Charlene P. Kammerer - "What Does It Mean to Repent?" (January 24, 1982)

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	(intricate organ music)	0:04
	(overlapping choral music)	10:08
	(reverent organ music)	11:35
	(echoing choral music)	14:29
	♪ Hallelujah, ♪	14:36
	♪ Hallelujah ♪	14:40
	(echoing choral music)	14:44
	♪ Hallelujah, ♪	14:58
	♪ Hallelujah, ♪	15:01
	♪ Hallelujah, ♪	15:04
	♪ Hallelujah, ♪	15:07
	♪ Hallelujah ♪	15:11
	(echoing choral music)	15:19
	♪ Hallelujah, ♪	15:33
	♪ Hallelujah ♪	15:36
	(echoing choral music)	15:41
	♪ Hallelujah, ♪	15:55
	♪ Hallelujah, ♪	15:57
	♪ Hallelujah, ♪	16:01
	♪ Hallelujah, ♪	16:04
	♪ Hallelujah, ♪	16:08
	♪ Amen ♪	16:16
-	The psalmist cries: make us to know thy ways, O Lord.	16:24
	Teach us thy paths.	16:28
	Lead us in thy truths and teach us,	16:31
	for thou art the God of our salvation,	16:35
	for thee we wait all the day long.	16:38
	Yes, praise be to God, we wait all the day long.	16:42
	Grace, mercy, and peace be yours this holy day,	16:48
	through our Lord and savior, Jesus Christ.	16:54
	Let us now confess our sin to almighty God.	16:57
	Let us pray.	17:07
	Oh God, we confess our failure to be true.	17:10
	Even to our own accepted standards.	17:14
	Our choosing of the worse when we know the better,	17:18
	our unwillingness to apply to ourselves	17:22
	the standards of conduct we demand of others,	17:24
	our complacency toward wrongs	17:29
	that do not touch our own lives,	17:31
	and our oversensitiveness to those that do,	17:33
	our slowness to see the good in others,	17:37
	and to see the evil in ourselves,	17:41
	our hardness of heart toward our neighbors' faults,	17:44
	and our readiness to make allowances for our own.	17:47
	Oh Lord, forgive us and help us to amend our ways.	17:51
	(somber organ music)	17:58
	Together now, let us offer one another these words	18:37
	of assurance of God's forgiveness.	18:40
	By the mercy of God, we are united with Jesus Christ,	18:44
	and in our Lord we are forgiven.	18:49
	God makes us new by forgiveness,	18:52
	and renews our faith, rekindles our hope,	18:55
	and restores our love.	18:59
	Therefore, let us give thanks, for God is good	19:02
	and God's love is everlasting.	19:05
	Thanks be to God whose love creates us.	19:09
	Thanks be to God whose mercy redeems us.	19:12
	Thanks be to God, whose grace leads us into the future.	19:16
	Amen.	19:21
	Either the weather is getting a little bit warmer,	19:24
	or we're getting accustomed to it; I'm not sure which.	19:27
	But may I welcome you to Duke Chapel	19:30
	and to this very special service of worship	19:32
	in the Lord's house, here on this holy day.	19:34
	We're glad to have you, and trust that this	19:38
	will be a time of blessing and new meaning,	19:41
	for you and your life.	19:44
	It's a very special day for us, because we're blessed	19:47
	to have Mr. Michael Best back at Duke again.	19:49
	He has blessed us several times in the past	19:54
	as the tenor soloist for Messiah Performances,	19:57
	where he has thrilled thousands of us by his singing.	20:01
	Michael is undoubtedly one of Duke University's	20:05
	most distinguished graduates,	20:09
	and Durham's, one of Durham's most distinguished citizens.	20:13
	Michael, we are very pleased to have you back.	20:18
	Not only for the concert which you gave	20:21
	on Thursday night, and the concert you gave	20:23
	with the Duke Symphony and the Chorale on Friday night,	20:26
	but to have you sing for us and share God's message with us,	20:29
	here this day.	20:33
	We're also pleased to have his wife, Marsha Andrews,	20:35
	and Mrs. Best with us for this special service of worship.	20:38
	We're pleased to have all of you,	20:43
	and particularly to have Michael.	20:45
	I feel almost like saying that, in light of all	20:49
	of the publicity for today as Super Bowl Sunday,	20:53
	that I feel like saying yes, Virginia,	20:57
	there is something more than the Super Bowl on this day.	20:59
	And that more is a concert here this afternoon	21:04
	by Mr. Peter Marshal, who is the chapel organist for us.	21:07
	This will be Peter's first concert since becoming	21:13
	the chapel organist.	21:17
	He is a graduate of Oberlin College with a masters degree	21:19
	in music from Yale University,	21:22
	and a year of special study as a Fulbright Scholar	21:25
	at Lupig, Germany.	21:27
	Peter came to us and began his work here in August.	21:29
	Many of you have come to know him and to love him,	21:32
	and to appreciate his music.	21:34
	The concert will be this afternoon at five o'clock.	21:36
	The program is in the bulletin.	21:38
	I invite you to come and to share in this very special time	21:40
	with Peter and with others.	21:44
	Tomorrow morning and Tuesday morning,	21:47
	in the basement of the chapel, or rather,	21:49
	tomorrow all day beginning at 10 o'clock until four o'clock,	21:51
	and Tuesday the same time, the blood mobile will be here.	21:55
	Over 200 of you gave blood.	21:59
	200 people connected with Duke a week ago, Saturday.	22:02
	They need more and they need it badly.	22:06
	The winter months seem to demand more blood.	22:08
	I used to be afraid to give blood,	22:12
	thinking that it would hurt or that it would do	22:13
	something bad to me.	22:15
	I can assure you, it doesn't do anything bad.	22:16
	As a matter of fact, it's quite a thrill	22:19
	to know that you may be helping someone.	22:21
	So I invite you, if you're healthy and able-bodied,	22:23
	and over 18 years of age, to come tomorrow or Tuesday	22:26
	to the chapel basement to give blood,	22:30
	so that others may benefit from your gift.	22:32
	The Reverend Charlene Kammer is our preacher for this day.	22:39
	The assistant minister to the university,	22:42
	her sermon title is: What Does It Mean to Repent?	22:45
-	Let us pray.	22:58
	Almighty and most merciful God,	23:00
	you have given the Bible to be the revelation	23:02
	of your great love to us, and of your power	23:04
	and will to save us.	23:07
	Grant that our study of it may not be made in vain	23:09
	by the callousness or carelessness of our hearts,	23:12
	but that by it we may be confirmed in penitence,	23:15
	lifted to hope, made strong for service,	23:17
	and above all, filled with the true knowledge of you	23:21
	and of your son, Jesus Christ, amen.	23:23
	The Old Testament lesson is from Jonah chapter three,	23:27
	verses one through five, and verse 10.	23:30
	Then the word of the Lord came to Jonah the second time,	23:34
	saying: arise, go to Nineveh, that great city,	23:36
	and proclaim to it the message that I tell you.	23:40
	So Jonah arose and went to Nineveh,	23:43
	according to the word of the Lord.	23:44
	Now Nineveh was an exceedingly great city,	23:46
	three days journey in breadth.	23:48
	Jonah began to go into the city,	23:51
	going a day's journey, and he cried: get 40 days,	23:52
	and Nineveh shall be overthrown.	23:55
	And the people of Nineveh believed God.	23:58
	They proclaimed a fast and put on sackcloth,	24:00
	from the greatest of them to the least of them.	24:02
	When God saw what they did, how they turned	24:05
	from their evil way, God repented of the evil	24:07
	which he said he would do to them, and he did not do it.	24:10
	Here ends the reading from the Old Testament.	24:14
	Amen.	24:16
	The epistle lesson is from First Corinthians,	24:18
	chapter seven, verses 29 through 35.	24:20
	I mean brethren, the appointed time has grown very short.	24:24
	From now on, let those who have wives live	24:28
	as though they had none, and those who mourn	24:30
	as though they were not mourning, and those who rejoice	24:33
	as though they were not rejoicing, and those who buy	24:36
	as though they had no goods, and those who deal	24:38
	with the world as though they had no dealings with it.	24:41
	For the form of this world is passing away.	24:44
	I want you to be free from anxieties.	24:47
	The unmarried man is anxious about the affairs of the Lord.	24:49
	How to please the Lord.	24:52
	But the married man is anxious about worldly affairs,	24:54
	how to please his wife and his interests are divided.	24:57
	And the unmarried woman or girl is anxious	25:00
	about the affairs of the Lord, how to be holy in body	25:02
	and spirit, but the married woman is anxious	25:05
	about worldly affairs, how to please her husband.	25:07
	I say this for your own benefit,	25:11
	not to lay any restraint upon you,	25:12
	but to promote good order, and to secure	25:14
	your undivided devotion to the Lord.	25:16
	Here ends the reading from the epistle lesson.	25:19
	(tranquil organ music)	25:23
	(reverberating vocal solo)	25:42
-	Will the congregation please stand,	28:48
	for the reading of the gospel lesson?	28:50
	The gospel lesson is from Mark chapter one,	28:57
	verses 14 through 20.	28:59
	Now after John was arrested, Jesus came into Galilee	29:02
	preaching the gospel of God and saying:	29:05
	the time is fulfilled and the kingdom of God is at hand.	29:07
	Repent and believe in the gospel.	29:11
	And passing along by the Sea of Galilee,	29:13
	he saw Simon and Andrew, the brother of Simon,	29:15
	casting a net in the sea, for they were fisherman.	29:18
	And Jesus said to them: follow me,	29:21
	and I will make you become fishers of men.	29:23
	And immediately, they left their nets and followed him.	29:25
	And going on a little farther, he saw James,	29:28
	the son of Zebedee, and John his brother,	29:30
	who were in their boat, mending the nets.	29:33
	And immediately he called them, and they left their father,	29:35
	Zebedee, in the boat with the hired servants	29:38
	and followed him.	29:39
	Here ends the reading from the gospel lesson.	29:42
	Amen.	29:44
	(organ music)	29:45
	(echoing choral music)	29:53
-	Let us pray.	30:52
	May the words of my mouth, the meditations of our hearts,	30:57
	and the living of our lives be acceptable in thy sight,	31:02
	O Lord, our strength and redeemer.	31:07
	Amen.	31:10
	On a chilly day in August, 1973,	31:14
	a stern-faced,	31:18
	shabbily dressed man could be seen pacing up and down	31:20
	by the cable car depot in downtown San Francisco.	31:24
	He wore a placard slung over his shoulders,	31:29
	with one word scratched on it: Repent.	31:33
	As pedestrians hurried by on their way to lunch or business,	31:38
	he would solemnly lift his arm,	31:42
	pick out a person near him, and say: guilty!	31:45
	After pacing up and down near the loading area,	31:52
	he would pause a few moments before repeating the gesture.	31:55
	As a tourist, standing in the crowd,	32:00
	I remember being startled and very perplexed	32:03
	at this strange behavior.	32:07
	Minutes crept by and the pantomime that was being enacted	32:10
	before us on the passing strangers,	32:14
	including myself, was rather eerie.	32:18
	We would stare at him, hesitate, look away,	32:22
	look at each other, and then look at this character again.	32:27
	Most folks hurried by on their way.	32:32
	But one man, turning to no one in particular,	32:36
	said very clearly: but how did he know?	32:39
	No doubt, many of us had similar thoughts on that day.	32:44
	How did he know, indeed?	32:49
	Karl Menninger, in his book, Whatever Became of Sin?,	32:53
	pursues these questions for that crowd,	32:57
	gathered in San Francisco.	33:00
	Guilty, everyone guilty.	33:03
	Guilty of what?	33:06
	Guilty of over-parking?	33:08
	Guilty of lying, of cheating on a test?	33:11
	Guilty of arrogance and pride toward our God?	33:15
	Guilty of borrowing, not to say embezzling?	33:20
	Guilty of unfaithfulness to a faithful spouse?	33:25
	Guilty of only evil thoughts, or evil plans?	33:29
	Guilty before whom?	33:35
	Is there a public safety officer watching?	33:38
	Did anyone see?	33:41
	Does he really know about it?	33:43
	But that isn't technically illegal, is it?	33:46
	Why surely I can make it up.	33:51
	I will give it back; I will apologize.	33:54
	I wasn't myself when I did that.	33:58
	No one knows about it.	34:01
	Oh, but I know I'm going to quit.	34:04
	It's a dangerous habit.	34:07
	I wouldn't want the children to see me.	34:10
	How in the world can I straighten out this mess?	34:13
	That solemn accuser on the San Francisco street corner	34:20
	has had many predecessors, as I recall.	34:24
	In the eighth to sixth centuries BC,	34:28
	a band of exhorters held forth in thriving	34:32
	Palestinian villages, attracting large crowds of people.	34:35
	To their listeners, these prophets likewise cried: guilty!	34:41
	And they proclaimed ominously that in spite of all	34:46
	general prosperity, sin was prevalent thereabouts.	34:50
	And the message was that if sin was unacknowledged	34:56
	and unrepentant, it would bring dire consequences indeed.	34:59
	These prophets who proclaimed such a message	35:05
	found themselves ignored, ridiculed as alarmist,	35:08
	jailed as trespassers or driven from their country.	35:13
	The Book of Jonah follows this tradition.	35:18
	But focuses on the activity of the prophet Jonah, himself.	35:21
	We find that Jonah had unsuccessfully attempted to escape	35:27
	the task that the Lord Yahweh had imposed upon him.	35:31
	That of preaching repentance to the Ninevites.	35:36
	The fact was that Jonah could have cared less	35:40
	for these gentile people of Nineveh, and he even assumed	35:43
	that God could not possibly care for them as well.	35:48
	But we discover, as the story unfolds,	35:53
	that Jonah refuses to let, is refused by God	35:56
	to run away from his mission.	36:00
	Jonah's dramatic rescue from the sea,	36:03
	and the belly of that great fish,	36:06
	was accomplished in order that he would be able	36:09
	to preach repentance.	36:12
	The surprise is that lo and behold,	36:15
	Jonah's preaching produced results.	36:18
	The people, even including their king,	36:22
	believed Jonah's message.	36:25
	They fasted, they dressed in their clothes of repentance,	36:27
	they turned from their ways of violence,	36:32
	and they asked for God's mercy in their lives.	36:35
	True repentance, the turning from evil ways	36:40
	with ample evidence of new behavior, in this case,	36:44
	was not what Jonah expected.	36:48
	He was angered considerably at this divine turn of events.	36:51
	Jonah had been so certain that his preaching would be	36:57
	in vain, and the fact that any individual,	37:00
	much less the whole city, would shape up and radically	37:04
	reorient their private and corporate life,	37:08
	was too much with Jonah.	37:12
	We are told that he went away sulking.	37:15
	According to the Old Testament tradition,	37:20
	genuine repentance was always embraced by marvelous,	37:23
	unexpected, earthshaking and mind-changing events.	37:28
	Repentance, the need for it and the acceptance of it,	37:34
	were part and parcel of the story and life of Israel.	37:38
	We see that before the time of Jesus's appearance,	37:43
	John the Baptist was himself still crying in the wilderness,	37:47
	calling for repentance of God's people.	37:52
	No new theme here, it seemed, because John's message	37:56
	was that God was to act soon.	38:01
	So urgency and watchfulness were communicated to the people	38:05
	of Jesus's day.	38:09
	Jesus's sojourn as a preacher revealed that he, too,	38:12
	called for repentance.	38:17
	However, careful listeners to his message caught a hint	38:20
	of some new reality that was profoundly disturbing.	38:25
	Jesus himself, his very life, he proclaimed,	38:31
	was the event to which the Old Testament	38:36
	prophecies looked forward.	38:39
	Watch out, he said, for the promises of the kingdom of God	38:42
	are already being fulfilled.	38:46
	Mark uses the Greek word (speaking Greek) for repent,	38:50
	which literally means: to change one's mind.	38:55
	Jesus demanded that people repent,	39:00
	change their whole way of thinking,	39:03
	because the kingdom of God was upon them.	39:06
	But this wasn't the whole message.	39:09
	For it wasn't enough to be sorrowful for your sins.	39:13
	Repentance also required the demand	39:17
	of a disciplined life of faith.	39:20
	In his writing, Mark places the call of the disciples	39:24
	immediately following Jesus's call to repentance,	39:29
	to call to our attention the relationship between the two.	39:32
	Now I say, and confess to you, that repentance has always	39:38
	been one of those religious code words	39:43
	that doesn't often appear in my speech.	39:45
	But clearly, the scriptures call us and me to task,	39:50
	and make us deal with this bold word: repent.	39:55
	I believe that the recovery of	40:01
	and the incorporation of repentance	40:03
	into our fabric of life is part of our command,	40:07
	as would-be followers of Christ.	40:11
	Clarence Jordan, the founder of and now deceased	40:16
	spiritual leader of Koinonia Farms,	40:20
	has enlightened and inspired my struggle	40:23
	with the claims of repentance.	40:26
	He offers a comparison of (speaking Greek),	40:29
	with a more familiar word in our hearing.	40:32
	Metamorphosis.	40:36
	A metamorphosis speaks of a change in form,	40:38
	a preparation for a new order, a different existence.	40:42
	Metamorphosis, a change of mind and soul,	40:48
	that equips you for a new order.	40:53
	Jordan defines repentance like most of us understand it.	40:57
	He says that to repent is to get all sorry	41:02
	for getting caught at something.	41:06
	Being sorry is not enough.	41:10
	And in fact, I believe that our culture has warped	41:14
	the meaning of sorry, which became best expressed	41:17
	for me in the theme of a movie in the late '60s.	41:21
	Love means never having to say you're sorry.	41:25
	Well, that is just not true in my experience.	41:30
	I hear myself only too well, bending down to respond	41:35
	to our toddler, who very quickly and sweetly says,	41:39
	after hitting me: mama, I'm sorry.	41:44
	He and I both know that saying you're sorry isn't enough.	41:49
	A change in behavior is required	41:55
	to give meaning to our words.	41:58
	Fredrick Beatner further instructs us concerning repentance	42:02
	in a way that I find demands my response.	42:07
	To repent is to come to your senses.	42:11
	It is not so much something you do	42:14
	as something that happens.	42:17
	True repentance spends less time looking at the past,	42:19
	and saying I'm sorry, than to the future,	42:23
	and saying, wow.	42:26
	I'm afraid that this repentance talk in the Bible	42:31
	is serious business, after all.	42:36
	It seems that this call to a new order prefaces	42:40
	everything that Jesus had to say,	42:44
	and he didn't say it was around the corner,	42:48
	like prophets before him had declared.	42:51
	He astounded his hearers and us by claiming	42:54
	that the kingdom, God's new order of creation,	42:58
	is already here.	43:02
	The spirit of repentance and discipleship is present now.	43:05
	Where is this kingdom?	43:12
	It is constantly struggling for expression	43:15
	in the experiences of God's children, everywhere.	43:19
	I believe that any time that the love of God,	43:24
	the righteous, just, lively presence of God,	43:28
	can come to us and change us,	43:33
	that is a sign of the kingdom of God.	43:36
	Any time we are transformed into living the will of God,	43:41
	that is a sign of the kingdom.	43:46
	Sometimes a sign of the kingdom comes to us	43:50
	in an unexpected way.	43:53
	The news story of Mr. Charles Morris, who escaped	43:57
	from a North Carolina prison some 14 years ago now	44:01
	and created a new life for himself is such a sign, to me.	44:05
	This man has acknowledged his crime and confessed his guilt.	44:11
	He served time, perhaps an unjust sentence	44:17
	for the crime he committed, born out of a desperate moment.	44:21
	Since he has escaped, he has acted on a desire	44:26
	for a new life, he has worked out his own reentry	44:30
	into the quote: civilized world.	44:34
	He has adopted his own rehabilitation plan,	44:37
	which has worked, he has supported a family,	44:41
	he has worked hard at a job,	44:44
	he has become a model citizen,	44:47
	according to the mayor of Trenton, New Jersey.	44:51
	His church family echos these signs of transformation	44:54
	and new life about Mr. Morris.	45:00
	Now we all know that Mr. Morris's case will not be	45:03
	easy for the courts, the legal courts, to decide.	45:07
	You see, his repentant posture might not be a valid enough	45:13
	legal defense, but I would like to say that would	45:18
	that we all showed the kinds of dramatic signs	45:22
	of the kingdom in our own lives.	45:27
	A young woman I know	45:33
	had a profound religious transformation.	45:35
	Her commitment led her to writing each of her friends	45:39
	and members of her family.	45:44
	And in those letters, she asked for forgiveness	45:46
	of every hurtful thing in her past relationships.	45:50
	I was very dismayed at receiving such a letter,	45:56
	because I didn't think that my friend had anything	46:00
	to ask of me for forgiveness,	46:03
	but then I came to realize that she was also	46:07
	asking for my blessing, for my affirmation	46:11
	of her new life of discipleship.	46:15
	That, I was able to give.	46:19
	And also, to point out to her several signs	46:22
	of a new strength and courage that I saw she now possessed.	46:26
	That was repentance for my friend.	46:31

-	Jesus' message, repent, I believe was	0:05
	not so unique in His own day.	0:08
	What was unique was when He said, "Repent",	0:12
	immediately following, "Follow me,"	0:16
	Jesus demanded a response.	0:20
	Somehow Jesus sensed in those first disciples,	0:24
	something of the dawn of a new era in them.	0:28
	Those disciples became attached	0:32
	to the very person of Jesus.	0:34
	They were ready to go along with Him in His way.	0:37
	A way which we now know	0:41
	will always lead to the cross.	0:44
	Repent and follow are not words	0:48
	that we want to hear.	0:52
	But they are the spoken word to us	0:55
	today and everyday.	0:57
	Even now, the Scriptures tell us that that word	1:01
	is being being fulfilled in our hearing.	1:05
	Are we ready to be changed?	1:09
	Are we ready to follow?	1:13
	Amen.	1:18
	(church organ music)	1:26
	(congregation vocalizing)	1:50
-	With one voice let us affirm what we believe.	3:37
	We believe in God who has created	3:41
	and is creating.	3:44
	Who has come into truly human Jesus	3:46
	to reconcile and make new.	3:49
	Who works in us and others by the Spirit.	3:52
	We trust God who calls us to be the Church	3:56
	to celebrate life and its fullness,	4:00
	to love and serve others,	4:03
	to seek justice and resist evil,	4:05
	to proclaim Jesus, crucified and risen.	4:08
	Our judge and our hope in life, in death,	4:12
	in life beyond death.	4:17
	God is with us.	4:19
	We are not alone.	4:21
	Thanks be to God.	4:23
	The Lord be with you.	4:26
-	And also with you.	4:27
-	Let us pray.	4:29
	Gracious, Lord, our God.	4:38
	We come to You now with words of faith,	4:44
	with words of hope,	4:48
	with words of love.	4:50
	For we do put our ultimate trust	4:54
	and belief in You.	4:57
	We do, oh God, find fulfillment	4:59
	in doing Your will.	5:02
	And we are surely, oh God, blessed	5:05
	unbelievably by Your love.	5:08
	As we come to this place to receive	5:14
	Your word this day,	5:16
	we know that Your word speaks to us	5:19
	through the joy and the discipline of worship.	5:21
	May there be nothing, oh God,	5:26
	to distract us and keep us from hearing	5:29
	and receiving the word You have for each of us.	5:33
	Through prayer, music, song, sermon,	5:38
	or through the warmth and the fellowship	5:44
	we find with one another here.	5:46
	Give us Your word, oh Lord,	5:50
	to cause us to search our souls,	5:51
	to seek for more meaning in life,	5:55
	to turn from all that denies us life,	5:59
	all that would defeat or destroy us,	6:03
	and to come as little children	6:07
	into Your presence.	6:10
	Your loving presence, all healing, caring,	6:13
	Mother and Father of us all,	6:18
	and find in You our resting place,	6:21
	our shelter from the storms of life,	6:26
	and also to find in You the force, the desire,	6:30
	the push to be more faithful to You	6:33
	and more caring for those around us.	6:39
	May our lives, oh Lord, know You	6:44
	and show forth Your will	6:47
	in all that we do and are.	6:50
	May our families never be shortchanged	6:55
	because we are too attentive to others.	6:57
	May our friends never want	7:04
	for a loving word or act,	7:05
	that is ours to give.	7:08
	May those around us find their work more	7:12
	bearable and meaningful,	7:15
	because they know we walk with them.	7:17
	May those who suffer for any reason	7:22
	receive that healing and that sense of well being	7:26
	from knowing that someone cares,	7:29
	that we care.	7:32
	May, oh Lord, our God,	7:35
	the homeless find refuge,	7:38
	the hungry be fed, the hurting restored,	7:41
	the worried put at peace,	7:46
	and the anxious find a sense of goodness,	7:49
	and hope and wholeness.	7:52
	We thank You, oh God,	7:57
	for every opportunity to minister and to love	7:59
	that comes our way.	8:02
	And as we go our way this week,	8:05
	may there be no doubt in anyone's mind	8:07
	about whom we worship.	8:10
	May all know, all know that You are indeed	8:14
	the Lord of our lives,	8:19
	and that Christ's will to obey, to serve,	8:22
	and to love is our constant desire.	8:25
	Hear all our prayers, oh Lord,	8:32
	unuttered or expressed,	8:38
	for we pray in the name and in the Spirit	8:43
	of Jesus Christ, our Lord,	8:46
	who calls us and comes to us,	8:49
	and invites us to pray together saying,	8:52
	Our Father, Who art in Heaven,	8:56
	Hallowed by Thy name.	8:59
	Thy kingdom come, Thy will be done	9:01
	on Earth as it is in Heaven.	9:05
	Give us this day our daily bread,	9:08
	and forgive us our trespasses,	9:11
	as we forgive those who trespass against us,	9:13
	and lead us not into temptation,	9:17
	but deliver us from evil,	9:20
	for Thine is the kingdom and the power	9:22
	and the glory forever, Amen.	9:25
	(church organ music)	9:35
	(church member vocalizing)	11:26
	(congregation vocalizing)	12:13
	(church organ music)	12:58
	(church member vocalizing)	13:03
	(church organ music)	14:09
	(congregation vocalizing)	14:16
	(church organ music)	16:59
	(congregation vocalizing)	17:18
-	Oh gracious God of love,	18:22
	the gifts we bring we pray are symbols	18:25
	of our very selves, our lives, our hopes,	18:28
	our dreams we place now on this	18:31
	altar before Thee.	18:33
	Take us and form us into persons	18:36
	who love Your children,	18:39
	and who love Your world.	18:41
	To the rule of peace and justice and love,	18:43
	we now dedicate ourselves, oh Lord, our God,	18:47
	through Jesus Christ, our redeemer.	18:51
	Amen.	18:55
	(church organ music)	19:00
	(congregation vocalizing)	19:39
	Since it isn't every Sunday that we are blessed	22:34
	to have a Metropolitan Opera singer thrill us,	22:37
	as Michael did, particularly with the Sanctus,	22:42
	I have asked him if he would remain	22:47
	at the back so that many of you,	22:49
	who I'm sure would like to do so,	22:51
	may have the opportunity to speak with him.	22:54
	He, and then will be joining the ministers	22:57
	to greet you following the service.	22:59
	And now as one Christian to another,	23:02
	may I offer you this blessing.	23:06
	The grace of our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ,	23:10
	the love of God,	23:14
	the fellowship and communion of the Holy Spirit	23:16
	be with you and with those whom you love	23:19
	this day and forever.	23:23
	♪ Amen. ♪	23:27
	(congregation vocalizing)	23:34
	(church organ music)	24:54

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Title:

Charlene P. Kammerer - "What Does It Mean to Repent?" (January 24, 1982)

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Sermon start time: (Part 1): 30:52. Sermon end time: (Part 2) 01:18.
Repentance is not just about feeling bad for your sins. It is a commitment to becoming more faithful to God. (Abstract created by Duke Divinity School staff.)
Key quotation: Jesus demanded that they repent, change their whole way of thinking because the kingdom of God was upon them. But this wasn’t the whole message. It wasn’t enough to be sorrowful for your sins. Repentance required the demand of a disciplined life of faith.

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January 24, 1982

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Kammerer, Charlene P.

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Epiphany

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Charlene P. Kammerer - "What Does It Mean to Repent?" (January 24, 1982)

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