Debra K. Brazzel - Sermon Untitled (August 20, 1995)
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Man | In the third measure. | 0:00 |
(organ music) | 0:03 | |
Woman | Good morning, we'd like to welcome you | 1:57 |
to Duke Chapel. | 1:59 | |
We'd like to say a special word of thanks today | 2:00 | |
to the Duke Chapel Summer Choir and their director, | 2:03 | |
Mr. Tom Jaynes for their faithful leadership of worship | 2:06 | |
and song this summer. | 2:10 | |
I'd also like to call to your attention that the Duke | 2:12 | |
University Chapel Choir will begin auditions August the 24th | 2:14 | |
through September the first. | 2:19 | |
Please call to schedule a rehearsal if you're interesting | 2:21 | |
in auditioning for our choir. | 2:24 | |
We'd also like to call to your attention that today | 2:27 | |
immediately following the service there will be a reception | 2:30 | |
with lemonade hosted by the congregation outside on the lawn | 2:34 | |
we hope that you'll be able to join us. | 2:38 | |
Now let us continue our worship with a greeting. | 2:41 | |
Please stand. | 2:45 | |
Create in me a clean heart, oh God. | 2:50 | |
Open my lips, oh lord. | 2:56 | |
(organ music) | 3:03 | |
(hymnal singing) | 3:55 | |
- | Christ our lord invites to his table | 7:42 |
all who love him, | 7:45 | |
who earnestly repent of their sin | 7:47 | |
and seek to live in peace with one another. | 7:50 | |
Therefore let us confess our sin before God | 7:54 | |
and one another. | 7:58 | |
Most merciful God, | 8:01 | |
we confess that we have sinned against you | 8:03 | |
in thought, word and deed by what we have done | 8:07 | |
and by what we have left undone. | 8:12 | |
We have not loved you with our whole heart. | 8:15 | |
We have not loved our neighbor as ourselves. | 8:19 | |
We are truly sorry and we humbly repent. | 8:22 | |
For the sake of your son, Jesus Christ, | 8:27 | |
have mercy on us and forgive us | 8:30 | |
that we may delight in your will | 8:34 | |
and walk in your ways | 8:37 | |
to the glory of your name, | 8:39 | |
amen. | 8:42 | |
Hear the good news. | 8:56 | |
Christ died for us while we were yet sinners. | 8:59 | |
If we confess our sin, | 9:03 | |
God is faithful and just and will forgive our sin | 9:06 | |
and cleanse us from all unrighteousness. | 9:10 | |
You may be seated. | 9:15 | |
- | Let us pray together | 9:28 |
the prayer for illumination. | 9:29 | |
Open our hearts and minds, oh God, | 9:33 | |
by the power of your holy spirit | 9:36 | |
so that as the word is read and proclaimed, | 9:39 | |
we may hear your message with joy this day, | 9:43 | |
amen. | 9:47 | |
The Old Testament reading is from the book of Isaiah, | 9:50 | |
chapter five, verses one through seven. | 9:54 | |
Let me sing for my beloved, | 9:59 | |
my love song concerning his vineyard. | 10:01 | |
My beloved had a vineyard on a very fertile hill. | 10:05 | |
He dug it and cleared it of stones | 10:09 | |
and planted it with choice vines. | 10:12 | |
He built a watchtower in the midst of it | 10:15 | |
and hued out a wine vat in it. | 10:17 | |
He expected it to yield grapes but it yielded wild grapes. | 10:20 | |
And now inhabitants of Jerusalem and people of Judah, | 10:25 | |
judge between me and my vineyard. | 10:29 | |
What more was there for me to do with my vineyard | 10:33 | |
than I have not done in it? | 10:36 | |
When I expected it to yield grapes, | 10:39 | |
why did it yield wild grapes? | 10:42 | |
And now I will tell you | 10:45 | |
what I will do with my vineyard. | 10:47 | |
I will remove its hedge, | 10:49 | |
and it shall be devoured. | 10:51 | |
I will break down its wall, | 10:54 | |
and it shall be trampled down. | 10:56 | |
I will make it a waste. | 10:58 | |
It shall not be pruned or hoed | 11:00 | |
and shall be overgrown with briers and thorns. | 11:03 | |
I will also command the clouds | 11:07 | |
that they rain no rain upon it. | 11:09 | |
For the vineyard of the lord of hosts, | 11:13 | |
is the house of Israel, | 11:15 | |
and the people of Judah are his pleasant planting. | 11:17 | |
He expected justice, but saw bloodshed, | 11:21 | |
righteousness, but heard a cry. | 11:25 | |
This is the word of the lord. | 11:29 | |
The gospel lesson is from the book of Luke, | 11:37 | |
chapter 12, verses 49 through 56. | 11:40 | |
I came to bring fire to the earth, | 11:46 | |
and how I wish it were already kindled. | 11:49 | |
I have a baptism with which to be baptized | 11:53 | |
and what stress I am under until it is completed. | 11:56 | |
Do you think that I have come to bring peace to the earth? | 12:01 | |
No, I tell you, but rather division. | 12:05 | |
From now on, five in one household will be divided. | 12:09 | |
Three against two and two against three. | 12:14 | |
They will be divided, father against son | 12:17 | |
and son against father. | 12:20 | |
Mother against daughter and daughter against mother, | 12:22 | |
mother-in-law against her daughter-in-law and | 12:26 | |
daughter-in-law against mother-in-law. | 12:28 | |
He also said to the crowds, | 12:32 | |
when you see a cloud rising in the west, | 12:35 | |
you immediately say, it is going to rain | 12:38 | |
and so it happens and when you see the south wind blowing | 12:41 | |
you say, there will be scorching heat | 12:45 | |
and it happens. | 12:48 | |
You hypocrites. | 12:49 | |
You know how to interpret the appearance of earth and sky. | 12:51 | |
But why do you not know how to interpret the present time? | 12:55 | |
This is the word of the lord. | 13:00 | |
- | If we were to search through all the scriptures | 13:17 |
for the most | 13:21 | |
difficult passages, | 13:23 | |
our gospel text from Luke | 13:26 | |
would undoubtedly be on the list. | 13:28 | |
In fact it is included in FF Bruce's book, | 13:31 | |
"The Hard Sayings of Jesus." | 13:35 | |
I must confess that I was tempted to preach on one of the | 13:39 | |
other scriptures to just avoid dealing with it but as the | 13:42 | |
congregation sponsors electionary Bible study I knew that | 13:47 | |
someone would likely call me on it, | 13:51 | |
Preacher why did you avoid addressing the hard text? | 13:54 | |
So here we are with these harsh uncomfortable words from | 14:01 | |
Jesus, I have come to bring fire to the Earth. | 14:06 | |
Do you think that I have come to bring peace to the Earth? | 14:12 | |
No, I tell you, but rather division. | 14:15 | |
The parallel scripture in Matthew puts it even more | 14:20 | |
starkly, do not think that I have come to bring peace to the | 14:23 | |
Earth I have not come to bring peace but a sword. | 14:28 | |
What hard words. | 14:34 | |
They go against the image that most of us hold of a | 14:37 | |
gentle kind lord who came that all the world | 14:40 | |
might know peace. | 14:45 | |
Hark the herald angels sing glory to the newborn king, | 14:47 | |
peace on Earth and mercy mild. | 14:51 | |
God and sinners reconciled. | 14:56 | |
This is the lord of whom we sing. | 15:00 | |
But Luke gives us a lord who says, | 15:04 | |
I came to bring fire to the Earth not peace | 15:07 | |
but division even among families. | 15:12 | |
The words of this text are jarring and disturbing. | 15:17 | |
They threaten our dearly held images of a | 15:22 | |
gentle, peaceful lord. | 15:24 | |
They tell us of a God who comes with fire and sword | 15:27 | |
to slash and burn and separate. | 15:30 | |
What are we to do with a God such as this? | 15:35 | |
But maybe that's the point. | 15:42 | |
Perhaps we've created an image of God | 15:45 | |
that we can do whatever we wish with | 15:49 | |
one that we can manipulate and control. | 15:53 | |
A nice, manageable loving God | 15:57 | |
who let's us do as we please, sometimes | 16:00 | |
mildly admonishing us but always gentle, | 16:02 | |
easy, nice. | 16:07 | |
In this scripture Jesus burns right through our mushy | 16:12 | |
lukewarm, domesticated images of God. | 16:16 | |
Jesus confronts us with the God | 16:21 | |
of power and judgment. | 16:24 | |
This isn't a safe, nice, controllable God | 16:27 | |
but one who burns like fire and cuts like a sword. | 16:32 | |
The god that Jesus reveals is hot, intense, | 16:37 | |
passionate, demanding. | 16:41 | |
We can't manipulate or ignore this God. | 16:46 | |
This is the one who comes to us with fire. | 16:51 | |
Throughout the scripture, the image of fire is the one | 16:56 | |
reliable sign of the presence of God. | 16:59 | |
God speaks to Moses out of the burning bush. | 17:02 | |
A pillar of fire guides the people out of Egypt. | 17:05 | |
When Moses goes up to Mount Sinai to get the 10 commandments | 17:09 | |
from God it looks to those down below as if the entire | 17:12 | |
mountain is consumed by fire. | 17:15 | |
Fire, | 17:19 | |
dangerous, unpredictable, | 17:20 | |
powerful. | 17:23 | |
Jesus said that he came to bring fire to the Earth. | 17:26 | |
Fire, the sign that in him | 17:30 | |
and through him, | 17:33 | |
nothing less | 17:35 | |
than almighty God is present. | 17:37 | |
So what does it mean to be confronted with a God | 17:42 | |
who brings fire? | 17:45 | |
In the presence of fire shadows get pushed back | 17:48 | |
and what was hidden stands revealed. | 17:53 | |
The truth about life, about us | 17:58 | |
is made plain. | 18:02 | |
Every nook and cranny of our being is seen into | 18:04 | |
and known for what it is. | 18:08 | |
All our masks and pretensions are melted away | 18:11 | |
and we stand exposed, known for who we really are. | 18:15 | |
In the light of fire we are known, judged. | 18:22 | |
Judgment is an aspect of the Gospel that we would rather not | 18:29 | |
focus on | 18:33 | |
but nevertheless, judgment | 18:36 | |
is inescapable. | 18:39 | |
Earlier in Luke we heard even now | 18:41 | |
the ax is lying at the root of the trees. | 18:44 | |
Every tree therefore that does not bear good fruit is cut | 18:49 | |
down and thrown into the fire. | 18:52 | |
His winnowing fork is in his hand to clear his threshing | 18:56 | |
floor and to gather the wheat into his granary | 19:00 | |
but the chaff he will burn with unquenchable fire. | 19:03 | |
There's no getting around the reality of judgment. | 19:07 | |
Jesus came among us with sword and fire | 19:12 | |
to cut a narrow path. | 19:15 | |
He has come to determine who is on the side of life | 19:17 | |
and who is not. | 19:21 | |
It isn't that God cares for some and not for others. | 19:23 | |
It's just that some have rejected life for so long that they | 19:27 | |
have become like weeds that suck the nourishment out of the | 19:30 | |
soil without giving anything back. | 19:34 | |
These who have become useless in God's kingdom | 19:38 | |
must be cut back so that the good fruit, | 19:42 | |
the good wheat might thrive and get on | 19:46 | |
with the business of feeding a starving world. | 19:49 | |
From now on five in one household will be divided. | 19:55 | |
Three against two and two against three, | 19:58 | |
father against son and son against father and mother against | 20:01 | |
daughter and daughter against mother, mother in law against | 20:04 | |
her daughter-in-law and daughter-in-law against her | 20:07 | |
mother-in-law. | 20:10 | |
These are terrifying words. | 20:12 | |
The family is our most cherished human institution. | 20:14 | |
We expect unity in the family, if nowhere else. | 20:18 | |
So why would Jesus say that he comes to bring division | 20:22 | |
especially in the family? | 20:27 | |
You see the very | 20:31 | |
presence of Jesus precipitates a crisis, | 20:32 | |
a division among | 20:37 | |
people in terms of how they respond to him. | 20:38 | |
Loyalties get rearranged and sometimes even families | 20:42 | |
get divided. | 20:46 | |
A Duke student got involved in a tutoring project | 20:49 | |
his sophomore year. | 20:52 | |
He had planned to be a lawyer but he discovered that he had | 20:54 | |
a gift, a call to teach inner-city kids. | 20:57 | |
His parents told him that he's wasting his education and | 21:01 | |
their money. | 21:05 | |
It's been hard for him to go against their expectations. | 21:07 | |
I know a woman who struggled for a long time with a sense of | 21:12 | |
call to the ministry. | 21:15 | |
Her husband tried to talk her out of it. | 21:17 | |
Couldn't she continue to serve the lord in other ways? | 21:19 | |
Wasn't teaching Sunday school | 21:22 | |
and a weekly Bible study enough? | 21:23 | |
What about their children and their lifestyle? | 21:26 | |
Surely they would suffer. | 21:29 | |
She prayed about it, delayed the decision, | 21:32 | |
tried to run from it but finally felt that she had to | 21:34 | |
respond to the call. | 21:37 | |
She entered seminary | 21:39 | |
and her husband felt betrayed by her commitment to God. | 21:41 | |
There's been a divorce. | 21:46 | |
The family was scorched by fire. | 21:48 | |
I have a Japanese friend who was beaten by his father when | 21:53 | |
he discovered that he had converted to Christianity. | 21:57 | |
He gave him a choice, | 22:00 | |
to give up his faith | 22:02 | |
or lose his family. | 22:04 | |
My friend was | 22:06 | |
an outcast, | 22:08 | |
estranged from father and mother and brothers. | 22:10 | |
Following Jesus can be costly. | 22:14 | |
I tell you that, that night | 22:18 | |
there will be two in bed, | 22:21 | |
one will be taken and the other left. | 22:23 | |
By its very nature, the gospel divides with fire and sword. | 22:28 | |
It is hard, demanding, costly. | 22:33 | |
In the fire of judgment we're confronted with the God | 22:39 | |
who sees us for who we are | 22:42 | |
and demands that we make a decision about who we will be. | 22:45 | |
We must choose | 22:50 | |
whom and what we will serve. | 22:52 | |
Will we let God make us useful | 22:58 | |
or not? | 23:01 | |
None of us could stand to face such intense light, | 23:04 | |
such scorching heat. | 23:09 | |
None of us could risk exposing the stark truth about | 23:11 | |
ourselves, none of us could stand before the judging fire. | 23:15 | |
If we did not believe that this is God's own fire, | 23:20 | |
the fire of God's presence, the fire that wants to | 23:24 | |
speak to us, to guide us, to instruct us, | 23:27 | |
to save us. | 23:30 | |
It is the fire of a potter who wants to make useful vessels | 23:32 | |
out of damp clay. | 23:36 | |
It is the fire of a jeweler who want to refine pure gold | 23:38 | |
from rough ore. | 23:42 | |
In other words it does not have to be the fire of | 23:46 | |
destruction, it may also become | 23:49 | |
the fire of transformation, | 23:52 | |
a fire that lights us up and changes us, | 23:55 | |
melting us down and reforming us more nearly | 23:59 | |
to the image of God. | 24:02 | |
It is the fire with which Jesus himself was baptized in the | 24:04 | |
crucifixion and resurrection. | 24:08 | |
It is the fire with which he baptizes us, | 24:12 | |
inviting us into bright hot relationship with him. | 24:15 | |
So while the fire that Jesus bring judges, | 24:22 | |
it also, it's the same fire that saves. | 24:25 | |
It is said that if you put a frog in a pot of cold water | 24:31 | |
and place it over a low heat the frog will swim around | 24:35 | |
and around in the water never realizing that it's getting | 24:39 | |
hotter and hotter | 24:41 | |
until it dies from the heat. | 24:43 | |
Sometimes life is like that for us. | 24:47 | |
We swim around and around in the lukewarm water | 24:50 | |
never realizing that the choices we make | 24:53 | |
are heating the water so that the very life | 24:56 | |
is being sapped out of us. | 24:59 | |
But when we encounter the bright hot fire of the lord | 25:03 | |
we can no longer remain indifferent or unaware of the | 25:07 | |
dangers that we face. | 25:11 | |
When we faced fire we can't ignore it or drag our feet | 25:14 | |
or pretend that it doesn't exist | 25:17 | |
or put off the decision until another time. | 25:19 | |
We must decide then and there how we will respond. | 25:22 | |
It confronts us with a crisis and a decision. | 25:26 | |
It's heat singes us so that we know that our very life | 25:29 | |
is at stake. | 25:33 | |
We must choose what we will live for | 25:35 | |
and what we will die for. | 25:39 | |
It gives us a sense of urgency. | 25:42 | |
We must decide whether we will give our allegiance to the | 25:44 | |
will and way of Jesus Christ or whether we will reject him | 25:47 | |
and go our way for all time. | 25:51 | |
This is the God who comes in hot, | 25:55 | |
demanding fire to save us from the life that leads slowly | 25:58 | |
but inexorably to death. | 26:03 | |
The God who comes in fire desires not only to separate | 26:06 | |
and refine but also unite. | 26:10 | |
In metallurgy, fire is essential in producing alloys. | 26:15 | |
Through fire two distinct different elements are combined so | 26:19 | |
that they might enhance each other to form a | 26:23 | |
new stronger, substance. | 26:26 | |
A similar spiritual process takes place when we are touched | 26:29 | |
by holy fire. | 26:34 | |
At Pentecost the coming of the holy spirit was described as | 26:37 | |
tongues of fire which rested upon each person | 26:42 | |
filling them with power. | 26:46 | |
The immediate result was a group of strangers from every | 26:48 | |
corner of the world | 26:52 | |
united around the confession | 26:54 | |
that Jesus Christ is lord. | 26:57 | |
They went on to overcome one division, | 27:00 | |
one human barrier after another, | 27:04 | |
language, race, culture | 27:07 | |
to create a fellowship of believers in Christ. | 27:09 | |
It is a story of a spiritual fire that binds. | 27:12 | |
Through the fire of the holy spirit, | 27:18 | |
God works to unite us with God's self and with each other. | 27:21 | |
This isn't just a theological concept but a spiritual | 27:25 | |
reality through which we are united with the | 27:30 | |
very being of God. | 27:32 | |
It is the mystical union which we share through Christ in | 27:35 | |
the holy spirit that unites us to each other | 27:39 | |
as a community of faith. | 27:42 | |
And gives a peace which cannot be shaken | 27:43 | |
no matter what circumstances we face. | 27:47 | |
A peace which comes not from the absence of conflict | 27:50 | |
but from the absolute assurance that we are not alone. | 27:54 | |
The very presence and power of the almighty God, | 27:58 | |
the one who comes with fire is with us. | 28:02 | |
Jesus came to bring fire to the Earth. | 28:08 | |
Whether we receive these words as promise or threat | 28:13 | |
depends upon how we respond to him. | 28:18 | |
Wherever there is rejection of the Gospel, | 28:22 | |
then division and judgment are the outcome | 28:25 | |
but wherever there is acceptance, | 28:29 | |
the fire burns away everything that chokes off life | 28:32 | |
and binds us to God and to each other in an intense | 28:37 | |
passionate love. | 28:41 | |
In a few minutes we will celebrate the great thanksgiving. | 28:45 | |
Sometimes because this is a familiar ritual, | 28:50 | |
we underestimate its power | 28:54 | |
but this high drama, dangerous. | 28:57 | |
A holy sacrament. | 29:02 | |
It is communion. | 29:04 | |
Through this simple ordinary bread and wine | 29:07 | |
we are united | 29:12 | |
with nothing less than almighty God. | 29:14 | |
If you look closely | 29:20 | |
you will see tongues of fire. | 29:21 | |
- | The lord be with you. | 29:40 |
Let us pray. | 29:44 | |
Oh God, we come before you this morning in praise | 29:49 | |
and thanksgiving | 29:53 | |
ever mindful that you are our God and we are your people. | 29:55 | |
We pray for ourselves and for others. | 30:02 | |
Many of us enter into this hallowed place | 30:08 | |
like starving souls needing bread, | 30:11 | |
like parched flowers seeking water, | 30:14 | |
like storm tossed ships looking for safe harbor. | 30:19 | |
Satisfy the needs of our souls from the depths | 30:24 | |
of your mercy. | 30:27 | |
Nourish us with your presence | 30:29 | |
and speak to us in your word. | 30:32 | |
Lord, in your mercy. | 30:36 | |
We are not our own but yours. | 30:42 | |
Claim us as your right. | 30:44 | |
Keep us as your charge. | 30:47 | |
Love us as your children. | 30:50 | |
Fight for us when we are assaulted. | 30:53 | |
Heal us when we are wounded | 30:56 | |
and revive us when we are destroyed. | 30:58 | |
Lord, in your mercy. | 31:02 | |
We pray this morning for those whose lives are filled | 31:08 | |
with suffering and pain, | 31:12 | |
those whose hearts are heavy with sorrow or anxiety | 31:15 | |
and those whose lips no longer pray but have surrendered | 31:20 | |
to despair. | 31:24 | |
Give them courage if not relief. | 31:27 | |
Surround them with hope as well as love | 31:31 | |
and give them occasion to open their lips in a song | 31:35 | |
that will breathe into them a new spirit | 31:39 | |
and new life. | 31:42 | |
Lord, in your mercy. | 31:45 | |
As we approach the beginning of a new school year | 31:51 | |
we pray for this community of learning. | 31:53 | |
Bless our leaders with wisdom and integrity. | 31:57 | |
Give our faculty insight and patience. | 32:02 | |
Furnish our students with a zealous expectation | 32:06 | |
for discovery. | 32:09 | |
Grant that our search for truth be accompanied by humility. | 32:12 | |
The request for understanding be attended by compassion | 32:18 | |
and that whatever small successes we experience | 32:22 | |
might be tempered by an awareness of our own frailties | 32:27 | |
and gratitude for your great mercies. | 32:31 | |
Lord in your mercy. | 32:35 | |
In raising these as in all our petitions and intercessions, | 32:40 | |
we place our trust and confidence in you, oh lord. | 32:44 | |
In the midst of our conceit, judge us and divide us | 32:50 | |
from our weakness and sin save us and empower us | 32:55 | |
with your holy spirit. | 32:58 | |
Be thou our wisdom | 33:01 | |
and our true word. | 33:05 | |
Amen. | 33:08 | |
- | Let us stand and offer one another signs of God's peace. | 33:13 |
You may be seated. | 33:41 | |
As forgiven and reconciled people, | 33:44 | |
let us offer ourselves and our gifts to God. | 33:47 | |
(organ music) | 34:02 | |
(hymnal singing) | 35:31 | |
(organ music) | 40:08 | |
(hymnal singing) | 40:47 | |
- | The lord be with you. | 41:48 |
Lift up your hearts. | 41:52 | |
Let us give thanks to the lord our God. | 41:55 | |
It is right and a good and joyful thing always and | 42:01 | |
everywhere to give thanks to you, father almighty, | 42:05 | |
creator of heaven and Earth. | 42:09 | |
You formed us in your image and breathed into us the | 42:11 | |
breath of life. | 42:14 | |
When we turned away and our love failed, | 42:16 | |
your love remained steadfast. | 42:19 | |
You delivered us from captivity. | 42:22 | |
Made covenant to be our sovereign God | 42:24 | |
and spoke to us through your prophets who look for that day | 42:27 | |
when justice shall roll down like waters and righteousness | 42:31 | |
like an ever flowing stream. | 42:35 | |
When nations shall not lift up sword against a nation, | 42:38 | |
neither shall they learn war anymore | 42:41 | |
and so with your people on Earth and all the company | 42:45 | |
of heaven, we praise your name and join their unending hymn. | 42:47 | |
(organ music) | 42:52 | |
(hymnal singing) | 42:58 | |
Holy are you and blessed is your son, Jesus Christ. | 43:38 | |
Your spirit anointed him to preach good news to the poor, | 43:42 | |
to proclaim release to the captives and recovering of | 43:45 | |
sight to the blind, | 43:49 | |
to set at liberty those who are oppressed | 43:51 | |
and to announce that the time had come when you would | 43:53 | |
save your people. | 43:56 | |
He healed the sick, fed the hungry | 43:58 | |
and ate with sinners. | 44:01 | |
By the baptism of his suffering, death and resurrection, | 44:03 | |
you gave birth to your church, | 44:07 | |
delivered us from slavery to sin and death | 44:10 | |
and made with us a new covenant by water and the spirit. | 44:13 | |
At his ascension you exalted him to sit and reign with you | 44:18 | |
at your right hand. | 44:22 | |
On the night in which he gave himself up for us, | 44:24 | |
he took bread, gave thanks to you, | 44:27 | |
broke the bread, gave it to his disciples and said, | 44:30 | |
take, eat, this is my body given for you. | 44:33 | |
Do this in remembrance of me. | 44:37 | |
And when the supper was over he took the cup, | 44:40 | |
gave thanks to you, offered it to his disciples and said, | 44:43 | |
drink from this all of you, | 44:47 | |
for this is the blood of the new covenant | 44:49 | |
poured out for you and for many for the forgiveness of sins. | 44:51 | |
Do this as often as you drink it | 44:55 | |
in remembrance of me. | 44:58 | |
And so in remembrance of these, your mighty acts | 45:02 | |
in Jesus Christ, we offer ourselves in praise and | 45:05 | |
thanksgiving as a holy and living sacrifice | 45:09 | |
in union with Christ offering for us | 45:13 | |
as we proclaim the mystery of faith. | 45:16 | |
(organ music) | 45:19 | |
(hymnal singing) | 45:26 | |
Pour out your holy spirit on us gathered here | 45:35 | |
and on these gifts of bread and wine. | 45:38 | |
Make them be for us the body and blood of Christ, | 45:41 | |
that we may be for the world the body of Christ redeemed | 45:45 | |
by his blood. | 45:48 | |
By your spirit, make us one with Christ, | 45:50 | |
one with each other and one in ministry to all the world | 45:53 | |
until Christ comes in final victory and we feast | 45:57 | |
at his heavenly banquet. | 46:01 | |
Through your son, Jesus Christ, with the holy spirit | 46:04 | |
in your holy church, all honor and glory is yours | 46:08 | |
almighty father, now and forever. | 46:12 | |
(organ music) | 46:15 | |
(hymnal singing) | 46:23 | |
Our father who art in heaven, | 46:33 | |
hallowed be thy name. | 46:37 | |
Thy kingdom come, thy will be done | 46:39 | |
on earth as it is in heaven. | 46:42 | |
Give us this day our daily bread | 46:45 | |
and forgive us our trespasses | 46:48 | |
as we forgive those who trespass against us. | 46:50 | |
Lead us not into temptation but deliver us from evil. | 46:54 | |
For thine is the kingdom and power | 46:58 | |
and the glory forever, | 47:01 | |
amen. | 47:04 | |
When we break the bread it is a means of sharing in the | 47:09 | |
body of Christ. | 47:13 | |
When we drink from the cup | 47:19 | |
it is a means of sharing in the blood of Christ | 47:21 | |
which unites us with the power of almighty God. | 47:23 | |
The body of Christ given for you. | 47:31 | |
The blood of Christ given for you. | 47:36 | |
(organ music) | 48:01 | |
Come to the table. | 48:04 | |
(organ music) | 48:08 | |
(hymnal singing) | 49:48 | |
(organ music) | 55:00 | |
(hymnal singing) | 55:50 | |
Please stand for the prayer after communion. | 58:33 | |
Eternal God, we give you thanks for this holy mystery | 58:40 | |
in which you have given yourself to us. | 58:44 | |
Grant that we may go into the world in the strength | 58:47 | |
of your spirit | 58:50 | |
to give ourselves for others | 58:51 | |
in the name of Jesus Christ, our lord, | 58:54 | |
amen. | 58:57 | |
(organ music) | 58:59 | |
(hymnal singing) | 59:44 | |
Go forth in the peace of our lord. | 1:02:58 | |
May the grace of the lord Jesus Christ | 1:03:01 | |
and the love of God and the communion and unity | 1:03:03 | |
of the holy spirit be with you and keep you, | 1:03:06 | |
amen. | 1:03:10 | |
(hymnal singing) | 1:03:13 | |
(organ music) | 1:03:25 |