewed was, I have seen the Lord.	5:09
	Look here, we've seen the Lord and all secret visions	5:18
	the bulletin cover the picture on the church wall,	5:24
	the stations of the cross carved in stone.	5:29
	The TV lies of Christ,	5:36
	the stories we've been told.	5:40
	Let this cup pass,	5:48
	but it didn't.	5:53
	He was baptized by his suffering,	5:56
	he drank the dark wine of death.	6:01
	Look, a vision of the cross	6:09
	is clawed into our minds.	6:14
	Even now in the faint far edges	6:21
	of the 20th century	6:25
	still carved in our minds.	6:28
	Fact is, every year there's palm Sunday	6:34
	and then it's holy week again.	6:37
	Then Jesus turned to	6:52
	his disciples and spoke	6:57
	the most terrible words in scripture.	7:02
	Jesus said,	7:11
	you will drink the cup I drink,	7:14
	you will be baptized	7:19
	with my baptism.	7:24
	Listen, you understand what he's saying to us?	7:30
	We don't belong to churches, they don't matter,	7:36
	because God's sweeping away all our denominations anyway!	7:40
	We belong to Jesus Christ and he doesn't hand out	7:47
	member certificates, he hands out a cross.	7:52
	You will drink the cup I drink.	8:01
	As Jesus tried to tell us, that the American protestant	8:09
	church isn't gonna make it big.	8:13
	He's trying to say, that if we follow him,	8:20
	we're gonna get what he got,	8:24
	yes, yes.	8:29
	Frederick Buechner's got a swell story about an old	8:37
	crazy evangelist and his daughter and they talk	8:41
	and she says,	8:48
	how come people dump on you, Bip?	8:52
	All your life they had dumped on you.	8:57
	And his answer is wonderful, "Jesus," he says,	9:03
	"didn't allow us how it was gonna be different," he says.	9:07
	"It goes with the territory.	9:12
	Our territory is world and as the world hated him,	9:18
	if we are faithful,	9:23
	world will hate us."	9:28
	Does that mean, that in our world,	9:35
	the Christian church must be broken	9:40
	like bread or Christ's body?	9:45
	probably, probably.	9:52
	If we are faithful,	9:57
	you will drink the cup I drink, you will baptized	10:07
	with my baptism.	10:12
	Dear friends, let us hear the word of the Lord.	10:16
	Hey,	10:24
	it's palm Sunday.	10:27
	You wave your palm and you stand close by and you watch	10:32
	the gleaming Lord march toward the throne.	10:37
	You open up, all of a sudden you notice,	10:43
	look, he's going on passed the throne,	10:48
	goin' to jail,	10:54
	goin' to brutality,	10:58
	goin' up the stone hill.	11:02
	Going to the cross.	11:06
	And see, he's waving	11:17
	us to follow.	11:23
	If we are faithful,	11:30
	if we are faithful	11:35
	to the holy God be the honor and the praise,	11:46
	amen.	11:51
-	Let us affirm what we believe, we believe in God,	13:56
	who has created and is creating, who has calm in the truly	14:02
	human Jesus to reconcile and make new,	14:07
	who works in us and others by the spirit.	14:11
	We trust God, who calls us to be the church.	14:15
	To celebrate life and its fullness, to love and serve others	14:20
	to seek justice and resist evil, to proclaim Jesus crucified	14:25
	and risen our judge and our hope.	14:31
	In life, in death, in life beyond death,	14:35
	God is with us, we are not alone, thanks be to God.	14:40
	The Lord be with you, let us pray.	14:46
	Oh God of the deep heavens, who places the eternal,	15:05
	where people work and children play and love does leap	15:10
	and tears are shed and laughter exults.	15:14
	Praise to you for this day of waving palms, small beasts,	15:21
	quivering but hopeful voices.	15:30
	Praise to you for the divine follie upsetting our poise,	15:34
	exposing our arrogance.	15:39
	Praise to you for the divine patience,	15:43
	that teaches us to endure.	15:47
	Praise for colors and summer salts and singing and dance.	15:51
	Praise for all, that is capering and playful.	15:58
	Or by the confined are set free.	16:02
	The sad laugh and the solemn disappears.	16:06
	Hosanna, glory to you oh God, glory in the highest.	16:13
	Oh God, from whom comes all goodness,	16:26
	we thank you for this day of triumph and tragedy.	16:31
	When glory and sorrow mingle, when courage and fear	16:38
	ride together, we are grateful, oh living one	16:43
	for that humble procession, for it is profound symbol	16:50
	of the cost of your redeeming presence in this world	16:54
	of wheat and terrors.	16:58
	Now help us good Lord to realize, that even as you have	17:02
	entered the city of hope and trial,	17:07
	so are we called to take up our work in an imperfect world.	17:12
	Not waiting for the kingdom of righteousness,	17:18
	but working for it.	17:23
	Not turning away from the demands of discipleship,	17:26
	but accepting them in the confidence and knowledge,	17:31
	that you are unceasingly with us.	17:35
	Come, oh redeeming one to us this day in the parable	17:43
	of the meek, lift up our eyes always to the green tree.	17:48
	Give us the patience for burden and sadness	17:57
	of the small beasts, make us alive to the hidden laughter.	18:00
	Surprise us by joy and against our walled lives,	18:07
	our regiments of war and fear.	18:15
	Our committees of pride against these let the children come	18:19
	and the dances of peace and the summer salts of hope,	18:27
	and more for the sake of the world, let the meek one reign,	18:34
	and his compelling call be heard and his savioring	18:42
	presence be deeply felt.	18:47
	Oh, God, we now pray together, that prayer radical	18:55
	and dangerous, that he teaches us to pray together,	19:01
	our father, who are in heaven, hallow would be thy name,	19:07
	thy kingdom come, thy will be done, on earth	19:13
	as it is in heaven, give us this day our daily bread	19:18
	and forgive us our trespasses as we forgive those,	19:23
	who trespass against us.	19:26
	And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil,	19:29
	for thine is the kingdom and the power	19:34
	and the glory forever, amen.	19:38
	Oh God, who by your vision and mercy creates	28:42
	for each one of us a future from whom no force	28:45
	can separate us, now by this offering we seek	28:49
	to minister to our sisters and brothers	28:53
	struck by devastation of home, of livelihood,	28:57
	of health, of family, of life.	29:02
	Accompany these our gifts to their destination,	29:08
	by your spirit and mercy multiply our concern.	29:14
	That deeds of love may reach your people.	29:18
	In your son's name, we do minister and pray, amen.	29:24
	Now as you go from this place and scatter like seeds	33:06
	on the wind, let me express this hope for each of you,	33:10
	that while you were here, you had your minds filled	33:15
	with knowledge and your appetites for righteousness.	33:18
	That your lives will be daily ministries,	33:23
	that bring God's new world adawning.	33:25
	That it may be said of you, that the age of righteousness	33:29
	is becoming a reality in you and through you	33:33
	to everyone you touch.	33:37
	But in the eyes of God you are indeed salt to God's church	33:40
	and a light to the world.	33:45
	May yours be a life of love, in a world lived, that is just.	33:47
	A love of God and the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ,	33:56
	the fellowship of the holy spirit be with you	34:02
	this day and forever.	34:05

Item Info

Title:

David G. Buttrick - "On Triumph and Sacrifice" Palm Sunday Service (April 15, 1984)

Description:

We have, even as Christians, a tendancy to lust after power, to want to cash in on the glory of Christ. But if we truly follow Christ as his disciples, we will end up where he ended up: on the wrong side of the world––un-rich, un-in, and probably un-American. What Christ offers in place of glory is the cross, and if we are faithful to his call, we will end up as he did; broken and poured out for the world. (Abstract created by Duke Divinity School staff.)
Sermon start time: (Part 1) 36:53. Sermon end time: (Part 2) 11:53.
Key quotation: “We don’t belong to churches. They don’t matter, because God’s sweeping away all our denominations anyway. We belong to Jesus Christ, and he doesn’t hand out member certificates, he hands out a cross.”

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Date:

April 15, 1984

Speaker:

Buttrick, David, 1926-

Liturgical Calendar:

Palm Sunday

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Contributor:

Duke University. Chapel

Identifier:

UA.17.01.0003 CS-0201
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