Joseph L. Gipson - "Question of Accountability" (July 20, 1980)

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	(classical organ music)	0:03
	(bell ringing)	1:56
	(classical organ music)	2:19
	(bell ringing)	8:49
	(classical organ music)	9:28
	♪ Praise the Lord, ye heavens, adore him ♪	18:23
	♪ Praise him, angels, in the height ♪	18:27
	♪ Sun and moon, rejoice before him ♪	18:34
	♪ Praise him, all ye stars and light ♪	18:40
	♪ Praise the Lord, for he hath spoken ♪	18:46
	♪ Worlds his mighty voice obeyed ♪	18:53
	♪ Laws, which never shall be broken ♪	18:59
	♪ For their guidance he hath made ♪	19:06
	("Jesus Shall Reign" on organ)	19:16
	♪ Jesus shall reign where'er the sun ♪	19:46
	♪ Does its successive journeys run ♪	19:53
	♪ His kingdom stretch from shore to shore ♪	20:01
	♪ Till moons shall wax and wane no more ♪	20:09
	♪ To him shall endless prayer be made ♪	20:20
	♪ And praises throng to crown his head ♪	20:27
	♪ His name like sweet perfume shall rise ♪	20:36
	♪ With every morning sacrifice ♪	20:44
	♪ People and realms of every tongue ♪	20:56
	♪ Dwell on his love with sweetest song ♪	21:03
	♪ And infant voices shall proclaim ♪	21:11
	♪ Their early blessings on his name ♪	21:19
	♪ Let every creature rise and bring ♪	21:30
	♪ The highest honors to our King ♪	21:38
	♪ Angels descend with songs again ♪	21:46
	♪ And earth repeat the loud amen ♪	21:55
	♪ Amen ♪	22:05
-	Dearly beloved, we are come together in the presence	22:18
	of Almighty God and in the whole company of heaven	22:22
	to make humble confession of our sins unto him,	22:27
	to set forth his most worthy praise,	22:32
	to hear his most holy word, to declare our faith in him	22:36
	and to ask for ourselves and all people	22:41
	those things which are necessary for the body and the soul,	22:44
	to offer unto him the service of our lives	22:49
	and to receive his blessing.	22:53
	Let us confess our sins to Almighty God.	22:55
	Oh Lord, our God, who by your love has made us	23:09
	and through your love has kept us	23:13
	and in your love would make us perfect, we humbly confess	23:17
	that we have not loved you with all our heart and soul	23:23
	and mind and strength and that we have not loved one another	23:28
	as Christ has loved us.	23:33
	Your light is within our souls	23:36
	but our selfishness has hindered you.	23:39
	We have not lived by faith.	23:43
	We have resisted your spirit.	23:46
	We have neglected your inspirations.	23:49
	Forgive what we have been.	23:52
	Help us to amend what we are and in your spirit	23:55
	direct what we shall be that you may come into	23:58
	the full glory of your creation in us and in all people,	24:03
	through Jesus Christ, our Lord.	24:09
	And now let us confess our sins in silent meditation	24:12
	to our Lord.	24:18
	Who is like unto God?	24:45
	Who pardons iniquity and passes over transgression?	24:49
	He does not retain his anger forever	24:53
	because he delights in steadfast love.	24:55
	He will again have compassion upon us.	24:59
	He will tread our iniquities underfoot.	25:03
	He will cast all of our sins into the depths of the sea.	25:07
	Let us give thanks for God is good	25:13
	and God's love is everlasting.	25:16
	(congregation talking)	25:19
	Amen.	25:32
	We are very pleased this morning to have a guest minister,	25:40
	a colleague of mine in campus ministry, Dr. Joseph Gibson.	25:45
	His credentials are in the bulletin.	25:51
	I invite you to stay afterwards and chat with Joe	25:55
	about what he is doing in campus ministry	26:00
	and also I would like to chat with you too	26:04
	especially if you are a summer student	26:08
	and would like to understand more about the campus ministry	26:11
	in the Duke Parish Ministry.	26:16
	Let us pray.	26:24
	Prepare our hearts, oh Lord, to accept your word.	26:28
	Silence in us any voice but your own.	26:32
	That hearing we may also obey your will	26:36
	through Jesus Christ, our Lord, amen.	26:38
	Will the congregation please stand	26:43
	for the reading of the Gospel?	26:46
	The Gospel lesson is from John the 21st chapter,	26:59
	verses 15 through 23.	27:03
	When they had finished breakfast, Jesus said to Simon Peter,	27:08
	Simon, son of John, do you love me more than these?	27:11
	And he said to him, feed my lambs.	27:17
	A second time he said to him, Simon, son of John,	27:21
	do you love me?	27:24
	He said, yes Lord, you know that I love you.	27:26
	He said to him, tend my sheep.	27:30
	He said to him a third time, Simon, son of John,	27:34
	do you love me?	27:39
	Peter was grieved because he said to him a third time,	27:41
	do you love me and he said to him,	27:45
	Lord, you know everything.	27:47
	You know that I love you.	27:49
	Jesus said to him, feed my sheep.	27:51
	Truly, truly I say to you, when you were young	27:56
	you girded yourself and walked where you would.	27:59
	But when you are old you will stretch out your hands	28:03
	and another will gird you and carry you	28:07
	where you do not wish to go.	28:10
	This he said to show by what death he was to glorify God.	28:13
	And after this he said to him, follow me.	28:18
	Peter turned and saw following them the disciple whom	28:23
	Jesus loved, who had lain close to his breast at the supper	28:27
	and had said, Lord, who is it that is going to betray you?	28:32
	When Peter saw him he said to Jesus,	28:37
	Lord, what about this man?	28:39
	Jesus said to him, if it my will that he remain until I come	28:42
	what is that to you?	28:47
	Follow me.	28:49
	The saying spread abroad among the brethren	28:51
	that this disciple was not to die.	28:54
	And yet Jesus did not say to him that he was not to die.	28:57
	But if it is my will that he remain until I come,	29:02
	what is that to you?	29:07
	May God grant us understanding to this reading of his word.	29:10
	Amen.	29:17
	♪ Glory to God, Creator ♪	29:25
	♪ And to the Christ, the Son of God ♪	29:32
	♪ And to the Holy Spirit ♪	29:39
	♪ As it was in the beginning ♪	29:54
	♪ Is now, and ever more shall be ♪	30:00
	(classical organ and choral music)	30:24
-	Grace to you and peace from our Lord and Savior,	33:26
	Jesus Christ, amen.	33:29
	I imagine Peter must have been a very troubled	33:40
	and very concerned person when confronted by three questions	33:45
	by our Lord.	33:51
	It is not strange to be asked if you love someone.	33:57
	Mates do it everyday.	34:04
	Children do it of their parents,	34:09
	parents do it of their children.	34:10
	The reality of the question and the kind questioning	34:14
	stands firm in our mind all the time.	34:17
	We want to know that we are loved	34:20
	and we want to know how we are loved	34:22
	and what that love means for us.	34:25
	But to be questioned three times in practically	34:30
	identical methods must trouble the depths of one's heart.	34:36
	One day when I walked into the kitchen of my home	34:49
	and saw the drippings from cookies on the countertop	34:54
	and looking up on my son's face,	35:01
	found leavings of cookie crumbs around his mouth	35:04
	and noticing quickly that the lid was off the cookie jar,	35:09
	I asked my son, have you been into the cookies?	35:15
	It's that kind of question that one already knows	35:24
	the answer to that gets us into trouble most of the time.	35:28
	I knew sufficient evidence existed	35:33
	that someone had been in the cookie jar.	35:35
	Enough evidence was left on the mouth to know which one	35:38
	of the someones had been in it.	35:41
	But it's that kind of question that was being asked.	35:46
	Not a question for information, for enough information had	35:50
	already been collected, but a question of responsibility.	35:54
	Are you willing to admit, are you willing to	35:58
	own up to your behavior?	36:01
	Are you willing to say, yes, I have been in the cookie jar?	36:03
	I imagine it was a question of responsibility	36:11
	that Jesus was asking Peter that day.	36:13
	Do you love me?	36:20
	I am not interested in your saying that you love me.	36:23
	I'm more interested in what you do that demonstrates	36:25
	that you love me.	36:27
	If you love me, will you feed my sheep?	36:29
	If you love me, feed my sheep.	36:34
	Now there are those among us who become theologians	36:39
	at this point when we've been directed clearly by anyone	36:42
	to do what we're supposed to do, we become theologians	36:47
	and we begin to ask, what does it mean to love?	36:50
	Who are the sheep?	36:52
	How do I find them?	36:54
	Where are they located?	36:55
	What manner shall I go about doing it?	36:56
	And I imagine that's why Jesus didn't spend an awful lot	37:00
	of time in explanations but rather	37:02
	redirected the question again.	37:04
	If you love me, here, tend my sheep.	37:08
	Maybe we should become theologians for a moment	37:16
	and ask the question.	37:18
	When Jesus was asked, what is the most important of the	37:20
	commandments he responded, we should love God,	37:24
	we should love others and we should love ourselves.	37:29
	So becoming a theologian at that point is not problematical	37:36
	but rather instructional.	37:39
	Volumes have been written about what it means to love God.	37:43
	And there are those who spend 24 hours a day in praise	37:47
	and prayer, who've separated themselves from the rest	37:51
	of the world and worldly responsibilities in order to give	37:54
	constant attention to their love for God	37:56
	and they pray constantly and consistently.	37:59
	They pray not only for themselves but they pray for us.	38:03
	They pray for the whole world.	38:07
	And they constantly remind us that one can	38:10
	continually be in prayer.	38:12
	Preachers preach everyday about loving God	38:19
	and I imagine those who would not really want to be bothered	38:24
	with other people are really bothered with themselves	38:29
	to find this kind of praise and admiration for God	38:32
	self-satisfactory and sustaining for their lives.	38:36
	And then when we really want to be hard on one another	38:44
	we admonish one another to love others.	38:48
	We know how difficult it is to love other people.	38:52
	They come in such different shapes and forms	38:54
	and attitudes and altitudes.	38:57
	Some have so much money, some have so little.	39:01
	Some have so much class, some have so little.	39:04
	Some have so much couth, some have none.	39:08
	And we discover that if we ever really wanna get down	39:13
	on someone and we know that they're a part of the faith	39:16
	in any kind of expressive way, we can ask them this	39:19
	challenging question, how have you loved others?	39:22
	Show your demonstration, love for others	39:24
	and it becomes almost the way to put another person down	39:27
	to ask them to test how they're loving others.	39:31
	We could challenge people to visit the prisons	39:37
	and to visit in hospitals and to visit the sick	39:39
	and the orphans and the homeless.	39:42
	To visit those whom society has dealt an unfair blow.	39:44
	We can show all kinds of ways for loving others	39:49
	and we know what it means to be	39:52
	in some kind of meaningful relationship.	39:55
	I think the real clinker in Jesus' response to us	40:01
	to love ourselves is that we have taught	40:05
	and been taught for so long that we must not do that.	40:08
	To love ourselves may be to take ourselves more seriously	40:15
	than we have before.	40:18
	To take more seriously what it means to be a whole person.	40:19
	To realize that the whole gift of God's life to us	40:24
	is not a privilege but a responsibility, an opportunity,	40:28
	yes, to live in abundance and to have life abundantly	40:31
	and to show others how to do that.	40:35
	But in order to be in that kind of lifestyle	40:38
	we must take ourselves seriously enough	40:41
	to care for ourselves.	40:43
	Let's look for a moment.	40:47
	Whoever heard a preacher requesting someone	40:48
	to love themselves?	40:50
	When you wake up in the morning and look in the mirror	40:53
	do you really like what you see?	40:54
	I've really been excited about our society,	41:00
	how much money is spent on changing the way we look.	41:04
	How much energy is put into changing	41:08
	just our physical features.	41:11
	And you can probably spend the rest of your life	41:14
	and the rest of the money you can acquire making those kinds	41:18
	of changes but I assure you that what I'm talking about	41:21
	is seeing the inside person, the one that can only be	41:25
	expressed through who you are and how you act.	41:28
	Do you love that person?	41:31
	And if you grasp the love for that person than you begin	41:33
	to understand a little bit about what Jesus must have meant	41:37
	when he said, love others, and maybe a little bit of why	41:40
	it's exciting to love God who created us and made us.	41:44
	The question that was being asked was, if you love me,	41:53
	make it possible for my sheep to have food and drink.	41:58
	If you love me, make it possible for those who are put away	42:04
	in prisons to discover that freedom really means	42:07
	handling one's life responsibly, that society has proper	42:11
	demands to be placed upon us and we need not always	42:14
	break the laws placed before us.	42:17
	We could reduce the need for prisons.	42:21
	We could reduce the need for the corrective in our society.	42:22
	Loving means not showing power but learning how to empower.	42:27
	If someone asks me today, what do I think is the most	42:35
	disheartening part of our whole world,	42:38
	it is that somehow it has become difficult for us	42:42
	who have power and who wield power so easily	42:47
	to learn how to empower others.	42:50
	I'm not as upset as many people are about	42:58
	Republican party platform, not including ERA,	43:05
	as I am that they really miss the whole point.	43:12
	Being far against it is not the issue.	43:16
	How do we relegate women to their	43:19
	proper place in our society?	43:21
	How do we help people understand that each of us,	43:26
	regardless of our sexual identity, has a proper place	43:30
	before God and that no one should be denied	43:34
	the full expression of their being.	43:37
	Methods to obtain it, methods to reach it	43:44
	must not be confused with the reality itself.	43:47
	There would be no need for a constitutional amendment	43:53
	if the society responded to people as they had been created	43:55
	without placing blocks in their way.	44:00
	Maybe we should erect somewhere	44:08
	on the west coast of our country a new statue.	44:10
	We talk about the Statue of Liberty bringing people in	44:13
	and being with open arms and handling all the kinds of	44:16
	responsibilities given when people are oppressed	44:19
	and put upon by governments.	44:22
	Maybe we need to erect another statue,	44:25
	the statue of responsibility where people could know	44:27
	that it is all of our responsibility to make life possible	44:30
	for others, that we cannot live in our world alone.	44:33
	You see, we generally have enough information	44:40
	to live our lives.	44:43
	And just as I'm certain that Jesus had enough information	44:46
	regarding Peter, he wanted him to accept the responsibility.	44:49
	And so the question was asked again and again.	44:56
	Many times when we know the answer	45:02
	and we don't like the answer we ask the question.	45:04
	And Peter was no different.	45:06
	Peter looked at John and said, all right Lord,	45:09
	you got me straight, what about him?	45:11
	How many times when, at our labor, we know the right thing	45:17
	to do and we know what is responsible in our lives	45:22
	but rather than doing that we check our our neighbor.	45:26
	We look them and we say, they're not doing it,	45:29
	why should I?	45:32
	How many times when everybody around us is cheating	45:35
	on their income tax and not telling the truth about how much	45:38
	they gave to church and other places, we look and say,	45:41
	we don't have to follow the rules because no one else is.	45:46
	I imagine that must have flashed rapidly through his mind	45:50
	and he said, what about John?	45:53
	Jesus responded, no matter what happens to him,	46:00
	you take responsibility for your life and you follow me.	46:06
	Jesus has a strange way of challenging us to deal with	46:16
	the future without knowing it.	46:20
	That we can stand easy knowing that God, the Creator,	46:23
	a sustain, redeemer God, provides for us all that is	46:28
	necessary for our continued good existence	46:32
	and that we face the future knowing that	46:35
	that Creator God still is in control of our world	46:38
	and if we would allow that power to become our power	46:42
	we can change the world too.	46:46
	He didn't respond to what would happen to his	46:51
	beloved disciple, John, but rather says it doesn't make	46:55
	any difference to you what happens to him.	46:59
	I want you to do something specific.	47:02
	Follow me.	47:06
	That question then comes down to eternity to us.	47:10
	Each of us, although we stand corporately before God	47:15
	in worship, although we stand corporately,	47:19
	the power that can change the whole world,	47:21
	we stand as that moving force for change in the world	47:24
	and all over the world, even though corporately	47:27
	we can do more than we can ever do individually,	47:30
	the question still comes to us individually.	47:32
	What will you do?	47:36
	John, Peter, Mary, Elizabeth, Joe, do you love me?	47:40
	Feed my sheep.	47:53
	Do you love me?	47:59
	Tend my sheep.	48:04
	Each of us today, deep somewhere in the recesses	48:08
	of our own hearts, need to hear this question	48:12
	and to begin working out new ways	48:18
	by which we can follow that.	48:21
	It is not a question of information.	48:25
	For we know who we are better than anyone else.	48:27
	It is a question of responsibility.	48:31
	How will you respond to it today?	48:36
	If you should find some way to look at who you are	48:41
	and want to make that kind of change	48:44
	the power of God is here even now	48:49
	and that power and possibility is yours at all times.	48:54
	I would challenge you then to make that new decision.	49:01
	To be transformed even now, that as the question comes	49:06
	over and over again, we might respond,	49:10
	yes, I will follow you.	49:13
	Yes, I will do what you ask me to do.	49:15
	Yes, I will help this world be a better place.	49:16
	Yes, I will change old relationships that have gone sour	49:19
	and make them new again.	49:24
	Yes, I will change my opinion of myself	49:25
	and make it new again.	49:27
	Yes, I will become a part of the body of Christ	49:28
	and I will serve and I will enable other people	49:32
	to discover who you are that they might serve too.	49:36
	Do you love me?	49:43
	Feed my sheep, amen.	49:47
	("Guide Me, O Thou Great Jehovah" on organ)	49:55
	♪ Guide me, O thou great Jehovah ♪	50:30
	♪ Pilgrim through this barren land ♪	50:34
	♪ I am weak, but thou art mighty ♪	50:39
	♪ Hold me with thy powerful hand ♪	50:44
	♪ Bread of heaven, bread of heaven ♪	50:49
	♪ Feed me till I want no more ♪	50:54
	♪ Feed me till I want no more ♪	50:59
	♪ Open now the crystal fountain ♪	51:07
	♪ Whence the healing stream doth flow ♪	51:12
	♪ Let the fire and cloudy pillar ♪	51:17
	♪ Lead me all my journey through ♪	51:22
	♪ Strong deliverer, strong deliverer ♪	51:27
	♪ Be thou still my strength and shield ♪	51:33
	♪ Be thou still my strength and shield ♪	51:38
	♪ When I tread the verge of Jordan ♪	51:47
	♪ Bid my anxious fears subside ♪	51:52
	♪ Death of death and hell's destruction ♪	51:57
	♪ Land me safe on Canaan's side ♪	52:02
	♪ Songs of praises, songs of praises ♪	52:07
	♪ I will ever give to thee ♪	52:12
	♪ I will ever give to thee ♪	52:18
	♪ Amen ♪	52:26
-	You may be seated.	52:34
	I would like to extend a welcome to Gray and Caroline	52:43
	Goldman and their children who are soon to be baptized	52:46
	and invite the congregation to follow with us now	52:50
	with the inserts that are provided in the bulletin.	52:54
	The congregation will be asked at a part in that service	52:58
	to declare their support for Christian nurture	53:03
	for these children.	53:06
	And please, when it is time for that,	53:08
	make that declaration as the people of God.	53:11
	That they be brought up in the Christian faith.	55:14
	And that they be taught the Holy Scriptures.	55:17
	And that they learn to give reverent attention	55:20
	upon private and public worship to God.	55:23
	And do you endeavor to keep these children	55:26
	under the ministry and guidance of the church until they,	55:30
	by the power of God, to accept for themselves	55:34
	the gift of salvation?	55:37
	And be confirmed as full and responsible members	55:40
	of Christ's holy church?	55:44
	Jesse Gray, I baptize thee in the name of the Father	56:00
	and the Son and the Holy Spirit, amen.	56:04
	Anna Marks, I baptize thee in the name of the Father	56:13
	and the Son and the Holy Spirit, amen.	56:16
	Brothers and sisters of the household of faith	56:27
	I command to your love and care, these children,	56:31
	who we, this day, recognize as members of the family of God.	56:35
	Will you endeavor so to live that they may grow	56:40
	in the knowledge and love of God the Father	56:43
	through our Savior Jesus Christ, will you?	56:46
	(congregation responding)	56:50
	Let us pray.	56:53
	Almighty God, grant that these children may grow in years	56:57
	and may also grow in grace and the knowledge of	57:02
	the Lord Jesus Christ, by the restraining	57:04
	and renewing influence of the Holy Spirit,	57:08
	they may ever be true children of God,	57:11
	serving Thee faithfully all their days.	57:15
	Also guide and uphold the parents of these children	57:18
	that by loving care and wise counsel and holy example	57:22
	they may leave them into that life of faith	57:27
	whose strength is righteousness and whose truth	57:30
	is everlasting joy and peace, through Jesus Christ,	57:33
	our Lord, amen.	57:37
	God the Creator, God the Son and God the Holy Spirit	57:41
	bless, preserve and keep you now and forever, amen.	57:46
	Let us affirm what we believe.	58:25
	We believe in God who has created and is creating,	58:30
	who has come in the truly human Jesus	58:35
	to reconcile and make new, who works in us and others	58:38
	by his spirit.	58:43
	We trust God who calls us to be the church,	58:45
	to celebrate life and its fullness,	58:49
	to love and to serve others,	58:52
	to seek justice and resist evil,	58:55
	to proclaim Jesus crucified and risen,	58:58
	our judge and our hope.	59:02
	In life, in death, in life beyond death, God is with us.	59:05
	We are not alone, thanks be to God.	59:12
	The Lord be with you.	59:17
	Let us pray.	59:21
	Holy God, our Creator and Sustainer,	59:30
	we praise you for the beauty of the earth	59:35
	and we pray for your guidance in our task of being	59:39
	good stewards of all that you have given to us.	59:42
	We thank you for the love of families	59:47
	and for the joy of children.	59:50
	Help us as the church to be good stewards also	59:53
	of the precious resource of young people who are growing	59:56
	and discovering their talents for service.	1:00:03
	We pray for our country and its people.	1:00:08
	Grant that we may yearn for more	1:00:12
	than prosperity and security.	1:00:15
	Make us hungry for justice and sensitive to the ways in	1:00:19
	which our lives affect the lives of people in other lands.	1:00:24
	We pray especially for those who are being imprisoned	1:00:30
	and tortured for their religious or their political views.	1:00:34
	For those who are sick we invoke the presence	1:00:40
	of your healing and comforting spirit.	1:00:45
	For the lonely and brokenhearted and despairing ones	1:00:49
	we pray this, be with us so that by your grace	1:00:53
	for those persons we might show forth the love	1:01:00
	and compassion of our risen Lord.	1:01:04
	Help us in all that we do to serve you and to rely upon you	1:01:08
	for our strength and courage.	1:01:13
	All this we pray in the name of Jesus the Christ,	1:01:17
	who taught us when we pray to say.	1:01:22
	Our Father, who art in heaven, hallowed be Thy name.	1:01:25
	Thy kingdom come, Thy will be done	1:01:30
	on earth as it is in heaven.	1:01:34
	Give us this day our daily bread.	1:01:37
	And forgive us our trespasses as we forgive those	1:01:40
	who trespass against us.	1:01:44
	And lead us not into temptation but deliver us from evil	1:01:46
	for Thine is the kingdom and the power	1:01:51
	and the glory forever, amen.	1:01:54
	(classical organ music)	1:02:05
	♪ Rejoice in the Lord always ♪	1:03:45
	♪ And again I say, rejoice ♪	1:03:50
	♪ Rejoice in the Lord always ♪	1:03:55
	♪ And again I say, rejoice ♪	1:04:00
	♪ Rejoice in the Lord always ♪	1:04:06
	♪ And again I say, rejoice ♪	1:04:11
	♪ Rejoice in the Lord always ♪	1:04:16
	♪ And again I say, rejoice ♪	1:04:21
	♪ Let all creation make known unto God ♪	1:04:33
	♪ The Lord is our path, the Lord is our path ♪	1:04:45
	♪ Rejoice in the Lord always ♪	1:04:52
	♪ And again I say rejoice ♪	1:04:56
	♪ Rejoice in the Lord always ♪	1:05:02
	♪ And again, again, again, I say rejoice ♪	1:05:07
	♪ Again I say rejoice ♪	1:05:17
	♪ Again I say rejoice ♪	1:05:24
	♪ Be careful for nothing ♪	1:05:35
	♪ But in everything by prayer ♪	1:05:39
	♪ And supplication with thanksgiving ♪	1:05:43
	♪ Let your requests be made known unto God ♪	1:05:47
	♪ Be careful for nothing ♪	1:05:54
	♪ But in everything by prayer ♪	1:05:58
	♪ And supplication with thanksgiving ♪	1:06:02
	♪ Let your requests be made known unto God ♪	1:06:07
	♪ And the peace of God, which passeth understanding ♪	1:06:15
	♪ Shall keep your hearts and minds ♪	1:06:20
	♪ Through Jesus Christ, our Lord ♪	1:06:24
	♪ And the peace of God, which passeth understanding ♪	1:06:28
	♪ Shall keep your hearts and minds ♪	1:06:34
	♪ Through Jesus Christ, our Lord ♪	1:06:38
	♪ Through Jesus Christ, our Lord ♪	1:06:43
	♪ Rejoice in the Lord always ♪	1:06:48
	♪ And again I say rejoice ♪	1:06:52
	♪ Rejoice in the Lord always ♪	1:06:58
	♪ And again I say rejoice ♪	1:07:03
	♪ Rejoice in the Lord always ♪	1:07:08
	♪ And again I say rejoice ♪	1:07:13
	♪ Rejoice in the Lord always ♪	1:07:19
	♪ And again, again, I say rejoice ♪	1:07:23
	♪ And again, again, I say rejoice ♪	1:07:33
	♪ Again I say rejoice ♪	1:07:40
	("All Creature of Our God and King" on organ)	1:07:52
	♪ All creatures of our God and King ♪	1:08:07
	♪ Lift up your voice and with us sing ♪	1:08:13
	♪ Alleluia, alleluia ♪	1:08:19
	♪ Thou burning sun with golden beam ♪	1:08:26
	♪ Thou silver moon with softer gleam ♪	1:08:31
	♪ O praise him, O praise him ♪	1:08:37
	♪ Alleluia, alleluia, alleluia ♪	1:08:43
	♪ Amen ♪	1:08:57
	Lord God, help us to remember that all that we have is yours	1:09:06
	and to be used in your service.	1:09:11
	Keep us sensitive to the needs of others.	1:09:16
	Help us to love you in insightful ways.	1:09:20
	Help us to tend and feed your sheep	1:09:25
	and to follow our master.	1:09:28
	In his name we ask it.	1:09:31
	Amen.	1:09:33
	("Glorious Things of Thee Are Spoken" on organ)	1:09:35
	♪ Glorious things of thee are spoken ♪	1:09:57
	♪ Holy city of our God ♪	1:10:02
	♪ He whose word cannot be broken ♪	1:10:07
	♪ Formed thee for His own abode ♪	1:10:12
	♪ On the Rock of Ages founded ♪	1:10:18
	♪ What can shake thy sure repose ♪	1:10:23
	♪ With salvation's walls surrounded ♪	1:10:29
	♪ Thou may'st smile at all thy foes ♪	1:10:34
	♪ See the streams of living waters ♪	1:10:43
	♪ Springing from eternal love ♪	1:10:49
	♪ Well supply thy blessed members ♪	1:10:54
	♪ And all fear of want remove ♪	1:11:00
	♪ Who can faint, when such a river ♪	1:11:05
	♪ Ever flows their thirst to assuage ♪	1:11:11
	♪ Grace which, like the Lord, the giver ♪	1:11:17
	♪ Never fails from age to age ♪	1:11:22
	♪ Blessed inhabitants of Zion ♪	1:11:32
	♪ Purchased by the Savior's blood ♪	1:11:37
	♪ Jesus, whom their souls rely on ♪	1:11:42
	♪ Makes them kings and priests to God ♪	1:11:48
	♪ While in love his Saints he raises ♪	1:11:54
	♪ With himself to reign as King ♪	1:11:59
	♪ All, as priests, his solemn praises ♪	1:12:04
	♪ For thank-offerings freely bring ♪	1:12:10
	♪ Amen ♪	1:12:18
	May the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ,	1:12:27
	the love of God the Father and the fellowship of the	1:12:30
	Holy Spirit be and abide with you now and forever, amen.	1:12:33
	♪ Amen, amen ♪	1:12:45
	(classical organ music)	1:13:03
	(people chatting)

Item Info

Title:

Joseph L. Gipson - "Question of Accountability" (July 20, 1980)

Description:

We need to take responsibility in the power we have from God and use that power to serve others and to serve God. (Abstract created by Duke Divinity School staff.)
Key quotation: "Do you love me? Tend my sheep. Each of us today, somewhere in the recesses of our own hearts, need to hear this question and to begin working out new ways how we can follow that."

Permalink:

https://idn.duke.edu/ark:/87924/r4g737k2f

Date:

July 20, 1980

Speaker:

Gipson, Joseph L.

Biblical Book:

John

Chapter and Verse:

John 21:15-23

Subject:

Contributor:

Duke University. Chapel

Identifier:

UA.17.01.0003 RR-1104
ref7420_u4t
uachapelsermaud
duke:320267
dcrau001983
ark:/87924/r4g737k2f
5f66f5c6-491c-494c-b5e0-e1f1b488ee68

Digital Collection:

Duke Chapel Recordings

Source Collection:

Duke University Chapel recordings

Language:

English

Location:

United States
North Carolina
Durham (N.C.)

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Provenance:

The Duke University Chapel Recordings were transferred to the Duke University Archives beginning in 1970.

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