John D. G. Kirkham - "The Church and the World" (October 7, 1984)

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	(chimes)	0:13
	(melancholy music)	0:22
	(solemn orchestral music)	5:00
	(dramatic organ music)	9:38
	(solemn organ music)	14:06
-	Good morning.	15:44
	We welcome you here for this worldwide communion Sunday,	15:45
	particularly our visitors.	15:49
	Our preacher for the day is	15:53
	Bishop John Dudley Galtrey Kirkham,	15:54
	a bishop from England who is visiting in	15:58
	the United States as guest of North Carolina Episcopalians.	16:01
	His presence with us today	16:06
	reminds us of the worldwide dimension of the church	16:07
	and we welcome him to our pulpit	16:11
	and also as our celebrant at the table today.	16:15
	Our lector is the	16:19
	president of Duke University, Terry Sanford.	16:20
	At the offering today,	16:25
	a basket of food will be brought forward	16:27
	and placed before the table	16:29
	as a reminder that roughly a third of all the offerings	16:31
	that we receive at Duke Chapel	16:36
	go to the alleviation of hunger around the world,	16:37
	and we call this to your attention	16:41
	as we offer ourselves	16:44
	and our gifts to God during the offering.	16:46
	This is the Lord's table.	16:49
	All are invited to the table	16:52
	as a sign of our Christian unity.	16:54
	Now let us prepare ourselves for the worship of God.	16:58
	♪ Blessed be the God ♪	17:19
	♪ And Father of our Lord Jesus Christ ♪	17:24
	♪ Which according to His abundant mercy ♪	17:39
	♪ Has begotten us again ♪	17:54
	♪ Unto a lovely hope ♪	18:01
	♪ By the resurrection of Jesus Christ ♪	18:08
	♪ From the dead. ♪	18:20
	(organ music)	18:31
	♪ For the beauty of the Earth ♪	19:01
	♪ For the glory of the skies ♪	19:04
	♪ For the love which from our birth ♪	19:09
	♪ Over and around us lies ♪	19:13
	♪ Lord of all, to thee we raise ♪	19:18
	♪ This our hymn of grateful praise ♪	19:23
	♪ For the beauty of each hour ♪	19:30
	♪ Of the day and of the night ♪	19:34
	♪ Hill and vale and tree and flower ♪	19:39
	♪ Sun and moon and stars of light ♪	19:44
	♪ Lord of all, to thee we raise ♪	19:49
	♪ This our hymn of grateful praise ♪	19:54
	♪ For the joy of ear and eye ♪	20:02
	♪ For the heart and mind's delight ♪	20:06
	♪ For the mystic harmony ♪	20:11
	♪ Linking sense to sound and sight ♪	20:16
	♪ Lord of all, to Thee we raise ♪	20:21
	♪ This our hymn of grateful praise ♪	20:26
	♪ For the joy of human love ♪	20:34
	♪ Brother, sister, parent, child ♪	20:38
	♪ Friends on earth and friends above ♪	20:43
	♪ For all gentle thoughts and mild ♪	20:48
	♪ Lord of all, to Thee we raise ♪	20:53
	♪ This our hymn of grateful praise ♪	20:58
	♪ For thy church, that evermore ♪	21:06
	♪ Lifteth holy hands above ♪	21:10
	♪ Offering up on every shore ♪	21:15
	♪ Her pure sacrifice of love ♪	21:20
	♪ Lord of all, to thee we raise ♪	21:25
	♪ This, our hymn of grateful praise ♪	21:30
	♪ For thyself, best gift divine ♪	22:18
	♪ To the world so freely given ♪	22:22
	♪ For that great, great love of thine ♪	22:27
	♪ Peace on earth, and joy in heaven ♪	22:32
	♪ Lord of all, to thee we raise ♪	22:37
	♪ This our hymn of grateful praise ♪	22:43
-	Grace and peace to you from the blessed Lord,	22:56
	our God and our Savior, Jesus Christ, amen.	22:58
	Let us confess our sins.	23:03
	Eternal and ever merciful God,	23:16
	we confess that often we have	23:19
	failed to be an obedient church.	23:21
	We have not done Your will.	23:24
	We have broken Your law.	23:27
	We have rebelled against Your love.	23:29
	We have not loved our neighbors.	23:32
	We have not heard the cry of the needy.	23:35
	Forgive us, we pray, free us for joyful obedience	23:38
	through Jesus Christ, our Lord, amen.	23:43
	Hear the good news.	23:49
	Christ died for us while we were yet sinners.	23:51
	That is God's own proof of his love toward us.	23:54
	In the name of Jesus Christ, you are forgiven.	23:59
-	In the name of Jesus Christ, we are forgiven, amen.	24:03
	(pious organ music)	24:09
	(organ music drowns out chorus)	24:18
-	Let us pray.	25:18
	Open our hearts and minds, O God,	25:22
	by the power of your holy spirit	25:24
	so that as the word is read and proclaimed,	25:27
	we might hear with joy what You say to us this day, amen.	25:30
	The first lesson is taken from Isaiah.	25:37
	"The spirit of the Lord God is upon me	25:40
	"because the Lord has anointed me	25:43
	"to bring good tidings to the afflicted.	25:45
	"He has sent me to bind up the brokenhearted,	25:48
	"to proclaim liberty to the captives	25:51
	"and the opening of the prison to those who are bound,	25:54
	"to proclaim the year of the Lord's favor	25:58
	"and the day of vengeance of our God,	26:00
	"to comfort all who mourn,	26:04
	"to grant to those who mourn in Zion,	26:06
	"to give them a garland instead of ashes,	26:09
	"the oil of gladness instead of mourning,	26:11
	"the mantle of praise instead of faint spirit."	26:14
	Here ends the reading of the first lesson.	26:19
	Second lesson is taken from Ephesians.	26:23
	"But now in Christ Jesus,	26:27
	"you who once were far off	26:29
	"have been brought near to the blood of Christ,	26:32
	"for he is our peace who has made us both one	26:35
	"and has broken down the dividing wall of hostility	26:40
	"by abolishing in his flesh	26:43
	"the law of commandments and ordinances	26:45
	"that he might create in himself one new man	26:48
	"in place of the two, so making peace,	26:52
	"and might reconcile us both to God	26:55
	"in one body through the cross,	26:58
	"thereby bringing hostility to an end.	27:01
	"And he came and preached peace to you who were far off	27:05
	"and peace to those who were near,	27:08
	"for through him, we both have access,	27:10
	"in one spirit, to the Father,	27:14
	"so then you are no longer strangers and sojourners	27:17
	"but you are fellow citizens with the saints	27:21
	"and members of the household of God	27:23
	"built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets,	27:27
	"Christ Jesus himself being the cornerstone	27:30
	"in whom the whole structure is	27:34
	"joined together in groves in a holy temple	27:35
	"in the Lord in whom you also are built into yet	27:38
	"for a dwelling place of God and the spirit."	27:42
	Here ends the reading of the second lesson.	27:47
	The gospel is taken from John.	27:51
	"Now before the feast of the Passover,	27:55
	"when Jesus knew that his hour had come	27:59
	"to depart out of this world to the Father,	28:01
	"having loved his own who were in the world.	28:04
	"He loved them to the end.	28:07
	"And during supper when the devil	28:09
	"had already put it into the heart of	28:12
	"Judas Iscariot, Simon's son, to betray him,	28:14
	"Jesus, knowing that the Father had	28:18
	"given all things unto his hands	28:20
	"and that He had come from God and was going to God,	28:23
	"rose from supper, laid aside His garments,	28:26
	"and girded Himself with a towel.	28:30
	"Then He poured water into a basin	28:33
	"and began to wash the disciples' feet	28:36
	"and to wipe them with the towel with which He was girded.	28:38
	"He came to Simon Peter, and Peter said to Him,	28:42
	"'Lord, do you wash my feet?'	28:46
	"And Jesus answered Him,	28:48
	"'What I am doing, you do not know now,	28:49
	"but afterward, you will understand.'	28:53
	"And Peter said to Him, 'You shall never wash my feet.'	28:56
	"And Jesus answered him, 'If I do not wash you,	29:00
	"'you have no part in Me.'	29:03
	"And Simon Peter said, 'Lord, not my feet only,	29:05
	"'but also my hands and my head.'	29:08
	"Jesus said to him, 'He who has bathed does	29:12
	"'not need to wash except his feet,	29:15
	"'but he is clean all over.	29:18
	"'You are clean, but not every one of you.'"	29:19
	For He knew who was to betray Him.	29:24
	That's why He said, "You are not all clean."	29:27
	"When He had washed their feet	29:31
	"and taken His garments and resumed His place,	29:33
	"he said to them, "Do you know what I have done to you?	29:36
	"You call me teacher and lord,	29:41
	"and you are right, for so I am.	29:43
	"If I, then, your lord and teacher,	29:46
	"had washed your feet,	29:49
	"you also ought to wash one another's feet,	29:51
	"for I have given you an example	29:54
	"that you also should do as I have done to you.	29:57
	"Truly, truly, I say to you,	30:00
	"a servant is not greater than his master,	30:03
	"nor is he who is sent greater than he who sent him.	30:05
	"If you know these things, blessed are you if you do them."	30:10
	This ends the reading of the gospel, amen.	30:14
-	In the name of God, Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, amen.	30:21
	It is a great joy and privilege	30:28
	as well as a deeply moving experience	30:30
	for me to come here to share	30:34
	in this lovely worship with you,	30:36
	and I would like to thank	30:39
	the choir for their wonderful singing.	30:40
	And for me, it is a memory	30:43
	which I shall take back to England with me.	30:45
	I am bishop of a bishopric	30:48
	which goes back to 705 A.D.	30:51
	In the great abbey church of Sherborne in Dorset,	30:55
	Sir Walter Raleigh worshiped	30:59
	when he lived in the castle there.	31:01
	Now in England, when a visiting preacher	31:05
	amongst the pulpit steps,	31:08
	three questions probably come into	31:11
	the mind of the congregation.	31:14
	What will he say, will it be good,	31:17
	and how long will he take to say it?	31:22
	(laughter)	31:25
	I give three answers to those questions.	31:26
	What will I say?	31:30
	Wait and see.	31:32
	Will it be good?	31:34
	Probably not because	31:36
	I'm a very ordinary person and not a very clever one.	31:39
	How long will I take to say it?	31:43
	Well, I'm told I don't have more than 15 minutes.	31:46
	But I put a question to you,	31:51
	and it is the second question which comes in	31:54
	the Bible, in the book of Genesis, chapter three.	31:57
	Where are you?	32:01
	Where are you?	32:03
	Adam and Eve were having a	32:06
	lovely time in the garden of Eden when,	32:07
	thanks to Eve, they landed up in trouble.	32:10
	And the voice of God came to them.	32:14
	Where are you?	32:17
	And I put that question, "Where are you,"	32:20
	because God, I believe, is saying it	32:23
	to the world, to his church, and to us.	32:26
	First of all, I want to look at this world of ours	32:32
	which is our inheritance	32:36
	and with which we are entrusted	32:38
	during our time here on Earth,	32:40
	and I want to point, first of all,	32:43
	to one or two things about the age in which we live.	32:45
	It goes without saying, I think,	32:50
	that we are standing on ground	32:52
	which seems to be shaking under our feet.	32:55
	No longer are we able to feel or say	32:59
	that our civilization and our world is secure.	33:02
	There is such potential for good within it,	33:08
	but there is also unknown possibilities	33:12
	for evil and destruction.	33:16
	The poet T. S. Eliot wrote,	33:19
	"It seems as though something has happened	33:22
	"which has never happened before	33:25
	"though we know not just why or when or how or where.	33:28
	"Men have left God, they say,	33:33
	"not for other gods but for no god.	33:36
	"And this has never happened before."	33:40
	Although it is hard to generalize about this world,	33:44
	and there's always a danger in that,	33:47
	it seems to me that there are certain things	33:50
	which are true about our life today.	33:53
	I'm just going to mention, first of all,	33:56
	one or two of them.	33:58
	Many people live lives which are based on	34:01
	the false assumption that there are	34:04
	no absolute standards of right and wrong	34:07
	and that everyone can do what is right in their own eyes.	34:11
	Now you've only to look at the world about us	34:16
	and at the history of nations	34:19
	to see the devastating effects of such a belief	34:21
	upon the life of a country or upon its culture.	34:26
	Then there are many who hold the false belief,	34:31
	and this is certainly true of	34:35
	the country and the part of the world from which I come,	34:37
	that man is intrinsically good	34:41
	and will always behave reasonably well,	34:44
	bearing the needs of others in mind.	34:46
	But this, of course, again is a false belief.	34:50
	It doesn't take into account the true nature of man.	34:54
	Saint Paul expressed something basic to human nature	34:59
	when he wrote, "The good that I would, I cannot.	35:03
	"The evil that I would not, that I do."	35:08
	And surely this is true of the experience of all of us.	35:13
	Then there is too the false belief	35:17
	that material prosperity and comfort	35:20
	will produce happiness and security.	35:24
	But again, this goes against the evidence of history	35:29
	when men and nations seem to be in greater danger	35:32
	in times of economic security and prosperity	35:37
	than at other times.	35:41
	The words of the psalmist come to my mind.	35:44
	"He gave them their hearts desire	35:47
	"and sent leanness withall into their souls."	35:50
	Now all that I've said so far seems rather serious,	35:56
	but I use it just to point to some of the things	36:00
	which I believe has brought our world,	36:04
	or our Western world, to this critical time in its history	36:06
	and at such breathtaking speed.	36:11
	It may be that we feel like those African porters	36:15
	who had traveled at such speed through the jungle	36:22
	that they'd put down their loads	36:26
	and they refused to go on.	36:28
	When asked why they would not proceed,	36:31
	they said, "We have traveled so far so quickly	36:34
	"that we are waiting for our souls to catch up with us."	36:40
	Our gospel is one of realistic hope	36:46
	and as Christians, we should always	36:50
	have joy and hope within us.	36:53
	God is hidden in this world.	36:57
	He hid Himself in Mary.	37:01
	He hid Himself in the boy at Nazareth,	37:04
	in the man of Galilee,	37:07
	and in the dying Christ on the cross.	37:09
	And so He is hidden in us in His risen life.	37:13
	We are Christ-bearers,	37:19
	and Christ goes on being crucified	37:22
	in what we do with His world and with our own lives.	37:26
	Many years ago, I worked at a great church in	37:32
	London, England, St. Martin-In-The-Fields.	37:36
	One day, I went down into the dark crypt	37:40
	on a Saturday afternoon,	37:43
	and as I tried to find the light switch,	37:45
	I tripped over a body in the dark.	37:48
	After I had recovered from the shock	37:52
	and found the switch and put on the light,	37:56
	there, lying at my feet, was the body of a man	37:59
	who was dying and barely conscious.	38:03
	Of course, when I was able to make him speak,	38:07
	I asked him why he was there and who he was.	38:11
	He told me that he was an alcoholic and a diabetic	38:15
	out of prison the week before,	38:20
	and for that past week, he had lived off	38:23
	methylated spirits, aftershave lotion,	38:25
	and anything else that he could get hold of.	38:30
	I said, "Why have you come into the crypt of this church?"	38:33
	He said to me, with great sadness but hope in his voice,	38:39
	"Somehow I believe that God	38:44
	has a place in it all."	38:48
	And God is hidden in this world.	38:52
	He has a place in it all.	38:55
	There is something, I believe, within each human being	38:58
	which makes him look beyond himself	39:02
	to someone both within and outside himself.	39:06
	It is that hope of a God	39:12
	who has a place in it all	39:15
	where lies our hope for the future.	39:18
	Because of it, God is saying to His world,	39:22
	"Where are you?"	39:26
	In "Where are you?", God is saying to his church.	39:29
	The church, as we know, is in this world to worship,	39:32
	to witness, to serve, and to suffer.	39:36
	We continue that work of Jesus Christ	39:40
	as a kind of extension of the incarnation.	39:43
	It is here to give people a vision	39:48
	of a way of life within this world	39:51
	which is positive, inspiring,	39:54
	enriching, and unselfish.	39:57
	It should be a place where men and women	40:01
	are able to find themselves	40:05
	as God intended them to be,	40:09
	renewed, restored, forgiven, and accepted.	40:12
	The church is also here to serve the world, as we know,	40:18
	as Christ served it.	40:22
	Some years ago, when I was taking	40:26
	a party of people to the Holy Land,	40:28
	every morning in the early hours,	40:31
	I used to go out onto the mount of olives	40:33
	to have a time of peace and quiet.	40:36
	One morning, as I sat under an olive tree,	40:40
	a shepherd came over the brow of the hill	40:45
	with a flock of sheep,	40:48
	and he found a nice, comfortable place on an old stone wall	40:50
	on which he lay down and went to sleep.	40:55
	All the sleep grazed around him happily.	40:59
	Then suddenly, over the top of the hill, came a little lamb,	41:03
	bleating, with notes of panic in its voice	41:08
	because it was lost.	41:12
	As it came nearer and nearer to the flock,	41:15
	the tone of its voice changed	41:19
	because it thought it had	41:22
	found the flock to which it belonged.	41:23
	But the sheep just went on grazing.	41:27
	When the lamb drew near enough to recognize them,	41:31
	it realized suddenly that it wasn't its own flock,	41:36
	and it ran off into the distance,	41:40
	still searching, still bleating, still lost.	41:43
	Sometimes the church can be like that flock of sheep,	41:49
	more concerned about the preservation of its own life	41:55
	than about helping the suffering Christ	42:00
	in the lost and poor of the world.	42:04
	What will happen, I often ask myself,	42:08
	to the poor of the world, God's poor,	42:12
	if we do not lower our standards of living	42:16
	and our material expectations?	42:19
	What will happen to God's world	42:23
	if nations do not stop the arms race	42:27
	and if we do not accept all men and women	42:30
	as our brothers and sisters in Christ,	42:33
	regardless of race, color, or creed?	42:36
	Of course, we are not in this world	42:41
	as Christians or the church	42:43
	to tell the world how to run its affairs.	42:46
	We're here to be the conscience of society,	42:50
	to point to those principles	42:54
	on which society should be based	42:56
	and to remind that society when it is not based upon them.	43:00
	We should have the courage to speak out prophetically,	43:06
	for loving our neighbor as Christ told us to do	43:10
	means being desperately concerned about	43:15
	every part of human life, political,	43:18
	social, and spiritual.	43:22
	"I sought my God.	43:26
	"My God I did not see.	43:28
	"I sought my soul.	43:30
	"My soul eluded me.	43:33
	"I sought my brother, and I found all three."	43:35
	If we as a church and as churches throughout the world	43:41
	do not concern ourselves about the suffering world,	43:45
	and if we do not seek	43:50
	and serve our Lord unselfishly and unitedly	43:52
	in worship and in the poor of the world,	43:57
	the angel may stand at the doors of our churches	44:01
	as he stood at the tomb on the first Easter day,	44:06
	and he may be saying, "He is risen.	44:10
	"He is not here.	44:14
	"You cannot seek the living among the dead."	44:16
	Where are you, God is saying to us?	44:22
	Of course, only we know where we are in our own lives,	44:26
	but what I would say is that we need to have a vision,	44:32
	always, for ourselves.	44:36
	A vision that must be an unselfish vision.	44:40
	Our destiny, in this world, is holiness,	44:45
	which means being like Jesus.	44:49
	Holiness revealed itself in Jesus	44:53
	as self-giving love.	44:57
	That's how His glory was revealed.	44:59
	To that, He consecrated Himself.	45:03
	It was for this that He died,	45:06
	and it is through this that	45:09
	He brings us hope and forgiveness.	45:11
	One day, a small boy went into a sculptor's workshop	45:16
	and he saw there a large block of marble	45:22
	and the sculptor standing at one side, chipping at it.	45:25
	He went away thinking, "What a waste of time,	45:30
	"just chipping away at a large block of stone."	45:34
	Three weeks later, he came back,	45:39
	and in place of that large block of stone	45:42
	stood a fierce and very beautiful lion.	45:45
	Excitedly, he ran up to the sculptor and said,	45:49
	"Sir, tell me how did you know	45:53
	"there was a lion hidden in that block of stone?"	45:57
	The art of sculpture is the art of seeing.	46:02
	The art of living is the art of seeing.	46:07
	The art of being a Christian is the art of seeing.	46:11
	God looks and God sees	46:16
	and God waits for us to respond.	46:20
	There is something in this world	46:24
	for each one of us to do	46:28
	which only we can do,	46:30
	and someone which only we can be.	46:33
	As we keep close to this	46:38
	wonderful, loving God who created us,	46:40
	who has shown us what He is like in Jesus Christ	46:44
	and who is present with us through His holy spirit,	46:48
	and as we keep close to Him through prayer and worship,	46:52
	we start to see this world and other people	46:56
	through the eyes of Christ	47:00
	and we become sensitively aware	47:03
	of what he wants us to do and of what he wants us to be.	47:05
	Our journey through this world is a journey of becoming	47:11
	and what we are is God's gift to us	47:15
	and of what we one day become is our gift to God.	47:18
	In that lovely passage we heard in the gospel,	47:25
	there great truths are revealed	47:30
	for us, for the world ...	47:33

	Or the church.	0:03
	Jesus knowing that the Father had put	0:05
	all things into his hands and that he had come from God	0:07
	and went to God.	0:12
	Jesus washing the disciple's feet,	0:15
	and Jesus wanting to wash Peter's feet.	0:19
	But Peter not wanting those feet to be washed.	0:22
	It is in the knowledge and belief	0:27
	that we come from God and one day will go to God.	0:29
	And that we are answerable for the way	0:35
	in which we live and behave in this world,	0:36
	that affects our attitudes to life.	0:39
	If we acknowledge that we come from God and go to God,	0:43
	then we are surely prepared to do, to be,	0:49
	or to suffer anything for this God whom we worship.	0:53
	And we should have the humility to believe	0:58
	that we are part of something so much greater	1:02
	than ourselves, of a wonderful mystery.	1:05
	And that we are put in this world for a purpose.	1:09
	And that our standards of life and our behavior matter.	1:13
	A changed society comes from changed individuals.	1:18
	And in washing the disciple's feet,	1:25
	Jesus shows us that every act of service	1:28
	to other people matters.	1:32
	And what we do to others and for others	1:35
	has an eternal significance.	1:38
	God is in it.	1:41
	God, the creator of all that is,	1:43
	seen and unseen,	1:47
	shows His glory, which is self giving love	1:50
	in humbling Himself towards His world.	1:54
	God is like Jesus, washing the disciple's feet.	1:57
	He that has seen me, has seen the Father, said Jesus.	2:03
	And our duty as Christians and His church,	2:09
	is to wash His world which means being prepared	2:12
	to perform any act of service,	2:17
	meeting the needs of other people.	2:20
	However great the sacrifice.	2:24
	And that is the way God is revealed,	2:26
	and that is the way He is glorified.	2:30
	And when we live like that, trying to serve His world,	2:34
	trying to serve other people,	2:38
	then the divine love is at work through us.	2:41
	Whether we are aware of it or not,	2:44
	or whether others are aware of it or not.	2:47
	But Peter wouldn't let Jesus serve him,	2:51
	and the world does not have the humility	2:56
	to acknowledge that it needs God's help.	2:59
	That it needs to be washed.	3:04
	It's not prepared to receive help from a God	3:07
	who can stoop down and change this world	3:11
	and alter its direction.	3:15
	And the test of our own sincerity is always	3:18
	whether we are prepared to let this God help us,	3:22
	to wash us, to change us, to be more holy,	3:28
	to be more like Jesus.	3:32
	It requires humility and the knowledge that we come from God	3:35
	and go to God.	3:41
	And finally, in that incident to which I have referred,	3:44
	in that upper room, there is a kind of eternal triangle.	3:50
	The more you know you come from God and go to God,	3:57
	the more you're able to serve.	4:02
	And the more you want to be served and helped.	4:05
	And the more you serve others.	4:09
	The closer you are to God,	4:11
	and the more you will find His serving you through others.	4:14
	And the more you let Him serve you,	4:19
	the nearer you are to God.	4:22
	And the better able you are to serve others.	4:24
	It is an eternal triangle.	4:29
	A kind of trinity.	4:31
	And surely that is where true and lasting hope lies	4:34
	for the world, for His church, and for us.	4:38
	And that humble God who comes to us	4:44
	in this glorious service	4:47
	in bread and wine this morning,	4:50
	who gives us His grace so that we may go	4:53
	from this church and have the grace of giving,	4:57
	waits to serve us.	5:01
	And He offers in His goodness to reproduce	5:04
	something of His life and His love in us,	5:08
	so that His glory may be revealed.	5:13
	And all He asks for is our attention.	5:17
	And God then does the rest.	5:22
	Amen.	5:27
	And thank you.	5:29
	Let us pray.	5:43
	That the world may live in peace	5:49
	and that the church may achieve unity	5:53
	fulfilling its service here and everywhere.	5:55
	This is our prayer.	5:59
	That all ministers and teachers in the church	6:02
	may be faithful servants of the Gospel,	6:05
	leading others into its way of life	6:08
	and strengthening their faith.	6:11
	This is our prayer.	6:13
	That the leaders of this nation and of the world	6:16
	may govern with justice and mercy.	6:19
	This is our prayer.	6:23
	That all our work may be done for the common good.	6:25
	That it may be done in safety.	6:30
	And that all may be spared from grinding toil	6:33
	which destroys fullness of life.	6:36
	This is our prayer.	6:39
	That those who work on frontiers of truth	6:42
	and those who enrich our lives with beauty and joy	6:45
	may be free to follow their vocations.	6:48
	This is our prayer.	6:52
	That those whom we have known and loved,	6:54
	who have died in the faith,	6:56
	may be a glorious memory to us.	6:58
	And a source of renewed fellowship with all the saints.	7:01
	This is our prayer through Jesus Christ our Lord, amen.	7:05
	Christ invites to His table all who love Him	7:12
	and who desire to live in peace with one another.	7:15
	Let us stand and offer each other signs	7:19
	of God's peace and love.	7:22
	(congregation chattering)	7:33
	In love, our gifts and ourselves for God.	7:51
	(soft music)	8:06
	(choir singing)	10:19
	♪ Praise God from whom all blessing flow ♪	15:07
	♪ Praise Him all creatures here below ♪	15:14
	♪ Hallelujah, hallelujah ♪	15:20
	♪ Praise Him above, ye heav'nly host ♪	15:28
	♪ Praise Father, Son, and Holy Ghost ♪	15:34
	♪ Hallelujah, hallelujah ♪	15:41
	♪ Hallelujah, hallelujah ♪	15:47
	♪ Hallelujah ♪	15:55
	♪ Amen ♪	16:04
	The prayer of thanksgiving.	16:17
	The Lord is here.	16:21
	His spirit is with us.	16:23
	Lift up your hearts.	16:26
	We lift them up to the Lord.	16:28
	Let us give thanks to the Lord our God.	16:30
	It is right to give Him thanks and praise.	16:33
	Father, we give you thanks and praise.	16:36
	Through your beloved son, Jesus Christ, your living word	16:39
	through whom you have created all things.	16:44
	Who was sent by you in your great goodness	16:48
	to be our savior.	16:51
	By the power of the Holy Spirit, He took flesh.	16:53
	And as your son, born of the blessed virgin	16:57
	was seen on earth and went about among us.	17:00
	He opened wide His arms for us on the cross.	17:04
	He put an end to death by dying for us.	17:08
	And revealed the resurrection by rising to new life.	17:12
	So He fulfilled your will and one for your holy people.	17:17
	Therefore with angels and dark angels,	17:23
	and with all the company of heaven,	17:27
	we proclaim your great and glorious name.	17:30
	Forever praising you and saying.	17:33
	Holy, holy, holy Lord.	17:36
	God of power and might.	17:39
	Heaven and earth are full of your glory.	17:42
	Hosanna in the highest.	17:45
	Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord.	17:47
	Hosanna in the highest.	17:51
	Lord, you are holy indeed.	17:54
	The source of all holiness.	17:57
	Granted by the power of your Holy Spirit,	18:00
	and according to your holy will,	18:04
	these your gifts of bread and wine	18:07
	may be to us the body and blood of our Lord Jesus Christ.	18:11
	Who in the same night that he was betrayed,	18:17
	took bread and gave you thanks.	18:21
	He broke it and gave it to his disciples saying,	18:24
	take, eat, this is my body,	18:29
	which is given for you.	18:34
	Do this in remembrance of me.	18:37
	In the same way after supper, he took the cup	18:44
	and gave you thanks.	18:47
	He gave it to them saying, drink this, all of you.	18:49
	This is my blood of the new covenant,	18:54
	which is shed for you and for many	18:58
	for the forgiveness of sins.	19:01
	Do this as often as you drink it, in remembrance of me.	19:04
	Christ has died.	19:11
	Christ is risen.	19:12
	Christ will come again.	19:14
	And so Father, calling to mind his death on the cross,	19:16
	his perfect sacrifice made once for the sins of all men.	19:22
	Rejoicing at His mighty resurrection and glorious ascension	19:26
	and looking for His coming in glory.	19:31
	We celebrate this memorial of our redemption.	19:34
	We thank you for counting us worthy	19:38
	to stand in your presence and serve you.	19:41
	We bring before you this bread and this cup.	19:45
	We pray you to accept this, our duty and service,	19:49
	a spiritual sacrifice of praise and thanksgiving.	19:53
	Send the Holy Spirit on your people	19:58
	and gather into one in your kingdom,	20:02
	all who share this one bread and one cup.	20:05
	So that we in the company of all the saints,	20:10
	may praise and glorify you forever	20:13
	through Him from whom all good things come,	20:16
	Jesus Christ our Lord, by whom and with whom and in whom	20:20
	in the unity of the Holy Spirit, all honor and glory	20:26
	be yours almighty Father forever and ever, amen.	20:30
	Because there is one loaf, we many as we are are one body,	20:43
	so it is one loaf of which we all partake.	20:49
	When we break the bread, it is a means of sharing	20:54
	in the body of Christ.	20:58
	When we give thanks and share the cup,	21:00
	it is a means of sharing in the blood of Christ.	21:03
	Draw near with faith.	21:13
	Receive the body of our Lord Jesus Christ,	21:15
	which He gave for you.	21:18
	And His blood, which He shed for you.	21:19
	Eat and drink in remembrance that He died for you	21:22
	and feed on Him in your hearts by faith with thanksgiving.	21:27
	(soft music)	21:44
	(choir singing)	22:11
	(soft music)	25:14
	(choir singing)	26:46
	(soft music)	32:19
	Thank you.	36:08
	Thank you.	36:14
	Let us stand for the hymn.	36:37
	(choir singing)	37:28
	Go out in peace to serve God and your neighbor	40:22
	in all that you do.	40:27
	We are sent in Christ's name.	40:29
	The blessing of Almighty God,	40:32
	creator, redeemer, and sustainer is with you always.	40:34
	Amen.	40:41
	♪ Amen ♪	40:42
	♪ Amen, amen ♪	40:45
	(choir singing)	40:48
	♪ Amen ♪	40:54
	(soft music)	41:04

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John D. G. Kirkham - "The Church and the World" (October 7, 1984)

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Sermon start time: (Part 1): 30:21. Sermon end time: (Part 2) 05:31.
The Church is to be the conscience of the culture, which has lost its sense of moral direction because it has rejected God. Through service to the poor and suffering, then, the Church is to was the world has Jesus washed his disciples feet. (Abstract created by Duke Divinity School staff.)
Key quotation: “As we keep close to this wonderful, loving God who created us, who has shown us what He is like in Jesus Christ and who is present with us through His Holy Spirit, and as we keep close to Him through prayer and worship, we start to see this world and other people through the eyes of Christ, and we become sensitively aware of what he wants us to do and of what he wants us to be.”

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October 7, 1984

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Kirkham, John D. G.

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