Debra Quilling-Allen - "Jesus: The Temple and Correct Change" (March 10, 1985)
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(stately organ music) | 0:03 | |
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(formal organ music) | 3:03 | |
(footsteps clicking) | 3:37 | |
(footsteps clicking) | 4:27 | |
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(congregation murmuring) | 7:22 | |
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(footsteps clicking) | 10:27 | |
(courtly organ music) | 12:00 | |
(dramatic organ music) | 16:15 | |
- | Good morning. | 16:54 |
We welcome you to this service of worship. | 16:55 | |
Tonight, at 7:30 p.m., we continue our celebration | 16:58 | |
of the Bach Tercentenary with a special Bach Vespers | 17:02 | |
here in the chapel, and we invite you | 17:07 | |
to be present for that. | 17:09 | |
A choir made up of people from the Durham area | 17:11 | |
will be leading that vespers service. | 17:15 | |
We welcome as our special musicians this morning, | 17:19 | |
Thad and Susan Dankle, who have been singing | 17:21 | |
in the chapel choir this year, | 17:24 | |
and we welcome as our guest preacher this morning, | 17:27 | |
the Reverend Debra Quilling. | 17:31 | |
She is a graduate of Yale Divinity School | 17:34 | |
and the Institute of Sacred Music there, | 17:38 | |
and she is presently serving as Director | 17:40 | |
of the Wesley Foundation | 17:43 | |
at the University of South Carolina, | 17:45 | |
where she leads the ministry of the United Methodist Church | 17:48 | |
to college students at the University of South Carolina, | 17:53 | |
and we welcome her this morning. | 17:56 | |
Let us continue our worship. | 17:59 | |
♪ Master ♪ | 18:08 | |
♪ Master ♪ | 18:13 | |
♪ We shall hold thy crown ♪ | 18:14 | |
♪ We have to hold thy crown ♪ | ||
♪ And this key ♪ | 18:21 | |
♪ And this key ♪ | ||
♪ We have the whole night long ♪ | 18:25 | |
♪ We have the whole night long ♪ | 18:26 | |
♪ And this day ♪ | 18:30 | |
♪ And this day ♪ | ||
♪ And not a one ♪ | 18:34 | |
♪ And not a one ♪ | ||
♪ And me ♪ | 18:38 | |
♪ And me ♪ | ||
♪ God ♪ | 18:41 | |
♪ And not a one ♪ | 18:42 | |
♪ And me ♪ | 18:45 | |
♪ And me ♪ | 18:46 | |
♪ But, we have the moonlight calm and mission ♪ | 18:48 | |
♪ And not a one ♪ ♪ And not a one ♪ ♪ And not a one ♪ | 18:55 | |
♪ And not on ♪ | 18:58 | |
♪ On me ♪ | ||
♪ And be caught ♪ | 19:00 | |
♪ I'd call out your word ♪ | 19:06 | |
♪ Will either mad or hurt ♪ | 19:09 | |
♪ But I am shorter when I am mad, call out ♪ | 19:15 | |
♪ I'd call out your word ♪ | 19:25 | |
♪ Will either mad, roll arms ♪ | 19:28 | |
♪ At your word ♪ | 19:35 | |
♪ And your mark ♪ | 19:37 | |
♪ We're lying in dirt ♪ | 19:40 | |
♪ We're lying in dirt ♪ | 19:41 | |
♪ We're lying in dirt ♪ | 19:44 | |
♪ We're lying in dirt ♪ | 19:46 | |
♪ You are all ♪ | 19:51 | |
♪ All ♪ | 19:52 | |
♪ Armed ♪ | 19:56 | |
- | The psalm is number 593. | 20:13 |
Let us stand. | 20:16 | |
(audience murmuring) | 20:18 | |
Blessed are those whose way is blameless. | 20:25 | |
Walk in the law of the Lord. | 20:29 | |
- | Walk in the law of the Lord. | |
- | Blessed are those who keep his testimonies. | 20:32 |
(congregation murmuring) | 20:35 | |
Their whole heart. | ||
Who also do no wrong. | 20:38 | |
Congregation | But walk in his ways. | 20:40 |
- | Thou has commanded | 20:42 |
thy precepts to be kept diligently. | 20:45 | |
Congregation | Oh, that my ways | 20:48 |
may be steadfast in keeping thy statutes. | 20:49 | |
- | That I shall not be put to shame. | 20:52 |
Congregation | Having my eyes fixed | 20:55 |
on all thy commandments. | 20:57 | |
- | I will praise thee with an upright heart. | 20:59 |
Congregation | When I learn thy righteous ordinances. | 21:02 |
- | I will observe thy statutes. | 21:05 |
Congregation | Oh, forsake me not utterly. | 21:08 |
- | How can a young man keep his way pure? | 21:11 |
Congregation | By guarding it according to thy word. | 21:14 |
- | With my whole heart, I seek thee. | 21:17 |
Congregation | Let me not wander from thy commandments. | 21:20 |
- | I have laid up thy word in my heart. | 21:23 |
Congregation | That I might not sin against thee. | 21:26 |
- | Blessed be thou, oh, Lord. | 21:29 |
Congregation | Teach me thy statutes. | 21:31 |
- | With my lips, I declare all thy ordinances of thy mouth. | 21:33 |
Congregation | In the way of thy testimonies, | 21:38 |
I delight as much as in all riches. | 21:40 | |
- | I will meditate on thy precepts. | 21:43 |
Congregation | And fix my eyes on thy ways. | 21:46 |
- | I will delight in thy statutes. | 21:48 |
Congregation | I will not forget thy word. | 21:51 |
(grand organ music) | 21:54 | |
(loud organ music plays over indecipherable choir hymn) | 22:23 | |
- | During the season of Lent, | 25:06 |
as we look at the cross of Jesus, | 25:09 | |
as we look into our own hearts, | 25:12 | |
we realize that although, by the cross, | 25:14 | |
we have been made God's people, we are people | 25:17 | |
who have preferred our wills to God's will. | 25:21 | |
Therefore, let us begin this service of worship | 25:25 | |
by humbly confessing our sin before God and one another. | 25:27 | |
Be seated. | 25:32 | |
(low rumbling) | 25:34 | |
(church member clearing throat) | 25:38 | |
(church member coughing) | 25:43 | |
Most merciful God, we confess that we have sinned | 25:45 | |
against you in thought, word, and deed, | 25:48 | |
by what we have done and by what we have left undone. | 25:52 | |
We have not loved you with our whole heart. | 25:57 | |
We have not loved our neighbors as ourselves. | 26:00 | |
We are truly sorry and we humbly repent. | 26:04 | |
For the sake of your son, Jesus Christ, | 26:08 | |
have mercy upon us and forgive us | 26:11 | |
that we may delight in your will and walk in your ways | 26:14 | |
to the glory of your name. | 26:19 | |
Amen. | 26:21 | |
Hear the good news. | 26:26 | |
Christ died for us while we were yet sinners. | 26:28 | |
That is God's own proof of his love toward us. | 26:32 | |
In the name of Jesus Christ, you are forgiven. | 26:37 | |
Congregation | In the name of Jesus Christ, | 26:42 |
you are forgiven. | 26:44 | |
- | Amen. | 26:46 |
- | Let us pray. | 26:57 |
Open our hearts | 27:00 | |
and minds, oh, God. | 27:01 | |
(congregation murmuring along) | ||
By the power of your Holy Spirit, | 27:03 | |
so that as the word is read and proclaimed, | 27:06 | |
we might hear with joy what you say to us this day. | 27:09 | |
Amen. | 27:14 | |
The first lesson is taken from Exodus, | 27:17 | |
Chapter 20, Verses One through 17. | 27:20 | |
And God spoke all these words, saying, | 27:26 | |
"I am the Lord, your God, who brought you | 27:30 | |
out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage. | 27:33 | |
You shall have no other gods before me. | 27:38 | |
You shall not make for yourself a grave an image | 27:42 | |
or any likeness of anything that is in heaven above | 27:46 | |
or that is in the earth beneath | 27:50 | |
or that is in the water under the earth. | 27:52 | |
You shall not bow down to them or serve them, | 27:55 | |
for I, the Lord, your God, am a jealous God, | 27:59 | |
visiting the inequity of the parents upon the children | 28:04 | |
to the third and the fourth generation | 28:07 | |
of those who hate me. | 28:09 | |
But, showing steadfast love to thousands of those | 28:12 | |
who love me and keep my commandments. | 28:16 | |
You shall not take the name of the Lord, your God, in vain, | 28:21 | |
for the Lord will not hold anyone guiltless | 28:24 | |
who takes God's name in vain. | 28:27 | |
Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy. | 28:30 | |
Six days you shall labor and do all your work, | 28:34 | |
but the seventh day is a Sabbath to the Lord, your God. | 28:38 | |
In it, you shall not do any work. | 28:42 | |
You or your son or your daughter, your manservant, | 28:45 | |
or your maid servant, your cattle, or the sojourner | 28:49 | |
who is within your gates, for in six days, | 28:53 | |
the Lord made heaven and earth, the sea, | 28:57 | |
and all that is in them and rested the seventh day. | 29:00 | |
Therefore, the Lord blessed the Sabbath day | 29:05 | |
and hallowed it. | 29:08 | |
Honor your father and mother, that your days | 29:11 | |
may be long in the land which the Lord, your God, gives you. | 29:14 | |
You shall not kill. | 29:18 | |
You shall not commit adultery. | 29:20 | |
You shall not steal. | 29:22 | |
You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor. | 29:24 | |
You shall not covet your neighbor's house. | 29:28 | |
You shall not covet your neighbor's wife, | 29:31 | |
or manservant, or maid servant, or ox, or ass, | 29:33 | |
or anything that is your neighbor's. | 29:37 | |
This ends the reading of the first lesson. | 29:41 | |
(papers shuffling) | 29:43 | |
(soft organ music) | 29:46 | |
♪ Come damsel ♪ | 29:59 | |
♪ Oh, how I cry to thee ♪ | 30:04 | |
♪ I cry to thee ♪ | 30:09 | |
♪ I cry to thee ♪ | 30:12 | |
♪ I cry to thee ♪ | 30:14 | |
♪ Lord, hear me, Lord ♪ | 30:18 | |
♪ Lord, hear me, Lord ♪ | ||
♪ Lord, hear me, Lord ♪ | 30:21 | |
♪ Lord, hear me, Lord ♪ | ||
♪ Lord, hear me, Lord ♪ | 30:24 | |
♪ Lord, hear me ♪ | ||
♪ Oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh ♪ | 30:27 | |
♪ My fair Lord ♪ | ||
♪ Oh, thee ♪ | 30:31 | |
♪ And a town I'm harbored graciously ♪ | 30:34 | |
♪ Endure me ♪ | 30:43 | |
♪ Endure me ♪ | ||
♪ Endure me ♪ | 30:48 | |
♪ Endure me ♪ | ||
♪ I cannot have ♪ | 30:54 | |
♪ My bread, my cup ♪ | 30:56 | |
♪ My bread and cup ♪ | ||
♪ My bread might fall ♪ | 30:58 | |
♪ My bread has dropped ♪ | ||
♪ Before me ♪ | 31:02 | |
♪ They fall before me ♪ | ||
♪ If thou would, Lord ♪ | 31:09 | |
♪ If thou would, Lord ♪ | ||
♪ If thou, oh, Lord ♪ | 31:12 | |
♪ If thou, oh, Lord ♪ | ||
♪ If thou would, Lord ♪ | 31:15 | |
♪ If thou would, Lord ♪ | ||
♪ If thou, oh, Lord ♪ | 31:18 | |
♪ If thou, oh, Lord ♪ | ||
♪ If thou would, Lord ♪ | 31:21 | |
♪ If thou will grant us ♪ | ||
♪ Peace this day ♪ | 31:23 | |
♪ Just bless this day ♪ | ||
♪ If thou, oh, Lord ♪ | 31:26 | |
♪ If thou, oh, Lord ♪ | ||
♪ If thou, oh, Lord ♪ | 31:29 | |
♪ If only memories fade ♪ | ||
♪ They found him ♪ | 31:32 | |
♪ At the speechless evening ♪ | 31:34 | |
♪ Evening ♪ | ||
♪ If he should call ♪ | 31:39 | |
♪ If he shall call ♪ | ||
♪ It's right ♪ | 31:44 | |
♪ It is right ♪ | ||
♪ For me ♪ | 31:52 | |
♪ For me ♪ | ||
♪ If he should call ♪ | 31:55 | |
♪ If he should call ♪ | ||
♪ His light ♪ | 32:00 | |
♪ It's right ♪ | ||
♪ For me ♪ | 32:08 | |
♪ For me ♪ | ||
♪ If he should call ♪ | 32:11 | |
♪ And if he should call ♪ | ||
♪ It's right ♪ | 32:16 | |
♪ It's right ♪ | 32:19 | |
♪ For me ♪ | 32:24 | |
♪ For me ♪ | ||
♪ If he should call ♪ | 32:27 | |
♪ If he should call ♪ | ||
♪ It's right ♪ | 32:32 | |
♪ It's right ♪ | 32:34 | |
♪ For me ♪ | 32:39 | |
♪ For me ♪ | ||
♪ Oh, may abide my presence ♪ | 32:42 | |
♪ Oh, may abide my presence ♪ | ||
♪ Oh, may abide my presence ♪ | 32:47 | |
♪ Oh, may abide my presence ♪ | ||
♪ Oh, may abide thy presence ♪ | 32:52 | |
- | The second lesson is taken from the first letter | 33:15 |
to the Corinthians, Chapter one, Verses 22 through 25. | 33:18 | |
For Jews demand signs and Greeks seek wisdom, | 33:25 | |
but we preach Christ crucified, | 33:30 | |
a stumbling block to Jews and folly to gentiles. | 33:34 | |
But to those who are called, both Jews and Greeks, | 33:38 | |
Christ, the power of God and the wisdom of God, | 33:42 | |
for the foolishness of God is wiser than human wisdom | 33:47 | |
and the weakness of God is stronger than human strength. | 33:51 | |
This ends the reading of the second lesson. | 33:56 | |
(church member coughing) | 34:07 | |
The gospel lesson comes from the second chapter | 34:13 | |
of the gospel according to John. | 34:16 | |
The passover of the Jews was at hand | 34:22 | |
and Jesus went up to Jerusalem. | 34:26 | |
In the temple, he found those who were selling oxen | 34:30 | |
and sheep and pigeons | 34:34 | |
and the money changers at their business | 34:37 | |
and making a whip of cords, he drove them all | 34:42 | |
with the sheep and the oxen out of the temple. | 34:46 | |
And he poured out the coins of the money changers | 34:51 | |
and overturned their tables. | 34:54 | |
And he told those who sold the pigeons, | 34:57 | |
"Take these things away. | 35:00 | |
"You shall not make my father's house a house of trade." | 35:02 | |
His disciples remembered that it was written | 35:09 | |
zeal for thy house shall consume me. | 35:12 | |
And the Jews then said to him, | 35:18 | |
"What sign have you to show us for doing this?" | 35:21 | |
And Jesus answered them, "Destroy this temple | 35:27 | |
"and in three days, I will raise it up." | 35:32 | |
The Jews then said, "It has taken 46 years | 35:37 | |
"to build this temple and will you | 35:40 | |
"raise it up in three days?" | 35:43 | |
But, he spoke of the temple of his body. | 35:47 | |
When, therefore, he was raised from the dead, | 35:52 | |
his disciples remembered that he had said this | 35:56 | |
and they believed the scripture | 36:00 | |
and the word which Jesus had spoken. | 36:03 | |
May God bless the reading of the word this day. | 36:08 | |
This passage of scripture may indeed | 36:18 | |
be one of the most difficult | 36:20 | |
for us to hear about a Jesus who, as I understood | 36:24 | |
while a child, was gentle and meek | 36:30 | |
and kind and healing, | 36:35 | |
the Jesus that held the children on his knees | 36:38 | |
and comforted those who were in pain. | 36:41 | |
The same Jesus comes into the temple | 36:48 | |
and, making a whip of cords for himself, | 36:53 | |
this Jesus begins to overturn | 36:58 | |
everything that is in sight and to make disarray and chaos | 37:02 | |
and Jesus is angry. | 37:12 | |
John places the story not at the end of the gospel | 37:18 | |
as is the way in which Mark and Matthew and Luke | 37:23 | |
handle the story, | 37:28 | |
a placing for the synoptic gospels that make sense | 37:31 | |
because it gives us some reason for why Jesus | 37:37 | |
by his own violence was answered with violence. | 37:43 | |
Those in the temple saw him as a threat, | 37:48 | |
and so they put him to death on the cross. | 37:53 | |
But, instead of that placing, John chooses | 37:57 | |
to have the story of Jesus coming into the temple | 38:02 | |
to change what is happening there. | 38:06 | |
At the beginning of his gospel, | 38:11 | |
the story follows | 38:16 | |
the baptism of Jesus. | 38:19 | |
The story follows the calling of the disciples. | 38:22 | |
The story follows | 38:27 | |
the gentle changing of water into wine | 38:30 | |
at the wedding in Cana of Galilee. | 38:35 | |
John is trying to tell us through this story | 38:42 | |
that this Jesus who comes in gentleness | 38:48 | |
and loving kindness | 38:51 | |
comes also to break into our lives | 38:54 | |
in a way that shakes us loose | 38:58 | |
from all those things which we have come | 39:01 | |
to understand to be religious faith. | 39:04 | |
Jesus comes, | 39:11 | |
wham, into the temple | 39:13 | |
out of a calmness in the gospel | 39:15 | |
and money flies and pigeons fly | 39:19 | |
and animals run from the temple. | 39:21 | |
You can imagine the scene. | 39:25 | |
The people who own the animals | 39:27 | |
who have some investment in what is going on there | 39:29 | |
running after the animals. | 39:32 | |
The sheep and the oxen have found new freedom. | 39:33 | |
And after the dust has settled, | 39:40 | |
Jesus is alone with the leaders of the Jewish people. | 39:44 | |
And they, like we, ask, | 39:52 | |
"What sign can you show us for doing this?" | 39:56 | |
(church member coughing) | 40:03 | |
Jesus's answer is something like a riddle. | 40:04 | |
He says, "I tell you, | 40:08 | |
"destroy this temple and in three days, I will raise it up." | 40:10 | |
John tries to make it clear for us. | 40:18 | |
He tells us Jesus is talking | 40:20 | |
about the temple of his own body. | 40:22 | |
But the Jewish leaders did not know | 40:28 | |
that's of which he spoke. | 40:31 | |
And so, they respond by saying as we must respond | 40:34 | |
in our own churches and even in this beautiful place | 40:37 | |
called Duke Chapel, | 40:40 | |
"It took us 46 years | 40:44 | |
to build this structure | 40:49 | |
"and you are telling us that now, in three days, | 40:52 | |
"once it is torn down, you can raise it up." | 40:58 | |
Jesus comes to tell us that what we hold dear, | 41:06 | |
be they sacrifices, as was the case in the temple, | 41:12 | |
those things that matter most to us that begin | 41:17 | |
to take the place of God | 41:22 | |
our structures, | 41:28 | |
our Sunday school classes, | 41:31 | |
our women's groups, | 41:36 | |
our men's gatherings, | 41:39 | |
our children's choirs, | 41:42 | |
all of those things that begin | 41:49 | |
to no longer be a means to an end, | 41:52 | |
but sometimes for us as people | 41:55 | |
who enjoy tradition and fight desperately against change, | 42:00 | |
those of us who long to keep things the same | 42:09 | |
find too often that our faith is locked up in those means | 42:16 | |
and that it is in our own sacrificing | 42:23 | |
that we find our meaning and the house of God | 42:27 | |
becomes something less | 42:32 | |
than that which had been our original faith | 42:35 | |
and our original coming before God. | 42:38 | |
Jesus breaks in in the same way that Jesus breaks in | 42:44 | |
to the temple. | 42:49 | |
Jesus breaks into our lives | 42:52 | |
to tell us that God must be the center, | 42:56 | |
to tell us that all those things | 43:02 | |
which seem to matter so much to us | 43:04 | |
are pushing God aside. | 43:09 | |
Henry Nowan, a professor of mine at Yale | 43:13 | |
and a fine writer and wonderful person, | 43:19 | |
tells the story in one of his books | 43:24 | |
about a woman who is taken into an asylum | 43:27 | |
because she has lost her | 43:33 | |
ability to cope in the world. | 43:37 | |
When she arrives at this place, she has | 43:41 | |
her hands, her fists knotted so tightly | 43:44 | |
against each other | 43:48 | |
that her nails are cutting into her hands. | 43:51 | |
And yet, she will not loosen her grip, | 43:55 | |
she will not let go of that which is | 43:59 | |
whatever it is in her hands. | 44:02 | |
So, the orderlies began to fight with her | 44:07 | |
and to try to open her hand, finger by finger | 44:09 | |
until they loosen her grip and find in each of her palms | 44:15 | |
a dirty clammy coin, | 44:19 | |
coins that she must have been holding like that | 44:25 | |
for months, perhaps years, | 44:29 | |
that had become her identity, | 44:33 | |
that had become who she was | 44:37 | |
and what she understood about herself. | 44:40 | |
Those things about us that we will not change, | 44:47 | |
those things about our church | 44:54 | |
that we will not have changed | 44:56 | |
can become for us like clammy coins, | 45:01 | |
can become for us the death of our faith | 45:06 | |
in God. | 45:11 | |
Exodus tells us to have no other Gods before our God. | 45:15 | |
So, today, it seems to me-- | 45:23 |
- | Discuss is there anything | 0:03 |
that comes before God | 0:10 | |
in my life? | 0:14 | |
As individuals, Raymond Brown tells us | 0:20 | |
we are like temples, God's temples. | 0:23 | |
John says that it is the body of Jesus | 0:30 | |
of which he speaks, | 0:33 | |
and yet, as we know well, | 0:35 | |
that as God lives in us, | 0:37 | |
we become temples of God. | 0:38 | |
As individual people then, | 0:44 | |
we let go or hold on to our clammy coins. | 0:47 | |
And the church, as well, is a temple, | 0:53 | |
a temple of God that for the Christian | 0:59 | |
is not that much different | 1:05 | |
than the temple to which Jesus came in his ministry. | 1:09 | |
A familiar story, | 1:17 | |
but one that I think is probably worth sharing again | 1:18 | |
is a story by a psychologist | 1:23 | |
by the name of Howard Clinebell. | 1:25 | |
From Basic Types of Pastoral Counseling, | 1:30 | |
one of the first books one reads upon entering seminary. | 1:32 | |
The story is about us. | 1:42 | |
First it is about a small group of people | 1:46 | |
who determine that living on the coastline as they do, | 1:52 | |
they could do something to save the many, many people | 1:56 | |
who are shipwrecked and drown | 2:02 | |
and can not be saved. | 2:07 | |
And so they determined that they will take an old boat | 2:10 | |
and when the seas are highest | 2:16 | |
and the storms rage, | 2:18 | |
they will go out and rescue people. | 2:21 | |
And they do this for several years, | 2:27 | |
they rescue people. | 2:29 | |
They bring them in and they dry them off | 2:30 | |
and the give them comfort | 2:33 | |
and they restore them. | 2:35 | |
And then as their fame spreads, | 2:39 | |
this life saving crew is joined by others | 2:43 | |
who has been saved by them | 2:47 | |
and by others yet who just want to have a part | 2:51 | |
in something that they feel is meaningful. | 2:54 | |
And so the little group grows | 2:59 | |
and as they grow they realize | 3:03 | |
that they can now use more boats | 3:06 | |
to save those who are drowning in the sea. | 3:09 | |
And so they purchase more boats | 3:13 | |
and as their group continues to grow | 3:17 | |
they decide what they need no longer is the little hut | 3:20 | |
that they have used over the years to dry the people | 3:23 | |
and let them sit before a warm fire, | 3:26 | |
but instead they need to have something | 3:28 | |
a little more welcoming, | 3:30 | |
some place where people can relax and rest. | 3:33 | |
And so, they exchange the old cots | 3:35 | |
for new beds. | 3:39 | |
They build a better building | 3:42 | |
and a larger building. | 3:43 | |
They buy new boats. | 3:46 | |
And they begin to have special meetings | 3:51 | |
during the week. | 3:52 | |
They gather and they even have a little liturgical lifeboat | 3:54 | |
that they use for initiations. | 3:59 | |
And people come and have fellowship together | 4:02 | |
and enjoy each other. | 4:06 | |
One day, | 4:11 | |
a shipwreck like they had not seen for years took place | 4:15 | |
and many, many dying people were rescued. | 4:19 | |
Now, these people were brought to the new clubhouse. | 4:26 | |
But in an effort not to dirty up the place, | 4:31 | |
they washed the people on the outside of the building | 4:35 | |
and when they were clean enough, | 4:39 | |
only then let them come in. | 4:41 | |
They determined immediately after that experience | 4:47 | |
that what they really needed were some showers | 4:50 | |
on the outside of the building | 4:53 | |
so that they could get people ready | 4:56 | |
and then let them come in. | 4:58 | |
In fact, they decided they'd build yet another building | 5:00 | |
for the people who had been shipwrecked to recover | 5:02 | |
and be cared for. | 5:07 | |
As the club continued to grow, | 5:11 | |
there was some who felt that perhaps the day was behind them | 5:16 | |
when they needed to be going out in their boats | 5:21 | |
and saving people. | 5:23 | |
And so, some among them who protested | 5:27 | |
that kind of decision, | 5:31 | |
said we began with life saving, | 5:33 | |
that's our route. | 5:36 | |
And we need to be there, we need to do that. | 5:37 | |
And we need to perhaps get rid of some of our trimmings | 5:40 | |
in order to do that. | 5:44 | |
So things aren't quite so nice anymore. | 5:46 | |
But the larger part of the group said, | 5:50 | |
well, if you feel that way, | 5:52 | |
why don't you just go on down the coast | 5:53 | |
and get your own house and your own boat | 5:55 | |
and so they did. | 5:58 | |
And as history repeats itself, | 6:03 | |
over the years, the same thing happened again. | 6:05 | |
The clubhouse grew down the beach | 6:08 | |
and another splinter group | 6:12 | |
went off to do life saving. | 6:13 | |
And to this day, along this coastline, | 6:19 | |
scattered every few miles, | 6:24 | |
there are life saving stations, clubhouses, | 6:28 | |
and wrecks still happen at sea | 6:32 | |
and people still are in jeopardy for their lives. | 6:35 | |
People still drown. | 6:42 | |
In fact, the majority of the people drown. | 6:45 | |
The season of Lent is a time when | 6:55 | |
we are reminded of the humanity of God | 7:00 | |
in coming as Jesus. | 7:05 | |
It's a time a time when we're reminded | 7:08 | |
that God breaks into our lives | 7:10 | |
and longs to live in us | 7:13 | |
even as we become the house of God. | 7:15 | |
Lent is a time | 7:21 | |
when we reflect upon our own beings. | 7:23 | |
And ready ourselves to walk that same journey | 7:29 | |
that Jesus has walked before us. | 7:35 | |
Going to ask now | 7:44 | |
that you meditate with me | 7:47 | |
as we share together a psalm | 7:53 | |
that is a familiar psalm | 7:54 | |
and one that reassures us of God's presence in our lives | 7:58 | |
and God's promise for healing that only comes | 8:04 | |
as we admit our brokenness and our need to be real. | 8:08 | |
Let us pray. | 8:14 | |
(gentle music) | 8:22 | |
♪ The Lord is my shepard ♪ | 8:28 | |
♪ I shall not want ♪ | 8:35 | |
♪ Beside restful waters ♪ | 8:43 | |
♪ I am led ♪ | 8:50 | |
♪ In the pasture of plenty ♪ | 8:56 | |
♪ My soul lies down ♪ | 9:03 | |
♪ So come all you thirsty ♪ | 9:11 | |
♪ Your soul shall be refreshed ♪ | 9:19 | |
♪ And come all afflicted ♪ | 9:25 | |
♪ And be healed ♪ | 9:31 | |
♪ For though we walk in the darkness now ♪ | 9:38 | |
♪ No evil shall we fear ♪ | 9:45 | |
♪ If the light God's love ♪ | 9:52 | |
♪ Be at our side ♪ | 9:57 | |
♪ Come all you hungry ♪ | 10:06 | |
♪ At God's table find the bread ♪ | 10:12 | |
♪ And come now, be anointed ♪ | 10:18 | |
♪ Overflow ♪ | 10:25 | |
♪ With God's goodness ♪ | 10:31 | |
♪ And God's kindness ♪ | 10:34 | |
♪ For the rest of your years ♪ | 10:37 | |
♪ As we dwell within the house ♪ | 10:44 | |
♪ Of our God ♪ | 10:50 | |
♪ Let us dwell within the house ♪ | 10:57 | |
♪ Of our God ♪ | 11:04 | |
Amen. | 11:15 | |
(organ music) | 11:38 | |
(organ music) | 12:21 | |
(choral music) | 12:30 | |
(choral music) | 12:57 | |
(choral music) | 13:39 | |
(choral music) | 14:07 | |
- | Let us unite in this historic confession | 14:58 |
of the Christian faith. | 15:00 | |
I believe in God the Father all mighty, | 15:03 | |
maker of Heaven and Earth | 15:06 | |
and in Jesus Christ his only son, our lord, | 15:08 | |
who is conceived by the Holy Spirit, | 15:12 | |
born of the Virgin Mary, | 15:15 | |
suffered under Pontus Pilot, | 15:17 | |
was crucified dead and buried. | 15:19 | |
The third day, he rose from the dead. | 15:22 | |
He ascended into Heaven | 15:25 | |
and sitteth at the right hand of God, the Father Almighty | 15:27 | |
from thence he shall come to judge the quick and the dead. | 15:32 | |
I believe in the Holy Spirit, | 15:36 | |
the holy catholic church, | 15:38 | |
the communion of saints, | 15:40 | |
the forgiveness of sins, | 15:42 | |
the resurrection of the body, | 15:44 | |
and the life everlasting. | 15:45 | |
Amen. | 15:48 | |
The Lord be with you. | 15:51 | |
Congregation | And also with you. | 15:52 |
- | Let us pray. | 15:54 |
Oh loving God, and shepard of the faithful, | 16:11 | |
as we journey toward the cross with thy dear son, | 16:16 | |
help us to see the cross | 16:22 | |
a sign of your love, | 16:24 | |
the very definition of what it means to be like you. | 16:29 | |
Even as he bore the cross for others, | 16:36 | |
allowing himself to endure suffering and humiliation | 16:40 | |
for others, | 16:46 | |
even as he interceded for others | 16:50 | |
while he hung on his cross, | 16:53 | |
we now follow his example and pray now | 16:58 | |
for the needs of others. | 17:02 | |
We pray for those who abuse us, | 17:09 | |
who misunderstand, who ignore, hurt us. | 17:13 | |
Even as he prayed for the very crowd who shouted | 17:19 | |
to crucify him. | 17:22 | |
We pray for these our brothers and sisters. | 17:26 | |
We pray for governmental leaders, | 17:34 | |
those who sit in judgment upon others, | 17:37 | |
those who are entrusted with power, | 17:40 | |
those who bear the burden of the just ordering of society. | 17:45 | |
Knowing from our Lord's crucifixion, | 17:51 | |
the awful consequences of governmental power | 17:53 | |
and national arrogance, | 17:56 | |
we pray for wisdom, justice and compassion | 18:00 | |
among those who lead us. | 18:05 | |
We pray for those who suffer, | 18:11 | |
suffer due to illness or disease, | 18:15 | |
persecution, chronic pain. | 18:17 | |
Because the cross reminds us that you are a God | 18:22 | |
who knows what it means to hurt, | 18:27 | |
we lift up these hurting souls before you. | 18:31 | |
We pray for all those engage in | 18:38 | |
or who are the victims of violence. | 18:40 | |
The one who would not allow his disciples | 18:46 | |
to take up the sword is scandalized | 18:48 | |
by his followers dying and being killed by the sword. | 18:51 | |
Therefore, we call upon our fellow Christians | 18:57 | |
in Lebanon to stop killing one another. | 18:59 | |
We call upon our fellow Christians in Ireland | 19:04 | |
to stop killing on another. | 19:07 | |
We call on our fellow Christians in Central America | 19:11 | |
to stop killing one another. | 19:14 | |
We call upon our own government | 19:18 | |
to seek solutions to international dilemmas | 19:20 | |
which are not dependent upon violence. | 19:24 | |
Even from the cross he interceded for us, | 19:32 | |
had pity upon us, | 19:37 | |
the very ones who betrayed him by our lives, | 19:39 | |
our values, our unfaithfulness. | 19:42 | |
Therefore we have been bold to intercede for others. | 19:46 | |
In the name of him, who loves us | 19:51 | |
and gave himself up for us, | 19:55 | |
Amen. | 20:00 | |
As a forgiven and reconciled people, | 20:03 | |
let us offer ourselves and our gifts to God. | 20:05 | |
(organ music) | 20:14 | |
(organ music) | 20:36 | |
♪ Lord create in me a purpose ♪ | 21:15 | |
♪ Lord create in me a purpose ♪ | 21:21 | |
♪ And give me, Lord, a new concentrated mind ♪ | 21:29 | |
♪ And give me, Lord, a new concentrated mind, ♪ | 21:33 | |
♪ Lord create me, ♪ | 21:39 | |
♪ Lord create in me a new heart ♪ | 21:42 | |
♪ Lord in create me a new heart ♪ | 21:50 | |
♪ And give me, Lord a new concentrated mind ♪ | 21:59 | |
♪ And give me, Lord a new concentrated mind ♪ | 22:04 | |
♪ Now cast me not from your presence ♪ | 22:14 | |
♪ Oh cast me not from your presence, Lord ♪ | 22:22 | |
♪ And take not your holy spirit from me ♪ | 22:30 | |
♪ And take not your holy spirit from me ♪ | 22:36 | |
♪ Oh Lord restore unto me your help ♪ | 22:48 | |
♪ And with joyous care, ♪ | 22:53 | |
♪ With joyous care about ♪ | 22:56 | |
♪ And with joyous care, with joyous care about me ♪ | 23:00 | |
♪ Oh Lord restore me ♪ | 23:10 | |
♪ Oh Lord restore me ♪ | 23:11 | |
♪ Oh lord store me your hand ♪ | 23:13 | |
♪ And with joyous care, with joyous care ♪ | 23:18 | |
♪ And with joyous care ♪ | 23:23 | |
♪ Hold me, Lord ♪ | 23:27 | |
(organ music) | 23:44 | |
(organ music) | 24:14 | |
(organ music) | 25:05 | |
(organ music) | 25:47 | |
♪ Praise God from who all blessing flow ♪ | 26:17 | |
♪ Praise him, all creatures here below ♪ | 26:26 | |
♪ Praise him above, ye heav'nly host ♪ | 26:34 | |
♪ Praise Father, Son, and Holy Ghost ♪ | 26:43 | |
♪ Amen ♪ | 26:53 | |
Gracious God, | 27:03 | |
when we meditate upon your love for us | 27:05 | |
as demonstrated upon the cross | 27:07 | |
what can feel but gratitude? | 27:10 | |
What can we say but thanks? | 27:12 | |
Receive what we pray, these our gifts, | 27:15 | |
as a sign of our gratitude | 27:19 | |
for your gift to us in Jesus Christ. | 27:20 | |
Praying our father, who art in Heaven, | 27:24 | |
hallowed by thy name. | 27:27 | |
They kingdom come, they will be done on Earth, | 27:29 | |
as it is in Heaven. | 27:33 | |
Give us this day our daily bread, | 27:35 | |
and forgive us our trespasses | 27:37 | |
as we forgive those who trespass against us. | 27:40 | |
And lead us not into temptation | 27:43 | |
but deliver us from evil. | 27:46 | |
For thine is the kingdom, and the power | 27:48 | |
and the glory forever, amen. | 27:51 | |
(bright organ music) | 27:56 | |
(choral music) | 28:55 | |
(choral music) | 29:54 | |
(choral music) | 30:54 | |
(choral music) | 32:08 | |
Now, may the grace of our lord and savior, | 33:01 | |
Jesus Christ, the love of God and the fellowship | 33:03 | |
of the Holy Spirit be with you all now | 33:07 | |
and always, | 33:10 | |
Amen. | 33:13 | |
(organ music) | 33:18 | |
(organ music) | 34:17 | |
(organ music) | 34:27 | |
(organ music) | 36:43 | |
(organ music) | 37:50 | |
(organ music) | 38:34 | |
(clapping) | 38:48 | |
(people chattering) | 38:54 |