Millard Fuller - "Theology of the Hammer" (August 14, 1988)
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(Ave Maria hymn) | 0:00 | |
(hymn singing in foreign language) | 1:45 | |
(imposing organ music) | 4:23 | |
- | Good morning. | 5:40 |
We welcome all of you to Duke University Chapel | 5:41 | |
for this very special Sunday. | 5:44 | |
We thank Laura Baxter for her singing | 5:49 | |
that has prepared us for worship. | 5:52 | |
Surely, we will hear from the community choir | 5:56 | |
made up of members from the following churches, | 5:58 | |
Epworth United Methodist, the Durham Choral, | 6:02 | |
Westminster Presbyterian, Duke Memorial United Methodist, | 6:06 | |
Duke Chapel, First Presbyterian, Immaculate Conception, | 6:10 | |
Watts Street Baptist, Eno River Unitarian | 6:13 | |
and St. Paul's Lutheran. | 6:16 | |
And we thank them for sharing their gifts with us today. | 6:18 | |
We also welcome as one of our lecturers today | 6:24 | |
the Reverend Noah Kvireh, | 6:28 | |
who comes to us from Ghana, | 6:30 | |
participating in a 1,200-mile walk for Habitat for Humanity. | 6:32 | |
In one of his book, Frederick Buechner says | 6:39 | |
that in God's continual flirtation with the world, | 6:41 | |
He drops handkerchiefs to remind us | 6:45 | |
that He is present and busy in our world, | 6:49 | |
and we call these handkerchiefs Saints. | 6:52 | |
We're pleased to have among us, | 6:55 | |
in our community and in Duke Chapel today, | 6:57 | |
someone that we look to as evidence | 7:00 | |
of God's flirtation with the world, | 7:04 | |
Millard Fuller, founder of Habitat for Humanity. | 7:06 | |
Looking at his life and his witness, | 7:10 | |
we are reminded of the high calling we have as Christians. | 7:12 | |
He's founded a movement which has united people | 7:16 | |
of many different creeds and nations and races, | 7:19 | |
in providing housing for those | 7:23 | |
who would not otherwise have housing, | 7:25 | |
and it is an honor to welcome | 7:28 | |
this outstanding Christian leader to the chapel today. | 7:29 | |
We also welcome, as is a tradition at Duke University, | 7:33 | |
the 1988 Duke football team and their coaches, | 7:38 | |
and we're glad they're with us today. | 7:42 | |
Now let us continue our worship. | 7:45 | |
♪ If I had a hammer ♪ | 8:00 | |
♪ If I had a hammer ♪ | 8:04 | |
♪ If I had a hammer ♪ | 8:07 | |
♪ If I had a hammer ♪ | 8:11 | |
♪ A hammer ♪ | 8:15 | |
♪ If I had a hammer ♪ | 8:27 | |
♪ I'd hammer in the morning ♪ | 8:30 | |
♪ I'd hammer in the evening ♪ | 8:34 | |
♪ All over this land ♪ | 8:38 | |
♪ I'd hammer out hope ♪ | 8:42 | |
♪ I'd hammer out promise ♪ | 8:45 | |
♪ I'd hammer out love between my brothers and my sisters ♪ | 8:49 | |
♪ Spread God's love everywhere ♪ | 8:55 | |
♪ Show God's children that we care ♪ | 8:58 | |
♪ All over this land ♪ | 9:02 | |
(imposing organ music) | 9:11 | |
♪ All people that on earth do dwell ♪ | 9:46 | |
♪ Sing to the Lord with cheerful voice ♪ | 9:55 | |
♪ Him serve with mirth, His praise forth tell ♪ | 10:04 | |
♪ Come ye before Him and rejoice ♪ | 10:12 | |
♪ Know that the Lord is God indeed ♪ | 10:25 | |
♪ Without our aid He did us make ♪ | 10:35 | |
♪ We are His flock, He doth us feed ♪ | 10:44 | |
♪ And for His sheep He doth us take ♪ | 10:52 | |
♪ O enter then His gates with praise ♪ | 11:05 | |
♪ Approach with joy His courts unto ♪ | 11:14 | |
♪ Praise, laud, and bless His name always ♪ | 11:23 | |
♪ For it is seemly so to do ♪ | 11:32 | |
♪ Because the Lord our God is good ♪ | 11:44 | |
♪ His mercy is forever sure ♪ | 11:54 | |
♪ His truth at all times firmly stood ♪ | 12:03 | |
♪ And shall from age to age endure ♪ | 12:12 | |
- | Gracious God, we do not always know how to praise you, | 12:27 |
much less how to serve you. | 12:32 | |
Therefore, we gather to worship. | 12:34 | |
May our praise be embolden through the support | 12:37 | |
of our brothers and sisters and Christ, | 12:40 | |
whose voices invite ours. | 12:43 | |
May our service to You in the world | 12:46 | |
be strengthened by the hearing and celebration of Your word. | 12:50 | |
In this hour of worship we pray. | 12:54 | |
Amen. | 12:57 | |
Be seated. | 12:59 | |
- | Let us pray. | 13:09 |
Open our hearts and minds, oh God, | 13:12 | |
by the power of Your Holy Spirit | 13:16 | |
so that, as the word is read and proclaimed, | 13:19 | |
we might hear with joy what You say to us this day. | 13:24 | |
Amen. | 13:29 | |
The first lesson is taken from the book of Isaiah. | 13:32 | |
"Cry aloud, spare not, lift up your voice like a trumpet, | 13:37 | |
"declare to my people their transgression, | 13:45 | |
"to the house of Jacob their sins. | 13:49 | |
"Yet they seek me daily, and delight to know my ways, | 13:53 | |
"as if they were a nation that did righteousness, | 14:00 | |
"and did not forsake the ordinance of their God. | 14:04 | |
"They ask of me righteous judgment. | 14:08 | |
"They delight to draw near to God. | 14:13 | |
"Why have we fasted, and thou seest did not? | 14:18 | |
"Why have we humbled ourselves, | 14:23 | |
"and thou takest no knowledge of it? | 14:25 | |
"Behold, in the day of your fast | 14:29 | |
"you seek your own pleasure, and oppress all your workers. | 14:33 | |
"Behold, you fast only to quarrel and to fight, | 14:39 | |
"and to hit with wicked fist. | 14:46 | |
"Fasting like yours this day, | 14:49 | |
"will not make your voice to be heard on high. | 14:52 | |
"Is such the fast that I choose, | 14:58 | |
"a day for a man to humble himself? | 15:01 | |
"Is it to bow down his head like a rush, | 15:04 | |
"and to spread sackcloth and ashes under him? | 15:08 | |
"Will you call this a fast, | 15:13 | |
"and a day acceptable to the Lord? | 15:16 | |
"Is not this the fast that I choose, | 15:20 | |
"to loose the bonds of wickedness, | 15:25 | |
"to undo the thongs of the yoke, | 15:28 | |
"to let the oppressed go free, | 15:32 | |
"and to break every yoke? | 15:36 | |
"Is it not to share your bread with the hungry | 15:40 | |
"and bring the homeless poor into your house; | 15:44 | |
"when you see the naked, to cover him, | 15:49 | |
"and not to hide yourself from your own flesh? | 15:52 | |
"Then shall your light break forth like the dawn, | 15:58 | |
"and your healing shall spring up speedily; | 16:03 | |
"your righteousness shall go before you; | 16:07 | |
"the glory of the Lord shall be your rear guard. | 16:10 | |
"Then you shall call, and the Lord will answer; | 16:16 | |
"you shall cry, and he will say, 'Here I am.' | 16:21 | |
"If you take away from your midst the yoke, | 16:28 | |
"the pointing of the finger, and speaking wickedness, | 16:32 | |
"if you pour yourself out for the hungry | 16:37 | |
"and satisfy the desire of the afflicted, | 16:41 | |
"then shall your light rise in the darkness | 16:45 | |
"and your gloom be as the noonday. | 16:49 | |
"And the Lord will guide you continually | 16:54 | |
"and satisfy your desire with good things | 16:57 | |
"and make your bones strong; | 17:02 | |
"and you shall be like a watered garden, | 17:05 | |
"like a spring of water, whose waters do not fail. | 17:12 | |
"And your ancient ruins shall be rebuilt; | 17:16 | |
"you shall raise up the foundations of many generations; | 17:20 | |
"you shall be called the repairer of the breach, | 17:25 | |
"the restorer of streets to dwell in." | 17:30 | |
This ends the reading of the first lesson. | 17:35 | |
Graebe | Let us stand and read responsibly | 17:47 |
the psalter which is number 582 in your hymnals. | 17:49 | |
"The Lord reigns; he is robed in majesty." | 18:01 | |
Crowd | "The Lord is robed; he is girded with strength" | 18:06 |
Graebe | "Yey, the world is established." | 18:09 |
Crowd | "It shall never be moved." | 18:12 |
Graebe | "Thy throne is established from of old." | 18:14 |
Crowd | "You are from everlasting." | 18:17 |
Graebe | "The floods have lifted up, oh Lord. | 18:19 |
"The floods have lifted up their voice." | 18:22 | |
Crowd | "The floods lift up their roaring." | 18:25 |
Graebe | "Mightier than the thunders of many waters, | 18:27 |
"mightier than the waves of the sea." | 18:30 | |
Crowd | "The Lord on high is mighty!" | 18:34 |
Graebe | "Thy decrees are very sure." | 18:36 |
Crowd | "Holiness befits your house, | 18:39 |
"oh Lord, forevermore." | 18:42 | |
(imposing organ music) | 18:44 | |
(choral singing) | 18:52 | |
- | Be seated. | 19:41 |
The second lesson is taken | 19:53 | |
from the second letter of Saint Paul to the Corinthians. | 19:56 | |
Second Corinthians, chapter eight, | 20:05 | |
reading from verse 13 to 15. | 20:09 | |
Let us hear the word of God. | 20:12 | |
"I do not mean that others should be eased and you burdened, | 20:17 | |
"but that as a matter of equality | 20:25 | |
"your abundance at the present time | 20:29 | |
"should supply their want, | 20:33 | |
"so that their abundance may supply your want, | 20:36 | |
"that there may be equality. | 20:42 | |
"As it is written, | 20:47 | |
"He who gathered much had nothing over, | 20:50 | |
"and he who gathered little had no lack." | 20:56 | |
Here ends our reading. | 21:02 | |
May the Lord's name be praised. | 21:03 | |
Amen. | 21:05 | |
(soft music) | 21:08 | |
♪ O Lord, my God, when I in awesome wonder ♪ | 21:37 | |
♪ Consider all the worlds Thy Hands have made ♪ | 21:48 | |
♪ I see the stars, I hear the rolling thunder ♪ | 21:59 | |
♪ Thy power throughout the universe displayed ♪ | 22:09 | |
♪ Then sings my soul, My Savior God, to Thee ♪ | 22:20 | |
♪ How great Thou art, how great Thou art ♪ | 22:30 | |
♪ Then sings my soul, My Savior God, to Thee ♪ | 22:39 | |
♪ How great Thou art, how great Thou art ♪ | 22:48 | |
♪ When through the woods and forest glades I wander ♪ | 23:08 | |
♪ And hear the birds sing sweetly in the trees ♪ | 23:18 | |
♪ When I look down from lofty mountain grandeur ♪ | 23:27 | |
♪ And hear the brook and feel the gentle breeze ♪ | 23:37 | |
♪ Then sings my soul, My Savior God, to Thee ♪ | 23:46 | |
♪ How great Thou art, how great Thou art ♪ | 23:55 | |
♪ Then sings my soul, My Savior God, to Thee ♪ | 24:05 | |
♪ How great Thou art, how great Thou art ♪ | 24:15 | |
♪ When Christ shall come with shout of acclamation ♪ | 24:37 | |
♪ And lead me home, what joy shall fill my heart ♪ | 24:47 | |
♪ Then I shall bow with humble adoration ♪ | 24:57 | |
♪ And then proclaim, My God, how great Thou art ♪ | 25:07 | |
♪ Then sings my soul, My Savior God, to Thee ♪ | 25:17 | |
♪ How great Thou art, how great Thou art ♪ | 25:27 | |
♪ Then sings my soul, My Savior God, to Thee ♪ | 25:36 | |
♪ How great Thou art, how great Thou art ♪ | 25:47 | |
- | Reading from the New Testament. | 26:23 |
Matthew the sixth chapter. | 26:24 | |
Give ear to this one verse. | 26:27 | |
Verse 10. | 26:30 | |
"Thy kingdom come, Thy will be done | 26:33 | |
"on earth, as it is in heaven." | 26:38 | |
It's a great privilege and a joy for me | 26:44 | |
to be here in Duke University Chapel | 26:47 | |
on this beautiful Sunday morning. | 26:51 | |
I'm grateful to Dr. Willimon for his kind invitation | 26:54 | |
to speak on this occasion this morning, | 26:59 | |
and I appreciate all of you being here | 27:03 | |
to share in this service. | 27:06 | |
I'm sure you will agree that we have already been blessed | 27:09 | |
by the wonderful music, | 27:12 | |
both the music sang to us by the talented soloists | 27:15 | |
and by this Theology of the Hammer choir. | 27:20 | |
You are now so named. | 27:25 | |
All of these folks from these different churches | 27:28 | |
really blends in beautifully | 27:31 | |
with what I want to share with you this morning. | 27:33 | |
The topic of my sermon or talk | 27:35 | |
is the Theology of the Hammer. | 27:39 | |
You know, we Christians are very good | 27:44 | |
at differing with one another about just about everything. | 27:48 | |
We Christians can't even agree | 27:52 | |
on how the preacher ought to dress. | 27:55 | |
We Christians can't agree on how often to talk communion, | 27:58 | |
or even what it means. | 28:02 | |
We can't agree on whether to have | 28:04 | |
Wednesday night prayer service, | 28:06 | |
or whether to even have a Sunday night service, | 28:08 | |
or whether even to have Sunday school. | 28:11 | |
We can't agree on the humanity of Jesus, | 28:14 | |
that's in the news a lot these days | 28:19 | |
about this new movie that's got everybody's attention. | 28:21 | |
We Christians can't even agree on how to pronounce Jesus. | 28:25 | |
Of course, we in South Georgia, where I come from, | 28:31 | |
we know the correct way. | 28:33 | |
It's Jesus. | 28:35 | |
We also know how to pronounce God correctly. | 28:39 | |
It's God. | 28:41 | |
And the Lord. | 28:44 | |
But Habitat for Humanity, | 28:48 | |
a movement in our time, | 28:51 | |
is bringing together | 28:54 | |
a broad array of people in Christendom | 28:58 | |
who normally don't have that much to do with one another. | 29:02 | |
While we might work in a workplace together | 29:05 | |
but we don't praise God together, | 29:07 | |
we don't even talk about God very much together. | 29:09 | |
If we do, we end up disagreeing in short order. | 29:12 | |
A year ago, we had a | 29:17 | |
big event in Charlotte, North Carolina. | 29:21 | |
It was the biggest, most ambitious undertaking | 29:25 | |
that we had ever done in the work of Habitat for Humanity. | 29:30 | |
We decided that we wanted to try to build | 29:34 | |
an entire city block of houses in five days. | 29:37 | |
14 houses we would put up, beginning on Monday morning | 29:42 | |
and by Friday afternoon we would be through with them | 29:46 | |
and we would move the families in. | 29:49 | |
We put the word out that we wanted to do this, | 29:53 | |
and people came from the east and the west | 29:56 | |
and the north and the south, | 29:59 | |
from 28 states and two Canadian provinces, | 30:01 | |
and 350 of us gathered in Charlotte, North Carolina | 30:04 | |
on Sunday afternoon, | 30:08 | |
and working with several hundred people | 30:10 | |
from the Charlotte community, | 30:12 | |
we started putting up those 14 houses on Monday morning. | 30:14 | |
Former president Jimmy Carter | 30:20 | |
and his wife Rosalynn were there, | 30:21 | |
I was there with my wife, | 30:23 | |
and people from 86 churches in Charlotte, North Carolina | 30:25 | |
came together to participate in this exciting event. | 30:30 | |
It was going to be a tremendous undertaking. | 30:37 | |
Well, we gathered under a big tent on Monday morning, | 30:42 | |
and we had a devotional time together. | 30:45 | |
We sang a couple of songs and we grabbed our hammers | 30:48 | |
and the episcopal priest | 30:51 | |
and the most conservative baptist minister | 30:54 | |
in the city of Charlotte, | 30:57 | |
charged off together to drive nails on the first house | 30:58 | |
on the first row that we were building. | 31:03 | |
They really didn't know each other before that week. | 31:06 | |
And they discovered as they worked throughout the week, | 31:10 | |
that it didn't matter | 31:13 | |
whether you were liberal or conservative. | 31:14 | |
What mattered was whether you could hit the nail or not. | 31:16 | |
And they got to be friends before the week was out. | 31:20 | |
Well, we started there on Monday morning | 31:25 | |
hammering away at those nails and sawing the boards | 31:27 | |
and getting the walls up | 31:29 | |
and before nightfall we had all of the walls up | 31:31 | |
on all 14 houses, | 31:34 | |
we had the windows in, we had the doors in, | 31:36 | |
we had the thrusters up, we had the roof on, | 31:38 | |
and it was exciting to see how an entire city block | 31:41 | |
had taken shape in just one day. | 31:44 | |
The next morning the Charlotte Observer | 31:48 | |
had a headline one page one. | 31:50 | |
"Christian commitment at work." | 31:52 | |
And they had a picture in full color at the top of the page | 31:55 | |
of what the site looked like early on Monday morning, | 31:59 | |
what it looked like at noon, | 32:01 | |
and what it looked like at the end of the day. | 32:03 | |
It was a striking difference in each photograph. | 32:05 | |
The next morning we came back, we had another devotion | 32:09 | |
we went to work, we began to saw the boards, | 32:12 | |
and put on the siding, and put on the shingles, | 32:14 | |
and about 11 o'clock I had a reason, | 32:18 | |
I forget what it was, | 32:22 | |
but I had some reason to go up to our headquarters, | 32:23 | |
the ground that we were working on there, | 32:26 | |
the property that had these houses on it | 32:29 | |
was slightly sloping. | 32:31 | |
And up at the high ground, we had our little headquarters. | 32:33 | |
And there in the headquarters we had telephones, | 32:38 | |
and we had a message center, and we had the blueprints. | 32:40 | |
That was the nerve center of the whole operation. | 32:43 | |
And I went up to take care of some business, | 32:46 | |
and I stepped out of the office | 32:48 | |
after I had been in there for a few moments, | 32:50 | |
and I saw a local, he was obviously a local person, | 32:53 | |
standing in the middle of the street | 32:56 | |
looking at this incredible scene of hundreds of people | 32:58 | |
working, building 14 houses simultaneously. | 33:03 | |
And he was fascinated by what he was seeing. | 33:08 | |
And in a loud voice, to no one in particular, | 33:11 | |
he exclaimed, "My goodness, those folks. | 33:14 | |
"I wonder who's paying all these people." | 33:18 | |
And I thought a question like that should be answered, | 33:23 | |
so I sided to him and I said, | 33:25 | |
"Sir, nobody is paying these people. | 33:27 | |
"They are all volunteers." | 33:31 | |
He said, "No!" | 33:34 | |
I said, "Yeah!" | 33:36 | |
He said, "Do these people know these families | 33:38 | |
"that are getting these houses?" | 33:41 | |
I said, "No, they're all strangers." | 33:42 | |
He said, "People don't do things like that." | 33:45 | |
He said, "It's almost 100 degrees. | 33:48 | |
"You mean these people are out here volunteering their time, | 33:50 | |
"working for nothing to build houses | 33:53 | |
"for folks they don't even know?" | 33:55 | |
I said, "Yeah, but", I said, "it's worse than you think." | 33:56 | |
He said, "What?" | 34:01 | |
I said, "These folks are not only working for nothing, | 34:01 | |
"they paid a lot of money to come here to work for nothing." | 34:04 | |
(crowd laughing) | 34:07 | |
He said, "Why are they doing it?" | 34:10 | |
I said, "Because they've got the love | 34:14 | |
"of Jesus in their hearts." | 34:18 | |
"Man", he said, "that show enough religion." | 34:21 | |
I went on about my business | 34:27 | |
back down to the construction site, | 34:29 | |
and continued to work, | 34:32 | |
but I couldn't get what he had said out of my mind. | 34:33 | |
"Show enough religion." | 34:37 | |
You know, it doesn't matter how we pronounce Jesus, | 34:40 | |
or even how often we go to church, | 34:44 | |
or how much theology we know. | 34:46 | |
What matters is whether we put it into practice. | 34:53 | |
I believe, and I suspect most of you here believe, | 34:59 | |
that we are not saved | 35:03 | |
by how many houses we build in the world, | 35:04 | |
or by how many hungry folks we feed. | 35:06 | |
As a Christian I believe that we're saved | 35:10 | |
by the blood of Jesus. | 35:15 | |
We are saved by the grace of God, | 35:17 | |
through the gift of His son. | 35:20 | |
But what is the correct response to that gift of salvation? | 35:23 | |
It seems to me that the scriptures are very very clear. | 35:28 | |
That our response should be a life of service, | 35:33 | |
a life of sharing, a life of giving, a life of caring. | 35:38 | |
And we who are privileged to be a part | 35:45 | |
of the growing ministry of Habitat for Humanity | 35:48 | |
believe that this is one part, one way, | 35:51 | |
one manifestation of the love of Christ in the world | 35:55 | |
that is reaching out and serving | 36:00 | |
in respond to the gift that God gave to us through Christ. | 36:04 | |
This little idea of Habitat for Humanity | 36:09 | |
originated in South Georgia | 36:12 | |
at a Christian community called Koinonia Farm. | 36:15 | |
I went there with my wife, Linda, | 36:19 | |
and we began to work with Dr. Clarence Jordan, | 36:22 | |
quite a theologian himself, a Greek scholar, | 36:25 | |
the man who, with another couple and his wife Florence, | 36:29 | |
had founded Koinonia Farm back in the '40s. | 36:33 | |
They'd come under intense pressure by the Ku Klux Klan | 36:36 | |
and the white citizens councils | 36:39 | |
because of working interracially. | 36:41 | |
But that violence had subsided somewhat | 36:44 | |
and there were some questions | 36:46 | |
about even the future of Koinonia Farm, | 36:47 | |
and God lead me and my wife there. | 36:52 | |
And with Dr. Clarence Jordan | 36:55 | |
we began to talk about a ministry | 36:57 | |
that we could start | 37:00 | |
that would give expression to God's love in the world. | 37:04 | |
A ministry that would bring | 37:07 | |
the different segments of Christendom together, | 37:09 | |
all of the churches that are so divided, | 37:11 | |
and bring us together in a ministry | 37:14 | |
that we called initially Koinonia Partners. | 37:17 | |
And we started what we called partnership farming | 37:20 | |
and partnership industries and partnership housing. | 37:23 | |
And time this morning will not permit me | 37:27 | |
to talk about anything but the housing component | 37:29 | |
of what we did, | 37:32 | |
but around us there in South Georgia | 37:33 | |
we had a lot of neighbors who lived in substandard housing. | 37:35 | |
In what we euphemistically call in South Georgian, | 37:40 | |
which you hear in North Carolina also call I think, shacks. | 37:43 | |
Usually uninsulated, unpainted, | 37:47 | |
usually one room wide, substandard housing. | 37:50 | |
Not suitable for human habitation. | 37:53 | |
And we said, let's start a ministry | 37:55 | |
that will provide housing for these people | 37:59 | |
who are too poor to go to the bank, | 38:01 | |
and we will use the economic system out of the Bible, | 38:03 | |
what we call the economics of Jesus, | 38:06 | |
no profit, no interest, | 38:08 | |
calling upon the low income families | 38:11 | |
to help build their own house, | 38:12 | |
and to challenge volunteers from all of the churches | 38:14 | |
using this Theology of the Hammer to bring us together, | 38:18 | |
realizing we don't agree theologically on a lot of things, | 38:21 | |
but we can agree on the imperative of the gospel | 38:24 | |
to love one another, | 38:27 | |
and to let that love be manifested | 38:28 | |
in concrete, specific ways. | 38:30 | |
And so we started building houses, | 38:32 | |
and announced to our neighbors | 38:34 | |
that our goal was to eliminate poverty housing | 38:36 | |
in Sumter County, Georgia. | 38:39 | |
Right away they wanted to know | 38:42 | |
where we were going to get the money. | 38:43 | |
Now Sumter County is a relatively small county | 38:45 | |
as counties go, about 27,000 people, | 38:47 | |
but about half of our citizens lived in substandard housing. | 38:50 | |
And as people asked us where we were going to get the money, | 38:54 | |
we said we're going to get it from God, | 38:57 | |
and we even pronounced it right. | 38:59 | |
We said, "God." | 39:01 | |
And they said, "No, we mean, | 39:03 | |
"really where are you going to get the money?" | 39:04 | |
And we said, "That's really where we're going to get it." | 39:08 | |
Well, everybody thought we were crazy, utopian dreamers. | 39:10 | |
It would take millions of dollars | 39:14 | |
just to build everybody a house in Sumter County | 39:15 | |
that needs one, | 39:18 | |
and that's just absolutely impossible to even think about, | 39:19 | |
even to dream about. | 39:22 | |
But we knew what the Bible said. | 39:25 | |
Without a vision the people perish. | 39:28 | |
We knew what the Bible said. | 39:30 | |
With God all things are possible. | 39:32 | |
And we were doing this thing as partners, | 39:35 | |
as Clarence Jordan used to say, | 39:39 | |
as junior associates with the Lord God Almighty. | 39:40 | |
We sensed that this was something | 39:44 | |
that God was pushing us to do. | 39:46 | |
He was calling us to do it. | 39:49 | |
And so we started building houses. | 39:51 | |
One and then another, and another. | 39:53 | |
And we were there almost five years, | 39:55 | |
and had built quite a number of houses. | 39:57 | |
About 30 in one place, | 39:59 | |
then started another project, | 40:00 | |
we put up another 30 houses. | 40:01 | |
And then Linda and I began to wonder | 40:04 | |
if we could make this idea work in a third world country. | 40:06 | |
And so in 1973, we loaded up our four children, | 40:11 | |
and moved to the nation of Zaire, the old Belgian Congo. | 40:15 | |
And we started 114 houses | 40:19 | |
in the capital city of Equateur region. | 40:22 | |
And then we went into the southern part | 40:24 | |
of the Equateur region and started 300 more houses, | 40:26 | |
and then 12 years ago, in 1976, | 40:29 | |
we returned to the United States, | 40:32 | |
we went back to Americus, Georgia, | 40:35 | |
got us an old house in a slam neighborhood | 40:37 | |
of Americus, Georgia, | 40:41 | |
and set up the international headquarters | 40:42 | |
of Habitat for Humanity, | 40:45 | |
and announced to everybody that we had changed our goal. | 40:48 | |
We had lifted out sights a little bit. | 40:51 | |
Our goal now was to eliminate poverty housing in the world. | 40:54 | |
Well, we realized it'd take a little longer | 41:00 | |
than Sumter County, but the idea was the same. | 41:02 | |
The principle is the same. | 41:05 | |
Again, with God all things are possible. | 41:07 | |
And we literally invited the world to join us | 41:10 | |
in a great adventure. | 41:14 | |
An adventure for God. | 41:16 | |
An adventure that would bring the churches together. | 41:18 | |
An adventure that would let us | 41:21 | |
take out of the sanctuary our lights, | 41:23 | |
and let them shine in the world | 41:26 | |
so that the world can see our good works | 41:28 | |
and glorify our father who is in heaven. | 41:30 | |
And so we set up this little headquarters, | 41:34 | |
just a handful of us. | 41:36 | |
But first there was a little group | 41:38 | |
that formed out in Immokalee, Florida, | 41:39 | |
that wanted to build houses for my good workers. | 41:42 | |
There was a little group in Saint Antonio, Texas, | 41:44 | |
and another one in Johns Island, South Carolina, | 41:47 | |
and then a group came to us from the Mountains of Tennessee, | 41:50 | |
and Morgan Scott Counties, | 41:53 | |
and all of these people said, | 41:54 | |
"This sounds like a dream we would like to be a part of." | 41:56 | |
And they began to raise money. | 42:00 | |
They began to put up simple, | 42:02 | |
but good and solid houses for God's people in need. | 42:04 | |
And the dream grew and it expanded. | 42:08 | |
And over the years God has blessed it, | 42:11 | |
and we've come to the time now and to the point | 42:13 | |
where we have work underway in 277 cities | 42:17 | |
in the United States. | 42:22 | |
We're building houses for the poor in three towns in Canada, | 42:24 | |
and we're in 59 places in 26 other countries. | 42:28 | |
So in 28 nations we are putting up houses, | 42:32 | |
every one of which is a sermon manifesting the love of God. | 42:35 | |
And we have brought together | 42:40 | |
all of these different churches. | 42:41 | |
We've brought together people, black and white, | 42:43 | |
and rich and poor, conservative and liberal, | 42:46 | |
and together we are using this Theology of the Hammer | 42:48 | |
to build to the glory of God, | 42:52 | |
and so that we might be a part | 42:55 | |
of bringing the kingdom of God, | 42:57 | |
which we visualize in heaven to this earth, | 43:00 | |
as Jesus taught us all to pray | 43:03 | |
and to live our lives in such a way | 43:05 | |
that we bring that about. | 43:07 | |
This year we are building 2,000 houses, | 43:10 | |
an average of six a day. | 43:13 | |
We walked into Durham yesterday, | 43:16 | |
and we went by the building site | 43:19 | |
and had a dedication and a celebration | 43:21 | |
where four houses had risen up from the earth | 43:23 | |
in just this past week. | 43:26 | |
And then we walked on down a few blocks | 43:28 | |
and dedicated another house, | 43:30 | |
which is nearing completion for a family. | 43:31 | |
And the family spoke there at the dedication. | 43:34 | |
We always have a dedication and we present a Bible, | 43:37 | |
and give the family an opportunity to speak. | 43:41 | |
And the father of that family yesterday | 43:43 | |
spoke in such a moving way | 43:45 | |
about what a simple house means to a family, | 43:47 | |
to a mama and a papa and to their children. | 43:51 | |
The last week of June, | 43:54 | |
we started our big Habitat house raising walk | 43:57 | |
in Portland Maine, | 44:00 | |
and Pastor Noah Kvireh and myself, | 44:02 | |
and several hundred other people | 44:05 | |
had been walking from Portland Maine | 44:07 | |
1200 miles to Atlanta, Georgia, | 44:09 | |
as a part of our overall campaign | 44:12 | |
to make shelter a matter of conscience, | 44:15 | |
to help many other people buy into this vision | 44:19 | |
that everybody ought to have | 44:23 | |
at least a simple, decent house in which to live. | 44:24 | |
And simultaneously we're starting the work | 44:28 | |
in Portland Maine. | 44:31 | |
We went to Atlanta, Georgia. | 44:33 | |
Jimmy Carter and his wife Rosalynn again, | 44:35 | |
this time with 1,200 people started putting up 20 houses | 44:37 | |
to be built in just five days. | 44:42 | |
I flew down on Wednesday to join them, | 44:45 | |
and then rejoined the walk on Sunday back in Boston. | 44:47 | |
But these 1,200 people in Atlanta | 44:51 | |
put up housing in five days for 84 people, | 44:54 | |
the members of those 20 families. | 44:58 | |
And one of the families that we built a house for | 45:01 | |
was a man named Miren Turner. | 45:04 | |
He was a hard-working man, a very fine man, | 45:07 | |
but a relatively unskilled man. | 45:12 | |
He had a job, he was working in the city of Atlanta, | 45:15 | |
but he didn't make enough money to even rent | 45:18 | |
the smallest apartment that he could find, | 45:20 | |
and so for four months he had lived in the streets. | 45:22 | |
He had slept on park benches, | 45:27 | |
he had slept on the grass with his three children. | 45:29 | |
He was chosen to have a home, | 45:33 | |
and he and I worked together | 45:34 | |
on Wednesday, Thursday and Friday, | 45:36 | |
putting the roof on this new house. | 45:37 | |
He was so happy, he was just beside himself with joy | 45:39 | |
about getting a simple place | 45:43 | |
for himself and his children to live. | 45:46 | |
And then on Friday afternoon | 45:48 | |
we gathered on a grassy spot across the road | 45:49 | |
from where these houses where built, | 45:53 | |
and we had a ceremony | 45:55 | |
of presenting the keys to these families, | 45:57 | |
and all 20 of the families were there, | 45:58 | |
and we gave them their keys. | 46:00 | |
There had been no house there on Monday, | 46:02 | |
and on Friday it was finished. | 46:04 | |
With the grass planted, the shrubbery and the flowers, | 46:05 | |
and the appliances, everything, finished. | 46:08 | |
And on Saturday morning all of those families | 46:12 | |
moved into their new houses. | 46:15 | |
So often we who have a house, | 46:19 | |
so often we who have food, | 46:21 | |
so often we who have clothing | 46:23 | |
we sort of lose touch with those | 46:25 | |
who don't have those basic necessities of life, | 46:28 | |
and we don't realize what it means to a family | 46:31 | |
to have something like a tub to take a bath in. | 46:34 | |
Just before Christmas, we built a new home for a family | 46:40 | |
down in Americus, Georgia, | 46:43 | |
and the mother of that family is named Berdie Wien | 46:46 | |
and she and her husband and their children | 46:50 | |
had never been able to have a good house | 46:53 | |
in their whole life. | 46:55 | |
They were in their 30s but had never had a house | 46:56 | |
with a bathtub in it. | 46:59 | |
Just before Christmas, their house was finished, | 47:01 | |
they moved in, | 47:04 | |
and Berdie who's a very talkative, wonderful woman, | 47:05 | |
she called over to Habitat office there in Americus | 47:08 | |
on Monday morning, | 47:11 | |
and she said, "We moved in. | 47:11 | |
"Praise God, we moved in!" | 47:13 | |
She was so excited she just couldn't contain her joy. | 47:15 | |
And she said, "When I moved in our house, | 47:20 | |
"I just went from room to room looking through there, | 47:23 | |
"and it was so beautiful, | 47:25 | |
"and finally I got to the bathroom and I saw that tub." | 47:26 | |
And she said, "I turned the water on, | 47:30 | |
"and it was so warm and it was so nice, | 47:31 | |
"and it was cold outside and the water was so good. | 47:33 | |
"I just couldn't stand it. | 47:35 | |
"I closed the door, I locked the door, | 47:36 | |
"I took all my clothes off, | 47:38 | |
"and I took a bath right in the middle of the afternoon." | 47:39 | |
And she said, "The bath made me feel so good." | 47:42 | |
She said, "I went to bed early that night, | 47:45 | |
"and I was sleeping like a baby, | 47:47 | |
"but at three o'clock in the morning I woke up, | 47:49 | |
"and all I could think about was how good that bath felt. | 47:51 | |
"So I got out of bed, I went back in there, | 47:53 | |
"and ran that thing full of water | 47:55 | |
"and I took myself another bath." | 47:56 | |
We dedicated a house in New London, Connecticut, | 48:02 | |
on the way down on this walk. | 48:05 | |
And the mother of the family came forward, | 48:09 | |
and I presented her with the Bible. | 48:12 | |
She received the Bible, and with tears in her eyes, | 48:13 | |
she said a few words, and then she left the podium, | 48:17 | |
and began to go back toward her seat. | 48:20 | |
But she couldn't just go and sit down, | 48:23 | |
she hadn't said enough. | 48:27 | |
She began to shout. | 48:29 | |
I don't know if any of you have ever been in a church | 48:31 | |
where a folk shouted. | 48:32 | |
I don't imagine you have a whole lot of shouting in here. | 48:34 | |
But I've been to a lot of services | 48:38 | |
where folks get so full of the spirit, | 48:39 | |
they shout, they say "Glory, hallelujah! | 48:42 | |
"Praise God Almighty!" | 48:46 | |
And this woman began to shout. | 48:47 | |
And we had a lot of New England white folks there, | 48:50 | |
and they were scared. | 48:57 | |
They didn't know that the Lord might appear any minute. | 49:00 | |
But this woman went on for a full minute | 49:04 | |
just shouting, and shouting, and shouting. | 49:06 | |
When she got all of her shouts out, she took her seat. | 49:11 | |
But she had to express the joy that was in her heart, | 49:15 | |
just because she was going to get a house. | 49:21 | |
Simple things in life mean so much. | 49:26 | |
Something like a roof. | 49:31 | |
Something like a good floor under your feet. | 49:34 | |
An exciting thing to me about this ministry | 49:39 | |
we call Habitat for Humanity, | 49:43 | |
is not just that we are building these houses, | 49:46 | |
but it's how we build them. | 49:50 | |
Someone asked one of the home owners | 49:53 | |
down in Charlotte, North Carolina, | 49:54 | |
what she felt about her new house, | 49:56 | |
and she said, "I love my house, it's wonderful." | 49:58 | |
But she said, "The thing that means the most to me, | 50:01 | |
"is how it came to be." | 50:04 | |
And that's what's so wonderful about this ministry. | 50:09 | |
It's how God has brought us together. | 50:12 | |
It's how God is helping us as Christians, | 50:15 | |
and as concerned and caring people, | 50:18 | |
to go out into the world and let the world see | 50:21 | |
that we are not just good for shining light on ourselves, | 50:24 | |
but that we're good to shine the light | 50:30 | |
of the Lord, God Almighty, | 50:32 | |
on a needy, hurting world, | 50:34 | |
and we're out there building these houses | 50:38 | |
to the glory of God. | 50:41 | |
And we, as we are blessing others who need a decent home, | 50:44 | |
we find that we ourselves | 50:48 | |
are being blessed most of all. | 50:51 | |
And we are going to eliminate poverty housing. | 50:55 | |
We're going to eliminate poverty housing | 50:58 | |
because we need to eliminate poverty housing. | 50:59 | |
Everybody in the world is made in the image of God, | 51:03 | |
whether they're a Christian or not, | 51:06 | |
whether they are black or white, rich or poor, | 51:08 | |
the whole crowd of humanity is made in the image of God. | 51:10 | |
And Habitat for Humanity serves all of humanity, | 51:14 | |
regardless of whether they are Christian or not, | 51:17 | |
regardless of whether they're American or not, | 51:20 | |
regardless of whether they believe politically | 51:22 | |
as we do or not. | 51:25 | |
We know that God loves them and that's sufficient for us. | 51:27 | |
And so in Ghana, we are building houses. | 51:31 | |
And in 10 places in Nicaragua. | 51:34 | |
And we're building them in Haiti. | 51:37 | |
And we're in the Dominican Republic. | 51:39 | |
And we're in the Philippines, | 51:41 | |
in the Solomon Islands, in Papua New Guinea. | 51:42 | |
And all around the world, these houses are going up. | 51:45 | |
We know that as an organization | 51:48 | |
we cannot build literally every house that is needed, | 51:50 | |
but we are in the nature of a conscience, | 51:52 | |
we are in the nature of salt, | 51:55 | |
and leaven, and yeast and light, | 51:57 | |
and we're out there in the name of Christ, | 51:59 | |
putting these houses up | 52:01 | |
so that others can see them and be inspired by them. | 52:03 | |
The government, business. | 52:05 | |
Everybody has got to buy into this idea, | 52:08 | |
and they will as we continue to be faithful to it. | 52:12 | |
We expect to put up 4,000 houses next year, | 52:15 | |
a dozen a day. | 52:17 | |
But it can only be done as more and more people of good will | 52:19 | |
more and more people of God buy into this idea | 52:23 | |
and say, "We do not want people in our community, | 52:27 | |
"we do not want people in our nation | 52:30 | |
"living in substandard housing. | 52:32 | |
"We do not want people made in the image of God | 52:34 | |
"laying in the streets like a bunch of animals. | 52:36 | |
"No, we will not put up with that. | 52:39 | |
"No, we will not tolerate that. | 52:41 | |
"We will do whatever is necessary | 52:42 | |
"in order to solve this problem." | 52:46 | |
It's happening, friends. | 52:48 | |
This is a movement of God's spirit in our time. | 52:50 | |
I really believe that. | 52:52 | |
It's an exciting thing to be a part of, | 52:54 | |
and if you haven't already driven some nails, | 52:56 | |
if you haven't already gotten your thumb hit with a hammer, | 52:59 | |
come on and participate in the Theology of the Hammer. | 53:03 | |
Let us get out here in the highways and byways, | 53:06 | |
and build everybody in the whole wide world | 53:08 | |
a decent, simple house in which to live. | 53:12 | |
Thank you. | 53:15 | |
(crowd applauding) | 53:18 | |
(imposing organ music) | 53:41 | |
♪ Make me a captive, Lord ♪ | 54:19 | |
♪ And then I shall be free ♪ | 54:23 | |
♪ Force me to render up my sword ♪ | 54:28 | |
♪ And I shall conqueror be ♪ | 54:33 | |
♪ I sink in life's alarms ♪ | 54:38 | |
♪ When by myself I stand ♪ | 54:44 | |
♪ Imprison me within thine arms ♪ | 54:49 | |
♪ And strong shall be my hand ♪ | 54:54 | |
♪ My heart is weak and poor ♪ | 55:02 | |
♪ Until it master find ♪ | 55:06 | |
♪ It has no spring of action sure ♪ | 55:11 | |
♪ It varies with the wind ♪ | 55:16 | |
♪ It cannot freely move ♪ | 55:21 | |
♪ Till thou hast wrought its chain ♪ | 55:26 | |
♪ Enslave it with thy matchless love ♪ | 55:32 | |
♪ And deathless it shall reign ♪ | 55:37 | |
♪ My power is faint and low ♪ | 55:45 | |
♪ Till I have learned to serve ♪ | 55:50 | |
♪ It lacks the needed fire to glow ♪ | 55:55 | |
♪ It lacks the breeze to nerve ♪ | 56:00 | |
♪ It cannot drive the world ♪ | 56:06 | |
♪ Until itself be driven ♪ | 56:11 | |
♪ Its flag can only be unfurled ♪ | 56:16 | |
♪ When thou shalt breathe from heaven ♪ | 56:22 | |
♪ My will is not my own ♪ | 56:31 | |
♪ Till thou hast made it thine ♪ | 56:36 | |
♪ If it would reach a monarch's throne ♪ | 56:42 | |
♪ It must its crown resign ♪ | 56:47 | |
♪ It only stands unbent ♪ | 56:53 | |
♪ Amid the clashing strife ♪ | 56:58 | |
♪ When on thy bosom it has leant ♪ | 57:04 | |
♪ And found in thee its life ♪ | 57:10 | |
- | The Lord be with you. | 57:21 |
Crowd | And also with you. | 57:23 |
- | Let us pray. | 57:24 |
You may be seated. | 57:25 | |
Almighty God, we pray for the church and the world. | 57:36 | |
May all who confess Your name be united in Your truth, | 57:41 | |
live together in Your love, | 57:45 | |
and reveal Your glory in this world. | 57:46 | |
We pray, Gracious God, | 57:51 | |
that You will guide the people of this land and all nations | 57:52 | |
in the ways of justice and peace. | 57:56 | |
We pray for the day when all people | 57:59 | |
will be freed from oppression and bondage, | 58:01 | |
and when poverty will cease. | 58:04 | |
May all our work be done for the common good, | 58:08 | |
and may it fulfill the gifts and need of all people. | 58:10 | |
Dear Lord, give us a reverence for the good earth | 58:15 | |
as Your own creation, | 58:18 | |
help us to use its resources rightly, | 58:20 | |
to the services of others, and to Your honor and glory. | 58:23 | |
We pray a joyous prayer of thanksgiving | 58:30 | |
for the witness of Habitat for Humanity. | 58:32 | |
We are so very thankful for the builders, the walkers, | 58:36 | |
the hands that prepared the food | 58:40 | |
that we have enjoyed together, | 58:42 | |
the houses that have been raised, | 58:44 | |
those who live in new homes, | 58:46 | |
those who have worked hard | 58:49 | |
to make this national house raising walk, | 58:50 | |
and the entire dream of Habitat for Humanity possible. | 58:54 | |
May those who have labored | 58:59 | |
on this frontier of truth and love | 59:01 | |
find their lives so richly blessed | 59:05 | |
by Your continued presence. | 59:07 | |
They may be able to follow Your will in their lives. | 59:10 | |
Comfort and heal those who suffer in body, mind or spirit, | 59:16 | |
people without homes, those who are hungry or sick, | 59:22 | |
those whose hearts are so hardened | 59:27 | |
that they do not know the joy of giving | 59:31 | |
so that others might have a new chance. | 59:34 | |
Give courage and hope in their troubles, | 59:38 | |
and bring them the joy of Your salvation. | 59:41 | |
We command Dear Lord to Your mercy all who have died | 59:45 | |
that Your will for them may be fulfilled | 59:49 | |
and we pray that we may all share with Your Saints | 59:52 | |
in Your eternal kingdom. | 59:56 | |
All these things we pray in Christ's name. | 59:59 | |
Amen. | 1:00:03 | |
We're so very happy that today's offering | 1:00:06 | |
will go to benefit Habitat for Humanity. | 1:00:09 | |
In response to God's good gifts, | 1:00:13 | |
let us offer ourselves and our gifts to God. | 1:00:17 | |
(soft piano music) | 1:01:08 | |
♪ I was hungry ♪ | 1:02:03 | |
♪ And you had no meat for me ♪ | 1:02:08 | |
♪ I was thirsty ♪ | 1:02:20 | |
♪ And you would not give me drink ♪ | 1:02:26 | |
♪ I was a stranger ♪ | 1:02:37 | |
♪ And you would not take me in ♪ | 1:02:44 | |
♪ Naked and you would not clothe me ♪ | 1:02:53 | |
♪ Sick and you would not visit me ♪ | 1:03:01 | |
♪ In jail and you would not come to me ♪ | 1:03:11 | |
♪ Would not come to me ♪ | 1:03:17 | |
♪ Lord when were you hungry ♪ | 1:03:29 | |
♪ We did not see your need ♪ | 1:03:32 | |
♪ Lord when were you sick ♪ | 1:03:36 | |
♪ We did not see you bleed ♪ | 1:03:39 | |
♪ Lord, when were you in jail ♪ | 1:03:43 | |
♪ We did not see you there ♪ | 1:03:46 | |
♪ Were you wearing a disguise ♪ | 1:03:50 | |
♪ If so, it was not fair ♪ | 1:03:53 | |
♪ If you did not do it ♪ | 1:04:05 | |
♪ To the least of these my little ones ♪ | 1:04:11 | |
♪ Then you did not do it unto me ♪ | 1:04:23 | |
♪ I was hungry and you ♪ | 1:04:43 | |
♪ Someone is waiting ♪ | 1:05:07 | |
♪ Right outside your door ♪ | 1:05:16 | |
♪ Someone is waiting ♪ | 1:05:24 | |
♪ Whom you've never seen before ♪ | 1:05:31 | |
♪ Not the thousands or the millions ♪ | 1:05:39 | |
♪ Who crowd the city streets ♪ | 1:05:48 | |
♪ But someone is lying at your feet ♪ | 1:05:57 | |
♪ Someone is lying at your feet ♪ | 1:06:18 | |
(imposing organ music) | 1:07:13 | |
♪ Praise God from whom all blessings flow ♪ | 1:07:39 | |
♪ Praise Him all creatures here below ♪ | 1:07:46 | |
♪ Hallelujah ♪ | 1:07:52 | |
♪ Hallelujah ♪ | 1:07:55 | |
♪ Praise Him above ye heavenly host ♪ | 1:08:00 | |
♪ Praise Father, Son and Holy Ghost ♪ | 1:08:06 | |
♪ Hallelujah ♪ | 1:08:12 | |
♪ Hallelujah ♪ | 1:08:15 | |
♪ Hallelujah ♪ | 1:08:19 | |
♪ Hallelujah ♪ | 1:08:22 | |
♪ Hallelujah ♪ | 1:08:26 | |
♪ Amen ♪ | 1:08:34 | |
- | Earth and all stars, loud rushing planets, | 1:08:44 |
sing to the Lord a new song! | 1:08:48 | |
Engines and steel, loud pounding hammers, | 1:08:51 | |
sing to the Lord a new song! | 1:08:55 | |
Limestone and beams, loud building workers, | 1:08:57 | |
sing to the Lord a new song! | 1:09:01 | |
Gracious God, we give you thanks for this time of worship, | 1:09:04 | |
for this time when your word is rightly proclaimed, | 1:09:08 | |
and we are given an opportunity to respond. | 1:09:11 | |
We thank you for Millard Fuller, | 1:09:15 | |
and the gift of Habitat for Humanity. | 1:09:17 | |
And hereby we offer ourselves and our gifts | 1:09:20 | |
for that good work, | 1:09:24 | |
praying as we have been taught. | 1:09:27 | |
Our Father, who art in heaven, hallowed be thy Name, | 1:09:29 | |
thy kingdom come, thy will be done, | 1:09:34 | |
on earth as it is in heaven. | 1:09:37 | |
Give us this day our daily bread, | 1:09:40 | |
and forgive us our trespasses, | 1:09:43 | |
as we forgive those who trespass against us. | 1:09:45 | |
Lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil. | 1:09:49 | |
For thine is the kingdom, | 1:09:53 | |
and the power, and the glory, forever. | 1:09:55 | |
Amen. | 1:09:59 | |
(imposing organ music) | 1:10:02 | |
♪ Earth and all stars, loud rushing planets ♪ | 1:10:45 | |
♪ Sing to the Lord a new song ♪ | 1:10:52 | |
♪ O victory, loud shouting army ♪ | 1:10:59 | |
♪ Sing to the Lord a new song ♪ | 1:11:06 | |
♪ He has done marvelous things ♪ | 1:11:14 | |
♪ I, too, will praise him with a new song ♪ | 1:11:21 | |
♪ Hail, wind, and rain, loud blowing snowstorm ♪ | 1:11:31 | |
♪ Sing to the Lord a new song ♪ | 1:11:38 | |
♪ Flowers and trees, loud rustling dry leaves ♪ | 1:11:46 | |
♪ Sing to the Lord a new song ♪ | 1:11:53 | |
♪ He has done marvelous things ♪ | 1:12:01 | |
♪ I, too, will praise him with a new song ♪ | 1:12:08 | |
♪ Trumpet and pipes, loud clashing cymbals ♪ | 1:12:18 | |
♪ Sing to the Lord a new song ♪ | 1:12:26 | |
♪ Harps, lute, and lyre, loud humming cellos ♪ | 1:12:33 | |
♪ Sing to the Lord a new song ♪ | 1:12:41 | |
♪ He has done marvelous things ♪ | 1:12:48 | |
♪ I, too, will praise him with a new song ♪ | 1:12:55 | |
♪ Engines and steel, loud pounding hammers ♪ | 1:13:06 | |
♪ Sing to the Lord a new song ♪ | 1:13:13 | |
♪ Limestone and beams, loud building workers ♪ | 1:13:21 | |
♪ Sing to the Lord a new song ♪ | 1:13:28 | |
♪ He has done marvelous things ♪ | 1:13:35 | |
♪ I, too, will praise him with a new song ♪ | 1:13:43 | |
♪ Classrooms and labs, loud boiling test tubes ♪ | 1:13:53 | |
♪ Sing to the Lord a new song ♪ | 1:14:01 | |
♪ Athlete and band, loud cheering people ♪ | 1:14:08 | |
♪ Sing to the Lord a new song ♪ | 1:14:16 | |
♪ He has done marvelous things ♪ | 1:14:23 | |
♪ I, too, will praise him with a new song ♪ | 1:14:31 | |
♪ Knowledge and truth, loud sounding wisdom ♪ | 1:14:42 | |
♪ Sing to the Lord a new song ♪ | 1:14:50 | |
♪ Daughter and son, loud praying members ♪ | 1:14:58 | |
♪ Sing to the Lord a new song ♪ | 1:15:06 | |
♪ He has done marvelous things ♪ | 1:15:14 | |
♪ I, too, will praise him with a new song ♪ | 1:15:22 | |
- | May the grace of our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ, | 1:15:36 |
the love of God, | 1:15:39 | |
and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit | 1:15:40 | |
go with you and be with you now and always. | 1:15:42 | |
Amen. | 1:15:46 | |
Let's walk. | 1:15:48 | |
♪ If I had a hammer ♪ | 1:15:52 | |
♪ I'd hammer in the morning ♪ | 1:15:56 | |
♪ I'd hammer in the evening ♪ | 1:16:00 | |
♪ All over this land ♪ | 1:16:04 | |
♪ I'd hammer out hope ♪ | 1:16:08 | |
♪ I'd hammer out promise ♪ | 1:16:12 | |
♪ I'd hammer out love between my brothers and my sisters ♪ | 1:16:16 | |
♪ Spread God's love everywhere ♪ | 1:16:22 | |
♪ Show God's children that we care ♪ | 1:16:26 | |
♪ All over this land ♪ | 1:16:30 | |
(imposing organ music) | 1:16:40 |