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	(organ music)	1:12
	(organ music ends)	7:39
-	May the grace and peace of our Lord Jesus Christ	8:29
	be multiplied to you as we worship together.	8:33
	I welcome all of you to this first anniversary service	8:38
	of the Duke University Chapel Congregation.	8:41
	May we remember all of those in the past	8:45
	who have loved, worked, and ministered in this chapel.	8:48
	Let us give thanks for our rich heritage here,	8:53
	and for the blessings which have come to us	8:56
	this first year of our life as this congregation.	8:59
	Dear friends, the scriptures teach us	9:04
	that the church is the household of God,	9:09
	the body of which Christ is the head.	9:12
	And that it is the design of the gospel	9:16
	to bring together in one all who are in Christ.	9:19
	We have come together to celebrate our beginnings	9:24
	and to reaffirm that we are a part of Christ's holy church.	9:28
	Let us dedicate ourselves anew to this purpose.	9:34
	(organ plays the melody of The Church's One Foundation)	9:39
	♪ The church's one Foundation ♪	10:19
	♪ Is Jesus Christ her Lord ♪	10:24
	♪ She is His new creation ♪	10:29
	♪ By water and the Word ♪	10:34
	♪ From heav'n He came and sought her ♪	10:40
	♪ To be His holy bride ♪	10:44
	♪ With His own blood He bought her ♪	10:50
	♪ And for her life He died ♪	10:56
	♪ Elect from ev'ry nation ♪	11:03
	♪ Yet one o'er all the earth ♪	11:08
	♪ Her charter of salvation ♪	11:13
	♪ One Lord, one faith, one birth ♪	11:18
	♪ One holy Name she blesses ♪	11:24
	♪ Partakes one holy food ♪	11:29
	♪ And to one hope she presses ♪	11:35
	♪ With every grace endued ♪	11:40
	♪ Mid toil and tribulation ♪	11:48
	♪ And tumult of her war ♪	11:53
	♪ She waits the consummation ♪	11:58
	♪ Of peace for evermore ♪	12:04
	♪ Till with the vision glorious ♪	12:09
	♪ Her longing eyes are blest ♪	12:13
	♪ And the great church victorious ♪	12:20
	♪ Shall be the church at rest ♪	12:25
	♪ Yet she on earth hath union ♪	12:32
	♪ With God the Three in One ♪	12:38
	♪ And mystic sweet communion ♪	12:43
	♪ With those whose rest is won ♪	12:48
	♪ O happy ones and holy ♪	12:54
	♪ Lord, give us grace that we ♪	12:59
	♪ Like them, the meek and lowly ♪	13:04
	♪ On high may dwell with Thee ♪	13:10
-	Let us pray.	13:20
	Gracious God, sustain and strengthen your church.	13:22
	Let your word be heard and your sacraments	13:26
	lived out among us, your people,	13:29
	so that we may live in harmony with you and one another,	13:32
	be firm in faith, and be your courageous	13:37
	and compassionate witnesses in the world.	13:40
-	Amen.	13:44
-	The Old Testament reading is taken	13:57
	from the book of Jeremiah.	13:59
	"Behold, the days are coming," says the Lord,	14:02
	"When I will make a new covenant	14:06
	"with the house of Israel and the house of Judah.	14:08
	"Not like the covenant which I made with their fathers	14:12
	"when I took them by the hand	14:16
	to take them out of the land of Egypt.	14:18
	"My covenant which they broke, though I was their husband,"	14:21
	says the Lord.	14:26
	"But this is the covenant which I will make	14:28
	"with the house of Israel after those days, says the Lord.	14:30
	"I will put my law within them	14:36
	"and I will write it upon their hearts	14:39
	"and I will be their God and they shall be my people.	14:42
	"And no longer shall each one teach his neighbor	14:48
	"and each his brother saying 'know the Lord,'	14:52
	"for they shall all know me, from the least of them	14:57
	to the greatest," says the Lord.	15:01
	"For I will forgive their iniquity	15:04
	and I will remember their sin no more."	15:07
	This ends the reading from the Old Testament.	15:11
-	Let your faithfulness through the ages,	15:23
	for your faithfulness through the ages,	15:26
-	We praise your name, O Lord.	15:29
-	For forgiveness of sin and the gift of your redeeming love	15:32
-	We praise your name, O Lord.	15:36
-	For resurrection and new birth	15:39
	by the power of a living Christ	15:41
-	We praise your name, O Lord.	15:44
-	For the call to discipleship and the ministry	15:47
	given to all of us in Jesus Christ, Our Lord,	15:50
-	We praise your name, O Lord.	15:54
	For this congregation and its first year of life,	15:58
-	We praise your name, O Lord.	16:02
	(Congregational prayer)	16:06
	Amen.	16:10
-	The Epistle reading is from Second Corinthians.	16:19
	Thanks be to God, who in Christ always leads us in triumph	16:22
	and through us spreads the fragrance	16:28
	of the knowledge of him everywhere.	16:31
	For we are the aroma of Christ to God	16:34
	among those who are being saved	16:36
	and among those who are perishing.	16:38
	To one a fragrance from death to death,	16:42
	to the other a fragrance from life to life.	16:45
	Who is sufficient for these things?	16:50
	For we are not, like so many, peddlers of God's word.	16:53
	But as men of sincerity, as commissioned by God	16:58
	in the sight of God we speak in Christ.	17:02
	Are we beginning to commend ourselves again?	17:06
	Or do we need, as some do,	17:10
	letters of recommendation to you or from you?	17:13
	You, yourselves, are our letter of recommendation	17:18
	written on your hearts to be known and read by all.	17:23
	And you show that you are a letter from Christ	17:27
	delivered by us, written not by ink	17:30
	but with the spirit of the Living God.	17:34
	Not on tablets of stone, but on tablets of human hearts.	17:37
	Such is the confidence that we have	17:43
	through Christ toward God.	17:46
	This ends the reading from the Epistle.	17:50
	(organ plays a hymn)	17:53
	(congregational singing)	18:18
-	A reading from the Gospel according to St. Matthew.	20:16
	"The kingdom of Heaven is like treasure hidden in a field	20:20
	"which a man found and covered up.	20:24
	"Then in his joy he goes and sells all that he has	20:28
	"and buys that field.	20:32
	"Again, the kingdom of Heaven is like	20:35
	"a merchant in search of fine pearls who,	20:37
	"finding one pearl of great value,	20:39
	"went and sold all that he had and bought it.	20:43
	"Again, the kingdom of Heaven is like a net	20:49
	"which was thrown into the sea	20:52
	"and gathered fish of every kind.	20:54
	"When it was full, men drew it ashore and sat down	20:57
	"and sorted the good into vessels but threw away the bad.	21:01
	"So it will be at the close of the age.	21:05
	"The angels will come out and separate	21:11
	"the evil from the righteous and throw them	21:13
	"into the furnace of fire.	21:16
	"There, men will weep and gnash their teeth.	21:18
	Have you understood all this?"	21:23
	They said to him, "yes."	21:27
	And he said to them, "therefore every scribe	21:30
	who has been trained for the kingdom of Heaven	21:34
	is like a house holder who brings out of his treasure	21:37
	what is new and what is old."	21:40
	Here ends the reading of the Gospel lesson.	21:45
-	As I sat in my study and began to think about	22:01
	what I would say to you tonight, I prayed that the air	22:05
	would thicken with the blaze and smoke	22:10
	of the divine presence, and you will have	22:13
	to be the judge of whether my prayer was answered.	22:16
	But I waited and studied and waited,	22:20
	searching through the pages of the New Testament	22:26
	the question came to me, who was the early church?	22:30
	And subsequently came the other question,	22:35
	who are we, the Duke University Chapel congregation?	22:39
	Many times in spring and summer I have struggled	22:45
	with this question.	22:48
	I am still struggling with it.	22:50
	Who are we, this Duke University Chapel congregation?	22:54
	How do we find our identity tucked away	22:59
	in the dark corners of this vast chapel?	23:03
	Who are we, the newest baby of the Duke Chapel	23:08
	history and ministry?	23:13
	With a pastor who shows at church council meetings	23:15
	and at dinners and suppers, but otherwise	23:19
	is hidden among all the crowds on a Sunday morning?	23:23
	Does she earn her keep?	23:27
	Who are we, those who need not only	23:30
	an introduction to the community at large,	23:33
	but those who often need a defense	23:36
	in answer to that question?	23:40
	Who are we, those gathered from many places?	23:43
	From England, from Poland, from India, from Africa,	23:47
	and from the many far-flung and near-flung 50 states.	23:52
	Wow, it sounds like Pentecost.	23:58
	Who are we?	24:02
	Are we only the misfits,	24:04
	the disgruntled members from other churches	24:07
	and denominations, those who are tired of giving,	24:10
	of working, and want a comfortable place	24:14
	to hear the gospel from the distant pulpit?	24:18
	Who are we, those of us who have found here	24:22
	in this glorious place an attachment to a building,	24:26
	a cathedral unmatched in beauty	24:31
	on this side of the Atlantic.	24:34
	Who are we, a group of old and new dreamers	24:37
	who saw beyond what was and what had been	24:42
	to what could be,	24:47
	spurred on by a young, vigorous,	24:49
	sparkling man of God named Will.	24:51
	Who are we?	24:56
	We are, we are, and we wait.	24:58
	And a man named Paul from the ancient past	25:04
	emerges from our memory and declares	25:09
	you are a letter.	25:12
	Let this image dance and play in your mind.	25:16
	Let it become not just a flimsy piece of paper	25:20
	but rather, an eternal symbol that will swallow you whole.	25:23
	You are a letter, hmm.	25:29
	A letter.	25:32
	Paul always was a little strange,	25:33
	killing Christians until seeing visions, talking gibberish,	25:36
	tongues they call it then and now.	25:42
	What a flaky character.	25:46
	A wanderer moving from Tarsus to Jerusalem to Macedonia	25:48
	to Antioch to Corinth to Athens to Ephesus to Rome,	25:52
	not necessarily in that order, and who knows where else.	25:57
	A second century Asian Christian describes him	26:03
	as a man of little stature, thin haired upon the head,	26:06
	crooked in the legs, of good state of body,	26:12
	with eyebrows needing and nose somewhat hooked,	26:15
	full of grace for sometimes	26:21
	he had the face of an angel.	26:25
	Paul, restless, who seems to see beyond the next mountain	26:29
	a place to visit and to tell the joy he knows in Christ	26:33
	Paul the adventurer, who sails the choppy seas	26:38
	to ports unknown even sometimes to himself.	26:42
	Paul, the daring, who stands fearlessly in the market,	26:48
	in the marble streets, and in the great amplitheatre	26:54
	of the beautiful and pagan city of Ephesus	26:59
	to declare the unsearchable riches of God's grace in Christ.	27:02
	Foreign places reminds me of Bob Parkinson,	27:09
	the only doctor in a 90 bed hospital in the bush.	27:13
	Our own Bob who flew first to the starving	27:18
	and sick refugees in Ethiopia and then later on to Zimbabwe,	27:22
	we commissioned him our missionary	27:28
	right here in this chancel.	27:31
	It happened last December.	27:35
	Maybe Paul is our letter to Africa,	27:38
	you are a letter.	27:43
	Christ's letter.	27:45
	Paul could write to the Corinthian church.	27:47
	They made him cry, they made him struggle,	27:50
	they made him anxious,	27:52
	they made him disrupt and delay his plans.	27:54
	Those petulant and dreadful people	27:59
	who couldn't get it right,	28:02
	who didn't know the difference	28:03
	between Paul and the fundamentalist.	28:05
	Those who were narrow, so strict, so certain of the law.	28:10
	Or those liberals who watered down the gospel	28:16
	with whatever philosophy was in season and who,	28:19
	with their accusations and insinuations,	28:22
	attempted to undermine Paul's work in that city.	28:26
	And yet Paul could say to them	28:33
	after the pain and the sorrow they had caused,	28:35
	I wrote as I did so that when I came to you	28:39
	I might not be pained by those	28:44
	who should have made me rejoice	28:46
	for I felt sure of all of you	28:49
	that my joy would be the joy of you all.	28:52
	Paul in his passionate love of Christ	28:57
	could write such a letter,	29:00
	a letter meant to heal the breach	29:03
	between him and that congregation.	29:05
	Letters can be powerful.	29:10
	Some years ago, a young man wrote a painstaking letter	29:12
	to his father regarding his four-year-old son.	29:16
	"Dear Dad, Charles has begun to notice	29:22
	that you are giving preferential treatment	29:26
	to his older brother.	29:28
	He is upset because you disapproved and reject him.	29:31
	You are his grandfather, he needs your love.	29:37
	Can you help me with this problem?"	29:41
	"Dear Mother, I know that you	29:46
	are going through difficult times, sickness, aging,	29:48
	loneliness, the fear of death haunts you.	29:51
	But please know that your courageous spirit	29:54
	goes out to all who know you and love you."	29:59
	And these letters from some of you,	30:05
	the members of the Duke University Chapel congregation,	30:08
	ring in my ear.	30:12
	"Dear Duke University Chapel congregation,	30:15
	"from the moment I heard that Easter service on the radio	30:19
	"the power of God gripped me	30:22
	"and tears of gratitude flooded my soul.	30:26
	"That's why I'm here."	30:30
	"Dear Duke University Chapel congregation,	30:34
	"I came to this community and you took me in.	30:37
	"I was alone, frightened, sick of soul and body,	30:42
	"and you were there to nourish me and love me.	30:45
	"You are my family."	30:50
	"Dear Duke University Chapel congregation,	30:55
	"as I entered the chapel that morning,	30:57
	"the sun burst through the stained glass figures	30:59
	"of the prophets and saints and the dazzling colors	31:02
	"rushed into the massive gothic sanctuary.	31:05
	"I was stricken with the glory of God	31:09
	"whose name is praised here."	31:12
	"Dear Duke University Chapel congregation,	31:17
	"for some years now I have known the joy of serving,	31:20
	"of working, and working with Christians	31:23
	"of many denominations.	31:26
	"Here in this place I can do the same."	31:28
	"Dear Duke University Chapel congregation,	31:33
	"music is for me the soul of God	31:36
	"and it fills every nook and cranny	31:38
	"of this magnificent place as well as	31:40
	"the depths of my heart when I am here."	31:42
	"Dear Duke University Chapel congregation,	31:47
	"I was tired and bewildered	31:50
	"by the divisions in my denomination.	31:52
	"You are here helping to restore my faith	31:54
	"in the unity of the Christian church."	31:59
	From his work table, the bandy-legged apostle	32:05
	writes probably his fifth letter	32:09
	to the church of God in Corinth,	32:12
	now included in Second Corinthians	32:15
	and from it I read.	32:18
	To God be thanks, who in Christ always puts us on display.	32:22
	Who manifests through us the fragrance	32:27
	of the knowledge of him in every place.	32:30
	For we are the aroma of Christ to God	32:33
	among those who are being saved	32:36
	and among those who are perishing.	32:38
	To the latter, the stench of death for death.	32:41
	To the former, the fragrance of life for life.	32:44
	And for these things, who is adequate?	32:50
	Are we beginning once more to recommend ourselves?	32:54
	Surely we do not need, as some do, letters of recommendation	32:58
	to you or from you, do we?	33:03
	You yourselves are our letter, written on your hearts,	33:06
	known and read by everyone.	33:12
	You show that you are Christ cared for by us,	33:15
	written not with ink, but with the spirit of a living God.	33:19
	Not on stone tablets but on tablets of the human heart.	33:25
	Again, prayerfully, I ask my God who are we, really?	33:32
	And finally this word of God penetrates my thick skull	33:37
	with the help of my favorite New Testament scholar,	33:43
	Dan Via.	33:46
	You are a letter, Paul does have something here.	33:49
	Letter, message, communication, the church is a letter,	33:54
	your heart is a letter.	33:57
	Heart, letter, which is it?	33:59
	Not a contradiction here.	34:02
	For the heart in the Bible means the real, inner core,	34:05
	the real inner being of a person.	34:10
	You, the letter, the church has been changed	34:14
	in the very core of your being	34:17
	by the language of the gospel.	34:20
	Paul further amplifies this by contrasting	34:24
	the old law and the new heart.	34:27
	The old always written outside the person,	34:30
	on tablets of stone, but the words are not out there.	34:34
	Rather they are in us.	34:39
	The prophet Jeremiah alluded to this long ago	34:44
	as he looked for a time when God's intention	34:48
	for Her people would be written on the heart,	34:51
	and so Paul, that giant complex thinker,	34:56
	could declare that the external covenant	35:01
	had been broken and the new had come.	35:04
	The knowledge of God could and should be written within.	35:09
	It had happened to Paul, to the church at Corinth,	35:12
	and it was continuing to happen.	35:16
	You are a message, a letter to the world	35:20
	that the hope for renewal has occurred	35:25
	and the words that have been written on your heart	35:29
	are the language of the gospel.	35:33
	The content of the words thunder out,	35:37
	Christ has died, Christ has risen.	35:42
	This is written on our hearts.	35:48
	And this means that we interpret our own lives,	35:54
	our own ups and downs, our own upsets and recoveries,	35:57
	as sharing in Jesus' own death and resurrection.	36:02
	We are a letter whose content is a life	36:09
	shaped by a cross,	36:14
	the cross, the one in the middle	36:17
	and the muddle of our own lives.	36:21
	Christ is the one who has written us,	36:24
	written us into his own life and story.	36:28
	The story so powerfully portrayed in the breaking	36:34
	of the bread and in the drinking of the wine,	36:38
	in the preaching of the word and in the power of the spirit.	36:43
	We are sent, the Duke University Chapel congregation	36:49
	as Christ's letter to be known and written by every one.	36:53
	And what are all those people going to know	37:01
	when those people read us,	37:03
	and how are we going to shape the message?	37:05
	That's up to us, Paul could not tell us	37:10
	those centuries ago.	37:15
	We have a responsibility for the shaping of the message,	37:18
	for making it fit the needs of our own time	37:23
	and our own situation.	37:28
	The renewal of the heart must express itself	37:32
	in terms of our own concrete experience	37:36
	and life.	37:41
	Who are we?	37:44
	The struggle to know is not over.	37:45
	It is only beginning for us as a church,	37:48
	but we join Deitrich Bonhoeffer	37:53
	who so gallantly died at the hands of the Nazis,	37:56
	and who so honestly and earnestly	38:00
	near the end of his life faced this same question.	38:03
	Who am I, his poignant poem asks.	38:11
	And his answer crashes down upon us	38:17
	to swallow us whole:	38:21
	"whoever I am, thou knowest,	38:24
	O God.	38:29
	I am thine."	38:31
-	It gives me a great deal of pleasure	38:49
	to present to the congregation some new members,	38:51
	and I'm going to ask these people to please stand	38:56
	as I read your name and remain standing.	38:58
	Beverly Cruise,	39:01
	Catherine Cruise,	39:06
	Wilmer and Margaret Kranik,	39:11
	Joyce Reed,	39:15
	Rebecca Rankin,	39:20
	David and Barbara Kowaki,	39:23
	Bill and Duanna Massee,	39:29
	Ian Sutherland,	39:36
	Carl Oakey.	39:40
	And the following names are not with us this afternoon	39:44
	but they are new members, Elaine Carrier is in California,	39:50
	Nezaline Hei I think is ill, Walter Hampshire is ill,	39:53
	Roy and Laura Matthew are in New Mexico.	40:00
	Alan and Maple Sanders are out of town.	40:04
	I would like for you to join me in making	40:10
	a declaration of commitment.	40:15
	This is for the new members only.	40:20
-	As new members of the Duke University Chapel congregation	40:22
	we promise to be loyal to this church,	40:28
	participating in its missions by our prayers, our presence,	40:31
	our gifts, and our service,	40:36
	and we will do all in our power to effect fellowship	40:38
	and ministry in this community.	40:42
-	Thank you, you may be seated.	40:44
	It's also a great deal of pleasure for me to introduce	40:48
	two new staff members that will be working with us	40:51
	this upcoming year.	40:55
	Susan Newton-Grady, will you please stand?	41:00
	She will be helping as an associate-member with the youth.	41:05
	And Dr. Walter Westefer who will be filling in	41:09
	for our good minster	41:16
	while Martin is on a trip up into Boston.	41:18
	Thank you.	41:23
	Now I'm going to ask that the congregation stand	41:24
	and reaffirm the declaration.	41:27
-	We declare and reaffirm that this Duke University Chapel	41:37
	congregation was organized for the glory of God,	41:41
	proclamation of the gospel, and the service of all humanity.	41:44
-	Thank you.	41:50
-	May we pray.	41:57
-	O God, we are your church,	41:59
	baptized into one family of faith,	42:02
	named by you as your children.	42:05
	We are your church, sharing in Christ's work	42:08
	of reconciling the world to yourself,	42:12
	showing the world mystery and wonder of salvation.	42:15
	We, your church, dedicate ourselves anew	42:19
	to the work of your kingdom both now and forever, amen.	42:23
-	Let us offer one another signs of reconciliation and love.	42:31
	As forgiven and reconciled people let us offer	43:17
	ourselves and our gifts to God.	43:20
	(organ music)	43:31
	The Lord be with you.	44:16
-	And also with you.	44:19
-	Lift up your hearts.	44:20
-	We lift them to the Lord.	44:22
-	Let us give thanks to the Lord our God.	44:24
-	It is right to give our thanks and praise.	44:27
-	It is right and a joyful and good thing	44:30
	always and everywhere to give you thanks, O Mighty God,	44:33
	creator of Heaven and Earth.	44:38
	You formed us in your image	44:40
	and breathed into us the breath of life.	44:42
	When we turned away and our love failed,	44:44
	your love remained steadfast.	44:48
	You delivered us from captivity,	44:50
	made covenant to be our sovereign god,	44:52
	and spoke to us through your prophets.	44:55
	And so with your people on earth	44:58
	and all the company of heaven we praise your name	45:01
	and join their unending hymn,	45:04
-	Holy, holy, holy Lord	45:08
	God of power and might,	45:10
	heaven and earth are full of your glory.	45:13
	Hosanna in the highest,	45:16
	blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord.	45:18
	Hosanna in the highest.	45:22
-	Holy are you and blessed is your son Jesus Christ,	45:24
	your spirit anointed him to preach good news to the poor,	45:28
	to proclaim release to the captives	45:32
	and recovering of sight to the blind,	45:36
	to set at liberty those who are oppressed,	45:39
	and to announce that the time had come	45:42
	when you would save your people.	45:44
	He healed the sick, fed the hungry, and ate with sinners.	45:47
	By the baptism of his suffering, death,	45:52
	and resurrection you gave birth to your church,	45:56
	delivered us from slavery to sin and death	46:00
	and made with us a new covenant by water and the spirit.	46:04
	When the Lord Jesus ascended he promised to be with us	46:09
	always in the power of your word and Holy Spirit.	46:13
	On the night in which he gave himself up for us	46:18
	he took bread, gave thanks, broke the bread,	46:22
	gave it to his disciples and said	46:29
	"take, eat.	46:31
	"This is my body which is given for you.	46:33
	Do this in remembrance of me."	46:37
	When supper was over he took the cup, gave thanks to you,	46:43
	gave it to his disciples and said	46:48
	"drink from this, all of you,	46:50
	"this is my blood of the new covenant	46:53
	"poured out for you and for many	46:55
	"for the forgiveness of sins.	46:58
	"Do this as often as you drink it, in remembrance of me."	47:01
	And so in remembrance of these,	47:09
	your mighty acts in Jesus Christ,	47:11
	we offer ourselves in praise and thanksgiving	47:13
	as a holy and living sacrifice,	47:17
	in union with Christ's offering for us,	47:20
	as we proclaim the mystery of faith.	47:22
-	Christ has died, Christ is risen, Christ will come again.	47:26
-	Pour out your Holy Spirit on us gathered here	47:32
	and on these gifts of bread and wine,	47:37
	make them be for us the body and blood of Christ	47:39
	that we may be for the world the body of Christ	47:44
	redeemed by his blood.	47:47
	By your spirit make us one with Christ, one with each other,	47:50
	and one in ministry to all the world	47:55
	until Christ comes in final victory and we feast at his--	47:59

-	Through your son Jesus Christ with the Holy Spirit.	0:04
	In your holy church, all honor and glory is yours,	0:07
	almighty God, now and forever,	0:11
	amen.	0:14
-	Amen.
-	And now with the confidence	0:16
	of children of God, let us pray.	0:18
All	Our Father who art in Heaven, hallowed be Thy name.	0:21
	Thy kingdom come, Thy will be done,	0:27
	on Earth as it is in Heaven.	0:30
	Give us this day our daily bread	0:33
	and forgive us our trespasses	0:36
	as we forgive those who trespass against us.	0:38
	And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil.	0:42
	For thine is the kingdom and the power	0:47
	and the glory forever.	0:50
	Amen.	0:53
	Lamb of God, you take away the sins of the world,	0:55
	have mercy on us, have mercy on us, grant us Thy peace.	0:59
-	Blessed are we who are called to this supper,	1:06
	for the lamb of God takes away the sins of the world.	1:09
	May the body and blood of Jesus the Lord	1:13
	bring us to life which is everlasting.	1:16
	(soft organ music)	2:18
	("We Are the Church")	7:48
	♪ I am the church ♪	8:16
	♪ You are the church ♪	8:18
	♪ We are the church together ♪	8:22
	♪ All who follow Jesus ♪	8:28
	♪ All around the world ♪	8:31
	♪ Yes, we're the church together ♪	8:35
	♪ The church is not a building ♪	8:43
	♪ The church is not a steeple ♪	8:46
	♪ The church is not a resting place ♪	8:50
	♪ The church is a people ♪	8:54
	♪ I am the church ♪	8:59
	♪ You are the church ♪	9:02
	♪ We are the church together ♪	9:06
	♪ All who follow Jesus ♪	9:12
	♪ All around the world ♪	9:16
	♪ Yes, we're the church together ♪	9:19
	♪ We're many kinds of people ♪	9:27
	♪ With many kinds of faces ♪	9:30
	♪ All colors and all ages, too ♪	9:34
	♪ From all times and places ♪	9:37
	♪ I am the church ♪	9:42
	♪ You are the church ♪	9:45
	♪ We are the church together ♪	9:48
	♪ All who follow Jesus ♪	9:54
	♪ All around the world ♪	9:58
	♪ Yes, we're the church together ♪	10:01
	♪ And when the people gather ♪	10:09
	♪ There's singing and there's praying ♪	10:13
	♪ There's laughing and there's crying sometimes ♪	10:17
	♪ All of it saying ♪	10:21
	♪ I am the church ♪	10:25
	♪ You are the church ♪	10:29
	♪ We are the church together ♪	10:32
	♪ All who follow Jesus ♪	10:38
	♪ All around the world ♪	10:41
	♪ Yes, we're the church together ♪	10:45
-	May the grace of our Lord and savior	10:58
	Jesus Christ, and the love of God,	10:59
	and the fellowship and Holy Spirit be upon you all always.	11:02
	Amen.	11:07
	(joyous organ music)	11:09
	(crowd murmuring)	11:13
	(bright organ music)	13:14
	(intense organ music)	13:41

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[unknown] - Chapel Congregation Anniversary Service 5:00 pm (September 7, 1986)

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Sermon start time: 22:01. Sermon end time: 38:36.
The question of identity in the church is longstanding: who are we as a church and in our individual congregations? Paul answers this question with a poignant metaphor: you are a letter. The church is a letter whose content and message is shaped by the Gospel. Each congregation, then, must seek to embody and convey that message in its own time and place. (Abstract created by Duke Divinity School staff.)
Key quotation: “You are a message, a letter to the world that the hope for renewal has occurred and the words that have been written on your heart are the language of the Gospel.”

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