Charlene P. Kammerer - "But Now in Christ" (July 17, 1994)

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	(slow organ music)	0:04
-	Good morning and welcome to this service of worship,	4:06
	we are delighted to have you with us.	4:08
	If you are visiting, our guest preacher today is	4:11
	Reverend Doctor Charlene Kammerer.	4:14
	She comes to us from Florida,	4:17
	but we think of her as our own.	4:18
	For a number of years	4:21
	she was associate Minister to the University here in Duke,	4:23
	and the interim Minister to the University,	4:26
	and Charlene, we welcome you back to Duke Chapel,	4:29
	and your friends.	4:32
	When Charlene left Duke Chapel, some of her friends	4:34
	published a collection of her sermons,	4:38
	and titled it "Voice on the Quad,"	4:40
	and we welcome this voice back to us again today.	4:43
	We also invite you to lemonade after the service	4:47
	on the Chapel lawn,	4:50
	as guest of the congregation at Duke Chapel.	4:53
	Let us stand for the greeting.	4:57
	O God, our God, how glorious is Your name	5:03
	in all the Earth!	5:06
	(congregation murmurs)	5:08
	When we look to the Heavens, the work of Your fingers,	5:11
	the Moon and the stars, we wonder.	5:14
	(congregation murmurs)	5:17
	You are the God of Life,	5:23
	crowning us with glory and honor to serve You all our days,	5:25
	O God, our God, how glorious is Your name	5:30
	in all the Earth!	5:34
	("All Creatures Of Our God And King")	5:37
	(choir vocalizes)	6:23
	When we gather to praise God,	10:57
	we remember that we are God's people	10:58
	who have preferred our will's to God's will,	11:00
	therefore let us confess our sin	11:03
	before God and one another.	11:06
	Be seated.	11:08
	Let us pray together, prayer 890,	11:13
	Most merciful God,	11:22
	we confessed that we have sinned against You	11:25
	in thought, word, and deed,	11:28
	by what we have done and by what we have left undone.	11:31
	We have not loved You with our whole heart.	11:36
	We have not loved our neighbors as ourselves.	11:39
	We are truly sorry and we humbly repent.	11:43
	For the sake of Your Son Jesus Christ,	11:47
	have mercy on us and forgive us,	11:50
	that we may delight in Your will,	11:53
	and walk in Your ways,	11:55
	to the glory of Your name, amen.	11:58
	Almighty God have mercy on you,	12:07
	forgive all your sins through our Lord Jesus Christ,	12:10
	strengthen you in all goodness,	12:14
	and by the power of the Holy Spirit keep you	12:17
	in eternal life, amen.	12:20
-	May we pray together the Prayer for the Illumination.	12:33
	Open our hearts and minds O God	12:37
	by the power of Your Holy Spirit	12:40
	so that as Your Word is read and proclaimed,	12:43
	we might hear with joy to us today, amen.	12:47
	First lesson is taken from the Gospel of Saint Mark.	12:57
	The sixth chapter, verses 30 to 34, and 53 to 56.	13:01
	The apostles gathered around Jesus	13:09
	and told him all they had done and taught.	13:11
	He said to them, "Come away to a deserted place	13:14
	"all by yourselves and rest for a while."	13:18
	For many were coming and going,	13:22
	and they had no leisure even to eat.	13:24
	And they went away in a boat	13:27
	to a deserted place by themselves.	13:29
	Now many saw them going and recognized them,	13:32
	and they hurried there on foot	13:35
	from all the towns and arrived ahead of them.	13:38
	As He went ashore He saw a great crowd,	13:41
	and He had compassion for them,	13:45
	because they were like sheep without a shepherd.	13:47
	And He began to teach them many things.	13:51
	When they had crossed over,	13:54
	they came to land at Gennesaret and moored the boat.	13:55
	When they got out of the boat,	14:00
	people at once recognized Him	14:02
	and rushed about that whole region	14:04
	and began to bring the sick on mats	14:07
	to wherever they heard that He was.	14:09
	And wherever He went, into villages or cities or farms,	14:12
	they laid the sick in the market-places, and begged Him	14:17
	that they might touch even the fringe of His cloak,	14:20
	and all who touched it were healed.	14:23
	This is the Word of the Lord.	14:26
	Thanks be to God.	14:28
	The second lesson is from the Paul's	14:33
	letter to the Ephesians,	14:36
	chapter two, verses 11 through 22.	14:38
	So then, remember that at one time you Gentiles by birth,	14:44
	called the uncircumcision	14:50
	by those who are called the circumcision,	14:52
	a physical circumcision made in the flesh by human hands.	14:54
	remember that you were at that time without Christ,	14:59
	being aliens from the commonwealth of Israel,	15:03
	and strangers to the covenants of promise,	15:07
	having no hope and without God in the world.	15:09
	But now in Christ Jesus you who once were far off	15:14
	have been brought near by the blood of Christ.	15:17
	For He is our peace,	15:21
	in His flesh He has made both groups into one	15:22
	and has broken down the dividing wall,	15:26
	that is, the hostility between us.	15:29
	He has abolished the law with its commandments	15:32
	and ordinances, that He might create in Himself	15:35
	one new humanity in place of the two, thus making peace,	15:38
	and might reconcile both groups to God in one body	15:45
	through the cross,	15:48
	thus putting to death that hostility through it.	15:50
	So He came and proclaimed peace to you who were far off	15:53
	and peace to those who were near,	15:57
	for through Him both of us	15:59
	have access in one Spirit to the Father.	16:01
	So then you are no longer strangers or aliens,	16:04
	but you are citizens with the saints	16:08
	and also members of the household of God,	16:11
	built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets,	16:14
	with the Christ Jesus Himself as the cornerstone.	16:18
	In Him the whole structure is joined together	16:21
	and grows into a holy temple in the Lord,	16:23
	in whom you also are built together spiritually	16:27
	into a dwelling-place for God.	16:30
	This is the Word of the Lord.	16:32
	Thanks be to God.	16:34
-	What a privilege it is to worship with you this morning	16:45
	at Duke Chapel in this magnificent and very special place.	16:48
	I'm so grateful to Doctor Willimon for the invitation	16:54
	and the honor of being able to preach	16:58
	for our service of worship today.	17:01
	When we sang the processional hymn just a few minutes ago,	17:04
	I could not help but recall another summer Sunday worship	17:08
	in the great tradition of worship here at Duke Chapel,	17:13
	I served on the Chapel staff in a time	17:17
	when the Chapel was not air conditioned,	17:20
	and on summer Sunday sometimes	17:24
	it got to be about	17:26
	a hundred degrees or higher in this place,	17:28
	and so we would leave all the doorways open	17:31
	just in case a breeze might be storing at any given moment.	17:35
	One summer Sunday morning, we were singing	17:41
	as the processional hymn	17:43
	"All Creatures of Our God and King,"	17:45
	and when I looked down at my feet,	17:49
	in the back there was this hot squirming Beagle puppy	17:51
	with its tail just wagging and kind of dancing	17:56
	around in place.	17:59
	And he kept following us in the procession,	18:01
	straight up the center aisle.	18:04
	And the Chapel attendants were frantic,	18:07
	they knew what was happening,	18:09
	but they couldn't catch the puppy,	18:11
	so when we got up here to the stone steps,	18:13
	entering the chancel,	18:17
	I was in charge that Sunday so I had to make a decision,	18:19
	so I just scooped up that puppy in my arms	18:23
	and I took him right over to the pulpit chair with me,	18:27
	and tried to hang on to him.	18:31
	And all I knew to do was to try to get him out of the place,	18:33
	before total chaos rained,	18:38
	and so we passed him along to each choir member,	18:41
	(congregation laughs)	18:45
	in the stall, and the custodian ran to meet us	18:46
	in the mirror door, and we got the puppy out.	18:50
	That just goes to show you, you never know	18:55
	what might happen in worship at Duke Chapel.	18:58
	Let us pray.	19:02
	O gracious God,	19:06
	may the words of my mouth and the meditations of our hearts	19:08
	be acceptable in thy sight, O Lord,	19:12
	our strength and redeemer.	19:15
	Amen.	19:18
	Xenophobia, that is the fear of the alien	19:22
	or the stranger,	19:27
	Xenophobia is becoming epidemic in our society.	19:29
	In Tallahassee where I live, the state capital of Florida,	19:34
	we have one of the highest juvenal crime rates	19:39
	in the nation.	19:42
	And our legislators in response to this crisis	19:44
	of course, commit more and more of our tax dollars	19:47
	toward building new prisons, new juvenal detention centers,	19:51
	and we are one of those communities beginning to experiment	19:57
	with bootcamps just to see if it might help	20:01
	keep the young and the aimless criminals	20:05
	off the public streets.	20:08
	In Florida we fear deeply the invasion of Haitian people	20:11
	upon our shores.	20:16
	Now, in our heads and in our hearts we see the results	20:18
	of an oppressive military government	20:23
	that is in place in Haiti,	20:26
	and yet we fear opening our doors,	20:29
	our communities to receive strangers.	20:32
	In this case, men, women, and children	20:37
	who are fleeing Haiti and who are trying to get to Miami	20:40
	or other points of entry every day.	20:45
	They come to us on our shores in rickety boats	20:49
	with barely the clothing on their back	20:53
	with little or no food, risking everything	20:56
	for a chance to achieve freedom	21:00
	and political asylum in our country.	21:03
	Xenophobia, as we well know, has no bounds.	21:08
	While it might be easier for us, North Americans,	21:13
	to point our fingers at a community in Central Europe,	21:17
	which declares that strangers to those countries	21:22
	are culturally incompatible,	21:26
	and strangers cannot be assimilated,	21:29
	therefore we will not allow them.	21:33
	Or we could point our finger to a place like South Africa,	21:36
	which walled itself in for generations	21:41
	with the horrible institution of apartheid,	21:45
	separating her own people one from the other.	21:49
	But the truth is, in our own communities,	21:54
	in our towns, in our neighborhoods	21:57
	we too know xenophobia.	22:01
	We too know what it means	22:05
	to be afraid of strangers in our midst.	22:07
	And that can be anybody for us	22:11
	who is different from us socio-economically,	22:14
	politically, ethnically or culturally.	22:18
	And the congregation I serve	22:22
	at Saint Paul's United Methodist,	22:24
	we still struggle what it really means	22:26
	to welcome single persons	22:29
	into our family-oriented ministries.	22:32
	We struggle with truly welcoming Alzheimer sufferers	22:36
	into our buildings regularly for daycare.	22:40
	We struggle with what it means	22:44
	to not only welcome African-American members	22:47
	into our congregation,	22:50
	but to rejoice in the new leadership among our membership.	22:52
	We struggle with what it means to welcome teenagers	22:59
	from a Reformed school, that is nearby to us,	23:03
	and incorporate those teens into our youth groups.	23:06
	We too know all about xenophobia.	23:11
	The writer of the letter to the church at Ephesus	23:16
	reminded that group in a radical way	23:19
	that xenophobia, fear of the stranger,	23:23
	remaining aloof and unconnected to the stranger,	23:27
	was no longer a possibility for Jewish Christians.	23:31
	He recalled for them	23:36
	that in the old days the Gentiles were strangers,	23:38
	they were that because they were completely cut off from God	23:43
	and that was so because they did not understand,	23:47
	they were not part of the Jewish laws,	23:51
	they were ignorant of the claims of the law,	23:54
	and they were uncircumcised and so in that state	23:58
	they could not fit in.	24:02
	The dividing wall that our text refers to	24:05
	is the very Temple wall of Jerusalem.	24:09
	The walls in the Temple, as you recall,	24:13
	separated the court of the Gentiles	24:15
	from the Jews only section,	24:18
	and that section was the inner courts of the Temple.	24:21
	Since God was understood as abiding only in the inner courts	24:26
	in the Holy of Holies spaces in that Temple,	24:31
	this meant that Gentiles would	24:35
	always be walled off from God	24:38
	with no clear access.	24:41
	The writer to the church at Ephesus	24:44
	declared something bold and shocking,	24:47
	but now in Christ,	24:50
	now because of the life, death and resurrection	24:53
	of Jesus the Christ the old understandings,	24:57
	the old ways no longer apply here.	25:01
	In fact this text describes Jesus	25:05
	as abolishing the Jewish law.	25:08
	It is the death of Jesus Christ, the sacrifice of his life	25:12
	that united for all times the Jews and Gentiles	25:17
	into one body, into one people of God.	25:21
	The walls were literally torn down	25:26
	by the life and ministry of this Jesus.	25:29
	The artificial barriers that the people and the culture	25:32
	had set in place, were meant to be destroyed.	25:36
	The inability to look at your enemy or a strange neighbor	25:40
	should be abolished,	25:45
	the hostility that was felt with people and communities	25:47
	and nations being different was to be converted into peace	25:51
	by the power of God through Jesus Christ.	25:56
	In the body of Christ Gentiles	26:01
	were no longer to be viewed as strangers.	26:04
	Strangers, sojourners, resident aliens	26:07
	were always distinguished from Old Testament times on	26:12
	by different set of rights, a different norms	26:16
	for the community.	26:20
	But this writer says	26:22
	but now in Christ Gentiles are no longer strangers	26:23
	in the faith, they are full citizens with the saints of God.	26:28
	Somehow through the miracle of Jesus Christ	26:33
	everybody became kinfolks,	26:39
	bound together in one body.	26:42
	Jew and Gentile alike, male and female,	26:44
	stranger and sojourner.	26:48
	The New Testament teachings command us	26:52
	to embrace a different principle,	26:55
	that a philoxenia	26:59
	which is hospitality to strangers.	27:01
	We are to give up xenophobia	27:05
	and we are to put on philoxenia.	27:07
	It is such a demand on us in the Christian faith	27:11
	that the Gospels declare	27:16
	that it is Jesus only mark of judgment,	27:18
	both to the world, the church and to each of us.	27:21
	It addresses the eternal question,	27:25
	one question will be posed of each of us:	27:28
	did you or did you not extend hospitality	27:32
	to strangers?	27:36
	Could it be that this is the essential gift of the Church	27:40
	as Christians to offer hospitality to strangers?	27:46
	For those whom we fear,	27:50
	in a world that continues to barricade	27:53
	and protect from such encounters.	27:55
	There are marvelous stories	28:01
	from the Desert Fathers and Mothers of our faith,	28:03
	and they illustrate so often how Christian hospitality	28:07
	gaged the purity and the possibility of a life	28:12
	busy with trying to imitate Christ.	28:17
	There was an Abba Macarius,	28:21
	who returned to his cell one day and found	28:24
	that his earthly goods were all stolen,	28:27
	right there in the monastery.	28:31
	And so his response to that was to go outside	28:34
	and upon seeing the thief he helped the thief load the wagon	28:37
	and with complete tranquility he waved goodbye	28:42
	as the thief drove away with all of his possessions.	28:47
	When asked later about that, he simply quoted	28:52
	a verse of first Timothy:	28:55
	"We brought nothing into this world,	28:58
	"and we cannot take anything out of this world."	29:00
	Another brother, Abba Euprius, discovered	29:04
	that the thieves had robbed his cell	29:08
	and then noting the action of his brother,	29:11
	he noticed they had overlooked something in his cell,	29:13
	so he ran after them giving them	29:16
	what they had left in the cell.	29:18
	Now, contrast this action with our own church staff,	29:22
	who recently decided that we needed to engage	29:28
	in a day of safety training by	29:32
	our local police department.	29:36
	You see, we are located near a lake and a park downtown	29:38
	and that park, a beautiful place, has become a hangout,	29:45
	a safe place for transients	29:49
	and for homeless people in our community,	29:52
	and there are problems around that,	29:56
	so the police officers came and they instructed all of us	29:59
	rigorously, in building safety and self-defense,	30:04
	in caution, and then reporting to them	30:08
	the presence of all strangers around our church properties,	30:12
	anybody who might appear to be suspicious	30:18
	and to call and report that to the station immediately.	30:22
	Well, the power and what was going on	30:27
	in the lives of those Desert Saints is an attitude	30:29
	so radically different	30:34
	than the way we try to protect ourselves these day.	30:35
	It is a radical fact that the teachings of Jesus	30:40
	have never been rooted in practicality.	30:44
	They do not ensure for us that we will be safe	30:47
	either from our real enemies	30:51
	or the strangers we do not know in our midst.	30:53
	But now in Christ the Letter says:	30:58
	"Grace will abound,	31:03
	"we will operate not out of fear and protection	31:06
	"but out of openness, love,	31:09
	"and acceptance of the strangers in our midst."	31:12
	But now in Christ we will be given in ways	31:17
	that we do not understand.	31:21
	Peace, the peace of God,	31:23
	that makes possible reconciliation for us.	31:25
	The Ephesian Christians had to go	31:31
	through their own transformation process,	31:33
	their own conversion, they had to reframe what they knew	31:36
	to be able to accept, to open themselves	31:41
	to this peace of Christ,	31:44
	they had been so long divided by the walls of hostility	31:47
	that they did not have a clue as to where to start	31:52
	on the road to reconciliation.	31:56
	So perhaps we should ask ourselves	32:00
	the same question this morning:	32:04
	what might it take to convert us to become people	32:06
	who live philoxenia?	32:11
	We, according to the claims of the Gospel,	32:14
	are to welcome the strangers in our midst.	32:18
	And the hard part of that means	32:23
	that we will be giving hospitality to many people	32:25
	who are not like us,	32:30
	people who we feel we have nothing in common with,	32:33
	who have different values or maybe no values,	32:37
	who do not speak our language,	32:41
	who might hurt or destroy us.	32:44
	But in the church we are to create hospitable spaces	32:48
	where strangers can become free, free to be themselves	32:53
	and offer the gift of themselves to us.	32:58
	In essence, Christian hospitality	33:02
	is the creation of a free receptive place	33:05
	where strangers become guest,	33:09
	guest of our Lord and guest of ourselves.	33:12
	Henri Nouwen reminds us in his book "Reaching out"	33:17
	that the Dutch word, his own heritage, for hospitality	33:21
	means freedom of the guest.	33:26
	Hospitality will always offer friendship	33:29
	without binding a guest, and it will care for the guest	33:33
	without intruding or without leaving the guest alone.	33:37
	Hospitality does not intend to force change upon people	33:42
	but to offer a space,	33:47
	a space where spiritual changes can take place.	33:49
	Hospitality is not there for the purpose	33:54
	of bringing people over to our side,	33:57
	but it fosters freedom, a kind of freedom	34:00
	where dividing walls can dissolve.	34:04
	There is a young man, now 20 years old, who is incarcerated	34:09
	in the security section	34:15
	of the Leon County Jail in Tallahassee.	34:18
	This young man was an excellent student at Florida State.	34:22
	He's from another community in our state.	34:26
	He was brought up in the United Methodist Church.	34:31
	His family very active, his father an attorney,	34:34
	his mother a teacher.	34:37
	He was a student who was a model: a model son,	34:39
	a community volunteer.	34:45
	Last year, this young man was arrested for child molestation	34:48
	at an elementary school where he was serving as a volunteer	34:53
	and as you might well imagine, the case began to be tried	34:59
	in the media in our community,	35:03
	long before the trial date arrived,	35:05
	officials, neighborhood groups, parents,	35:09
	everybody just became irate,	35:13
	and this young man remained in jail many many months	35:16
	before appropriate bail could be arranged.	35:20
	During that time his parents drove faithfully every weekend	35:25
	to visit their son in jail,	35:29
	and they would bring with them	35:33
	as they could, some homemade food, books and tapes	35:34
	and just be there with him in every way that they could.	35:38
	Through our church, we found a home where they could stay	35:44
	at no charge as guest when they came to our community,	35:48
	and after a bit	35:54
	they began to slip in and out of our services of worship	35:55
	and I always knew they were there	36:00
	because their faces were full of pain and agony	36:02
	with what they were carrying with their son everyday.	36:07
	They were afraid to meet people in our church	36:13
	because they were afraid they would be ostracized	36:15
	even by United Methodist brothers and sisters,	36:18
	but thank God they have found a safe place,	36:23
	they have found a sanctuary,	36:27
	they have found a grace-filled place at Saint Paul's.	36:30
	When the trial commenced, our people prayed with them,	36:35
	with their son and with the alleged victims	36:40
	and their families.	36:44
	The final legal outcome was that the young man ended up	36:46
	by legal machinations, pleading no contest	36:51
	and was sentenced to two years in jail in our community,	36:55
	and several years of probation.	36:59
	The community reaction was again quite volatile	37:02
	but now in Christ this young man	37:07
	and his family	37:12
	have a spiritual home.	37:13
	They will not be left alone,	37:16
	they are and will be surrounded by grace.	37:19
	You see in ways that we never expected as a church,	37:24
	ways that we never would have asked for,	37:29
	the fear of the stranger	37:33
	has become an opportunity of hospitality	37:35
	for our church	37:40
	because we are in Christ,	37:43
	the one body of Our Lord.	37:46
	What else did we expect?	37:51
	Thanks be to God.	37:55
-	Lord be with you.	38:05
	(congregation murmurs)	38:07
	Let us pray.	38:09
	Grant Almighty God,	38:14
	that all who confess Your name,	38:16
	might be united in your truth.	38:20
	So many walls of separation and division	38:24
	have come up between us,	38:29
	but now in Christ we have been brought together.	38:32
	Grant us the grace to live together in Your love	38:37
	and thereby reveal Your glory to the whole world,	38:42
	Lord in Your mercy,	38:46
	hear our Prayer.	38:48
	(congregation murmurs)
	Guide the people of this land, and of all the nations,	38:51
	in the ways of justice and peace.	38:54
	We pray particularly for the people of Haiti,	38:58
	living under oppression and violence.	39:02
	We pray for all those in any corner of our world this day,	39:06
	who suffer because of war and civil unrest,	39:12
	particularly we pray for the children.	39:14
	Help the boundaries between us be healed.	39:20
	Lord, in Your mercy,	39:26
	hear our Prayer.	39:28
	(congregation murmurs)
	Bless all those, O God,	39:32
	whose lives are closely linked with ours,	39:33
	our family and our friends,	39:38
	people whom we love.	39:40
	Grant that we may have an opportunity to serve Christ	39:43
	in our relationships with them.	39:46
	Grant that we might love one another even	39:51
	as Christ loves us.	39:54
	Lord, in Your mercy,	39:57
	hear our Prayer.	39:59
	(congregation murmurs)
	Comfort and heal all those	40:02
	who suffer in body, mind or spirit,	40:04
	particularly do we pray for those	40:06
	who join us in this service in the Duke Hospitals.	40:10
	Give all those who suffer courage	40:16
	and hope in their troubles,	40:18
	bring them to the joy of Your salvation.	40:20
	Lord, in Your mercy,	40:25
	hear our Prayer.	40:27
	(congregation murmurs)
	We commend Your mercy all those who have died,	40:29
	those for whom we mourn this day,	40:35
	whose lives enriched ours,	40:38
	and now who wait for us on another shore.	40:41
	We pray that we may share with all Your Saints	40:46
	in Your eternal kingdom that place prepared for us	40:49
	by Your Grace.	40:54
	Lord, in Your mercy,	40:57
	hear our Prayer.	40:59
	(congregation murmurs)
	We offer these prayers through Jesus Christ, our Lord,	41:02
	who continually intercedes for us, amen.	41:06
	Now let us stand and offer one another	41:13
	signs of peace and reconciliation.	41:15
	(congregation murmurs)	41:21
	And now as a forgiven and reconciled people	41:34
	let us offer ourselves and our gifts to the God	41:37
	who has offered so much to us.	41:41
	Be seated.	41:43
	(soft organ music)	41:46
	(uplifting organ music)	43:32
	(choir vocalizes)	43:36
	(joyous choir music)	46:16
	(choir vocalizes)	47:03
	Please join me in the great thanksgiving	47:58
	as found on the page 17 of the hymnal.	48:00
	The Lord be with you,	48:06
	(congregation murmurs)
	lift up your hearts,	48:09
	(congregation murmurs)
	let us give thanks to the Lord our God,	48:13
	(congregation murmurs)	48:16
	Father, it is right that we should always and everywhere	48:19
	give You thanks and praise,	48:22
	You are God, You created all things and called them good,	48:24
	You made us in Your own image,	48:28
	even when we rebelled against Your love,	48:31
	You did not desert us,	48:33
	You delivered us from captivity,	48:35
	made covenant with us,	48:36
	and spoke to us through Your prophets.	48:38
	Therefore we join the entire company of Heaven	48:41
	and all Your people now on Earth	48:44
	in worshiping and glorifying You,	48:45
	we praise Your name and join their unending hymn.	48:48
	(bright organ music)	48:53
	(choir vocalizing)	49:02
	We thank You, God, that You loved the world so much	49:38
	You sent Your only Son to be our Savior.	49:41
	The Lord of Life came among us, healed and talked,	49:44
	ate with sinners, and won for You a new people	49:48
	by water and the Spirit.	49:50
	We saw His glory.	49:53
	And yet He humbled Himself in obedience to Your will,	49:54
	dying on a cross.	49:58
	By dying, He gave us everlasting life.	50:00
	On the night in which He gave Himself up for us,	50:05
	the Lord Jesus took bread.	50:08
	After giving You thanks, He broke the bread,	50:10
	gave it to His disciples, and said:	50:12
	"Take, eat, this is My body which is given for you."	50:14
	When the supper was over, He took the cup.	50:18
	Again, He returned thanks to You,	50:22
	gave the cup to His disciples, and said:	50:23
	"Drink from this, all of you,	50:25
	"this is the cup of the new covenant in My blood,	50:27
	"poured out for you and many, for the forgiveness of sins."	50:30
	When we eat this bread and drink this cup,	50:33
	we experience anew the presence of the Lord Jesus Christ	50:35
	and look forward to His coming in final victory	50:40
	as we proclaim the Mystery of Faith.	50:43
	(light organ music)	50:47
	(choir vocalizes)	50:56
	Accept this, our sacrifice of praise and thanksgiving	51:07
	offered in union with Christ offering for us.	51:10
	Send the power of Your Holy Spirit on us	51:13
	gathered here out of love for You	51:15
	and on these gifts.	51:17
	May the Spirit help us know in the breaking of bread	51:19
	and the drinking of wine the presence of Christ	51:21
	who gave His body and blood for all.	51:24
	May the Spirit make us one with Christ	51:27
	and one with each other in service to all the world.	51:29
	Through Your Son Jesus Christ and with Your Holy Spirit	51:33
	and Your Holy Church, all glory and honor is Yours,	51:36
	Almighty Father now and forever.	51:40
	(bright organ music)	51:43
	(choir vocalizes)	51:53
	Because there is one loaf even though we are many,	52:04
	we become one in Christ.	52:07
	When we give thanks over the bread	52:10
	is it not a means of sharing in the body of Christ?	52:11
	When we give thanks over the cup,	52:18
	is it not a means of sharing in the blood of Christ?	52:20
	Come to the Lord's table.	52:24
	Be seated.	52:26
	(peaceful organ music)	52:46
	(choir vocalizes)	53:47
	(slow organ music)	57:35
	(choir vocalizes)	57:49
	(somber organ music)	1:00:20
	Let us stand for prayer.	1:01:49
	Lord, You renew us at Your table with the bread of life.	1:01:55
	May this holy food strengthen us in love,	1:01:59
	may it break down all barriers between us	1:02:03
	and help us to serve you in each other.	1:02:05
	We ask in the name of Jesus, our Lord and Savior, amen.	1:02:08
	(uplifting organ music)	1:02:15
	(choir vocalizes)	1:02:54
	And now may the blessing	1:06:37
	of God the Father, Son and Holy Spirit be among you	1:06:38
	and remain with you always, amen.	1:06:42
	(choir vocalizes)	1:06:46
	(dramatic organ music)	1:06:57

Item Info

Title:

Charlene P. Kammerer - "But Now in Christ" (July 17, 1994)

Description:

Sermon start time: 16:45. Sermon end time: 37:58.
Jesus’ teachings do not ensure that we will be safe from those dangers in our lives, but Christians are called to interact with openness towards strangers. This hospitality’s goal should never be to convert people to your side, but simply to offer them what you have. (Abstract created by Duke Divinity School staff.)
Key quotation: “One question will be posed to us: did you or did you not extend hospitality to strangers?”

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Date:

July 17, 1994

Speaker:

Kammerer, Charlene P.

Liturgical Calendar:

Ordinary Time

Biblical Book:

Mark

Chapter and Verse:

Mark 6:30-34; 53-56

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Contributor:

Duke University. Chapel

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