William H. Willimon - "On Being Stuck with Your Parents" (November 6, 1988)

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	♪ His goodness ♪	0:00
	♪ Lost in His love ♪	0:04
	♪ This is my story ♪	0:08
	♪ This is my song ♪	0:13
	♪ Praising my Savior ♪	0:17
	♪ All the day long ♪	0:22
	♪ This is my story ♪	0:26
	♪ This is my song ♪	0:31
	♪ Praising my Savior ♪	0:35
	♪ All the day long ♪	0:41
-	Good morning and welcome to this service of all saints	0:57
	here in Duke University Chapel.	0:59
	First thing, if everybody seated in the pews	1:01
	would sorta slide toward the center,	1:05
	that will help us to get a few more seats	1:08
	and that would be much appreciated by others.	1:11
	Great.	1:16
	Those of you still standing, if you would look to the sides.	1:17
	Great, thank you.	1:25
	Also, an announcement about an error in the bulletin,	1:30
	the last hymn is number 536.	1:32
	Not as printed in the bulletin.	1:36
	We're only two digits off and we consider that close enough.	1:38
	We want to welcome back to the chapel this morning	1:42
	my associate, Nancy Ferree-Clarke back to the chapel	1:44
	after a three-month leave of absence.	1:49
	Her daughter Elizabeth will be baptized in the chapel	1:52
	this evening and we're glad to have her back.	1:54
	And we're glad that you here, particularly,	1:57
	our alumni and our parents for this great day	2:00
	of walk of celebration in praise of all the saints.	2:04
	Let us continue to praise God.	2:09
	(gospel singing)	2:14
	(lively organ music)	5:11
	(congregation singing)	5:54
-	The Lord be with you.	10:47
Congregants	And also with you.	10:48
-	Let us pray.	10:50
	God of all holiness.	10:54
	You gave your Saints different gifts on Earth	10:56
	but one holy city in heaven.	10:59
	Give us grace to follow their good example.	11:02
	(congregation mumbles)	11:06
	Your servants Mary and Martha who loved their Lord,	11:11
	one through active service,	11:15
	the other through quiet adoration.	11:17
	(congregation mumbles)	11:20
	Apostle Paul who told what he had heard,	11:26
	spreading the good news into all the world,	11:29
	interpreting the gospel to all without distinction	11:32
	between race or nation.	11:35
	(congregation mumbles)	11:37
	King David who led your people with courage	11:41
	though he shared our human weakness,	11:45
	he was anointed with your spirit	11:47
	to lead with justice and integrity.	11:49
	(congregation mumbles)	11:53
	Judas Maccabeus, foe of tyranny and oppression,	11:57
	refusing to bow to the forces of evil,	12:02
	he inspired your people to throw off their chains	12:05
	and to claim their gracious birthright.	12:08
	(congregation mumbles)	12:11
	(lively organ music)	12:20
	(congregation singing)	12:28
-	Please be seated.	13:17
	Let us bow our heads in prayer.	13:28
	Heavenly father, on this glorious Sunday morning	13:33
	when we commemorate the Feast of All Saints Day,	13:37
	let us think together of those who have preceded us	13:42
	in their journey to their just reward	13:45
	in the paradise which awaits	13:48
	all of your faithful.	13:50
	Grant to this university,	13:53
	all who attend here, all who serve here	13:55
	and all who have attended or served in the past,	13:59
	the opportunity to worship thee	14:03
	in the spirit of freedom,	14:05
	and justice and truth.	14:08
	And grant that we with all thy saints	14:10
	may join you in worshiping Father,	14:14
	Son and Holy spirit.	14:19
	Amen.	14:23
	The lesson is taken from the Revelation	14:28
	to St. John the Divine.	14:30
	Then I saw a new heaven and a new Earth.	14:34
	For the first heaven and the first Earth had passed away	14:38
	and the sea was no more	14:42
	and I saw the holy city, new Jerusalem	14:45
	coming down out of heaven from God,	14:49
	prepared as a bride adorned for her husband	14:51
	and I heard a loud voice from the throne saying,	14:56
	behold the dwelling of God is with men.	14:59
	He will dwell with them and they shall be his people	15:03
	and God himself will be with them,	15:07
	he will wipe away every tear from their eyes	15:10
	and death shall be no more,	15:14
	neither shall there be mourning nor crying	15:17
	nor pain anymore,	15:19
	for the former things have passed away	15:22
	and he who sat upon the throne said,	15:26
	behold, I make all things new.	15:29
	Also he said, write this for these words	15:33
	are trustworthy, and true.	15:36
	And he said to me, it is done,	15:39
	I am the alpha and the omega,	15:42
	the beginning and the end.	15:46
	This ends the reading of the lesson.	15:49
	(tranquil meditative music)	16:04
	♪ Oh when the saints ♪	16:26
	♪ Go marching in ♪	16:31
	♪ Oh when the saints go marching in ♪	16:38
	♪ Oh Lord ♪	16:48
	♪ I want ♪	16:50
	♪ To be ♪	16:53
	♪ In that number ♪	16:55
	♪ When the saints go marching in ♪	17:02
	♪ Oh when the saints ♪	17:18
	♪ Go marching in ♪	17:20
	♪ Oh when the saints go marching in ♪	17:23
	♪ Oh Lord, I want to be in that number ♪	17:29
	♪ When the saints go marching in ♪	17:35
	♪ Oh when the saints ♪	17:49
	♪ Go marching in ♪	17:52
	♪ Oh when the saints go marching ♪	17:55
	♪ They go marching in ♪	17:58
	♪ I want to be in that number ♪	18:01
	♪ When the saints go marching in ♪	18:07
	♪ Oh when the saints ♪	18:21
	♪ When the saints ♪	18:23
	♪ Go marching in, go marching in ♪	18:24
	♪ Oh when the saints go marching in ♪	18:26
	♪ Oh Lord, I want to be in that number ♪	18:31
	♪ Oh when the saints go marching in ♪	18:38
	♪ Oh Lord ♪	18:54
	♪ I want to be ♪	18:56
	♪ In that number ♪	19:03
	♪ When the saints ♪	19:13
	♪ Go ♪	19:16
	♪ Marching ♪	19:17
	♪ In ♪	19:22
-	I got a call from Dean Sue Wasiolek, she said,	19:50
	look, we've already stirred up the parents enough	19:56
	when they heard from that Marxist philosophy professor	19:58
	on Friday, we don't need any other controversy this weekend.	20:01
	She was concerned about the title of the sermon.	20:07
	So, if you're a parent and you don't like the sermon,	20:12
	please don't call anyone about it.	20:14
	(congregation laughing)	20:17
	For the first time since I've been minister here,	20:20
	Parents Weekend falls on All Saints	20:23
	and that's a happy convergence.	20:27
	The presence of our parents is always a reminder	20:31
	that we are indebted to others,	20:35
	we're indebted to our parents	20:41
	for our lives, our looks, our values,	20:43
	our tuition.	20:47
	Parents remind us that nobody is self-made.	20:51
	Saints are also reminders of our indebtedness.	20:58
	We began the service today	21:04
	with thanksgiving for our saints	21:06
	among the thousands that stare down at us	21:11
	from their perches in the chapel windows,	21:15
	Samson and Sarah and Judas Maccabeus and David.	21:19
	Their presence here in this chapel reminds us	21:25
	that faith is a gift.	21:29
	You believe because somebody told you this story	21:33
	and somebody lived this story before you	21:37
	in such a way that made it worthy of your imitation,	21:40
	saints remind us that nobody is a self-made Christian.	21:44
	Those of you who know something about the Bible	21:52
	and its account of theses saints,	21:54
	may be less than pleased	21:59
	to have me suggest that a Samson or a Sarah	22:02
	are your great grandparents in faith,	22:05
	oh sure, they may look saintly	22:10
	as they stare down at us from the chapel windows	22:12
	but in their day, few people probably called them saints.	22:16
	Maybe people seem more saintly	22:22
	after they've been dead 1,000 years	22:24
	but if you had to live with them,	22:28
	if you had to stare at them across a breakfast table	22:29
	rather than across a gothic chapel,	22:32
	if you had to be with them in everyday life,	22:35
	well, which reminds me of one thing	22:37
	that these biblical saints have in common,	22:42
	and that is they all had lousy family lives.	22:49
	I mentioned Samson and David.	22:54
	The mess that they made of their families is legendary	22:56
	and great grandmother Sarah,	23:01
	she not only managed to be the grandmother	23:03
	of a whole nation but she managed	23:06
	to pass on most of her psychoses to her children.	23:08
	If you knew their stories as the Bible tells them,	23:13
	you might question why they are our saints.	23:18
	Of course, we don't choose our saints.	23:24
	We don't choose saints, they are given to us	23:29
	through the tradition of the synagogue and the church.	23:34
	Ah leave them alone you say,	23:40
	it's bad taste to speak ill	23:41
	of your great grandparents in faith,	23:43
	and maybe that attitude is what differentiates us	23:46
	from the Bible.	23:51
	Today when we speak of family, parents, children,	23:54
	we're apt to speak sentimentally,	23:59
	unrealistically, if not downright deceitfully,	24:03
	ours is the happy family.	24:07
	Ozzie and Harriet, June Ward, Wally and the Beaver,	24:11
	George and Barbara, Kitty and Duke.	24:17
	(congregation laughing)	24:20
	But when the Bible tells about families	24:23
	about what it's like to be husbands	24:26
	and wives and parents and children,	24:27
	it speaks honestly.	24:32
	Samson, David, Sarah, Ruth, David, Bathsheba.	24:34
	And our dishonesty about our families	24:42
	is somewhat surprising considering the state	24:43
	of American families today.	24:46
	Never has the divorce rate been higher,	24:49
	never had we had more problems with elder,	24:52
	spouse, child abuse.	24:55
	Ask any presidential candidate,	24:59
	he'll tell you American families are in a mess.	25:01
	You wonder what on Earth politicians talked about	25:05
	before they discovered American families are in a mess.	25:07
	Though apparently not their families.	25:11
	We've certainly seen enough of their happy families	25:14
	during the campaign.	25:16
	Now I doubt that either presidential candidate knows	25:18
	what to do about American families	25:21
	not because the candidates don't care	25:25
	but it's certainly not because they have undeniably	25:28
	the happiest families in America.	25:30
	But because when it comes to understanding	25:35
	what it's like to be a husband, a wife,	25:36
	a father, a mother, a child in a family,	25:40
	the candidates, as we ourselves,	25:44
	really don't know to think about the family.	25:48
	In the name of freedom,	25:53
	we Americans created something called the individual,	25:54
	the individual, nothing is more important	26:00
	to Americans of the political left	26:02
	or the political right	26:04
	than freedom of the individual,	26:05
	the sovereignty of the individual	26:08
	and preserving his or her options	26:11
	and freedoms and independence	26:14
	and as a result, relations between husbands	26:17
	and wives have degenerated into a contract	26:20
	between two individuals who jealously guard	26:25
	each one's rights and prerogatives,	26:30
	relations and families come to resemble relations	26:34
	in the rest of society,	26:37
	just a conglomeration of friendly strangers.	26:39
	We've created a world in which privacy is sought more	26:44
	than community, where no one is asked	26:47
	to suffer or sacrifice for anybody	26:51
	and where we desire both intimacy	26:56
	and still to be able to shake hands and say goodbye	27:01
	with no bad feelings.	27:04
	And I tell you that such thinking makes relationships	27:07
	between parents and children incomprehensible.	27:10
	I think the odd factor which makes being a child	27:17
	or a parent in this society so unusual is this.	27:21
	You didn't choose your parents	27:28
	and they didn't choose you.	27:32
	Now think about it.	27:36
	You don't choose relatives, they're just given to you.	27:39
	Even if you adopt a child,	27:44
	that child is going to grow	27:46
	to be so unlike that baby	27:49
	that you brought home from the adoption agency	27:52
	that you will continually know	27:56
	that this child is someone who has been given to you	27:58
	rather than someone who has been selected.	28:01
	As parents and children in a modern world which worships	28:06
	individual rights and freedom and choices	28:10
	and prerogatives, nothing is odder	28:13
	than learning to love somebody you didn't choose.	28:18
	To a surprising degree,	28:23
	this lack of choice extends even	28:24
	to the person whom we marry.	28:27
	Most people think that the toughest part	28:31
	about getting married is deciding	28:33
	whom you ought to marry, making the right choice,	28:35
	making the right choice in marriage	28:39
	and when asked what we're doing,	28:43
	we say that we're deciding whether or not we are in love	28:45
	which means are we emotionally attached?	28:51
	Curiously the church has traditionally cared less	28:55
	about our emotionally attachments.	29:00
	What the church has cared about	29:03
	is not to whom you have deep feelings for	29:07
	because we know how notoriously fickle are feelings	29:12
	but rather are you capable	29:17
	of sustaining the kind of commitment required for love?	29:21
	In a marriage ceremony,	29:29
	there's no place the pastor stands up	29:31
	and says John, do you love Susan?	29:33
	The pastor rather asks John, will you love Susan	29:37
	and that's odd because you see,	29:42
	love is defined here	29:44
	as something that you just promise to do,	29:46
	love is a future activity,	29:49
	love is the result of marriage, not its cause	29:51
	and I know that sounds weird	29:56
	because we think the toughest part about say a relationship	29:59
	like marriage is choosing the right person,	30:01
	choosing the right person,	30:06
	but the funny thing is that for most	30:09
	of the church's history,	30:10
	marriage occurred among people	30:12
	who have hardly even known each other before the wedding.	30:14
	You're no doubt grateful that...	30:18
	Are they?	30:28
	Although they would be loath to admit it.	30:31
	One reason parents send their children	30:34
	to prestigious universities	30:36
	(congregation laughing)	30:39
	is so that they will meet prestigious people	30:44
	of the opposite sex.	30:46
	I mean we all know it's helpful	30:50
	to try to marry somebody	30:52
	who has similar interests and recreation	30:53
	and religion and background to your own	30:55
	and through piano lessons and summer camp	30:59
	and a BA degree, parents give their children	31:02
	the illusion that the choice of someone to marry	31:05
	is not really being arranged	31:09
	and I'm not being cynical here.	31:12
	In fact, cultures which practice arranged marriages,	31:16
	I hate to remind you,	31:19
	have a better track record on marriage than we.	31:20
	I know a friend of mine who was a missionary in India	31:23
	was asking me	31:28
	who should be entrusted with such important matters	31:31
	as whom to marry?	31:36
	Someone who has never been married	31:39
	and has no life experience except school	31:40
	or someone who's been around 50 years	31:43
	and has actually been married?	31:45
	I didn't know what to say to him.	31:46
	I say rather than be embarrassed	31:51
	about these unchosen arranged aspects	31:53
	of our human relationships,	31:57
	maybe we should be upfront	32:01
	about how much of life we really didn't choose	32:04
	because it enables us to think clearly	32:08
	about the peculiar ethical demands	32:12
	that are placed upon us	32:16
	by being a parent, by being a child,	32:17
	by being husbands and wives.	32:22
	Peculiar because you're probably conditioned	32:25
	to think that some action really isn't ethical	32:28
	unless you have freedom of choice,	32:31
	unless you have exercised your own decision.	32:33
	Mama, I want to do it myself	32:36
	unless you decide for yourself	32:38
	that this is right for you.	32:40
	The trouble with that point of view	32:45
	is that marriage, just as being a parent,	32:46
	requires that we find some means of making sense	32:50
	out of being stuck	32:54
	with certain people for no good reason or justification	32:56
	other than were are with them	33:00
	and most of us learn to make the best of it.	33:03
	And I'm saying that right there	33:06
	is a picture of us at our very best.	33:09
	Right there is when we learn to be faithful,	33:14
	to love strangers	33:18
	even though we didn't choose them as someone	33:22
	we might have preferred to love.	33:24
	I know that sometimes I'll ask fellow pastors	33:27
	what do you do during premarital counseling	33:30
	and they will say things like I try	33:33
	to be certain that the couple knows	33:36
	what they're getting into when they get married.	33:38
	I don't know that pastors know	33:42
	what they're getting into when they get married.	33:43
	Those of you who are married	33:47
	or have been married, did you know	33:48
	what you were getting into?	33:50
	No.	33:51
	My friend Stanley Hauerwas	33:55
	has a wonderful essay	33:58
	in which he argues	34:00
	that we always marry the wrong person.	34:02
	Hauerwas means by that we never marry quite the person	34:07
	that we thought we were getting married to	34:12
	because marriage always changes people.	34:15
	It just does something to somebody	34:21
	to be married, to be promised to somebody	34:23
	to be faithful.	34:26
	And so, you wake up one day and you realize	34:28
	that the person next to you is really not the person	34:30
	that you married	34:33
	five years ago.	34:36
	But the truth is you're not the same person either	34:38
	and what do you do then?	34:41
	If marriage involves the correct choice	34:43
	of the exact person	34:46
	for the right reasons to whom you're emotionally attached,	34:48
	then you're in big trouble	34:52
	because the person has changed.	34:55
	And you've changed.	34:58
	Nobody I know ever chose to be married	35:01
	to a person addicted to alcohol.	35:04
	Nobody ever decided to be married	35:07
	to a person with terminal illness	35:09
	but sometimes those are the people you get.	35:11
	And I tell ya, I think your parents	35:16
	would want me to remind you	35:18
	that being a parent is a lot like that too.	35:19
	Parents never get quite the children	35:23
	they thought they were getting	35:26
	when they gave birth to a baby.	35:28
	That's why I've always been uneasy	35:32
	with the term planned parenthood.	35:34
	(congregation laughing)	35:36
	You get my point.	35:39
	Planned parenthood as if it's only good	35:41
	to have children if you have planned for them,	35:44
	as if you have chosen	35:46
	and decided for them.	35:49
	Who plans to have a severely retarded child?	35:52
	Who decides to have a rebellious child	35:57
	or a child who plays drums in a rock band?	36:01
	But sometimes that's a child that you get	36:08
	and then what do you do then?	36:11
	You can choose an automobile,	36:16
	you can maybe plan a career	36:19
	but you cannot choose a child.	36:21
	You've got to receive a child.	36:26
	The Bible is right.	36:29
	A child is a gift,	36:33
	not a possession, not a project, not an object,	36:36
	ambitious achievement-oriented people take note.	36:41
	Nobody knows what he or she is getting into	36:46
	as a husband, or a wife, as a parent or a child.	36:48
	And don't get me wrong, I'm all in favor	36:52
	of marriage preparation as far it goes	36:54
	and I think we ought to have more of it,	36:57
	I mean I'm in the marriage preparation business	36:59
	but the trick is to somehow prepare for a lifetime	37:02
	of commitment to a person who is a stranger,	37:06
	who keeps changing.	37:10
	How can you prepare for how annoying	37:14
	another person is going to be	37:17
	and so early in the morning too.	37:18
	(congregation laughing)	37:20
	How can you prepare for all the ways a child	37:23
	is going to challenge you,	37:26
	disappoint you, worst of all,	37:28
	come to look just like you	37:31
	only to desert you for college.	37:33
	You can't.	37:36
	You can't.	37:39
	And because you can't control,	37:43
	what you need	37:48
	is some means of being part of an adventure	37:50
	which you can't control	37:54
	and you don't have to control.	37:57
	The end result you do not fully plan or understand.	37:59
	Morally we move into the future on the basis	38:04
	of such commitments.	38:07
	Commitments which are made without really knowing	38:10
	what you're getting into.	38:12
	There your parents sit	38:16
	thinking how much they have changed since they met you	38:19
	at the maternity ward 20 years ago.	38:24
	And I tell you, 20 years from now,	38:28
	you'll be surprised	38:31
	at all the ways that your parents	38:33
	have been the most important people in your life,	38:35
	even though you had absolutely nothing to do	38:39
	with their being your parents.	38:42
	Marriage, family are like that.	38:45
	What you need when you marry or have a child	38:49
	is some means of turning your fate	38:54
	into your destiny.	38:57
	And my claim this morning	39:02
	is that the Christian faith is such a means.	39:04
	The Christian faith can teach us to live together	39:10
	as parents, children, husbands and wives	39:12
	because just as you didn't choose a Samson or a Sarah	39:16
	to be your saints, to be your great grandparents	39:19
	in faith, you didn't choose Jesus to be your savior.	39:23
	Jesus came to us,	39:29
	Jesus came to us, not the other way around.	39:32
	John's gospel makes this explicit.	39:36
	One day Jesus turned to his disciples and said,	39:40
	folks, you didn't choose me, I chose you	39:43
	that you should go and bear fruit.	39:49
	Life cannot be mainly about freedom of choice	39:55
	and about our decision,	40:00
	since the Bible goes to great lengths to demonstrate	40:04
	that God must save us by what we cannot have	40:08
	by our own devices.	40:11
	The Bible and its stories of saints	40:14
	like Samson and Sarah is a long story	40:17
	of God's unrelenting, continuing determination	40:20
	to love us even when we are unloving and unlovable.	40:25
	It is also the story of God's continued determination	40:31
	to make us into a people	40:37
	who can be depended upon to love even strangers	40:40
	since we have learned in Christ	40:45
	what it's like to be a stranger	40:48
	and to be loved anyway.	40:50
	Remember that we were on the outside,	40:55
	we didn't deserve to be loved	40:57
	and he came to us and he loved us	41:00
	even when we didn't deserve it	41:02
	and so, we come to his table today	41:05
	with empty hands and hungry hearts,	41:08
	needing God to do for us	41:11
	what we cannot do to our own efforts and determination	41:13
	and striving and because he has chosen us	41:16
	and continues to feed us at his table,	41:21
	we are enabled to be free at last	41:26
	from our modern American obsessions	41:30
	with safety and control	41:32
	in order to risk being faithful	41:35
	even to people whom we can't control,	41:39
	even to those whom we didn't choose.	41:43
	To be faithful.	41:47
	Amen.	41:49
	(tranquil organ music)	41:51
	♪ Amazing grace ♪	42:12
	♪ How sweet the sound ♪	42:16
	♪ That saved a wretch like me ♪	42:20
	♪ I once was lost ♪	42:30
	♪ But now I'm found ♪	42:35
	♪ Was blind but now I see ♪	42:39
	♪ Through many dangers, toils and snares ♪	42:49
	♪ I have already come ♪	43:00
	♪ T'was grace that brought me safe thus far ♪	43:09
	♪ And grace will lead me home ♪	43:19
	(congregation singing)	43:29
Minister	The Lord be with you.	44:16
Congregation	And also with you.	44:18
-	Let us pray.	44:20
	Holy God, we pray for your human family everywhere.	44:22
	(congregation mumbles)	44:28
	Grant that all who are baptized into Christ	44:30
	may faithfully serve you.	44:34
	(congregation mumbles)	44:36
	Give us grace to do your will	44:41
	in all that we undertake.	44:43
	(congregation mumbles)	44:46
	Have compassion on those who suffer	44:51
	from any grief or trouble.	44:54
	(congregation mumbles)	44:56
	Give to the departed eternal rest.	45:00
	(congregation mumbles)	45:03
	We praise you for your saints who have entered into joy.	45:07
	(congregation mumbles)	45:10
	Let us pray for our own needs and those of others.	45:15
	In the name of Jesus Christ we pray.	45:27
All	Amen.	45:29
-	Christ invites to his table all who love him	45:32
	and who desire to live in peace with one another.	45:34
	Let us stand and offer each other signs	45:38
	of God's peace and love.	45:40
	(congregation mumbling)	45:43

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Title:

William H. Willimon - "On Being Stuck with Your Parents" (November 6, 1988)

Description:

Sermon start time: 19:50. Sermon end time: 41:51.
The preacher names common important relationships in people’s lives, and argues that no one is self-made; all human beings have to live in relationships with others, and by the power of God, they are character-shaping. (Abstract created by Duke Divinity School staff.)
Key quotation: “Life cannot be mainly about freedom of choice and about our decision, since the Bible goes to great lengths to demonstrate that God must save us by what we cannot have by our own devices.”

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Date:

November 6, 1988

Speaker:

Willimon, William H.

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Biblical Book:

John

Chapter and Verse:

John 15:9-17

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Contributor:

Duke University. Chapel

Identifier:

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William H. Willimon - "On Being Stuck with Your Parents" (November 6, 1988)

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