Dennis M. Campbell - "Hearts Aflame" (June 10, 1984)
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| (melancholic horn music) | 0:03 | |
| (adventurous orchestral music) | 4:26 | |
| (soft enchanting music) | 9:00 | |
| (choir singing) | 11:39 | |
| (worship organ music) | 12:46 | |
| (choir singing) | 13:18 | |
| - | On behalf of the Duke University Chapel staff, | 19:03 |
| it pleases me to welcome each of you | 19:08 | |
| to the chapel this morning. | 19:10 | |
| I am aware that this is alumni weekend. | 19:13 | |
| And as a member of the Classes of '72, '75, and '82, | 19:18 | |
| I share your joy and pleasure at being on campus today. | 19:24 | |
| I am also aware that it is a bit warm in here. | 19:33 | |
| I asked Dick Maxwell if somehow all the other, | 19:37 | |
| the alumni association had planned not to have | 19:41 | |
| the air conditioning in place in time | 19:44 | |
| in order that a subtle message might be relayed | 19:46 | |
| to visiting alumni. | 19:51 | |
| He assured that that's not the case. | 19:53 | |
| But please feel free to remove your jackets | 19:55 | |
| if you wish to do so. | 19:58 | |
| And I would also like to call your attention | 20:01 | |
| to the envelope in your bulletin. | 20:04 | |
| This fall, the Duke Chapel Choir | 20:08 | |
| will be participating in a service, | 20:12 | |
| and you will find this announcement on the back | 20:15 | |
| of your bulletin, in the Washington National Cathedral. | 20:17 | |
| And those who wish to help with that trip | 20:22 | |
| may feel free to do so. | 20:25 | |
| Let us now confess our sins in unison. | 20:30 | |
| Merciful God, we confess to You that we have sinned. | 20:36 | |
| We confess the sins that no one knows, | 20:41 | |
| and the sins that everyone knows. | 20:45 | |
| The sins that burden us, and the sins that do not bother us | 20:48 | |
| because we are ease with them. | 20:53 | |
| We confess our sins as a congregation. | 20:56 | |
| We have not loved one another as Christ loves us. | 21:00 | |
| We have not comforted one another as Christ comforts us. | 21:04 | |
| We have not forgiven one another as we have been forgiven. | 21:09 | |
| We have not given ourselves in service for the world | 21:15 | |
| as Christ gives himself for us. | 21:18 | |
| O gracious God, forgive us. | 21:22 | |
| Send to us Your Holy Spirit, | 21:25 | |
| that we be strengthened to live as by Your mercy; | 21:28 | |
| You call us to live through Jesus Christ, our Lord. | 21:33 | |
| Amen. | 21:38 | |
| Let us give thanks for God is good | 21:53 | |
| and God's love is everlasting. | 21:56 | |
| Thanks be to God whose love creates us. | 22:00 | |
| Thanks be to God whose mercy redeems us. | 22:04 | |
| Thanks be to God whose grace leads us into the future. | 22:09 | |
| - | Fulfill now, O Lord, we pray You. | 22:35 |
| Your gracious promise that Your word | 22:39 | |
| shall not return to You empty, | 22:41 | |
| but shall accomplish that which You propose and prosper; | 22:44 | |
| toward the end for which You have sent it, | 22:48 | |
| for Your namesake. | 22:52 | |
| Amen. | 22:54 | |
| The Old Testament lesson is from Joel, | 22:58 | |
| chapter two verses 28 through 32. | 23:00 | |
| "And it shall come to pass afterward | 23:07 | |
| "that I will pour out my spirit on all flesh. | 23:11 | |
| "Your sons and your daughters shall prophesy. | 23:15 | |
| "Your old men shall dream dreams. | 23:20 | |
| "And your young men shall see visions, | 23:24 | |
| "even upon the men servants and maid servants. | 23:28 | |
| "In those days, I will pour out my spirit. | 23:33 | |
| "And I will give portance in the heavens | 23:40 | |
| "and on the earth; | 23:42 | |
| "blood and fire and columns of smoke. | 23:44 | |
| "The sun shall be turned to darkness, | 23:50 | |
| "and the moon to blood. | 23:54 | |
| "Before the great and terrible day of the Lord comes, | 23:56 | |
| "and it shall come to pass that all men who call upon | 24:01 | |
| "the name of the Lord shall be delivered. | 24:04 | |
| "For in Mount Zion, and in Jerusalem, | 24:09 | |
| "there shall be those who escape. | 24:13 | |
| "As Lord has said, and among the survivors | 24:16 | |
| "shall be those whom the Lord calls." | 24:19 | |
| Here ends the reading from the Old Testament lesson. | 24:26 | |
| Let us read responsibly Psalm 96, | 24:30 | |
| solar number 583 in your hymnals. | 24:35 | |
| "O, sing to the Lord a new song." | 24:56 | |
| (congregation speaking) | 25:00 | |
| "Sing to the Lord, bless His name." | 25:03 | |
| (congregation speaking) | 25:06 | |
| "Declare His glory among the nations." | 25:10 | |
| (congregation speaking) | 25:13 | |
| "For great is the Lord and greatly to be praised." | 25:17 | |
| (congregation speaking) | 25:21 | |
| "For all the gods of the peoples are idols." | 25:24 | |
| (congregation speaking) | 25:28 | |
| "Honor and majesty are before him." | 25:31 | |
| (congregation speaking) | 25:34 | |
| "A scribe to the Lord, o families of the peoples." | 25:37 | |
| (congregation speaking) | 25:42 | |
| "A scribe to the Lord, the glory due His name." | 25:45 | |
| (congregation speaking) | 25:49 | |
| "Worship the Lord in holy array." | 25:52 | |
| (congregation speaking) | 25:56 | |
| "Say among the nations, 'the Lord reigns.'" | 25:58 | |
| (congregation speaking) | 26:02 | |
| "He will judge the peoples with equity." | 26:07 | |
| (congregation speaking) | 26:10 | |
| "Let the sea roar and all that fills it." | 26:14 | |
| (congregation speaking) | 26:18 | |
| "Then shall all the trees of the wood | 26:22 | |
| "sing for joy before the Lord." | 26:24 | |
| (congregation speaking) | 26:27 | |
| "He will judge the world with righteousness." | 26:31 | |
| (congregation speaking) | 26:34 | |
| The New Testament lesson is from Acts chapter two, | 26:45 | |
| versus one through 21. | 26:48 | |
| "When the day of Pentecost had come, | 26:53 | |
| "they were altogether in one place. | 26:55 | |
| "And suddenly a sound came from heaven | 26:59 | |
| "like the rush of a mighty wind. | 27:01 | |
| "And it filled all the house where they were sitting. | 27:03 | |
| "And there appeared to them tongues as of fire, | 27:08 | |
| "disturbed and resting on each one of them. | 27:11 | |
| "And they were all filled with The Holy Spirit | 27:16 | |
| "and began to speak in other tongues, | 27:19 | |
| "as a spirit gave them utterance. | 27:23 | |
| "Now, they were dwelling in Jerusalem, Jews, | 27:27 | |
| "devout men from every nation under heaven. | 27:31 | |
| "And at this sound, the multitude came together. | 27:35 | |
| "And they were bewildered because each one heard | 27:40 | |
| "them speaking in his own language. | 27:42 | |
| "And they were amazed and wondered saying, | 27:45 | |
| "'Are not all these who are speaking Galileans?' | 27:49 | |
| "'And how is it that we hear each of us | 27:55 | |
| "'in his own native language? | 27:57 | |
| "'Parthians and Meads and Elamites | 28:01 | |
| "'and residents of Mesopotamia. | 28:06 | |
| "'Judea and Cappadocia, | 28:10 | |
| "'Pontus and Asia, | 28:14 | |
| "'Phrygia and Pamphylia, | 28:17 | |
| "'Egypt and the parts of Libya near Cyrene, | 28:21 | |
| "'and visitors from Rome, | 28:27 | |
| "'both Jews and Crosalites, | 28:29 | |
| "'Cretians and Arabians; | 28:32 | |
| "'we hear them telling in our own tongues | 28:36 | |
| "'the mighty works of God.' | 28:39 | |
| "And all were amazed and perplexed saying to one another, | 28:41 | |
| "'What does this mean?' | 28:46 | |
| "But others mocking said, | 28:48 | |
| "'They are filled with new wine.' | 28:52 | |
| "But Peter, standing with the 11, | 28:56 | |
| "lifted up his voice and addressed them. | 29:00 | |
| "'Men of Judea, and all who dwell in Jerusalem, | 29:05 | |
| "'let this be known to you | 29:10 | |
| "'and give ear to my words, | 29:12 | |
| "'for these men are not drunk as you suppose, | 29:15 | |
| "'since it is only the third hour of the day. | 29:19 | |
| "'But this is what was spoken | 29:24 | |
| "'by the prophet Joel: | 29:26 | |
| "'And in the last days it shall be, God declares, | 29:33 | |
| "'that I will pour out my Spirit on all flesh, | 29:38 | |
| "'and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, | 29:42 | |
| "'and your young men shall see visions, | 29:46 | |
| "'and your old men shall dream dreams. | 29:49 | |
| "'Ye, and on my man servants and maid servants | 29:52 | |
| "'in those days I will pour out my Spirit, | 29:55 | |
| "'and they will prophesy. | 30:00 | |
| "'And I will show wonders in the heavens above | 30:02 | |
| "'and signs on the earth beneath; | 30:05 | |
| "'blood, and fire, and vapor of smoke. | 30:08 | |
| "'The sun shall be turned to darkness | 30:13 | |
| "'and the moon to blood, | 30:15 | |
| "'before the day of the Lord comes, | 30:19 | |
| "'the great and manifest day. | 30:20 | |
| "'And it shall be that whoever calls on | 30:24 | |
| "'the name of the Lord shall be saved.'" | 30:26 | |
| Here ends the reading of the New Testament. | 30:32 | |
| (triumphant orchestral music) | 30:47 | |
| (choir singing) | 31:31 | |
| Will the congregation please stand | 36:27 | |
| for the reading of the gospel lesson? | 36:30 | |
| The gospel lesson is from John chapter 20 | 36:40 | |
| verses 19 through 23. | 36:43 | |
| "On the evening of that day, the first day of the week, | 36:50 | |
| "the doors being shut where the disciples were | 36:54 | |
| "for fear of the Jews, Jesus came and stood among them | 36:58 | |
| "and said to them, 'Peace be with you.' | 37:01 | |
| "When he had said this, he showed them his hands | 37:07 | |
| "and his side. | 37:11 | |
| "Then the disciples were glad when they saw the Lord. | 37:14 | |
| "Jesus said to them again, 'Peace be with you. | 37:17 | |
| "'As the Father has sent me, even so I send you.' | 37:24 | |
| "And when he had said this, he breathed on them | 37:29 | |
| "and said to them, 'Receive the Holy Spirit. | 37:34 | |
| "'If you forgive the sins of any, | 37:41 | |
| "'they are forgiven. | 37:46 | |
| "'If you retain the sins of any, | 37:49 | |
| "'they are retained.'" | 37:53 | |
| Here ends the reading from the gospel lesson. | 37:56 | |
| Amen. | 38:01 | |
| (worship organ music) | 38:03 | |
| (choir singing) | 38:11 | |
| "Come, Holy Spirit, heavenly Dove, | 39:17 | |
| "With all Thy quickening powers. | 39:20 | |
| "Kindle a flame of sacred love | 39:24 | |
| "in these cold hearts of ours." | 39:27 | |
| Amen. | 39:32 | |
| I welcome you to Duke Chapel on this great day of Pentecost. | 39:34 | |
| This is the fulfillment and culmination | 39:40 | |
| of the 50 days of Easter. | 39:43 | |
| In Judaism, Pentecost is the feast of weeks. | 39:47 | |
| Historically, 50 days after Passover | 39:54 | |
| to signify the tradition that the Israelites | 39:58 | |
| arrived at Sinai 50 days | 40:02 | |
| after their escape from pharaoh in Egypt. | 40:06 | |
| And ever since that time, Judaism has celebrated | 40:12 | |
| the gift of God's presence unto the Jews | 40:16 | |
| and the gift of God's law unto Moses and his people | 40:19 | |
| at Mount Sinai. | 40:23 | |
| And so it was that the disciples of Jesus | 40:25 | |
| were gathered together on the day of Pentecost | 40:28 | |
| in the holy city of Jerusalem, | 40:31 | |
| 50 days after his resurrection. | 40:34 | |
| And on that great Pentecost day, | 40:38 | |
| as our gospel text, which you heard read this morning, | 40:41 | |
| accounts, The Holy Spirit was given unto them. | 40:46 | |
| And ever since the day of Pentecost has been known | 40:51 | |
| to Christians as the birthday of the church. | 40:54 | |
| It is the inauguration of the New Age | 40:58 | |
| promised in the Old Testament, | 41:02 | |
| now made sure in the wonders of Easter. | 41:04 | |
| The gift of The Holy Spirit propelled those gathered | 41:09 | |
| in Jerusalem that day outward | 41:14 | |
| to spread the good news of Jesus Christ | 41:18 | |
| as lord and savior. | 41:22 | |
| St. Luke wrote both the Gospel of Luke | 41:25 | |
| and the Book of Acts, which in the second chapter, | 41:28 | |
| records the story of Pentecost. | 41:32 | |
| And Luke was fond of the image | 41:36 | |
| of burning hearts and fire | 41:39 | |
| for the gospel message. | 41:43 | |
| Indeed, on the day of Easter itself, | 41:45 | |
| Luke tells us that some of the disciples were | 41:50 | |
| walking toward Emmaus on the Emmaus road, | 41:53 | |
| and Jesus appeared to them but they didn't recognize him. | 41:56 | |
| But after he talked with them and explained | 42:00 | |
| the Scriptures to them, suddenly their eyes | 42:04 | |
| were open and their hearts burned within them. | 42:07 | |
| And after he disappeared from them, | 42:11 | |
| they said to one another, "Did not our hearts burn within | 42:14 | |
| "as he opened the Scriptures to us?" | 42:18 | |
| And so there is, on this Pentecost day, | 42:22 | |
| a tremendous since of excitement; | 42:25 | |
| a burning fire of the presence of God. | 42:28 | |
| And there are three clear themes that Luke | 42:32 | |
| tries to explore in his Book of Acts concerning Pentecost. | 42:35 | |
| The first is that he is clearly convinced | 42:41 | |
| that Pentecost indicates that this new faith in Christ | 42:45 | |
| is to be a universal worldwide faith. | 42:50 | |
| Pentecost is the inauguration of a world consciousness; | 42:56 | |
| a mission to all people, | 43:01 | |
| Christianity was not to be limited to Israel. | 43:03 | |
| And secondly, there is in the text that | 43:08 | |
| Dick Maxwell read this morning, | 43:10 | |
| the interesting note that tongues were distributed. | 43:13 | |
| And those who were present spoke in a variety of languages, | 43:18 | |
| but all heard and understood; this was not gibberish. | 43:24 | |
| This was languages which were meaningful. | 43:30 | |
| And the message got across. | 43:34 | |
| And so there has been from Pentecost on | 43:37 | |
| a concern in the church that Christianity | 43:39 | |
| is a religion which is not confused, | 43:43 | |
| but clear and rational and compelling. | 43:47 | |
| There is a message and a meaning to be communicated. | 43:50 | |
| And thirdly, the theme of reversing of expectations. | 43:55 | |
| The disciples, after all, were devastated | 44:00 | |
| before the Easter experience, | 44:03 | |
| and confused during the 50 days | 44:06 | |
| before the gift of the Spirit. | 44:08 | |
| But now wit the the gift of the Spirit, | 44:11 | |
| their expectations were reversed and they knew | 44:13 | |
| that now they were to go forth with | 44:16 | |
| the proclamation of the good news of Christ. | 44:17 | |
| A sudden turn around, if you will, | 44:23 | |
| of what they expected to what they were now | 44:26 | |
| called to do. | 44:30 | |
| What appeared at first to be defeat and confusion | 44:31 | |
| turns out to be victory and new life, | 44:35 | |
| and new life for the community of Christ. | 44:40 | |
| Let's look at these three themes | 44:43 | |
| present in the Scriptures about Pentecost. | 44:46 | |
| First of all, this world character. | 44:50 | |
| You see from the beginning, because of the Pentecost | 44:54 | |
| experience and Christians' understanding of it, | 44:56 | |
| Christianity was not a religion to be limited | 45:00 | |
| to any one people. | 45:03 | |
| It was not to be limited to any one race, | 45:05 | |
| but rather proclaimed in every tongue, | 45:08 | |
| in every place. | 45:12 | |
| And the Christian gospel is a universal message | 45:14 | |
| which breaks down all barriers. | 45:18 | |
| As St. Paul would say later in Galatians 3:28, | 45:21 | |
| "There is neither Jew nor Greek; | 45:25 | |
| "there is neither slave nor free; | 45:28 | |
| "there is neither male nor female, | 45:32 | |
| "for you are all one in Christ Jesus." | 45:35 | |
| Beginning a little more than a week ago, | 45:42 | |
| we at Duke have been celebrating | 45:44 | |
| the British-American festival, | 45:45 | |
| and to this campus have come tens of thousands of people | 45:48 | |
| from all over North Carolina and indeed the world | 45:51 | |
| to celebrate with us the coming 400 years ago | 45:55 | |
| in 1584 of the first Englishmen | 45:58 | |
| to the shores of North Carolina in those famous | 46:03 | |
| Roanoke Island landings, directed by Sir Walter Raleigh | 46:06 | |
| and sponsored by the first Queen Elizabeth. | 46:11 | |
| And those of us who've been participating in | 46:16 | |
| the British-American festival have been reminded again | 46:18 | |
| that we now live in a world which is but a global village. | 46:21 | |
| Those first settlers, when they set sail | 46:27 | |
| from Plymouth, England took months to get here. | 46:30 | |
| And to set forth into a new world of | 46:34 | |
| untried expectations and uncertainties. | 46:36 | |
| Now we can go anywhere in the world in a matter of hours. | 46:41 | |
| And everything in every place | 46:45 | |
| depends on every other place. | 46:49 | |
| We have direct communications | 46:53 | |
| and instantaneous implications. | 46:55 | |
| We live in a world which is indeed a global village. | 46:59 | |
| And Christianity has understood that from its beginning. | 47:04 | |
| This is a faith that proclaims | 47:08 | |
| that consciousness of particularity is unacceptable. | 47:11 | |
| Christian people are first and foremost | 47:17 | |
| at home in Christ. | 47:21 | |
| Christians are a pilgrim people | 47:24 | |
| whose true home is not of any nation, | 47:27 | |
| indeed, not even of this world. | 47:31 | |
| And so we who celebrate this British-American festival | 47:35 | |
| would do well to think about it in terms of | 47:39 | |
| a world consciousness. | 47:42 | |
| And we have the Smokey Mountain British Brass Band | 47:44 | |
| with us today that helps us raise our sights | 47:48 | |
| and see the world in which we live as one community. | 47:52 | |
| That's the vision of the Christian faith. | 47:57 |
| - | Actually the founder of Methodism, | 0:03 |
| always said, the world is my parish | 0:05 | |
| and how true that 18th century divine | 0:09 | |
| would come to be. | 0:13 | |
| Today the world is one parish | 0:15 | |
| and the Christian faith propels us to see that | 0:18 | |
| and not to think in small ways. | 0:21 | |
| Nation and nation mean nothing anymore | 0:27 | |
| and then secondly, there is this concern | 0:32 | |
| in the Pentecost story for understanding | 0:35 | |
| and communication. | 0:38 | |
| You see, the scripture writer purposely dealt | 0:40 | |
| with this matter of tones | 0:44 | |
| as a contra-distinction with the story | 0:46 | |
| in the Old Testament of the Tower of Babel, | 0:51 | |
| when men and women were separated | 0:55 | |
| into nations and when languages | 0:58 | |
| symbolically came into being, | 1:01 | |
| which could not be understood by one another. | 1:03 | |
| The New Testament passage about Pentecost | 1:07 | |
| says that everyone understood the message | 1:10 | |
| and so, there is a movement toward understanding | 1:15 | |
| and meaning and that concern | 1:19 | |
| for clarity and meaning and purpose | 1:22 | |
| has informed Christianity, therefore, since its foundation | 1:25 | |
| and that's the reason that the Christian faith | 1:30 | |
| has been so concerned with the development | 1:33 | |
| of learning and educational institutions. | 1:36 | |
| We who are alumni of this great institution | 1:40 | |
| are reminded today that the founders of this school | 1:43 | |
| intended it that way. | 1:47 | |
| That was indeed the purpose for the founding of this school. | 1:50 | |
| At an alumni occasion, Friday night, | 1:55 | |
| one alumnus said to me that she had been | 1:58 | |
| in the chapel Friday afternoon for the organ demonstration | 1:59 | |
| and she said every time I go in there, | 2:03 | |
| the presence of God strikes me | 2:06 | |
| most vividly. | 2:10 | |
| And I said, that's what Mr. Duke wanted. | 2:11 | |
| William Blackburn, in his great book | 2:15 | |
| on the architecture of Duke University | 2:17 | |
| tells us very clearly that from the beginning, | 2:19 | |
| Mr. Duke said, I want the central building, | 2:22 | |
| the central building to be a great towering church, | 2:25 | |
| which will dominate all the surrounding buildings | 2:30 | |
| because such an edifice would be bound | 2:33 | |
| to have a profound influence on the spiritual life | 2:37 | |
| of the young men and women who come here. | 2:41 | |
| It has and it does. | 2:45 | |
| Every time I come onto this campus, | 2:47 | |
| especially as I drive onto the traffic circle | 2:49 | |
| and look up at that great tower, | 2:52 | |
| which was placed there so that it would give | 2:54 | |
| the image at the most central place. | 2:57 | |
| I'm struck by the awesomeness, not just of the building | 3:01 | |
| but of what the building symbolizes, | 3:05 | |
| the presence of God in the midst | 3:08 | |
| of an educational community. | 3:10 | |
| Christianity moves us to clarity | 3:12 | |
| and it moves us to learning, the uniting | 3:16 | |
| of piety and knowledge, | 3:20 | |
| our eruditio et religio, the motto of this university. | 3:25 | |
| We live in a time when American higher education, | 3:30 | |
| in the words of one major university president, | 3:33 | |
| is dominantly secular and materialistic. | 3:36 | |
| And it shouldn't surprise us that things | 3:40 | |
| are bad with higher education | 3:43 | |
| if that's the case. | 3:46 | |
| We need to reflect anew, on what it is | 3:50 | |
| that we are here for, what our purpose is. | 3:52 | |
| What values are about | 3:56 | |
| and what education is for, anyway? | 3:58 | |
| In the May 30th edition of Christian Century, | 4:03 | |
| just a few weeks ago, the very scintillating writer, | 4:07 | |
| Will Campbell, no relation to me, | 4:11 | |
| was quoted as saying about American higher education, | 4:16 | |
| this interesting sentence. | 4:19 | |
| "I think, he said, most kids today" | 4:21 | |
| "want to know what you're betting on," | 4:24 | |
| "what you're staking your life on" | 4:28 | |
| but educators are cagey because they're not betting | 4:31 | |
| on a damn thing, except maybe scholarship | 4:35 | |
| and that's a pretty shaky read. | 4:40 | |
| What is it that we're betting our life on? | 4:45 | |
| The Christian faith from Pentecost on has bet its life | 4:48 | |
| that God has given us a world that we can understand | 4:55 | |
| and that we can move in with effectiveness | 4:59 | |
| and therefore it has cultivated education | 5:02 | |
| and learning and thirdly, | 5:05 | |
| the great theme of Pentecost | 5:08 | |
| is this amazing theme of reversing | 5:10 | |
| the expectations of experience. | 5:14 | |
| Here at Pentecost, was the restoration of lost hopes, | 5:18 | |
| that was the gift through the grace of God | 5:23 | |
| of a new vision, so that the early church | 5:26 | |
| could go forth literally and turn | 5:29 | |
| the world upside down. | 5:32 | |
| The church was innervated with God's grace, | 5:35 | |
| to go and spread the good news. | 5:39 | |
| Well, this day is the celebration of Pentecost. | 5:42 | |
| We're celebrating the British-American festival. | 5:45 | |
| We're celebrating Duke alumni | 5:48 | |
| and this University and it is also another thing | 5:51 | |
| in the Christian community across this nation today. | 5:55 | |
| Some of you may know about it. | 5:58 | |
| It's what some have called Peace Pentecost. | 6:00 | |
| Some weeks ago on an airplane, | 6:05 | |
| I picked up an article in The New York Times | 6:07 | |
| about a Roman Catholic | 6:09 | |
| lay theologian named Jim Douglas. | 6:12 | |
| I was interested in this because about 15 years ago, | 6:15 | |
| I happened to meet this man | 6:19 | |
| and I was enormously impressed with his vision | 6:22 | |
| and with his commitment. | 6:26 | |
| As some of you may know, that Jim Douglas | 6:29 | |
| is now leading the efforts on the part | 6:31 | |
| of Christians in this nation, | 6:34 | |
| to oppose the so called White Train, | 6:36 | |
| that amazing snow-white train of the Department of Energy | 6:40 | |
| that plies the country from the Pantex plant | 6:44 | |
| in North Texas near Amarillo, | 6:47 | |
| up to Washington State | 6:50 | |
| or down to Charleston, South Carolina, | 6:53 | |
| carrying the latest shipment of nuclear warheads. | 6:55 | |
| And some Christians have been opposed | 7:00 | |
| to the proliferation of nuclear warheads | 7:03 | |
| and have formed a witness teams | 7:08 | |
| along the tracks of the White Train and today, | 7:12 | |
| as Peace Pentecost dawned, there were thousands | 7:16 | |
| of Christians bearing silent witness | 7:20 | |
| along the tracks, all across this nation, | 7:23 | |
| raising their heads and saying, | 7:27 | |
| the proliferation of nuclear | 7:31 | |
| warheads must stop | 7:34 | |
| for the future of the world, | 7:38 | |
| is not literally in man's hand | 7:41 | |
| but partially so. | 7:44 | |
| Today is Peace Pentecost and the church | 7:49 | |
| has always stood for the reversing of expectations, | 7:51 | |
| believing that there could be surprises | 7:55 | |
| and new life possible. | 7:59 | |
| So, Pentecost comes but not only to us | 8:02 | |
| as an event of the past that happened to the early church. | 8:06 | |
| It comes, I tell you, to you and me today | 8:11 | |
| and to the church today just as surely, | 8:15 | |
| for the good news is that Pentecost | 8:18 | |
| is not just some historical matter | 8:21 | |
| that allows us to reflect on these great themes | 8:24 | |
| but today, our hearts | 8:29 | |
| can burn with the same flame | 8:31 | |
| of new life and possibility, | 8:35 | |
| to give us a world vision, | 8:38 | |
| to seek to make clear | 8:40 | |
| the great message | 8:43 | |
| of values and concern, | 8:46 | |
| to change our hopes and expectations | 8:49 | |
| into reality and give us new life. | 8:53 | |
| The power of the Holy Spirit is as surely with us | 8:57 | |
| in this day as it was for the first disciples. | 9:01 | |
| This is the good news, that we can have this presence, | 9:06 | |
| God's promise and power. | 9:10 | |
| The 20th century British theologian J.S. Whale, | 9:14 | |
| said not too many years ago, | 9:18 | |
| without this fire of Pentecost, | 9:21 | |
| religion is dead ashes. | 9:26 | |
| Amen. | 9:31 | |
| (church organ music) | 9:39 | |
| (congregation singing) | 10:25 | |
| - | I'm sure you'll join me in saying | 13:50 |
| how great it is to have is one of our own, | 13:52 | |
| one of the great and outstanding young leaders | 13:55 | |
| in the worldwide church today. | 13:58 | |
| Dean Campbell will be at the back of the chapel | 14:00 | |
| at the conclusion of the service | 14:03 | |
| for those of you who wish to greet him. | 14:04 | |
| Let us now unite in this historic confession | 14:07 | |
| of the Christian faith. | 14:10 | |
| I believe in God, the Father Almighty. | 14:12 | |
| - | Maker of heaven and earth and in Jesus Christ, | 14:16 |
| His only son, our Lord, | 14:19 | |
| who was conceived by the Holy Spirit, | 14:21 | |
| born of the Virgin Mary, suffered under Pontius Pilate, | 14:24 | |
| was crucified, dead, and buried. | 14:29 | |
| The third day, he rose from the dead. | 14:32 | |
| He ascended into heaven and sitteth | 14:34 | |
| at the right hand of God, the father almighty. | 14:37 | |
| From thence he shall come to judge the quick and the dead. | 14:40 | |
| I believe in the Holy Spirit, | 14:45 | |
| the Holy Catholic Church, the communion of saints, | 14:46 | |
| the forgiveness of sins, the resurrection of the body, | 14:51 | |
| and the life everlasting, amen. | 14:55 | |
| - | The Lord be with you. | 14:59 |
| - | And also with you. | 15:01 |
| - | Let us pray. | 15:03 |
| Please be seated. | 15:05 | |
| The almighty, | 15:16 | |
| all-wise creator of the world, | 15:19 | |
| and thou who art our light and our salvation, | 15:25 | |
| and thou who brings wholeness to the world, | 15:32 | |
| we give thee thanks. | 15:35 | |
| We were sore afflicted. | 15:41 | |
| Our bodies were torn from limb to limb. | 15:46 | |
| We were racked with pain. | 15:49 | |
| Life seemed at an end | 15:52 | |
| but you brought healing. | 15:57 | |
| We were sore distressed. | 16:01 | |
| Our spirits were low. | 16:06 | |
| We were at odds with ourselves and our neighbors. | 16:09 | |
| Loneliness alone seemed our plight | 16:15 | |
| but you brought comfort through the care | 16:22 | |
| and attention of friends, | 16:24 | |
| old and new. | 16:28 | |
| We were sore confused. | 16:33 | |
| Our minds were trampled upon by the ways of this world | 16:37 | |
| and the trials of this life. | 16:44 | |
| Our every thought was divided | 16:49 | |
| but you brought understanding and direction. | 16:54 | |
| We were sore, put down. | 17:01 | |
| We despaired over the loss of loved ones. | 17:06 | |
| The separation seemed too great to bear. | 17:10 | |
| We cried out from the depths of hardship | 17:13 | |
| and disappointment but you brought us up. | 17:17 | |
| You set us high upon a rock | 17:23 | |
| and renewed our strength. | 17:26 | |
| Our brothers and our sisters, | 17:30 | |
| some old some new born, many in their prime, | 17:32 | |
| were cut down by unholy acts of war, | 17:37 | |
| killed over petty differences, | 17:41 | |
| but you brought peace. | 17:45 | |
| And so, for these things and more, we give thanks. | 17:48 | |
| And yet there remains sickness. | 17:55 | |
| There remains loneliness, confusion, | 17:58 | |
| despair and war. | 18:02 | |
| And so, then again, we call upon you, | 18:06 | |
| O God of our light and salvation, | 18:08 | |
| stay ever near us, we pray. | 18:13 | |
| Do not forsake us, we pray. | 18:18 | |
| Even when we should stray from thee | 18:23 | |
| or wander far afield, | 18:27 | |
| gather us again into your fold, | 18:29 | |
| perform again the work of divine reunion, | 18:35 | |
| for unless we be one with thee, | 18:41 | |
| we shall never be one with each other. | 18:47 | |
| We shall never know the wholeness | 18:52 | |
| which comes with healing | 18:55 | |
| or the healing which comes with friendship, | 18:59 | |
| life's direction, joy, and peace. | 19:03 | |
| Reunite us, we pray, to the end | 19:11 | |
| and that we ever attend to the sick, | 19:15 | |
| the lonely and the despairing, | 19:18 | |
| to the end that we live in peace, | 19:22 | |
| ever praying the prayer of our Lord Christ Jesus, | 19:28 | |
| our father who art in heaven. | 19:33 | |
| - | Hallowed be thy name. | 19:36 |
| Thy kingdom come. | 19:39 | |
| Thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven. | 19:41 | |
| Give us this day, our daily bread | 19:45 | |
| and forgive us our trespasses, | 19:49 | |
| as we forgive those who trespass against us | 19:51 | |
| and lead us not into temptation | 19:55 | |
| but deliver us from evil for thine is the kingdom, | 19:58 | |
| the power, and the glory. | 20:03 | |
| - | Amen. | 20:06 |
| (instrumental church music) | 20:40 | |
| (church organ music) | 25:05 | |
| (congregation singing) | 26:50 | |
| ♪ Hallelujah ♪ | 27:04 | |
| ♪ Hallelujah ♪ | 27:07 | |
| ♪ Hallelujah ♪ | 27:27 | |
| ♪ Hallelujah ♪ | 27:30 | |
| ♪ Hallelujah ♪ | 27:33 | |
| ♪ Hallelujah ♪ | 27:37 | |
| ♪ Hallelujah ♪ | 27:41 | |
| ♪ Amen ♪ | 27:50 | |
| - | Accept, O Lord, these offerings | 28:02 |
| thy people make unto thee | 28:05 | |
| and grant that the work to which they are devoted | 28:09 | |
| may prosper under thy guidance, | 28:12 | |
| to the glory of thy name through Jesus Christ, our Lord. | 28:15 | |
| Amen. | 28:20 | |
| (church organ music) | 28:23 | |
| (congregation singing) | 29:15 | |
| The Lord bless you and keep you. | 32:51 | |
| The Lord make his face to shine upon you | 32:55 | |
| and be gracious to you | 32:58 | |
| and the Lord lift up his countenance upon you | 33:01 | |
| and give you peace. | 33:04 | |
| ♪ Amen ♪ | 33:19 | |
| ♪ Amen ♪ | 33:27 | |
| ♪ Amen ♪ | 33:34 | |
| ♪ Amen ♪ | 33:44 | |
| (dramatic instrumental music) | 33:58 | |
| (crowd applauding) | 37:09 | |
| (crowd chattering) | 37:22 |
