Lawrence A. Miller - "Faith, Doubt, Tension in Every Man" (July 20, 1975)
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| (lively church organ music concludes) | 6:39 | |
| - | Let us pray. | 7:07 |
| Let your mercy, oh God, be upon us, | 7:11 | |
| and may the brightness of your spirit illumine | 7:16 | |
| our inward selves. | 7:18 | |
| May the Christ who abides forever, | 7:22 | |
| now, come and kindle our hearts, | 7:24 | |
| and enlighten our minds, | 7:27 | |
| so that we may receive and share the hope | 7:30 | |
| and the joy of your good news to us. | 7:34 | |
| Through Jesus Christ, our Lord, | 7:39 | |
| amen. | 7:43 | |
| (lively church organ music) | 7:46 | |
| (lively church organ music continues) | 8:24 | |
| (lively church organ music continues) | 9:05 | |
| (lively church organ music continues) | 9:45 | |
| (lively church organ music concludes) | 10:27 | |
| God is more ready to forgive us, | 10:46 | |
| than we are to confess. | 10:50 | |
| The prayer of confession gives us one opportunity | 10:55 | |
| to confess to God our own willfulness and weaknesses. | 11:00 | |
| Thus together, will you join with me as we pray, | 11:06 | |
| this prayer of confession responsibly? | 11:09 | |
| Oh Lord our God, | 11:34 | |
| we have craved admiration and security, | 11:37 | |
| for we would rather be successful than useful. | 11:42 | |
| We have sought to be master rather than servant. | 11:46 | |
| We have considered numbers important than persons. | 11:50 | |
| (congregation responds faintly) | 11:55 | |
| We have been immobilized by the magnitude of problems | 12:00 | |
| and the infinite possibilities for choice. | 12:04 | |
| We have been too proud to admit our mistakes in judgment. | 12:08 | |
| We been creative in our excuses | 12:13 | |
| and imaginative in our rationalizations. | 12:16 | |
| (congregation responds faintly) | 12:21 | |
| We have been capable witnesses for the wrong things. | 12:26 | |
| We have been so eager for results | 12:32 | |
| that we have been careless about our methods. | 12:34 | |
| We have turned away from necessary conflict | 12:38 | |
| because we were frightened. | 12:41 | |
| In the midst of crisis, | 12:43 | |
| we have encouraged business as usual. | 12:45 | |
| (congregation responds faintly) | 12:50 | |
| We have neglected to worship you with our whole lives. | 12:54 | |
| We have avoided the voice of conscience, | 12:59 | |
| we have wasted our gifts, | 13:02 | |
| and we have refused to be known as servants. | 13:04 | |
| We have not been faithful to our calling. | 13:09 | |
| (congregation responds faintly) | 13:14 | |
| Jesus said, let the person who is without sin, | 13:22 | |
| throw the first stone. | 13:25 | |
| And not a rock was cast. | 13:28 | |
| Our sins, yours and mine, which are many, | 13:33 | |
| when confessed to God are forgiven, | 13:36 | |
| through Jesus Christ. | 13:41 | |
| Let us go, | 13:44 | |
| and go in peace. | 13:46 | |
| Amen. | 13:49 | |
| (church organ music) | 13:54 | |
| (operatic singing) | 14:18 | |
| (operatic singing continues) | 15:09 | |
| (operatic singing continues) | 16:00 | |
| Will you stand for the reading of the gospel lesson? | 16:31 | |
| Reading from the gospel according to St. Mark, | 16:39 | |
| chapter nine, verses 19 through 24. | 16:42 | |
| let us hear this word from the Word of God. | 16:45 | |
| "And he answered them, 'Oh, faithless generation, | 16:50 | |
| how long am I to be with you? | 16:54 | |
| How long am I to bear with you? | 16:57 | |
| Bring him to me.' | 17:00 | |
| They brought the boy to him | 17:03 | |
| and when the spirit saw him, | 17:05 | |
| immediately, it convulsed the boy, | 17:06 | |
| and he fell on the ground and rolled about, | 17:09 | |
| foaming at the mouth. | 17:11 | |
| And Jesus asked his father, 'How long has he had this?' | 17:15 | |
| And the father said, 'From childhood. | 17:18 | |
| and it has often cast him into the fire, | 17:21 | |
| and into the water to destroy him. | 17:23 | |
| But if you can do anything, have pity on us and help us.' | 17:26 | |
| And Jesus said to him, 'If you can, | 17:33 | |
| all things are possible to him who believes.' | 17:36 | |
| And immediately the father of the child cried out, | 17:40 | |
| and said, 'I believe, | 17:43 | |
| help my unbelief.'" | 17:46 | |
| May God add to you and to me, | 17:51 | |
| some of the meaning, | 17:54 | |
| lying in this word from His holy Word, | 17:57 | |
| Amen | 18:01 | |
| (lively church organ music) | 18:02 | |
| (choir singing) | 18:16 | |
| Together, with one voice, let us affirm our faith. | 18:46 | |
| We are not alone. | 18:51 | |
| We live in God's world. | 18:53 | |
| We believe in God who has created, and is creating. | 18:56 | |
| Who has come in the truly human Jesus, | 19:01 | |
| to reconcile and make new. | 19:04 | |
| Who works in us and others through the spirit. | 19:07 | |
| We trust God who calls us to be the church. | 19:11 | |
| To celebrate life and its fullness, | 19:16 | |
| to love and serve others, | 19:19 | |
| to seek justice and resist evil, | 19:22 | |
| to proclaim Jesus, crucified and risen, | 19:25 | |
| our judge and our hope, | 19:29 | |
| in life, in death, | 19:32 | |
| in life beyond death, God is with us. | 19:34 | |
| We are not alone. | 19:39 | |
| Thanks be to God. | 19:41 | |
| The Lord be with you. | 19:45 | |
| (congregation responds faintly) | 19:47 | |
| Let us pray. | 19:48 | |
| It is a new day, oh God. | 20:00 | |
| And we thank you for it. | 20:03 | |
| It is good to be alive, | 20:07 | |
| to see the dawning of another Lord's day. | 20:11 | |
| When we gather here in remembrance | 20:15 | |
| of our Lord's resurrection, | 20:17 | |
| this is the Lord's day. | 20:20 | |
| Let us rejoice and be glad in it. | 20:24 | |
| We offer you, oh God, | 20:30 | |
| these and other words of thanks. | 20:32 | |
| We thank you, | 20:35 | |
| for difficult situations, which make us strong. | 20:38 | |
| For sinful and dangerous possibilities, which keep us alert. | 20:43 | |
| For enemies we have made | 20:48 | |
| when we have stood for right and just causes. | 20:50 | |
| For demanding opposition, which calls for the best from us. | 20:54 | |
| For pain, which keeps us sensitive to the needs | 20:58 | |
| of our body and spirit. | 21:02 | |
| For friends who care for us, | 21:04 | |
| who really care in spite of what they know about us. | 21:07 | |
| For Jesus Christ, | 21:13 | |
| and for the love with which he loves us and cares for us. | 21:16 | |
| Since you have said to us in your word, ask, seek, knock, | 21:24 | |
| we offer this prayer of intercession. | 21:30 | |
| Right now, oh God, | 21:35 | |
| in this chapel service. | 21:39 | |
| For listening to these words, | 21:43 | |
| someone feels lonely, | 21:46 | |
| is hurting, | 21:49 | |
| is sad, | 21:50 | |
| is in pain, | 21:52 | |
| is near death, | 21:54 | |
| is crying, | 21:56 | |
| is scared, | 21:58 | |
| disturbed, | 21:59 | |
| frightened, | 22:01 | |
| worried, | 22:02 | |
| or guilt-ridden. | 22:04 | |
| Hear our cries for ourselves and for others. | 22:07 | |
| This day, this week, | 22:14 | |
| some of us must make difficult decisions, | 22:17 | |
| must face new and disturbing ideas, | 22:21 | |
| must meet hard and demanding opposition, | 22:25 | |
| and all of us must face the unknown. | 22:30 | |
| Hear our cries for ourselves and for others. | 22:35 | |
| We pray, oh God, for those who teach, and those who learn. | 22:40 | |
| For those who are ill and those who treat illness. | 22:45 | |
| For all those who make this decisions | 22:49 | |
| about our lives and our futures. | 22:51 | |
| For the president, | 22:55 | |
| the Congress and judges, | 22:56 | |
| for all who have worldly authority over us. | 22:59 | |
| Hear our cries for ourselves and for others. | 23:04 | |
| It is reassuring, oh God, | 23:10 | |
| to read your word which says, | 23:13 | |
| "My grace is sufficient for you." | 23:15 | |
| Supply us now, oh merciful Lord, with your forgiving spirit, | 23:20 | |
| your loving concern, and your sustaining presence. | 23:24 | |
| Let us know truly, that nothing, | 23:30 | |
| absolutely nothing can separate us | 23:34 | |
| from the love as we have known it, in Christ Jesus. | 23:37 | |
| And so may we know your peace, | 23:42 | |
| which passes understanding, | 23:44 | |
| your goodness which blesses us continually, | 23:47 | |
| your love which comes to us in real and personal ways. | 23:50 | |
| These and all our prayers we offer, | 23:56 | |
| in the name of Jesus Christ, our Lord. | 24:00 | |
| Your son, our savior. | 24:03 | |
| And hear us, oh God, as we pray together, | 24:09 | |
| the prayer which our Lord has taught his disciples, saying, | 24:11 | |
| Our father who art in heaven. | 24:15 | |
| Hallowed be Thy name, | 24:19 | |
| Thy kingdom come, | 24:22 | |
| Thy will be done on earth, as it is in heaven. | 24:24 | |
| Give us this day our daily bread, | 24:28 | |
| forgive us our trespasses, | 24:32 | |
| as we forgive those who trespassed against us. | 24:34 | |
| And lead us not into temptation, | 24:39 | |
| but deliver us from evil. | 24:41 | |
| Thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory, forever. | 24:44 | |
| Amen. | 24:50 | |
| In the name of Christ, I welcome you to this place, | 24:55 | |
| to this service of worship, to this time together. | 24:59 | |
| When we celebrate once again, | 25:05 | |
| the presence of our Lord, Jesus Christ, | 25:09 | |
| as he comes to us, loves us, and cares for us. | 25:11 | |
| So whether you worship here regularly, | 25:15 | |
| or whether you're visiting, | 25:17 | |
| whether you come as a stranger, we welcome you, | 25:19 | |
| and pray that you may not leave as a stranger, | 25:23 | |
| but has one who has shared your love, | 25:27 | |
| and one who has been loved. | 25:29 | |
| This evening at 6:30, | 25:33 | |
| we continue our summer services of worship. | 25:35 | |
| If it's pretty, that is, if it isn't raining again. | 25:38 | |
| The service will be in the gardens. | 25:43 | |
| If it is raining, the service will be here in the chapel, | 25:45 | |
| and you are invited to share | 25:47 | |
| in this informal service with us. | 25:49 | |
| It is my personal privilege, | 25:53 | |
| to welcome to the pulpit of Duke chapel this morning, | 25:54 | |
| the Reverend Dr. Lawrence Miller, | 25:58 | |
| minister of St. Mark AME Zion church here in Durham, | 26:01 | |
| the largest AME Zion church, south of Washington. | 26:06 | |
| A pastorate which he has served now, | 26:11 | |
| he tells me for just over 11 years. | 26:13 | |
| My family have come to know, and to love, | 26:18 | |
| and appreciate him and his wife and family. | 26:20 | |
| When first, we came here, his wife taught | 26:24 | |
| one of our daughters in the fourth grade, | 26:26 | |
| at Hope Valley school where she continues to teach. | 26:28 | |
| The Reverend Dr. Miller, his wife and family, | 26:33 | |
| are influences for good and right, | 26:36 | |
| in many ways in this community. | 26:39 | |
| And so we welcome him to the pulpit this morning, | 26:41 | |
| and hear him gladly, | 26:44 | |
| as he brings to us, | 26:46 | |
| the good news from God's Word. | 26:48 | |
| - | Let us pray. | 27:04 |
| Let the words of our mouths, | 27:10 | |
| the meditations of our hearts, | 27:14 | |
| be acceptable in thy sight, oh Lord. | 27:18 | |
| Our strength, | 27:23 | |
| and our redeemer, | 27:25 | |
| amen. | 27:28 | |
| On Sunday morning, | 27:35 | |
| the congregation is, at least entitled to a good text. | 27:39 | |
| The sermon, may, | 27:47 | |
| or may not be good. | 27:51 | |
| But at least every faithful church-going congregation, | 27:55 | |
| is entitled to a good text. | 28:00 | |
| I have a good one today. | 28:05 | |
| It is in the gospel of Saint Mark, | 28:10 | |
| 9:24. | 28:15 | |
| "Lord, I believe, | 28:20 | |
| help thou mine unbelief." | 28:25 | |
| I want to use as a subject, | 28:32 | |
| faith, | 28:35 | |
| doubt, | 28:37 | |
| tension, | 28:39 | |
| in every man. | 28:41 | |
| Raphael's Transfiguration, Perhaps his greatest work, | 28:45 | |
| shows the upper half of the canvas, | 28:52 | |
| the glorification of Jesus Christ, | 28:57 | |
| before, | 29:02 | |
| the awe-struck eyes of the three disciples. | 29:04 | |
| And if you remember, | 29:10 | |
| in the lower half of the canvas, | 29:14 | |
| we see a distort father bringing, | 29:19 | |
| his demon-possessed son, | 29:23 | |
| to Jesus Christ, | 29:27 | |
| in the dim hope that he might heal him. | 29:30 | |
| The mountain, | 29:38 | |
| of transfiguration, where Jesus prayed, | 29:40 | |
| you remember? | 29:44 | |
| So that heaven was disturbed, | 29:48 | |
| and Moses and Elijah, | 29:54 | |
| came down to see what was happening on the mountain. | 29:57 | |
| The atmosphere was so charged, | 30:03 | |
| until Peter, James, | 30:10 | |
| and John could not stand the rarefied atmosphere | 30:15 | |
| of spiritual attunement, for that which is divine. | 30:20 | |
| So they fell asleep. | 30:27 | |
| Like a lot of people do in the church today, praise God. | 30:30 | |
| And Peter, | 30:35 | |
| became so excited, | 30:39 | |
| and said, "Lord, let's stay up here." | 30:42 | |
| The beauty, | 30:46 | |
| and the magnificence of the moment is so overwhelming. | 30:48 | |
| Let's build some tabernacles, | 30:53 | |
| or some buildings, or some houses, | 30:56 | |
| or whatever you want to call 'em, and let's remain here. | 30:58 | |
| But Jesus, | 31:02 | |
| refused to remain there. | 31:05 | |
| He went, | 31:10 | |
| into the valley, | 31:13 | |
| and this is life's fluctuation. | 31:16 | |
| On Sunday, we have at our churches, | 31:22 | |
| the rapturous height of worship, | 31:26 | |
| and the still, small voice of God, | 31:30 | |
| speaking to something that is deep within all of us. | 31:34 | |
| We have the joy, | 31:41 | |
| and the vision, and the beauty, and the goodness, | 31:43 | |
| and the magnificent glory, | 31:47 | |
| and that we are in the presence of the divine. | 31:54 | |
| This is our mountain of transfiguration. | 32:01 | |
| All of us , | 32:05 | |
| would like to stay there. | 32:08 | |
| But life moves from the mountain of transfiguration | 32:11 | |
| to the valley, | 32:18 | |
| the anguished valley, | 32:21 | |
| the valley with its twisted and demented forms, | 32:24 | |
| where men and women, | 32:30 | |
| who are struggling with the difficult issues of life, | 32:34 | |
| The gut issues of life, clamoring for life and for hope. | 32:40 | |
| And they cry to us, | 32:48 | |
| out of the depth of their own soul for help. | 32:51 | |
| One writer, | 32:58 | |
| said only to have the echo of helplessness | 33:00 | |
| reverberate back into their own troubled soul. | 33:05 | |
| I believe that human living moves into the glory | 33:11 | |
| of the mountain of transfiguration into the valley, | 33:18 | |
| where life is lived in all of its terrifying realities. | 33:22 | |
| It was in this valley where things really happened. | 33:29 | |
| This father brought his son, | 33:36 | |
| to Jesus and said to him, "Now, | 33:40 | |
| if you can do anything, praise God. | 33:44 | |
| Disciples who brought in to preachers, | 33:53 | |
| and you gave them authority | 34:01 | |
| to cast out evil spirits and demons. | 34:04 | |
| And they have been around you. | 34:09 | |
| All they can do is discuss, | 34:13 | |
| debate, | 34:18 | |
| analyze, | 34:21 | |
| rap, if you please. | 34:23 | |
| Now they should have had the power but they didn't, | 34:28 | |
| now we come to you." The father says, | 34:34 | |
| "We come to you as the last result." | 34:39 | |
| The man, | 34:46 | |
| was honest. | 34:49 | |
| He said, "Now, look here, Jesus. | 34:50 | |
| If you can do anything, | 34:55 | |
| now, I don't want any discussion, | 35:00 | |
| if you can help us, | 35:05 | |
| I'll do anything, please help me." | 35:08 | |
| The father said, "you know, I have faith, | 35:12 | |
| but my faith is cooked. | 35:17 | |
| It is pressured by the tragic realities of life. | 35:19 | |
| It is up against the wall, | 35:25 | |
| and I don't have maneuvering room, | 35:28 | |
| my faith wants to hold on, Jesus, but it's sinking." | 35:30 | |
| The issues of life, pressing in on him, now. | 35:39 | |
| "Now, Lord, I want to believe, but you gotta help me.' | 35:44 | |
| We are, | 35:51 | |
| a strange mixture of faith and doubt, | 35:53 | |
| belief and unbelief, | 35:58 | |
| you know, there's a war in our minds. | 36:03 | |
| One day we cry, "Lord, I believe," | 36:08 | |
| and the next day, we wonder about it. | 36:12 | |
| On sunny days we sing, "My heart is fixed, oh God," | 36:18 | |
| but when the dark days come, and when trouble sink us, | 36:24 | |
| we wonder about whether our hearts are fixed or not. | 36:30 | |
| Sydney Lanier describes, | 36:38 | |
| the state of living as hard in and head out, | 36:42 | |
| the split personality in religion, | 36:45 | |
| and this is a problem for the father, | 36:47 | |
| in the text, he cries, "Jesus, | 36:50 | |
| help me When my faith falls short." | 36:53 | |
| The foot of the mountain, | 37:01 | |
| there, Jesus, was confront with faith, | 37:05 | |
| doubt, tension. | 37:11 | |
| And I remember when this thing first confronted me | 37:13 | |
| I was in a civil rights march in Montgomery, Alabama. | 37:18 | |
| And we were singing, "We shall overcome." | 37:24 | |
| We shall overcome, someday deep down in my heart, | 37:28 | |
| I do believe. | 37:32 | |
| And then, | 37:36 | |
| the corroding effects of doubt gripped my own life, | 37:38 | |
| and in the middle of the street of Montgomery, | 37:43 | |
| doubt, | 37:46 | |
| doubt, | 37:49 | |
| doubt. | 37:51 | |
| And I turn to Jesus, as this man of our text did, | 37:56 | |
| Lord, I want to believe, but help me. | 38:01 | |
| All things are possible, | 38:07 | |
| only believe. | 38:10 | |
| Everybody doubts, | 38:13 | |
| skeptic, believer, pulpit and pew. | 38:15 | |
| And shall within forever, live at this poor dying rate. | 38:21 | |
| Genuine doubt. | 38:31 | |
| Not mucus that follows shabby conduct, | 38:35 | |
| that is not doubt, but rather the scum that gathers in, | 38:38 | |
| on a lotic lake and clears with honest confession. | 38:42 | |
| And I'm not speaking about patience with coerciveness, | 38:49 | |
| but rather, that tight-structured religion | 38:54 | |
| where everything must be done at this time, | 38:58 | |
| and an order which is not elastic enough | 39:02 | |
| to prepare for the invasions of the Holy Ghost. | 39:08 | |
| Yes, I know Holy Spirit, but the Black tradition, | 39:14 | |
| we believe in Holy Ghost, because we believe that, | 39:19 | |
| where there is ghosts around something happens. | 39:23 | |
| But the father cries out to Jesus. | 39:30 | |
| "If you can do anything," this is genuine doubt. | 39:34 | |
| What he is saying to Jesus, | 39:40 | |
| maybe the whole scheme of things is demonic. | 39:41 | |
| Maybe life was designed to be twisted and frustrated, | 39:46 | |
| and full of sound and fury, | 39:51 | |
| signifying nothing. | 39:56 | |
| Maybe, | 39:57 | |
| maybe life is a tale that is told by an idiot, | 39:59 | |
| full of sound and fury, signifying nothing. | 40:04 | |
| The rationality of human existence | 40:09 | |
| is dramatized in the behavior of man, | 40:13 | |
| and they make their Socrates drink hemlock | 40:16 | |
| and releases its Barabbases and crucifies its Christ, | 40:20 | |
| and beheads its Paul, | 40:24 | |
| what kind of mad nonsense is this? | 40:26 | |
| The doubter ask, | 40:31 | |
| how can we believe in God? | 40:33 | |
| We too, | 40:38 | |
| at the foot of the mountain, everybody doubts. | 40:41 | |
| Lord I believe. | 40:46 | |
| The artist has to believe in beauty. | 40:50 | |
| The singer must believe that when he sings a song, | 40:55 | |
| that somebody will hear a melody. | 41:01 | |
| The teacher must believe, | 41:05 | |
| and God knows the preachers got to believe, | 41:07 | |
| that when he stands here on Sunday morning, | 41:10 | |
| and after Sunday morning, and preach the Word, | 41:14 | |
| the preachers got to believe that somebody | 41:17 | |
| is going to hear the word and believe. | 41:20 | |
| You know the story, | 41:27 | |
| of the atheist, | 41:30 | |
| who was asked if he were Christian, | 41:32 | |
| when he replied angrily, | 41:36 | |
| "No, I'm not a Christian, | 41:38 | |
| no, I'm not a Christian, Thank God." | 41:40 | |
| Everybody believes it was George Santayana who wrote, | 41:47 | |
| "Columbus found the world and had no chart, | 41:53 | |
| save one that faith deciphered in the sky, | 41:56 | |
| and trust the soul's invincible surmise, | 42:00 | |
| with all its science and with all its art." | 42:03 | |
| Everybody believes, the farmer, | 42:09 | |
| believes in the fidelities of nature. | 42:14 | |
| And in this, he puts his trust. | 42:19 | |
| The scientist believes in the universe, | 42:24 | |
| the Russian astronaut talking about he didn't see God, | 42:31 | |
| How does he think he got where he got? | 42:37 | |
| I believe, | 42:43 | |
| for every drop of rain that falls, a flower grows. | 42:46 | |
| I believe that somewhere in the darkest night, | 42:52 | |
| a candle blows. | 42:55 | |
| I believe for everyone who goes astray, | 42:58 | |
| someone will come show the way. | 43:02 | |
| I believe that above the storm, | 43:07 | |
| the smallest prayer is heard. | 43:09 | |
| I believe that someone in the great somewhere, | 43:14 | |
| hears every word that we say. | 43:18 | |
| And every time I hear a newborn baby cry, | 43:20 | |
| or touch a leaf, or see the sky, | 43:24 | |
| then I know why, | 43:29 | |
| I believe. | 43:33 | |
| I believe. | 43:37 | |
| I believe, I believe. | 43:40 | |
| In the name of him who is to know is to love, | 43:43 | |
| and to love is to serve. | 43:46 | |
| Faith, doubt, tension, | 43:51 | |
| in every man. | 43:55 | |
| Amen, amen. | 43:57 | |
| Amen. | 44:02 | |
| (church organ music) | 44:13 | |
| (church organ music continues) | 44:37 | |
| (church organ music continues) | 45:24 | |
| (church organ music concludes) | 46:14 | |
| (soft church organ music) | 46:20 | |
| (soft church organ music continues) | 47:27 | |
| (lively church organ music) | 48:01 | |
| (operatic singing) | 48:09 | |
| (operatic singing continues) | 48:37 | |
| (soft operatic singing) | 49:11 | |
| (soft operatic singing continues) | 49:58 | |
| (operatic singing) | 50:30 | |
| (soft church organ music) | 50:38 | |
| (operatic singing) | 50:44 | |
| (operatic singing concludes) | 51:29 | |
| (lively church organ music) | 51:37 | |
| (lively church organ music continues) | 52:28 | |
| - | We give, oh God, | 52:48 |
| because you have first given to us. | 52:51 | |
| We love, | 52:55 | |
| because you have first loved us. | 52:57 | |
| Use these gifts, | 53:01 | |
| and use each of us to help others, | 53:03 | |
| because we are called not to be served, | 53:07 | |
| but to serve. | 53:12 | |
| Jesus, our Lord showed us how. | 53:14 | |
| Help us, oh God to do as we know. | 53:19 | |
| Through Jesus Christ, our Lord, | 53:25 | |
| Amen. | 53:29 | |
| (church organ music) | 53:32 | |
| (church organ music continues) | 54:43 | |
| (church organ music continues) | 55:01 | |
| (church organ music continues) | 55:48 | |
| (church organ music continues) | 56:35 | |
| (church organ music concludes) | 57:25 | |
| Grace of our Lord in savior Jesus Christ. | 58:03 | |
| (preacher speaking faintly) | 58:09 | |
| (faint church organ music) | 58:40 | |
| (church organ music crescendos) | 58:48 | |
| (church organ music fades) | 59:17 | |
| (garbled church organ music) | 1:02:47 | |
| (garbled church organ music continues) | 1:03:17 |