Creighton Lacy - "Global Living" Communion Meditation (October 6, 1974)
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| (spiritual hymn) | 0:29 | |
| (spiritual music) | 1:53 | |
| (spiritual hymn) | 2:26 | |
| (spiritual music) | 4:15 | |
| (spiritual hymn) | 5:23 | |
| Male speaker | Before we proceed further | 6:13 |
| with the service of worship | 6:14 | |
| so that you may follow the service orderly | 6:18 | |
| and as it is supposed to be, | 6:21 | |
| let me just mention that the bulletins, | 6:24 | |
| some of them were folded incorrectly | 6:26 | |
| so that the inner sheets may need to be folded backward | 6:29 | |
| from what you may have yours now. | 6:34 | |
| As you insert it at the top of the right, | 6:37 | |
| page 3 should begin with the Affirmation of faith. | 6:41 | |
| If you would check and fold if necessary, | 6:48 | |
| then we can all follow together. | 6:54 | |
| Female speaker | When we gather to praise God, | 7:04 |
| we remember that we are people of God, | 7:07 | |
| and who have preferred our wills to the divine will, | 7:10 | |
| accepting the power that God offers to us | 7:16 | |
| to become new creatures in Christ. | 7:20 | |
| Let us all corporately confess our sin before God | 7:24 | |
| and one another, let us pray. | 7:29 | |
| "Most merciful God, | 7:33 | |
| "we confess that we have sinned against You | 7:36 | |
| "in thought, word, and deed. | 7:39 | |
| "We have not loved You with our whole heart. | 7:42 | |
| "We have not loved our neighbors as ourselves. | 7:46 | |
| "We pray You of Your mercy. | 7:50 | |
| "Forgive what we have been, amend what we are, | 7:53 | |
| "direct what we shall be, | 7:59 | |
| "that we may delight in Your will | 8:02 | |
| "and walk in Your ways through Jesus Christ our Lord, amen." | 8:05 | |
| Hear the good news, | 8:13 | |
| Christ died for us while we were yet sinners. | 8:15 | |
| That is God's own proof of His love toward us. | 8:19 | |
| In the name of Jesus Christ, you are forgiven. | 8:24 | |
| Audience | In the name of Jesus Christ, you are forgiven. | 8:30 |
| Female speaker | Amen. | 8:36 |
| (spiritual music) | 8:38 | |
| (spiritual hymn) | 9:12 | |
| Let us affirm our faith. | 10:06 | |
| We believe in God who has created and is creating, | 10:09 | |
| who has come in the true man, Jesus, | 10:14 | |
| to reconcile and make new, | 10:18 | |
| who works in us and others by His Spirit. | 10:21 | |
| We trust Him. | 10:25 | |
| He calls us to be His church, to celebrate His presence, | 10:27 | |
| to love and serve others, to seek justice and resist evil, | 10:33 | |
| to proclaim Jesus crucified and risen, | 10:39 | |
| our judge and our hope. | 10:43 | |
| In life, in death, in life beyond death, God is with us. | 10:45 | |
| We are not alone. | 10:52 | |
| Thanks thee to God. | 10:55 | |
| Male speaker | Let us pray, | 11:04 |
| "Lord, open our hearts and our minds | 11:08 | |
| "by the power of Your Holy Spirit, | 11:12 | |
| "that as the scriptures are read and the word proclaimed, | 11:15 | |
| "we may hear with joy what You say to us today," amen. | 11:19 | |
| The Old Testament lesson is from Psalm 95:1-7. | 11:27 | |
| "Oh come, let us sing to the Lord. | 11:34 | |
| "Let us make a joyful noise to the rock of our salvation. | 11:38 | |
| "Let us come into His presence with thanksgiving. | 11:43 | |
| "Let us make a joyful noise to Him with songs of praise, | 11:47 | |
| "for the Lord is a great God | 11:52 | |
| "and a great king above all gods. | 11:54 | |
| "In His hand are the depths of the earth, | 11:58 | |
| "the heights of the mountains are His also, | 12:01 | |
| "the sea is His for He made it, | 12:06 | |
| "and His hands formed the dry land. | 12:09 | |
| "Oh come, let us worship and bow down. | 12:13 | |
| "Let us kneel before the Lord, our maker. | 12:17 | |
| "For He is our God, and we are the people of His pasture | 12:21 | |
| "and the sheep of His hand, | 12:26 | |
| "owe that today you would harken to His voice." | 12:28 | |
| Stand for the reading of the gospel. | 12:33 | |
| The gospel reading is from John 17:15-23. | 12:44 | |
| Jesus is praying to God, His father. | 12:51 | |
| "I do not pray that thou should take them out of the world, | 12:56 | |
| "but that thou should keep them from the evil one. | 13:01 | |
| "They are not of the world, even as I am not of the world. | 13:05 | |
| "Sanctify them in the truth, thy word is the truth. | 13:10 | |
| "As thou did send me into the world, | 13:16 | |
| "so I have sent them into the world. | 13:19 | |
| "And for their sake, I consecrate myself, | 13:23 | |
| "that they also may be consecrated in truth. | 13:27 | |
| "I do not pray for these only, but also for those | 13:32 | |
| "who are to believe in me through their word, | 13:36 | |
| "that they may all be one, | 13:40 | |
| "even as thou, father, art in me, and I in thee. | 13:43 | |
| "That they also may be in us | 13:48 | |
| "so that the world may believe that thou has sent me. | 13:51 | |
| "The glory which thou has given me, | 13:56 | |
| "I give also to them, | 13:59 | |
| "that they may be one even as we are one. | 14:02 | |
| "I in them, and they in me, | 14:06 | |
| "that they may become perfectly one | 14:10 | |
| "so that the world may know that thou has sent me | 14:13 | |
| "and has loved them, even as thou has loved me." | 14:17 | |
| May God add His blessing to this reading of His holy word. | 14:24 | |
| (spiritual music) | 14:29 | |
| (spiritual hymn) | 14:38 | |
| Male speaker | The farthest places of the earth | 15:24 |
| are in His hands. | 15:27 | |
| In the long span of human history, | 15:30 | |
| global consciousness is a very recent experience. | 15:33 | |
| Less than five centuries ago, | 15:38 | |
| Columbus ventured westward to reach the east. | 15:40 | |
| Three decades later, | 15:44 | |
| Magellan's crew confirmed that we live on a sphere. | 15:45 | |
| In recent days, astronauts have looked down in wonder | 15:50 | |
| on this beautiful planet earth. | 15:53 | |
| Two years ago, the United Methodist Church | 15:57 | |
| created a board of Global Ministries. | 16:00 | |
| Now, instantaneous satellite relays bring us pictures | 16:04 | |
| of the other side of this tiny ball in space. | 16:08 | |
| Whether we like it or not, | 16:13 | |
| we know that we are together in one world, | 16:15 | |
| but that realization has not yet affected our hearts, | 16:20 | |
| our values, our ways of living. | 16:25 | |
| Oh, we may jet around the circumference of this globe. | 16:30 | |
| Many of us in the last few months, | 16:33 | |
| have traveled to places literally as well as figuratively | 16:35 | |
| beyond our horizons. | 16:39 | |
| For a while, last winter, | 16:42 | |
| we shivered because we actually felt | 16:44 | |
| that the nations of the world are interdependent. | 16:47 | |
| Though today, our business' usual speeds | 16:50 | |
| and our efforts to solve economic problems | 16:55 | |
| through greater and greater industrial production, | 16:57 | |
| suggest that we did not really learn very much. | 17:01 | |
| We trot out tired cliches, | 17:05 | |
| "United we stand, divided we fall," | 17:08 | |
| "We must hang together, or we shall hang separately." | 17:12 | |
| Morality, in the words of Herbert Spencer, | 17:16 | |
| knows nothing of geographical boundaries | 17:19 | |
| or distinctions of race. | 17:22 | |
| Yet, even Christians have made very little advance | 17:25 | |
| toward a genuine global morality. | 17:29 | |
| In 1974, World Population Year, | 17:33 | |
| a few more politicians and scientists | 17:38 | |
| have discovered global consciousness. | 17:41 | |
| They have talked about control of the seas, | 17:45 | |
| though the sea is His and He made it. | 17:48 | |
| They have managed to reduce | 17:52 | |
| one of the greatest threats to mankind, | 17:53 | |
| the population explosion, to a political shuttlecock. | 17:56 | |
| They will meet next month to discuss world food supplies, | 18:01 | |
| while literally millions are starving. | 18:05 | |
| Obviously, nuclear and ecological problems | 18:10 | |
| are global in scope and consequence. | 18:13 | |
| For the moment, we may be able to isolate mass starvation | 18:17 | |
| and chronic poverty, | 18:21 | |
| the exponential birth rates and epidemics, | 18:23 | |
| but does anyone really doubt that their social | 18:27 | |
| and political and economic effects will devastate the world? | 18:30 | |
| No wonder a thoughtful, professionally trained woman | 18:36 | |
| is quoted as saying, | 18:39 | |
| "Global consciousness is what I really hate. | 18:41 | |
| "It's spoiling my whole life. | 18:45 | |
| "I can't stand to have all the misery, violence, | 18:47 | |
| "and injustice of the world dumped into my living room | 18:51 | |
| "through the television tube." | 18:54 | |
| Solving the problems of the whole world | 18:56 | |
| is more than any single human being can do. | 18:59 | |
| So what does global consciousness | 19:05 | |
| have to do with this campus, this church? | 19:08 | |
| It was my privilege | 19:14 | |
| to spend the past academic year in Tokyo, Japan, | 19:15 | |
| at International Christian University, | 19:19 | |
| known to residents and a few taxi drivers as ICU, | 19:22 | |
| unique as an embodiment of post-war reconciliation, | 19:28 | |
| unique in its spacious campus amid the world's largest city, | 19:33 | |
| unique in possessing the only open stack college library | 19:38 | |
| in Japan, unique above all | 19:43 | |
| in attempting to live up to its name. | 19:47 | |
| In fact, as I sat on the chapel platform last Christmas Eve | 19:51 | |
| and looked out over the sea of flickering candles, | 19:55 | |
| I began formulating a sermon for this congregation, | 19:58 | |
| entitled ICU, from ICU. | 20:02 | |
| But when Bob Young invited me for World Communion Sunday, | 20:07 | |
| I decided that that title | 20:10 | |
| was too flippant public announcement, | 20:12 | |
| but the intention remains. | 20:15 | |
| International Christian University | 20:18 | |
| endeavors to be just that. | 20:21 | |
| I hope and believe | 20:25 | |
| that Duke University holds a similar goal. | 20:27 | |
| It is interesting to note that Mr. Duke's indenture | 20:32 | |
| lists the individual, the state, the nation, and the church, | 20:35 | |
| but not the world. | 20:43 | |
| Yet, I trust he would be proud of the extent | 20:45 | |
| to which Duke University's service and influence | 20:47 | |
| has reached global proportions in the past 50 years. | 20:51 | |
| This is not the place for a discourse on the academic | 20:56 | |
| or institutional definitions of a university. | 20:59 | |
| Some of you may prefer | 21:03 | |
| to emphasize the pluralism of American society, | 21:05 | |
| the diversity of interests and aims, the variety essential | 21:09 | |
| in a successful educational enterprise. | 21:14 | |
| Yet, I would insist that a university | 21:18 | |
| must maintain and periodically reaffirm | 21:22 | |
| its explicit unity of purpose. | 21:26 | |
| Mr. Duke did that in two imperishable phrases, | 21:30 | |
| the eternal union of knowledge and religion | 21:34 | |
| set forth in the teachings of Jesus Christ, | 21:37 | |
| and sane and practical education | 21:41 | |
| as opposed to dogmatic and theoretical lines | 21:45 | |
| as next to religion, the greatest civilizing influence. | 21:48 | |
| But what does it mean to be an international university? | 21:55 | |
| Not merely to include | 22:00 | |
| every geographical area in the curriculum, | 22:02 | |
| not a faculty familiar with the ruins of (indistinct), | 22:05 | |
| Zimbabwe, or Borobudur, | 22:08 | |
| not an inscription on a stone bench, | 22:11 | |
| above all nations is humanity. | 22:14 | |
| A recent study book declares | 22:19 | |
| that education for global living is person-oriented, | 22:21 | |
| and goes on to assert, | 22:25 | |
| "A culturally deprived person is any person | 22:28 | |
| "who has not experienced a meaningful encounter | 22:32 | |
| "with persons of another lifestyle or culture." | 22:37 | |
| Not how many students are enrolled from abroad, | 22:42 | |
| but whether our attitudes toward them are condescending. | 22:45 | |
| Not how much should we teach them, | 22:50 | |
| but how much we learn from them. | 22:52 | |
| Not how many languages we speak, but whether they enable us | 22:55 | |
| to understand people, including ourselves, | 22:59 | |
| in the broad context of human history and global living. | 23:03 | |
| And a Christian University, | 23:09 | |
| a current hit song by Lynn Kellogg | 23:12 | |
| says to this kind of global citizen, | 23:14 | |
| "You're a thorn in my side, | 23:17 | |
| you're keeping my eyes open wide." | 23:19 | |
| Instead of amassing possessions at home, | 23:23 | |
| you're thinking of others, while I think of me. | 23:26 | |
| We do not, cannot have a Christian university, | 23:32 | |
| not in the sense of perfect fidelity | 23:36 | |
| to our Lord Jesus Christ, | 23:38 | |
| any more than when we refer to a Christian nation | 23:41 | |
| or a Christian family or a Christian person, | 23:44 | |
| not in the sense of demeaning or excluding others, | 23:49 | |
| quite the contrary. | 23:52 | |
| In a society like Japan's, | 23:55 | |
| where 75% of all young people deny any faith whatsoever, | 23:57 | |
| there are still valid though often ambiguous reasons | 24:03 | |
| for requiring that all full-time tenured faculty of ICU | 24:07 | |
| should be Christian, | 24:13 | |
| a restriction most of us would not tolerate here. | 24:15 | |
| But Duke University was founded and should be maintained | 24:20 | |
| on the basis of a common commitment. | 24:24 | |
| Despite our differences, we gather in this chapel | 24:28 | |
| especially on World Communion Sunday, | 24:32 | |
| to reaffirm that purpose. | 24:35 | |
| For Christianity is a global faith, | 24:39 | |
| geographically the most extensive, creation is global. | 24:42 | |
| The world's destruction by God or human selfishness | 24:50 | |
| will be global. | 24:55 | |
| The kingdom of God, for which we pray and strive, | 24:57 | |
| is global, or it is meaningless. | 25:00 | |
| The Christian view of human history | 25:04 | |
| and of mans relationship to nature is inescapably global. | 25:07 | |
| The call of the church to service and sharing is global. | 25:14 | |
| For a monopoly on the gospel is a contradiction in terms. | 25:18 | |
| Whatever our understanding | 25:24 | |
| of the nature of salvation may be, | 25:25 | |
| individual conversion or human liberation, | 25:28 | |
| eschatological judgment or a community of love, | 25:33 | |
| its possibility as a gift of God offered to all His children | 25:38 | |
| must be global. | 25:44 | |
| Thus, Christ's invitation to His table is to all of you. | 25:48 | |
| My memory reaches out this morning | 25:55 | |
| to an incredibly ramshackle Batak Chapel | 25:57 | |
| in the remote jungles of Sumatra, | 26:00 | |
| to a congregation of black Rhodesians | 26:04 | |
| singing, "God bless Africa," | 26:07 | |
| to an imposing university chapel in Japan. | 26:11 | |
| I hope that many of you have similar pictures in mind. | 26:15 | |
| For today, on every continent, | 26:19 | |
| millions of Christians are holding out their hands, | 26:22 | |
| yellow and brown, black and white and red, | 26:26 | |
| for the the covenant of sacrifice and service. | 26:31 | |
| It is an empty symbol | 26:37 | |
| if it does not transform our interpersonal relations, | 26:39 | |
| our consumer values, our vocational priorities. | 26:44 | |
| On this day, in this temple, | 26:51 | |
| in fellowship with disciples everywhere, | 26:56 | |
| let us pledge ourselves to the creation | 26:59 | |
| of an international Christian university, and a world | 27:01 | |
| where we may not only acquire global consciousness, | 27:09 | |
| but practice global living. | 27:14 | |
| In the Name and Spirit of Jesus Christ, | 27:19 | |
| our global Lord, amen. | 27:23 | |
| Male speaker | It is appropriate that we pray for others. | 27:38 |
| Let us pray that the world may live in peace | 27:42 | |
| and that the church may achieve unity, | 27:48 | |
| fulfilling its service here and everywhere. | 27:51 | |
| (audience praying) | 27:55 | |
| That all ministers and teachers in the church | 27:59 | |
| may be faithful servants of the gospel, | 28:02 | |
| leading others into its way of life | 28:05 | |
| and strengthening their faith. | 28:08 | |
| (audience praying) | 28:11 | |
| That the leaders of this nation and of the world | 28:15 | |
| may govern with justice and mercy. | 28:17 | |
| (audience praying) | 28:21 | |
| That all our work may be done for the common good, | 28:25 | |
| that it be done in safety, | 28:28 | |
| and that all may be spared from grinding toil | 28:31 | |
| which destroys fullness of life. | 28:34 | |
| (audience praying) | 28:37 | |
| That those who work on frontiers of truth | 28:41 | |
| and those who enrich our lives with beauty and joy | 28:44 | |
| may be free to follow their vocations. | 28:48 | |
| (audience praying) | 28:52 | |
| That those who suffer disease or poverty | 28:55 | |
| or loneliness or grief, may be healed and comforted. | 28:57 | |
| That those who are oppressed or persecuted | 29:02 | |
| may be strengthened and delivered. | 29:04 | |
| (audience praying) | 29:07 | |
| That those whom we have known and loved | 29:11 | |
| who have died in the faith, | 29:14 | |
| may be a glorious memory to us | 29:16 | |
| and a source of renewed fellowship with all the saints. | 29:18 | |
| Lord, in Your mercy, hear our prayer | 29:23 | |
| through Jesus Christ, our Lord, amen. | 29:26 | |
| Female speaker | Christ, our Lord, invites to His table, | 29:33 |
| all who love him | 29:38 | |
| and who desire to live in peace with one another. | 29:40 | |
| May the peace of the Lord be with you, always. | 29:44 | |
| Audience | And also with you. | 29:49 |
| Male speaker | Last Sunday, | 29:54 |
| we received the offering in its entirety | 29:57 | |
| and dedicated it to relief in hurricane-ravaged Honduras. | 30:02 | |
| The administrative committee of the chapel | 30:10 | |
| feeling that it was appropriate | 30:11 | |
| not only to receive that special offering last Sunday, | 30:13 | |
| but also today, on Worldwide Communion Sunday, | 30:17 | |
| agreed that the offering in its entirety today also | 30:23 | |
| would go for that purpose. | 30:26 | |
| I have no way of knowing | 30:29 | |
| how much money you have in your pockets, | 30:30 | |
| but having read the newspaper accounts | 30:33 | |
| and seen on television, | 30:35 | |
| I do have some idea of the very desperate needs | 30:36 | |
| of our brothers and sisters in Honduras. | 30:41 | |
| And so, as we celebrate this sacrament of the Lord's Supper | 30:46 | |
| on this Worldwide Communion Sunday, | 30:49 | |
| let me urge you to give | 30:52 | |
| and to give generously in the name of Christ. | 30:54 | |
| And I can assure you that every penny given this day | 30:58 | |
| will go for relief of those who now suffer. | 31:02 | |
| Let us worship God. | 31:07 | |
| As forgiven and reconciled people, | 31:10 | |
| let us now offer ourselves and our gifts to God. | 31:13 | |
| (spiritual music) | 31:29 | |
| (spiritual hymn) | 32:07 | |
| (spiritual hymn) | 36:12 | |
| (spiritual hymn) | 36:53 | |
| (spiritual hymn) | 37:20 | |
| (spiritual hymn) | 38:06 | |
| (spiritual music) | 38:34 | |
| (spiritual hymn) | 39:06 | |
| ♪ Hallelujah ♪ | 39:16 | |
| ♪ Hallelujah ♪ | 39:19 | |
| (spiritual hymn) | 39:23 | |
| ♪ Hallelujah hallelujah ♪ | 39:34 | |
| ♪ Hallelujah hallelujah ♪ | 39:39 | |
| ♪ Hallelujah ♪ | 39:46 | |
| (spiritual music) | 39:53 | |
| Male speaker | Eternal God, | 40:04 |
| giver of every good and perfect gift, | 40:06 | |
| the source of all our comfort and joy, | 40:09 | |
| receive us and these our gifts | 40:13 | |
| as we dedicate them and ourselves unto You, | 40:15 | |
| grant that with these token gifts of our hands, | 40:20 | |
| we may more fully give ourselves | 40:24 | |
| in joyous obedience and service, | 40:26 | |
| through Jesus Christ, our Lord, amen. | 40:30 | |
| Male speaker | The Lord is with you. | 40:48 |
| (audience praying) | 40:50 | |
| Lift up your hearts. | 40:51 | |
| (audience praying) | 40:54 | |
| Let us give thanks to the Lord, our God. | 40:55 | |
| (audience praying) | 40:59 | |
| Father, it is right that we should always and everywhere | 41:02 | |
| give You thanks and praise only You, our God. | 41:05 | |
| You created all things and called them good. | 41:10 | |
| You made us in Your own image. | 41:13 | |
| Even when we rebel against Your love, You did not desert us. | 41:16 | |
| You delivered us from captivity, | 41:20 | |
| made covenant to be our God and king, | 41:22 | |
| and spoke to us through Your prophets. | 41:26 | |
| Therefore, we joined the entire company of heaven | 41:29 | |
| and all Your people now on earth | 41:32 | |
| in worshiping and glorifying You. | 41:34 | |
| Holy, holy, holy, Lord, God of power and might, | 41:37 | |
| heaven and earth are full of Your glory. | 41:43 | |
| Hosanna in the highest. | 41:46 | |
| Less it is he who comes in the name of the Lord. | 41:48 | |
| Hosanna in the highest. | 41:52 | |
| We thank you, father, that You love the world so much, | 41:54 | |
| you sent Your only son to be our savior. | 41:58 | |
| The Lord of all life came to live among us. | 42:02 | |
| He healed and taught people, ate with sinners, | 42:05 | |
| and won for you and new people by water and the spirit. | 42:09 | |
| We saw His glory, | 42:14 | |
| yet He humbled Himself in obedience to Your will, | 42:16 | |
| freely accepting death on a cross. | 42:19 | |
| By dying, He freed us from unending death. | 42:23 | |
| By rising from the dead, He gave us everlasting life. | 42:26 | |
| We remember that on the night | 42:31 | |
| in which He gave him up for us, the Lord, Jesus, took bread, | 42:32 | |
| after giving You thanks, He broke the bread, | 42:37 | |
| gave it to His disciples and said, "Take, eat. | 42:40 | |
| "This is my body which is given for you." | 42:44 | |
| When the supper was over, He took the cup. | 42:48 | |
| Again, He returned thanks to You, | 42:51 | |
| gave the cup to His disciples and said, | 42:53 | |
| "Drink from this, all of you. | 42:56 | |
| "This is the cup of the new covenant | 42:59 | |
| "in my blood poured out for you and many | 43:01 | |
| "for the forgiveness of sins." | 43:04 | |
| When we eat this bread and drink this cup, | 43:07 | |
| we experience a new, the presence of the Lord, Jesus Christ, | 43:10 | |
| and look forward to His coming in final victory. | 43:15 | |
| Christ has died, | 43:19 | |
| Christ is risen, Christ will come again. | 43:21 | |
| We remember and proclaim with gratitude, Holy God, | 43:26 | |
| what Your son has done for us in His life and death, | 43:30 | |
| in His resurrection and ascension. | 43:33 | |
| Accept our sacrifice of praise and thanksgiving | 43:36 | |
| in union with Christ's offering for us | 43:40 | |
| as a reasonable and holy surrender of ourselves. | 43:43 | |
| Send the power of Your Holy Spirit on us, | 43:47 | |
| gathered here out of love for You and on these gifts. | 43:52 | |
| Help us know in the breaking of this bread, | 43:57 | |
| the presence of Christ, | 43:59 | |
| who gave His body and blood for all people. | 44:01 | |
| Make us one with Christ, one with each other, | 44:05 | |
| and one in service to all mankind | 44:11 | |
| through Your son, Jesus Christ, | 44:16 | |
| with the Holy Spirit in Your holy church, | 44:19 | |
| all glory and honor is Yours, God almighty. | 44:21 | |
| In unity with Christ and with each other, we pray, | 44:26 | |
| "Our father in heaven, holy be Your name, | 44:30 | |
| "Your kingdom come, Your will be done on earth as in heaven. | 44:34 | |
| "Give us today the bread we need. | 44:40 | |
| "Forgive us our sins | 44:43 | |
| "as we forgive those who sinned against us. | 44:45 | |
| "Save us in the time of trial and deliver us from evil, | 44:49 | |
| "for the kingdom, the power, and the glory are Yours, | 44:54 | |
| "now and forever," amen. | 44:58 | |
| Because there is one loaf, | 45:07 | |
| we many as we are a one body, | 45:10 | |
| or it is one loaf of which we all partake. | 45:14 | |
| When we break the bread, | 45:18 | |
| is it not a means of sharing in the body of Christ? | 45:20 | |
| Female speaker | When we give thanks over the cup, | 45:28 |
| is it not a means of sharing in the blood of Christ? | 45:31 | |
| (gentle music) | 45:38 | |
| Male speaker | This time, we invite all | 47:22 |
| who wish to respond to the invitation | 47:24 | |
| which you heard earlier, to come and partake | 47:26 | |
| of the blessed sacrament of our Lord, Jesus Christ. | 47:29 | |
| The choir will come first, | 47:33 | |
| and then those seated in the transepts, | 47:34 | |
| and then moving through the main part of the sanctuary. | 47:37 | |
| The ushers will assist you to and from the communion table. | 47:40 | |
| As is our custom here, | 47:45 | |
| we would like to ask you to gather in two concentric circles | 47:46 | |
| around the altar, the ministers then will serve you. | 47:51 | |
| You may receive the elements separately or by intention | 47:55 | |
| taking the bread and dipping it into the wine. | 48:00 | |
| (gentle music) | 48:28 | |
| Jesus said, "Blessed are the meek, | 53:04 | |
| where they shall inherit the earth." | 53:07 | |
| Rise, dear friends, and go in peace. | 53:10 | |
| And may your attitude of humility and compassion | 53:12 | |
| bring joy to you, amen. | 53:16 | |
| (gentle music) | 53:21 | |
| As the next table partakes of the sacrament, | 54:08 | |
| let me suggest that you follow the ushers | 54:12 | |
| as they ask you to come and stand in the aisle | 54:15 | |
| ready to take you places around the altar. | 54:18 | |
| (gentle music) | 54:22 | |
| (gentle music) | 55:03 | |
| (spiritual hymn) | 56:03 | |
| (gentle music) | 57:18 | |
| (spiritual hymn) | 57:59 | |
| (gentle music) | 59:55 | |
| (spiritual hymn) | 1:00:37 | |
| Female speaker | Neither death, nor life, nor power, | 1:00:39 |
| nor things present, nor things to come, | 1:00:44 | |
| nor heights, nor depths, nor any other creature, | 1:00:49 | |
| shall be able to separate us from the love of God. | 1:00:53 | |
| Go confident in God's abiding love, amen. | 1:00:58 | |
| (spiritual hymn) | 1:01:01 | |
| (gentle music) | 1:04:45 | |
| (spiritual hymn) | 1:06:26 | |
| Male speaker | Jesus said, "Blessed are those | 1:06:52 |
| "who hunger and thirst after righteousness, | 1:06:53 | |
| "for they shall be filled." | 1:06:56 | |
| Arise, beloved, and go in peace, | 1:06:58 | |
| and may God satisfy your hungering and thirsting | 1:07:00 | |
| with the food of the soul, which lasts forever, amen. | 1:07:04 | |
| (gentle music) | 1:07:16 | |
| (spiritual hymn) | 1:07:54 | |
| (gentle music) | 1:10:23 | |
| (spiritual hymn) | 1:11:31 | |
| Female speaker | Jesus said, | 1:13:22 |
| "I have come that they may have life, | 1:13:23 | |
| and have it more abundantly." | 1:13:26 | |
| Go in peace, and may your abundant life in Christ | 1:13:28 | |
| overflow in love and service, amen. | 1:13:33 | |
| (spiritual hymn) | 1:13:39 | |
| (gentle music) | 1:14:43 | |
| (spiritual hymn) | 1:15:42 | |
| Male speaker | John writes, | 1:17:00 |
| "For God's so loved the world that He gave His only son, | 1:17:01 | |
| "whoever believes in him shall not perish, | 1:17:05 | |
| "but have eternal life." | 1:17:07 | |
| Arise, beloved of Christ, | 1:17:10 | |
| and go in the assurance that God loves you so much | 1:17:12 | |
| that He gave himself for you. | 1:17:16 | |
| And as you go, | 1:17:19 | |
| go willing to give yourself in love to others, amen. | 1:17:20 | |
| (spiritual hymn) | 1:17:25 | |
| There may be persons sitting in the pews | 1:17:41 | |
| who wish to receive communion, where you are? | 1:17:45 | |
| If so, would you please indicate that at this moment? | 1:17:49 | |
| We'll be very pleased to bring the elements | 1:17:54 | |
| where you are seated. | 1:17:57 | |
| (gentle music) | 1:18:00 |
| - | God be with you. | 0:03 |
| I love you. | 0:04 | |
| God loves you. | 0:06 | |
| And so, as we now conclude this blessed sacrament | 0:07 | |
| of our Lord, and as we, ministers exchange the peace | 0:11 | |
| with one another, and with some of you, I invite you | 0:15 | |
| to join in this experience with those around you, | 0:20 | |
| as we exchange the peace | 0:23 | |
| and the love of God with one another. | 0:25 | |
| (air whooshing) | 0:30 | |
| (gentle orchestral music) | 0:54 | |
| (singing in foreign language) | 1:36 | |
| - | Go out in peace to serve God | 4:15 |
| and your neighbor in all that you do. | 4:18 | |
| (indistinct) | 4:21 | |
| The blessing of Almighty God, father, son | 4:24 | |
| and Holy Spirit is with you always. | 4:28 | |
| (singing in foreign language) | 4:34 | |
| (bell dinging) | 5:38 | |
| (gentle orchestral music) | 5:51 |
