Helen G. Crotwell - "Live Boldly" (May 13, 1979)

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-	Duke University Chapel service of worship, May 13th, 1979.	0:04
	(church organ music)	0:15
	(tender organ music)	3:46
	♪ Lord Jesus Christ He brings a glow ♪	11:48
	♪ On once into leaf, bush and bough ♪	11:53
	♪ My spirits have, with Christ reborn ♪	11:58
	♪ At last my truth is in a shrine ♪	12:03
	♪ Until I wish to sing thy grace ♪	12:10
	♪ A source to me in merchant grace ♪	12:15
	♪ They shone my faith with prince on high ♪	12:19
	♪ That we will know thy name of Christ ♪	12:24
	("Praise My Soul, the King of Heaven" by Henry Francis Lyte)	12:33
	♪ Praise my soul, the King of Heaven ♪	13:05
	♪ To His feet your tribute bring ♪	13:10
	♪ Ransomed, healed, restored, forgiven ♪	13:15
	♪ Evermore His praises sing ♪	13:21
	♪ Hallelujah, hallelujah ♪	13:26
	♪ Praise the everlasting King ♪	13:32
	♪ Praise Him for His grace and favor ♪	13:40
	♪ To His people in distress ♪	13:46
	♪ Praise Him, still the same as ever ♪	13:51
	♪ Slow to chide and swift to bless ♪	13:56
	♪ Hallelujah, hallelujah ♪	14:02
	♪ Glorious in His faithfulness ♪	14:08
	♪ Fatherlike He tends and spares us ♪	14:17
	♪ Well our feeble frame He knows ♪	14:23
	♪ In His hands He gently bears us ♪	14:28
	♪ Rescues us from all our foes ♪	14:33
	♪ Hallelujah, hallelujah ♪	14:39
	♪ Widely yet His mercy flows ♪	14:44
	♪ Angels help us to adore Him ♪	14:53
	♪ We beheld Him face to face ♪	14:58
	♪ Sun and moon bow down before Him ♪	15:04
	♪ Dwellers all in time and space ♪	15:09
	♪ Hallelujah, hallelujah ♪	15:15
	♪ Praise with us the God of grace ♪	15:21
	♪ Amen ♪	15:30
-	Be seated.	15:40
-	Herein is love,	15:53
	not that we loved God,	15:55
	but that He loved us,	15:59
	and gave His son to be the propitiation for our sins.	16:01
	Remembering God's love,	16:07
	let us offer our prayer of confession.	16:10
	Oh Lord, our God, we confess to you	16:16
	and ask that you will drown our transgressions	16:21
	in the sea of your infinite love.	16:24
	With sorrow and contrition we acknowledge	16:27
	our faults and failures.	16:30
	Our failure to be true, even to our own accepted standards,	16:34
	our self-deception in face of temptation,	16:39
	our choosing of the worst when we know the better,	16:43
	oh Lord, forgive.	16:47
	Our failure to apply to ourselves	16:50
	the standards of conduct we demand of others.	16:53
	Our blindness in the suffering of others,	16:57
	and our slowness to be taught by our own.	17:00
	Our complacence toward wrongs	17:04
	that do not touch our own lives,	17:06
	and our oversensitivity to those that do.	17:09
	Our slowness to see the good in others,	17:13
	and see the evil in ourselves.	17:16
	Our hardness of heart towards our neighbors' faults	17:20
	and our readiness to make allowance for our own.	17:23
	Our unwillingness to believe that you have called us	17:27
	to a small work and our neighbor to a great one.	17:30
	Oh Lord, forgive.	17:35
-	Amen.	17:40
-	If we confess our sins,	17:53
	God is faithful and just to forgive our sins	17:57
	and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.	18:01
	Amen.	18:08
	We are moving into the summer period of chapel services.	18:17
	Singers are invited to join the Duke Chapel Summer Choir.	18:23
	Rehearsals are held at 9:30 Sunday morning in the chancel	18:29
	and all who are interested in participating are welcomed.	18:36
	Let us pray.	18:48
	Oh Lord, open our hearts to the reading of thy word	18:53
	that we may hear thee speak.	18:58
	Amen.	19:02
	From the Book of Acts,	19:10
	"When Saul reached Jerusalem,	19:16
	"he tried to join the body of disciples there.	19:19
	"But they were afraid of him,	19:24
	"because they did not believe that he had been converted.	19:26
	"Barnabus, however, took him by the hand	19:32
	"and introduced him to the apostles.	19:34
	"Barnabus described to them how Saul had seen the Lord	19:38
	"on his journey to Damascus and heard His voice.	19:41
	"And how he had spoken out boldly	19:46
	"in the name of Jesus in Damascus.	19:48
	"Saul now stayed with them,	19:53
	"moving about freely in Jerusalem.	19:55
	"He spoke out boldly and openly in the name of the Lord,	19:58
	"talking and debating with the Greek-speaking Jews,	20:03
	"but they planned to murder him.	20:08
	"And when the brethren learned of this,	20:12
	"they escorted him to Caesarea	20:15
	"and saw him off to Tarsus."	20:19
	And, from First John,	20:26
	"My children,	20:32
	"love must not be a matter of words or talk,	20:34
	"it must be genuine and show itself in action.	20:38
	"This is how we may know that belong to the realm of truth	20:45
	"and convince ourselves in His sight,	20:48
	"that even if our conscience condemns us,	20:51
	"God is greater than our conscience and knows all.	20:54
	"Dear friends, if our conscience does not condemn us,	21:01
	"then we can approach God with confidence	21:07
	"and attain from Him whatever we ask	21:10
	"because we are keeping His commandments	21:14
	"and doing what He approves.	21:16
	"This is His commandment:	21:20
	"To give our allegiance to His son, Jesus Christ,	21:23
	"and love one another, as He commanded.	21:27
	"When we keep His commands,	21:33
	"we dwell in Him and He dwells in us.	21:35
	"And this is how we can make sure that He dwells in us,	21:40
	"we know the spirit which He has given to us."	21:44
	May God add His blessing to these readings from His word.	21:49
	(church organ music)	21:57
	♪ Holy, holy, holy ♪	22:33
	♪ Holy is our Lord ♪	22:42
	♪ Holy, holy, holy ♪	22:52
	♪ Holy is our Lord ♪	23:02
	♪ We will always lift you high ♪	23:12
	♪ And perform thy song ♪	23:22
	♪ Left on Earth we hold on ♪	23:31
	♪ All that grace is thine ♪	23:41
	♪ Holy, holy, holy ♪	23:52
	♪ Holy is our Lord ♪	24:02
	♪ Holy, holy, holy ♪	24:12
	♪ Holy is our Lord ♪	24:22
	♪ All the sound is over now ♪	24:32
	♪ This is what I love ♪	24:42
	♪ Holy, holy, holy ♪	24:51
	♪ Holy is our Lord ♪	25:02
-	Will you stand for the reading of the gospel.	25:18
	From the Gospel of John.	25:27
	"I am the real vine and my Father is the gardener.	25:30
	"Every barren branch of mine, He cuts away.	25:37
	"And every fruiting branch, He cleans	25:41
	"to make it more fruitful still.	25:46
	"You have already been cleansed by the word	25:51
	"which I spoke to you.	25:53
	"Dwell in me as I in you.	25:56
	"No branch can bear fruit by itself,	26:00
	"but only if it remains united with the vine.	26:04
	"No more can you bear fruit	26:08
	"unless you remain united with me.	26:12
	"I am the vine, you are the branches,	26:17
	"he who dwells in me as I dwell in him bears much fruit.	26:21
	"For apart from me, you can do nothing.	26:26
	"He who does not dwell in me is thrown away	26:31
	"like a withered branch.	26:34
	"The withered branches are heaped together	26:36
	"and thrown on a fire and burned.	26:38
	"If you dwell in me,	26:42
	"and my words dwell in you,	26:45
	"ask what you will, and you shall have it.	26:48
	"This is my Father's glory	26:53
	"that you may bear fruit in plenty	26:56
	"and be my disciples."	27:01
	Amen.	27:05
	(church organ music)	27:08
	(choir singing)	27:21
-	I would like to use a scripture	28:16
	which Krister Stendahl used last Saturday at Baccalaureate.	28:19
	In the name of God,	28:25
	who loves us	28:28
	as father	28:30
	and mother	28:31
	and friend,	28:33
	amen.	28:35
	When we were discussing the glorious Easter service	28:37
	in this chapel, a student who was out of town bemoaned	28:41
	the dreariness of the service of worship she attended.	28:46
	There was no joy,	28:51
	no hope,	28:53
	no affirmation.	28:54
	Rather a dull,	28:57
	drab,	28:58
	boring	29:00
	service.	29:01
	We are indeed fortunate to have this chapel as a place	29:03
	where we can worship.	29:07
	The incredibly beautiful music alone left no doubt	29:09
	in our minds that Easter is indeed a day of celebration.	29:14
	A time to rejoice	29:19
	that Christ is risen.	29:22
	We responded with joyful hearts	29:25
	that Jesus, our Lord,	29:28
	is alive.	29:31
	Christ	29:33
	is risen.	29:34
	Christ is risen,	29:37
	preach boldly	29:40
	as Paul did.	29:42
	And as First John says,	29:44
	"Let us not love in word	29:47
	and speech,	29:50
	but in deed and truth."	29:52
	And then from the gospel,	29:56
	"Live boldly as disciples who continue	29:58
	the work of the Christ in this world."	30:02
	Soon after Easter,	30:07
	someone was reflecting on conversation he had just had,	30:08
	one which Christians have had in various forms	30:13
	down through the ages.	30:16
	What difference does it make that you celebrate Easter?	30:19
	That you affirm that Christ is risen?	30:23
	Folks have always looked at the church with some skepticism,	30:27
	suspicion, and sometimes with good reason.	30:31
	The protagonist in this particular conversation repeated	30:35
	the hackneyed, "I'd rather buy a used car from an atheist	30:39
	than from one of you Christians.	30:44
	I don't know what happens in your services of worship,	30:46
	but it certainly doesn't seem to make any difference	30:50
	when you move out of that building."	30:52
	Cynical. Certainly the person has had a bad experience	30:55
	which he universalized.	30:59
	If we hear such comments when we are uneasy about	31:03
	the witness of the church, we squirm or feel guilty,	31:06
	or become defensive, and so sometimes miss	31:10
	the truth that may be found in such conversation.	31:14
	The lectionary lessons for this day all reflect	31:18
	the unity of our worship and our life in the world.	31:23
	The unity of our devotion	31:28
	and our action.	31:31
	The story of the vine and the branches	31:33
	is in the section of John's collection	31:36
	of Jesus' farewell discourse to his disciples.	31:38
	Using the parable allegory, Jesus is reminding his disciples	31:44
	the critical importance of their remaining	31:49
	in community with Him,	31:52
	perhaps preparing them for living in this world	31:55
	without His physical presence.	32:00
	And it describes for us,	32:03
	not only the impossibility of our living separated	32:05
	from the source of our life,	32:09
	but that also those of us who are disciples will bear fruit	32:12
	with the very stern warning that those who do not	32:18
	will be cast out, cut off.	32:23
	Our source of life is to be found in relation to Jesus	32:27
	in the community of faith.	32:31
	There is no ambiguity, no choice.	32:34
	We cannot live in isolation and separation,	32:37
	nor do we choose	32:42
	between a life of piety	32:44
	or a life of action.	32:47
	Just as the branch bears fruit,	32:50
	we live out our lives in the world	32:53
	in deed	32:56
	and in truth.	32:58
	We will not be alive	33:00
	if we are not related to the source of our life.	33:02
	And if we do not live responsibly,	33:07
	we will be cut off, cast out.	33:10
	These are stern words, hard words.	33:14
	And notice that it is God who does the cutting off	33:18
	and casting out.	33:22
	And even those branches which bear fruit	33:25
	will be pruned	33:29
	so that they will bear more fruit.	33:31
	Now this means that we are invited into	33:33
	the Christian community without the promise	33:36
	or the expectation that it will be an easy life.	33:40
	That there will be no correction,	33:44
	no expectations placed on us,	33:46
	or there will be no standing over against us.	33:50
	For we are still human beings struggling together,	33:53
	trying to understand what it means	33:58
	to be disciples of Jesus, the Christ.	34:00
	The image of the vine and the branches is so familiar to us	34:04
	that we may read it too quickly	34:08
	and not hear what it is saying.	34:10
	When we try to go it on our own, alone,	34:13
	we are not nourished.	34:17
	We are without the life-giving resource	34:20
	by which we are sustained.	34:23
	We cannot be Christian and live in isolation.	34:27
	Reflect what it means to live separated from the vine.	34:32
	When we are separated, we may be physically alive,	34:35
	even respected by the community,	34:40
	but dead in the most horrible sense.	34:43
	Such death is described by Dorothy Surly	34:47
	as death by bread alone.	34:51
	It means being terrified of our aloneness,	34:55
	and yet wanting to be left alone.	35:00
	Being without friends, yet distrusting and despising others.	35:04
	Exploiting others and then being exploited.	35:11
	Forgetting others, and then being forgotten.	35:16
	Living only for ourselves and then feeling unneeded.	35:22
	Neither crying for another or being cried for by another.	35:29
	How horrible is this death by bread alone,	35:38
	and such is what happens within us	35:42
	when we look upon others not as a gift or a blessing	35:45
	or a stimulus, but as threat, danger, competition.	35:51
	It is the death which comes to all who try to live	35:57
	by bread alone, separated from the vine.	36:01
	It is a purposeless, empty existence	36:06
	devoid of genuine human relationships	36:09
	and filled with anxiety	36:13
	and silence	36:15
	and loneliness.	36:17
	During a recent meeting in Raleigh,	36:21
	two of our United Methodist bishops referred	36:23
	to a critical problem facing the Church;	36:26
	that of folks trying to live responsibly as Christians,	36:29
	yet separated from the Christian community.	36:34
	A condition which is being nourished by media evangelist	36:38
	who seduce people into believing	36:43
	that they are living responsibly as Christians,	36:45
	yet are connected with the vine only through the media.	36:48
	Now certainly the Church affirms the immense value	36:52
	that the media provides for those who are,	36:56
	because of illness, or age, or some other reason,	36:59
	are confined to their home.	37:03
	And these people, together with the community of faith,	37:06
	can work creatively so that it becomes possible	37:09
	for them to be present with the community,	37:13
	connected to the vine,	37:17
	even in their absence.	37:20
	Now we are amazed at the gullibility of many people	37:23
	who blindly respond to the emotional pitch	37:27
	of some of these evangelists	37:31
	who plead for them to send money immediately	37:33
	in order that God's word may continue to be communicated.	37:36
	Some of these tax-free corporations	37:40
	exploit the rich and the poor,	37:43
	receiving an unbelievable amount of money	37:46
	which is used without any accountability	37:49
	or responsibility to the body of Christ.	37:52
	These people are usually blatant egotists,	37:55
	glorifying themselves and not God.	37:58
	One of our recent Duke graduates	38:02
	works on a small-town newspaper	38:04
	and was pleased without responsible reporting,	38:07
	which is helping expose one such evangelist.	38:10
	This particular evangelist receives 98%	38:14
	of his three million dollar a year income	38:19
	as a result	38:23
	of his appeal to folks	38:25
	to send money to keep his program on the air.	38:28
	At one time, when he made a most desperate and frantic plea	38:32
	for people to send money immediately,	38:36
	otherwise they would not be on the air next week,	38:38
	he was in the process of buying a $230,000 house.	38:42
	The news story said, somewhat redundantly,	38:48
	in an exclusive neighborhood.	38:52
	Where else do you find a home of that price?	38:55
	An analysis of the use of the contributions showed	38:59
	that of each $10 sent in,	39:02
	$3.55 was in fact used	39:06
	to buy TV time.	39:10
	And one-half of a penny	39:13
	was donated to some unspecified charity.	39:15
	But the rest of the money was used for his well-being,	39:19
	to fill his ego needs,	39:24
	to buy bumper stickers	39:26
	which glorified him.	39:29
	And also with the money he had bought eight homes	39:32
	surrounding his boyhood home,	39:35
	plus many other, grander dwellings.	39:38
	snd he owned over $100,000 worth of various kinds	39:42
	of vehicles including two Cadillacs and a Rolls-Royce.	39:45
	In defending his obvious personal wealth,	39:53
	this man said that he wears fine clothes	39:56
	and drives expensive cars and lives in general luxury	40:00
	because wealth is a sign of God's approval of his ministry.	40:05
	He said that when people were walking to Jerusalem,	40:11
	when people were walking to Jerusalem,	40:15
	Jesus was riding on the back of a jackass.	40:18
	And said, if there had been Cadillacs back then,	40:23
	he was certain Jesus would have been riding in one	40:26
	because Jesus was always first-class.	40:29
	How easy it is for us to be amused	40:36
	and to ridicule such charlatans,	40:39
	to laugh at the absurdity of such claims,	40:42
	to be prophetic in our judgment against	40:45
	what appears to be most irresponsible and unloving actions.	40:48
	Yet when we are honest, we know that,	40:55
	while we work with more sophistication and finesse,	40:57
	we can deceive ourselves and make decisions which are just	41:00
	as absurd and distant from God's intention	41:04
	for us and our community.	41:07
	God may not cast us out, but we will be pruned.	41:10
	Just recently a divinity school professor	41:15
	made an ecumenical congregation most uncomfortable,	41:18
	and we don't like to be made uncomfortable.	41:22
	When talking about Jesus' temptation,	41:25
	he reminded us of some of	41:28
	the temptations which we succumb to.	41:29
	One of his illustrations described how	41:32
	the black preachers began preaching in the storefronts,	41:34
	working in secular jobs to pay for the rent	41:39
	and for the light, and the heat.	41:42
	But soon, they became successful	41:45
	and the storefront was full, and they decided	41:47
	that this was not an appropriate place to worship God.	41:50
	But instead of directly addressing the congregation,	41:54
	saying they need a better building,	41:58
	he asked one of the leaders of the church	42:01
	if he or she had heard people talking about	42:04
	how crowded it was in the store,	42:07
	how difficult it was to worship in this place,	42:10
	and that's all that's necessary.	42:13
	The next thing you know,	42:15
	this congregation is in a million dollar structure	42:16
	and have saddled future generations with the debt,	42:20
	while the starving black children	42:23
	stand outside looking in the windows.	42:25
	The congregation was uncomfortable.	42:30
	This is the same man who once,	42:32
	when he was asked to take one	42:34
	of our guest preachers out to dinner,	42:36
	selected a cafeteria saying he could not in good conscience	42:39
	spend chapel money to eat at one	42:43
	of those expensive restaurants.	42:46
	We in the chapel struggle to understand what it means	42:49
	to live responsibly as a Christian community.	42:52
	To keep attention of the life-giving nourishment	42:57
	which is necessary for the branches to relay,	43:01
	be related to the vine, the source of their life	43:05
	and also to be obedient as we live out our lives	43:10
	in this world as disciples of Jesus, the Christ.	43:15
	Notice that our responsible living in the world	43:20
	grows out of our life of faith.	43:24
	Unless we live in relation to the vine, we die.	43:28
	Unless we, as branches, bear fruit, we are cut off.	43:33
	Since we, as a chapel, are not a church,	43:39
	most of you who worship here are in a covenant relationship	43:42
	with a specific Christian community.	43:46
	The community which is the primary place	43:49
	for your worship and nurture	43:51
	and the locus for your moving from it	43:53
	to love in deed and truth.	43:56
	And for us to be responsible certainly means providing	44:00
	opportunities for people who worship here regularly	44:03
	to be involved in a community of faith,	44:07
	a community where they are known by name,	44:10
	loved and pruned, and are sent into the world.	44:13
	The people who claim this chapel as their church	44:19
	are usually the people who are in the choir, who usher,	44:22
	or who belong to one of the ongoing Christian communities.	44:25
	Certainly too, our ministry involves preaching	44:32
	the word of God boldly,	44:35
	as Paul did.	44:38
	What more important pulpit in this area	44:40
	to proclaim the good news of the gospel.	44:42
	The good news which comes to us as nurture, as forgiveness,	44:45
	as hope,	44:50
	but also	44:51
	as the pruning word of justice.	44:53
	One of our colleagues said it seemed easier for us	44:57
	to make our prophetic statements	45:02
	about situations far-removed from the campus,	45:03
	like in South Africa, than to be relevant	45:07
	to the dehumanizing situations	45:10
	which confront us daily within our community,	45:12
	such as the blatant exploitation	45:16
	of another person as a sexual person,	45:18
	our destructive competitive spirit,	45:23
	our University, which at times seems more like	45:26
	a country club than a learning community,	45:29
	and the very specific expressions	45:34
	of our sexism and racism within this community.	45:36
	Now, any time we address a dehumanizing situation	45:40
	here in our community or in the larger community,	45:44
	and again we have no choice, it's both.	45:48
	When we preach boldly and live boldly,	45:51
	we will find, as Paul did with his preaching,	45:55
	we will soon be in confrontation with power.	46:00
	Misused, destructive power.	46:04
	Whether economic or political or in the form	46:08
	of power of personal charisma, of peer pressure or ambition.	46:12
	To preach boldly, to live boldly,	46:18
	takes courage and humility	46:22
	with the sure knowledge that in such boldness	46:25
	there will be the pruning, and then maybe the persecution.	46:28
	Such courage and commitment is nourished only	46:33
	as we are in the community of faith,	46:37
	only as we are branches living	46:40
	in relationship with the vine.	46:43
	For the covenant service which John Wesley developed	46:48
	and is used by many, many churches today,	46:51
	the scripture lesson he chose was from	46:53
	the 15th chapter of John, that of the vine and the branches.	46:56
	Hear now, just a selection of the covenant	47:01
	he asked people to make.	47:04
	"Christ has many services to be done.	47:08
	Some are easy, others are difficult.	47:11
	Some bring honor, others bring reproach.	47:15
	Some are suitable to our natural inclinations	47:20
	and our temporal interest. Others are contrary to both.	47:24
	In some, we may please Christ and please ourselves.	47:29
	In others, we cannot please Christ	47:35
	except by denying ourselves.	47:37
	Yet the power to do all these things	47:41
	is assuredly given to us in Christ, who strengthens us."	47:45
	Christ is risen,	47:51
	preach boldly.	47:53
	Christ is risen.	47:55
	Let us not love in word and speech,	47:58
	but in deed and truth.	48:03
	Christ is risen,	48:05
	live boldly as disciples	48:08
	who continue his work in this world.	48:11
	Amen and amen.	48:14
	(church organ music)	48:19
	(choir singing)	49:00
-	Let us affirm what we believe.	51:23
	We believe in God, who has created and is creating,	51:26
	who has come in the truly human Jesus	51:32
	to reconcile and make new,	51:35
	who works in us and others by the spirit.	51:38
	We trust God, who calls us to be the church,	51:42
	to celebrate life and its fullness,	51:47
	to love and serve others, to seek justice and resist evil,	51:50
	to proclaim Jesus crucified and risen,	51:57
	our judge and our hope.	52:01
	In life, in death,	52:04
	in life beyond death,	52:06
	God is with us,	52:09
	we are not alone,	52:11
	thanks be to God.	52:13
	Be seated.	52:16
	The Lord be with you.	52:26
-	And with you.
-	Let us pray.	52:30
	Most gracious God,	52:40
	our heavenly parent.	52:44
	We thank thee for the turn of time,	52:47
	for endings and beginnings,	52:52
	for new seasons,	52:56
	new eras of life,	52:58
	new possibilities.	53:02
	Thou, oh Lord,	53:06
	hast made goodness.	53:09
	Help us to pursue it.	53:12
	Thou hast made truth.	53:16
	Help us to seek it.	53:20
	Thou hast made beauty.	53:24
	Help us to receive it.	53:28
	Thou hast made love.	53:32
	Spread thy love through our hearts	53:37
	and lives.	53:41
	Be present with us as thy holy spirit,	53:44
	so that in finding truth	53:49
	and beauty	53:53
	and goodness	53:55
	and love,	53:58
	we may find the life	54:01
	which thou hast given	54:04
	in abundance.	54:06
	We pray this day, oh Lord,	54:12
	for those persons in special need.	54:14
	For those with inadequate money	54:19
	to provide housing and utilities and food.	54:21
	For those who are in pain.	54:29
	For those who are lonely.	54:34
	Those who face tragedy.	54:38
	We pray for the hungry.	54:43
	We pray for the distressed.	54:47
	We pray for those who have lost	54:53
	friends, family, or loved ones.	54:57
	Not only do we pray that we may have sympathy with them	55:04
	and be able to serve them,	55:08
	we pray also for the special presence	55:11
	of thy peace	55:15
	and hope.	55:18
	We remember also,	55:23
	those whose work	55:27
	we assume will be given.	55:30
	Those whose service	55:34
	we presume upon.	55:38
	We pray for those on this campus, the police,	55:41
	the maintenance people.	55:47
	For the workers of the dining halls,	55:51
	for the nurses	55:55
	and orderlies	55:57
	and receptionist.	56:00
	We pray for those whose daily work sustains our living.	56:04
	Make us more sensitive	56:12
	to the interactions of life among all of us.	56:15
	We may truly appreciate	56:20
	these usual,	56:23
	ordinary modes	56:26
	by which we help one another.	56:29
	We are richly blessed, oh Lord, with resources,	56:36
	with goods, with opportunities.	56:42
	Make us conscious of our responsibility	56:49
	for the careful use of the resources thou hast given to us.	56:54
	Make us thoughtful	57:00
	and wise	57:02
	and generous.	57:06
	Now, oh Lord,	57:12
	impress the message of this morning upon our hearts.	57:16
	Help us in the light of the resurrection of Jesus Christ	57:22
	to live boldly,	57:29
	to bear fruit	57:32
	so that we may show our love for thee	57:36
	and our love for one another.	57:42
	And all of these prayers we make	57:48
	in the name and the spirit of Jesus Christ,	57:49
	who taught us when praying to say,	57:54
	"Our Father, who art in Heaven, hallowed be thy name.	57:57
	"Thy kingdom come.	58:03
	"Thy will be done on Earth as it is in Heaven.	58:05
	"Give us this day our daily bread	58:10
	"and forgive us our trespasses	58:13
	"as we forgive those who trespass against us.	58:16
	"And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil.	58:20
	"For thine is the kingdom, the power,	58:25
	"and the glory forever.	58:28
	"Amen."	58:32
	(inspiring organ music)	58:40
	(uptempo organ music)	59:41
	(choir singing)	59:45
	(church organ music)	1:02:08
	(choir singing)	1:03:35
-	Oh Lord, out of the richness of thy grace	1:04:38
	thou hast given to us,	1:04:41
	and we give these, our offerings, to thee	1:04:44
	in the spirit of love and of dedication,	1:04:48
	amen.	1:04:52
	(church organ music)	1:04:56
	(choir singing)	1:05:37
-	And now, unto God who is able to do immeasurably more	1:09:36
	than all that we can ask or conceive,	1:09:41
	by the power that is at work within us.	1:09:45
	To Him be glory	1:09:49
	in the church and in Christ Jesus	1:09:51
	from generation to generation,	1:09:55
	world without end,	1:09:59
	amen.	1:10:02
	♪ God be with you till we meet again ♪	1:10:09
	♪ By His counsels guide uphold you ♪	1:10:18
	♪ With His sheep securely fold you ♪	1:10:29
	♪ God be with you till we meet again ♪	1:10:39
	(church organ music)	1:10:55

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Title:

Helen G. Crotwell - "Live Boldly" (May 13, 1979)

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Sermon start time: (Part 1) 28:16. Sermon end time: (Part 1) 48:16.
In this sermon, Crotwell speaks boldly while calling congregants to do the same, calling upon the pruning work of the Holy Spirit on those who separate themselves from God and Christian community. (Abstract created by Duke Divinity School staff.)
Key quotation: "What more important pulpit in this area to proclaim the good news of the gospel.The good news which comes to us as nurture, as forgiveness,as hope, but also the pruning word of justice."

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Date:

May 13, 1979

Speaker:

Crotwell, Helen Gray, 1925-2006

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Easter

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Duke University. Chapel

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