William Jefferies - "The Spirit and Peace" (June 10, 1973)
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| - | This is the final test for this take. | 0:05 |
| Testing one, two, three, four. | 0:07 | |
| This is the final test for this take. | 0:09 | |
| Testing one, | 0:11 | |
| two, | 0:13 | |
| three, | 0:14 | |
| four. | 0:15 | |
| - | Who a man, Jesus, to reconcile and make new. | 0:18 |
| Who works in us and others, by His Spirit. We trust him. | 0:22 | |
| He calls us to be in His church, to celebrate His presence, | 0:28 | |
| to love and serve others, to seek justice and resist evil, | 0:33 | |
| to proclaim Jesus, crucified and risen, | 0:39 | |
| our judge and our hope, in life in death. | 0:43 | |
| In life beyond death, God is with us. We are not alone. | 0:48 | |
| Thank you to God. | 0:54 | |
| The Lord be with you. | 0:56 | |
| - | (murmurs). | |
| - | Let us pray. | 1:00 |
| Oh Father, we offer you our thanksgiving this morning | 1:09 | |
| for individuals who allow your Spirit to grow within them | 1:14 | |
| and to reach out to other human beings with your love. | 1:19 | |
| For those who help when they are confronted by need, | 1:23 | |
| who work for change, when and where it is necessary. | 1:28 | |
| For those who are willing to share time, knowledge, | 1:33 | |
| and skill, where they have it to give. | 1:36 | |
| Who offer warmth laughter and friendship | 1:40 | |
| and respect the dignity of every human being. | 1:44 | |
| For those who bring joy and meaning to our lives, | 1:48 | |
| simply by existing. | 1:52 | |
| You know that there are many of us who praise you today | 1:56 | |
| with heavy hearts and troubled minds. We are numb with loss. | 1:59 | |
| Some of us are afraid of changes which are in process. | 2:06 | |
| Some are sick with fear for persons we love. | 2:10 | |
| Comfort us in our fear and grief | 2:15 | |
| and help us rejoice in your presence. | 2:19 | |
| Oh God, hear our prayer for all our brothers and sisters | 2:24 | |
| on this earth. | 2:27 | |
| Those who need food this day in order to survive, | 2:29 | |
| for thousands of refugees with no homes | 2:34 | |
| and little hope for a future. | 2:37 | |
| For all victims of war, including ourselves. | 2:41 | |
| For children who will never develop their minds and skills | 2:46 | |
| and will move tiredly through all their days. | 2:51 | |
| For persons who are responsible for the welfare of cities, | 2:55 | |
| states, nations and all the world. | 2:59 | |
| For those who have lost hope and are considering suicide. | 3:04 | |
| For those who have no reason to hope | 3:10 | |
| and yet go on hoping and living. | 3:12 | |
| For those of us who have so much in comparison | 3:16 | |
| and who feel guilty because we are unwilling or unable | 3:21 | |
| to give some of it up, to meet the needs of others. | 3:25 | |
| Only you can help us change our world | 3:31 | |
| and care for your people. | 3:33 | |
| May your Holy Spirit fill our lives with comfort, | 3:36 | |
| with illumination and with a love and concern so strong | 3:40 | |
| that these things in our lives can finally be changed. | 3:46 | |
| Amen. | 3:53 | |
| Our guest minister today is the Reverend William Jeffries, | 3:57 | |
| Executive Secretary at (clears throat) | 4:01 | |
| American Friends Service Committee. | 4:04 | |
| We welcome him to this service of worship | 4:06 | |
| and to this worshiping community. | 4:09 | |
| Reverend Jeffries. | 4:13 | |
| - | When I graduated from the Divinity School here at Duke | 4:26 |
| 17 years ago, this month, | 4:30 | |
| I did not know where God's will | 4:34 | |
| would take me through His Spirit. | 4:37 | |
| Our scripture today describes, at Pentecost the in dwelling | 4:42 | |
| of the Holy Spirit and the followers of Jesus | 4:50 | |
| for the first century. | 4:53 | |
| Leading them to a great burst of energy and testifying | 4:55 | |
| to the Kingdom of God and the world. | 5:01 | |
| The Spirit still comes as we bid Him | 5:05 | |
| into people's lives today. | 5:10 | |
| And puts new values, new priorities, new commitments, | 5:13 | |
| new actions on to us. | 5:19 | |
| And make us bold to be, and to do | 5:23 | |
| that which we could not possibly have done | 5:27 | |
| or been without the Spirit. | 5:30 | |
| Peter and the other disciples were relatively unaltered men. | 5:33 | |
| People who could hardly be expected to speak up. | 5:39 | |
| Indeed Peter had denied that he even knew Jesus, | 5:42 | |
| a short while before. | 5:47 | |
| The Spirit makes us bold to believe what Jesus said. | 5:50 | |
| What Jesus taught about life, | 5:55 | |
| makes us bold to accept its applications, | 5:58 | |
| to the world that we live in. | 6:02 | |
| And to stake our lives on it. | 6:05 | |
| It makes us bold to believe what Jesus said is true. | 6:09 | |
| To believe that what he said | 6:13 | |
| is a way to justice and to truth and to peace. | 6:16 | |
| In my work and the special appointment I'm with | 6:22 | |
| with the American Friend Service Committee, | 6:25 | |
| I work in the field of peace and world order. | 6:27 | |
| I've given a lot of thought to Christian principles | 6:34 | |
| that make for peace. | 6:39 | |
| Since the days when I was here, even at the Divinity School. | 6:41 | |
| In the first place and probably above all | 6:47 | |
| is the fact that all persons | 6:50 | |
| are children of one God. | 6:54 | |
| There is not one God for the USA, another for Canada | 6:58 | |
| and another for Europe and another for Asia | 7:04 | |
| and least of all for Southeast Asia. | 7:07 | |
| No, there is one God overall. | 7:11 | |
| The concern of God the Father for mankind is universal. | 7:16 | |
| And whether or not it accords with our biases | 7:23 | |
| and our prejudices, we must recognize | 7:28 | |
| that we cannot divide the world into we, they. | 7:33 | |
| Into those who are like us and whom we like | 7:39 | |
| and those who are not. | 7:43 | |
| Or into an east block and a west block | 7:46 | |
| or a group of communists and of non-communist nations. | 7:50 | |
| Where we're talking about God's children, | 7:56 | |
| brothers and sisters of one another and of us. | 8:01 | |
| In the second place Jesus made it quite clear | 8:08 | |
| and unequivocal, that we are to love our enemies. | 8:11 | |
| That we are to love those | 8:21 | |
| with whom we have caused to be [indistinct]. | 8:24 | |
| Those who are or would be enemies of our nation. | 8:29 | |
| That if we are to be children of God, | 8:36 | |
| if we're to claim any part of God's Spirit, | 8:39 | |
| indeed if we would let God's Spirit come into our life, | 8:44 | |
| it's incumbent upon us, to love our enemies. | 8:48 | |
| This means that God cares about the people being harmed | 8:56 | |
| in Vietnam, both in South Vietnam and in North Vietnam. | 9:01 | |
| Whether or not they're harmed by people | 9:08 | |
| who call themselves Christians, God cares about them. | 9:12 | |
| This came home to me freshly just two years ago last month, | 9:18 | |
| with the birth of my third son. | 9:22 | |
| The most precious event to all of our family. | 9:27 | |
| And as I considered this precious little one, | 9:32 | |
| I thought, | 9:37 | |
| how precious, are the children of Vietnam to their parents? | 9:39 | |
| And that they're ever bit as precious in the sight of God | 9:48 | |
| as this child that is so dear to me. | 9:53 | |
| If we're to be Christians, | 9:59 | |
| if we are to live the Spirit of God, | 10:02 | |
| this is a fact that cannot escape us. | 10:05 | |
| And as the Congress debates military budgets, | 10:08 | |
| as they talk about having a draft. | 10:12 | |
| As our policies continue to alienate | 10:16 | |
| large parts of the world, | 10:19 | |
| we are faced with the fact | 10:23 | |
| that all people are children of God | 10:27 | |
| and that there is no one too much of an enemy | 10:31 | |
| for us to love. | 10:36 | |
| A third Christian tenant that makes for peace | 10:41 | |
| is what is commonly called the golden rule, | 10:45 | |
| to treat others, including other nations, | 10:49 | |
| as we ourselves would want to be treated. | 10:53 | |
| Not as we are being treated, | 10:56 | |
| not as we think we might be treated, | 10:58 | |
| not as we think we're about to be treated, | 11:01 | |
| but as we would want them to treat us. | 11:04 | |
| The very least that this means | 11:09 | |
| as we translate it into international affairs | 11:11 | |
| is something called self-determination. | 11:15 | |
| A self-determination is a term to which a lot of lip service | 11:19 | |
| has been given ever since the time of Woodrow Wilson | 11:23 | |
| in the First World War. | 11:27 | |
| But usually it's twisted to mean | 11:30 | |
| that you're free to determine for yourself | 11:33 | |
| as long as you determine the way | 11:37 | |
| we've already determined for you. | 11:39 | |
| The whole hard episode in Vietnam | 11:43 | |
| was done to our in incantation of self-determination. | 11:47 | |
| But our policy makers | 11:51 | |
| are willing for them to seek independence | 11:53 | |
| only according to the way | 11:56 | |
| that they were willing for them to do it. | 11:58 | |
| As long as they were safely | 12:01 | |
| in some sort of anti-communist pool. | 12:03 | |
| If self determination, means anything. | 12:11 | |
| It means that people must be free | 12:16 | |
| to make their own mistakes. | 12:19 | |
| Woe onto the parent | 12:22 | |
| in our own society | 12:25 | |
| who tries to give their children, their teenagers | 12:28 | |
| only a enough self-determination | 12:33 | |
| to think that they're independent | 12:36 | |
| without being willing for them to take the final steps | 12:40 | |
| that involve the possibility of mistakes. | 12:45 | |
| And willing to develop a part of the world as we have seen. | 12:50 | |
| If we continue to try to press | 12:55 | |
| the emerging third world countries | 12:59 | |
| with their own needs and their own cultural backgrounds | 13:02 | |
| and their own aspirations, into our mold. | 13:06 | |
| A fourth Christian tenant we must look at | 13:13 | |
| if we would have peace, | 13:16 | |
| is what Jesus said in the Sermon on the Mount, | 13:21 | |
| judge not, | 13:24 | |
| lest you be judged. | 13:26 | |
| For with the same measure you measure, | 13:28 | |
| you will be judged unto you. | 13:32 | |
| This means that we should be ware of self-righteousness, | 13:35 | |
| because self-righteousness can assuredly lead | 13:41 | |
| to moral blindness and to ruin for a nation, | 13:44 | |
| as it does for the individual. | 13:49 | |
| As the Old Testament says, pride goes before destruction | 13:53 | |
| and a hotty spirit before a fall. | 13:58 | |
| We are all too prone | 14:03 | |
| to judge ourselves by our own fine aspirations | 14:06 | |
| while confessing the sins of other nations, | 14:11 | |
| by their less than ideal performance. | 14:14 | |
| We need to give to others more credit for their aspirations. | 14:18 | |
| And to take a hard and critical look at our own policy | 14:24 | |
| to make sure that there's not a beam in our eye | 14:29 | |
| that is blinding us and dooming us and our children. | 14:33 | |
| The heart of self-righteousness, current year | 14:41 | |
| to the speaking of the ceasefire violations | 14:45 | |
| in Vietnam by the other side. | 14:49 | |
| When back in January, our president expressed the policy | 14:52 | |
| of ignoring the ceasefire accords, | 14:57 | |
| by announcing that the only government | 15:01 | |
| he would continue to recognize | 15:03 | |
| is that of the two dictatorship in Saigon, | 15:05 | |
| Knowing that he was at the same time making plans | 15:09 | |
| to send thousands of Americans back wearing sports shirts | 15:13 | |
| but to continue to carry on the war | 15:18 | |
| when our military had left with the uniforms. | 15:21 | |
| It is incumbent upon us as citizen | 15:29 | |
| and a Democratic Republic, | 15:33 | |
| to be critical of the actions of our government. | 15:35 | |
| The first amendment freedom of speech is not merely a sought | 15:40 | |
| to a citizen read that would consider itself free | 15:44 | |
| or desiring to be free. | 15:48 | |
| Free speech is for the sake of the Republic, | 15:51 | |
| far from being unpatriotic. | 15:56 | |
| There's not only the right but the duty of every citizen | 15:59 | |
| to speak out where there are wrongs committed | 16:03 | |
| in the name of the nation | 16:07 | |
| and to try to set our policies right. | 16:09 | |
| We may be critical of things that other nations are doing. | 16:13 | |
| We may be critical of things | 16:15 | |
| that British and French are doing. | 16:17 | |
| We may be critical of the things that Soviet Union's doing | 16:20 | |
| or China or Cuba or Chile, | 16:23 | |
| but there's relatively little we can do directly | 16:29 | |
| about these policies | 16:32 | |
| but we can do something about our own. | 16:35 | |
| And we have a duty to be constructively critical. | 16:37 | |
| For if we, the loyal citizens | 16:42 | |
| do not criticize our nation's policies, | 16:43 | |
| then it shall be left to those who are disloyal | 16:46 | |
| and those of other nations who will have good reason | 16:51 | |
| to be out to get us. | 16:54 | |
| Thomas Jefferson said of free speech, | 16:57 | |
| here we are not afraid to tolerate error | 17:01 | |
| so long as truth is free to combat it. | 17:06 | |
| And we as citizens must exercise this freedom | 17:10 | |
| to combat error. | 17:14 | |
| Another Christian principle we must be aware of | 17:18 | |
| is a belief in the moral capacity of others. | 17:23 | |
| No matter how much they've posed as a threat to us | 17:27 | |
| or our nation, | 17:31 | |
| God has yet made others as us. | 17:33 | |
| A little lower than the angels. | 17:37 | |
| There is no personification of evil possible | 17:41 | |
| in the Christian outlook, in any person | 17:47 | |
| or any group of persons, | 17:51 | |
| a double theory of history is a heresy | 17:54 | |
| just as no one is without sin in this life. | 17:58 | |
| So is there no one for whom all evil is possible | 18:03 | |
| without some good. | 18:09 | |
| Now, there was a time, eight to 10 centuries ago | 18:11 | |
| when Europeans thought that Christians and Mohammedans | 18:15 | |
| can not exist on the same continent of Europe. | 18:20 | |
| Nor indeed could they tolerate one another in the same world | 18:26 | |
| and there were vicious wars. | 18:30 | |
| The crusades, | 18:33 | |
| initiated by leaders of the church, | 18:35 | |
| by the misguided church leaders. | 18:41 | |
| Four centuries ago, Catholics and Protestants | 18:46 | |
| felt that they could not possibly live | 18:50 | |
| in the same world together, that one or the other had to go. | 18:53 | |
| And today people around the world view as a hard anachronism | 18:59 | |
| when Protestants and Catholics Kill one another. | 19:06 | |
| Over the past 25 years, many have acted as though communists | 19:13 | |
| and those who are not communists, | 19:18 | |
| whether they be called Catholics or free world people | 19:21 | |
| or Christians or by any other name, | 19:24 | |
| could exist together in the same world. | 19:27 | |
| There's simply not room. | 19:31 | |
| That one or the other would have to be exterminated. | 19:34 | |
| And this has been the pervading heresy of our time. | 19:40 | |
| Those with the Spirit of Jesus cannot not be found | 19:46 | |
| to any of these ways of looking at other people | 19:49 | |
| and classifying them and writing them off. | 19:53 | |
| Then another teaching, | 19:59 | |
| one of the recurring teachings of Jesus, is stewardship. | 20:00 | |
| This is one that we neglect certainly as our own peril, | 20:06 | |
| not only as individuals, but as a nation. | 20:11 | |
| The nation that's been blessed with more of modern things | 20:13 | |
| and dispenses more of the world's goods than any other. | 20:20 | |
| It means that nothing that we have, is ours by ownership. | 20:27 | |
| Stewardship means that all that we have, | 20:34 | |
| all that we have | 20:37 | |
| belongs to God. | 20:40 | |
| And that we're entrusted with it for his purposes. | 20:43 | |
| Anything we use that we don't need, | 20:48 | |
| anything we use that is frivolous, | 20:51 | |
| desires by embezzlement. | 20:56 | |
| This is so as a nation. | 20:59 | |
| Mahatma Gandhi said, | 21:03 | |
| that if I have something I don't need | 21:05 | |
| and I waste it or use it on myself. | 21:09 | |
| I steal it from my brother who needs it! | 21:12 | |
| So let's not be a nation of thieves. | 21:18 | |
| As followers of Jesus it means that we'll give, we'll share, | 21:21 | |
| that which we have with those who have not, | 21:29 | |
| both at home and abroad. | 21:32 | |
| There are many channels through our church denominations, | 21:34 | |
| through organizations such as the Vietnamese Children's Fund | 21:39 | |
| headquartered here in Durham, | 21:43 | |
| Through Medical Aid, for Indochina, | 21:45 | |
| through their American Friend Service at High Point, | 21:47 | |
| for many other agencies. | 21:51 | |
| And the affairs of nations, | 21:55 | |
| stewardship means that there will be some form of sharing. | 21:57 | |
| A foreign aid, | 22:03 | |
| if the term is not completely solid by self interest. | 22:06 | |
| Being careful not to seek, to manipulate | 22:11 | |
| those who are recipients. | 22:14 | |
| Being more of a blame than a blessing to them. | 22:17 | |
| No strings attached and best be done | 22:21 | |
| through international agents, United Nations, | 22:24 | |
| specialized agencies. | 22:28 | |
| It is important that our sharing be real | 22:32 | |
| and that we stop being content | 22:36 | |
| being perhaps 6% of the world's people to consume around 50% | 22:38 | |
| of the goods that belong to God | 22:46 | |
| and our brethren and sisters. | 22:50 | |
| The first epistle of John says, | 22:53 | |
| if anyone has this world's goods | 22:56 | |
| and sees his brother in need | 23:01 | |
| yet closes his heart against him, | 23:04 | |
| how does God's love of abide in him? | 23:08 | |
| Little children, let us not love in word or speech, | 23:13 | |
| but in deed | 23:18 | |
| and in truth. | 23:20 | |
| There's a place too in Christian teaching for law and order, | 23:24 | |
| and justice in the world. | 23:30 | |
| This means not going it alone in our policy, | 23:34 | |
| just because we might have a relative amount of power | 23:37 | |
| that enabled us to do as we would pushing others around. | 23:41 | |
| That our policies must be first and foremost, | 23:46 | |
| subjected to international scrutiny. | 23:52 | |
| And dealt with democratically | 23:56 | |
| in a world body such as the United Nations. | 23:59 | |
| We as Christians who helped to bring the United Nations | 24:03 | |
| into being in the 40's, have witnessed a story spectacle | 24:06 | |
| of pushing the United Nations aside | 24:12 | |
| now that we no longer have an automatic majority | 24:15 | |
| through our third world block. | 24:20 | |
| We have seen our ambassadors at the United Nations | 24:25 | |
| go down from great prestigious statesmen | 24:29 | |
| who are presidential timber. | 24:33 | |
| Through a newspaper editor, a good one | 24:37 | |
| but a newspaper editor and not a statesman. | 24:41 | |
| Currently, a television journalist, | 24:45 | |
| no doubt, a good one. | 24:50 | |
| What will be next? The public relations expert? | 24:52 | |
| We as Christians must see to it, | 24:57 | |
| that our nation not consider itself above the law, | 25:01 | |
| for it is not above the law of God. | 25:06 | |
| When the reckoning comes, | 25:10 | |
| we shall see | 25:15 | |
| who is and who is not, | 25:17 | |
| be able to go it alone. | 25:20 | |
| Finally, I would say, if I read the Christian gospel, | 25:24 | |
| that there is a prohibition on Christian fighting, | 25:29 | |
| we cannot by any stretch of the imagination, | 25:33 | |
| see Jesus as a soldier or one who sends forth soldier. | 25:37 | |
| Even the just war doctrine through which many have justified | 25:44 | |
| Christians participating in war for centuries. | 25:48 | |
| Even the just war doctrine | 25:53 | |
| and the church is most strongly holding to it, | 25:54 | |
| rules out war today, | 25:59 | |
| With the technologies that armies have | 26:02 | |
| to desecrate the image of God, and every nation at once. | 26:06 | |
| When the Spirit of God dwells in people, | 26:16 | |
| one cannot just sit still. | 26:22 | |
| We're empowered to do something about it. | 26:25 | |
| Sometimes the effects of what we might do | 26:30 | |
| are unpredictable, even startling. | 26:33 | |
| Onlookers of Jesus followers on Pentecost said, | 26:36 | |
| these men are full of new wine. | 26:40 | |
| They're drunk! | 26:43 | |
| We might say today, they're high on something! | 26:44 | |
| What can we do? We would have the principles of Jesus. | 26:50 | |
| Come to illumine our nation's policies | 26:56 | |
| and the first place we can do all that we can | 27:02 | |
| to further world community, | 27:05 | |
| learn about other countries, their people to their needs. | 27:08 | |
| Pray for them. Welcome foreign visitors. | 27:12 | |
| Consider yourself of a common humanity, with each one. | 27:18 | |
| We can learn about things that make for peace | 27:26 | |
| in our policies. | 27:28 | |
| Contact your denominations offices, | 27:30 | |
| or you might write the American Friend Service Committee | 27:34 | |
| at High Point, for suitable literature. | 27:36 | |
| Study the issues, let others know what you feel about it. | 27:40 | |
| Write your Congressman and the President. | 27:48 | |
| Many of them, many times want to do what is right | 27:51 | |
| and they pray to the same God that we do. | 27:56 | |
| They're afraid that not many people would support the right. | 27:59 | |
| And they need to be encouraged in the right | 28:04 | |
| and discouraged from the wrong. | 28:09 | |
| One way to speak, when no one will listen | 28:13 | |
| is something that's been done many times, | 28:17 | |
| will be needed many times in the future perhaps, | 28:21 | |
| is what the Quakers call public witness, to demonstrate. | 28:25 | |
| Some of you may have seen at Five Points. | 28:29 | |
| I think they still do it, the noon on Thursdays. | 28:32 | |
| A vigil, a witness, a public testimony | 28:36 | |
| of Durham area people | 28:42 | |
| for peace, seeking peace, real peace | 28:45 | |
| in Indochina. | 28:50 | |
| You can remove yourself as many have done | 28:54 | |
| from the war making system. | 28:57 | |
| Make sure that your occupation | 29:00 | |
| is not one that makes war materials. | 29:03 | |
| If you are a student of science or engineering | 29:07 | |
| or even the social sciences, | 29:11 | |
| ask God's help in leading you into enterprises | 29:16 | |
| that will shun the making a weaponry | 29:21 | |
| and the manipulation of people. | 29:24 | |
| Refuse yourself to fight | 29:29 | |
| if you were to be put in a situation like that. | 29:31 | |
| President John Kennedy said once while he was President | 29:35 | |
| that until the conscientious objector | 29:39 | |
| is accorded the same honor in our society, | 29:43 | |
| that the war hero is, we cannot expect to have peace. | 29:47 | |
| There have been many who have taken risks for peace | 29:56 | |
| along this line. | 29:59 | |
| Thousands of draft refusers. | 30:01 | |
| Tens of thousands in prison, | 30:04 | |
| in exile, awaiting trial. | 30:08 | |
| We can refuse to let our substance, our money be used, | 30:15 | |
| which is really God's money be used for war. | 30:20 | |
| There are many who don't pay war taxes willingly. | 30:25 | |
| About 60% of our federal taxes go for war, | 30:29 | |
| war material and war debts. | 30:34 | |
| Some don't pay the telephone tax. | 30:37 | |
| The 9% that was added in 1966, | 30:39 | |
| to pay for the Vietnam War. | 30:44 | |
| Some refuse the 60% Federal Income Tax | 30:47 | |
| and give the money to help others. | 30:50 | |
| One such was a young man, who's been a teacher in Durham | 30:53 | |
| the last two years. | 30:56 | |
| He's being tried in Greensboro tomorrow, | 30:58 | |
| for refusing the Withholding Tax. | 31:01 | |
| Lyle Snyder took this course of action | 31:04 | |
| because of his and his wife's Christian convictions, | 31:07 | |
| Knowing that it could cost him a year in prison | 31:11 | |
| and much money, time away from his wife and son. | 31:14 | |
| The Spirit has led Christians in all centuries | 31:20 | |
| to take risks for what is right | 31:24 | |
| and what they perceive that needs to be done. | 31:27 | |
| You can't predict | 31:30 | |
| all the things that God's Spirit might lead you to do | 31:31 | |
| and you can't judge what God's Spirit | 31:35 | |
| is leading someone else to do, | 31:39 | |
| but there's one thing sure of, | 31:43 | |
| we must open ourselves to the Spirit of God | 31:46 | |
| and we must be obedient. | 31:50 | |
| It was said of the early disciples, | 31:52 | |
| they are full of new wine. | 31:54 | |
| People might take you to task for what you do. | 31:57 | |
| Whenever you act according to the Kingdom of God, | 32:02 | |
| rather than what's expected of you, | 32:06 | |
| according to ancient traditions, to what people think. | 32:08 | |
| People are going to think you're somehow, out of your head. | 32:13 | |
| Left to their own devices the world | 32:18 | |
| has always reacted with arrogance, | 32:22 | |
| with defensiveness with military power. | 32:25 | |
| Later it was said of the apostles, | 32:31 | |
| these men who have turned the world upside down | 32:35 | |
| have come here. | 32:40 | |
| Also, | 32:41 | |
| a Spirit would remake the world, | 32:44 | |
| even in the face of those who did not understand | 32:48 | |
| and those who would stand in the way. | 32:52 | |
| The Spirit calls us today, | 32:56 | |
| to follow the teachings of Jesus, | 33:00 | |
| to make our lives and our public life together, | 33:03 | |
| pattern after the Kingdom of God. | 33:07 | |
| Let us pray. | 33:11 | |
| Eternal God, our Father | 33:16 | |
| Thou to whom we owe our ultimate allegiance. | 33:21 | |
| Thou to whom we look for every good thing in life. | 33:27 | |
| And from whom we draw the inspiration | 33:31 | |
| for every good noble and selfless act. | 33:35 | |
| Come into our hearts. | 33:41 | |
| Let us open ourselves to Thy Spirit. | 33:44 | |
| Give thanks | 33:49 | |
| with lies of gratitude | 33:51 | |
| and service. | 33:54 | |
| Now and forever more | 33:56 | |
| through Christ our Lord, | 33:59 | |
| Amen. | 34:02 | |
| (liturgical piano music) | 34:06 | |
| (congregation singing indistinctively) | 34:46 | |
| (liturgical piano music) | 37:05 | |
| (singing indistinctively) | 38:29 | |
| (congregation singing indistinctively) | 41:37 | |
| (upbeat liturgical piano music) | 43:11 | |
| (singing indistinctively) | 43:46 | |
| ♪ Hallelujah ♪ | 43:58 | |
| ♪ Hallelujah ♪ | 44:01 | |
| (singing indistinctively) | 44:05 | |
| ♪ Hallelujah ♪ | 44:17 | |
| ♪ Hallelujah ♪ | 44:20 | |
| ♪ Hallelujah ♪ | 44:23 | |
| ♪ Hallelujah ♪ | 44:26 | |
| ♪ Hallelujah ♪ | 44:29 | |
| - | Oh God. We give you thanks for all all we have been given. | 44:49 |
| And now we dedicate these gifts of money | 44:54 | |
| to be used in your world. | 44:57 | |
| And with it, our own lives, | 44:59 | |
| even though we are afraid of what you may choose | 45:02 | |
| to do with them. | 45:05 | |
| Amen. | 45:07 | |
| (liturgical piano music) | 45:10 | |
| (singing indistinctively) | 45:45 | |
| (liturgical piano music) | 47:35 | |
| (singing indistinctively) | 50:08 | |
| (church bell ringing) | 50:59 | |
| (upbeat piano music) | 51:18 | |
| - | Perfect ending for us all. | 52:17 |
| (laughing) | 52:19 | |
| - | Yeah | 52:20 |
| (door banging) | 52:21 | |
| (upbeat piano music) | 52:23 | |
| (murmurs) | 52:27 | |
| (whistling) | 52:29 | |
| (murmuring) | 52:32 | |
| - | Hurry up! | 52:39 |
| - | I didn't hear you. | 52:44 |
| - | Didn't hear what? | 52:45 |
| - | What was it? | 52:48 |
| (laughing) | 52:49 | |
| (murmuring) | 52:53 | |
| ♪ He's going to Paris ♪ | 53:10 | |
| (murmuring) | 53:13 | |
| (singing) | 53:16 | |
| (murmuring) | 53:22 | |
| (singing) | 53:48 | |
| (murmuring) | 53:53 | |
| (singing) | 54:10 | |
| (upbeat piano music) | 54:16 | |
| - | I'll see you-- | 54:33 |
| (piano music drowns out speaker) | 54:34 | |
| - | I'll see you soon. | 55:00 |
| - | Yeah. Next Wednesday. | |
| (singing) | 55:04 | |
| Ladies room. | 55:05 | |
| (murmuring) | 55:07 | |
| (singing) | 55:09 | |
| indistinct | Like this. | 55:11 |
| - | I'll be right back. | 55:13 |
| (whistling) | 55:14 | |
| - | It's over. | 55:17 |
| (whistling) | ||
| (door banging) | 55:20 | |
| (singing) | 55:37 | |
| - | There's only one thing I have to say to you. | 55:47 |