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The 21st Century Re-Formation: Living Hope and Good Neighbors · Faith at Work

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  SPEAKER_00: We are finishing up our series today, The Story of Movements.
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  SPEAKER_00: And in this series,
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  we have tracked the reformation in the faith community that
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  seemed to occur every
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  SPEAKER_00: 500 years or so.
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  SPEAKER_00: We began with Malachi,
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  SPEAKER_00: if you remember,
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  who was speaking to a people who were going through the motions
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  while their hearts
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  SPEAKER_00: were far away from God.
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  SPEAKER_00: We moved to Jesus,
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  SPEAKER_00: a guy you probably remember,
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  SPEAKER_00: who stood in the shadow of the empire and announced a kingdom of heaven.
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  We listened to the monks and to the desert fathers and mothers
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  who left power
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  SPEAKER_00: behind and sought God in the wilderness when the church felt very,
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  SPEAKER_00: very compromised.
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  We walked through the great schism of 1054 when Christians who
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  shared the same Lord
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  SPEAKER_00: could not share the same table.
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  And we looked at the Reformation when the Spirit stirred fresh
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  conviction about
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  SPEAKER_00: Scripture and grace and conscience and the shape of the church.
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  SPEAKER_00: And now...
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  SPEAKER_00: Today,
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  we arrive at the last question of this series and the beginning
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  questions that we
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  will begin to ask ourselves as we go through Lent and move
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  towards Easter.
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  What is the reformation movement that we are experiencing in
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  the 21st century?
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  SPEAKER_00: Which is, if you don't know kids, that's the century we are in right now.
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  SPEAKER_00: Okay?
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  SPEAKER_00: Is there one?
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  SPEAKER_00: I think is an important question.
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  SPEAKER_00: And if there is one,
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  how should we be participating in that reformation movement
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  that God is leading?
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  SPEAKER_00: And,
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  SPEAKER_00: important for us as a church of the brethren,
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  what is our role as a church of the brethren in this
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  reformation movement?
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  SPEAKER_00: Okay?
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  SPEAKER_00: Let's start with a farm image.
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  Many of you are familiar with farms that are sitting in this
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  room today,
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  right?
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  Every once in a while,
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  you have to clean out a barn,
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  or at least you should.
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  SPEAKER_00: Not because barns are bad,
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  SPEAKER_00: but because barns collect things,
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  SPEAKER_00: good things,
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  SPEAKER_00: useful things,
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  SPEAKER_00: sentimental things,
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  SPEAKER_00: Broken things, things that need to be fixed, right?
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  SPEAKER_00: Things that you forgot you even owned.
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  SPEAKER_00: Sometimes I've got a barn like that.
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  And if you never stored it,
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  you lose what matters inside of all of that clutter.
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  SPEAKER_00: The tools that you need get buried under it.
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  SPEAKER_00: The space that should hold life becomes storage for yesterday.
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  SPEAKER_00: And the church is like that.
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  Not because the church is broken beyond repair,
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  but because the church is a human institution.
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  SPEAKER_00: We accumulate habits and assumptions and practices and structures.
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  SPEAKER_00: Some were once very helpful.
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  SPEAKER_00: Some were once
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  SPEAKER_00: Some were once necessary,
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  SPEAKER_00: but over time,
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  SPEAKER_00: if we are not careful,
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  SPEAKER_00: we confuse the piles in the barn for the mission of God in our time.
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  SPEAKER_00: I do believe that we are living through a new sorting,
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  SPEAKER_00: a new rummaging,
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  SPEAKER_00: a new reformation of the church of Jesus Christ.
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  SPEAKER_00: You probably are very aware that the last 500 years have brought a
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  of change the first 400 years produced staggering change but
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  over the last 100
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  years the world has changed in almost unbelievable paces cars
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  and highways changed
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  where we live and how often we move in our world radio and
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  television computer and
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  SPEAKER_00: the internet changed how we learn and who we trust
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  SPEAKER_00: The telephone, used to have wires, became the smartphone.
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  SPEAKER_00: The local became global.
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  SPEAKER_00: The private, through social media, has now become the public.
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  SPEAKER_00: Two world wars,
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  SPEAKER_00: the Cold War,
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  SPEAKER_00: the civil rights movement,
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  SPEAKER_00: economic upheavals,
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  the cultural revolutions that reshaped what people expect from
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  institutions,
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  SPEAKER_00: including the church.
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  SPEAKER_00: In the middle of all of that, many people discovered a painful truth.
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  Grandma's faith and the church were beautiful,
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  but they did not answer the new modern questions.
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  SPEAKER_00: Now, some tried to preserve her world exactly as it was.
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  SPEAKER_00: Others rejected it completely.
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  SPEAKER_00: Many,
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  SPEAKER_00: many,
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  SPEAKER_00: many simply just drifted away,
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  SPEAKER_00: not because they hated God,
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  but because the church seemed to be speaking a language that
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  was no longer relevant
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  SPEAKER_00: to their lives.
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  SPEAKER_00: This is part of why so many refocusing movements have emerged.
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  SPEAKER_00: Think of the streams we have seen in the last century.
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  SPEAKER_00: Some Christians refocused on justice,
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  SPEAKER_00: serving the poor,
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  SPEAKER_00: confronting racism,
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  SPEAKER_00: releasing oppression,
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  SPEAKER_00: and standing up for the vulnerable.
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  SPEAKER_00: That stream includes the social gospel,
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  SPEAKER_00: civil rights era witness,
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  SPEAKER_00: liberation theology,
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  SPEAKER_00: and many forms of community involvement.
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  SPEAKER_00: Some Christians refocused on the Holy Spirit,
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  hunger for renewal,
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  healing,
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  worship,
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  prayer,
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  and the experience of God's presence.
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  SPEAKER_00: That stream includes Pentecostal and charismatic renewal,
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  SPEAKER_00: the Jesus movement,
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  SPEAKER_00: and the contemporary worship culture.
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  SPEAKER_00: Some Christians refocused on mission and discipleship,
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  asking how the church can faithfully live when it is no longer
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  the center of
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  SPEAKER_00: society.
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  By the way,
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  if you didn't know,
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  the church is no longer the center of society.
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  SPEAKER_00: That stream includes the missional church,
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  SPEAKER_00: a conversation,
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  SPEAKER_00: and the emergent church,
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  SPEAKER_00: which I was very fascinated with many,
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  SPEAKER_00: many years ago,
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  SPEAKER_00: and actually still am.
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  SPEAKER_00: Some re-Christians refocused on growth,
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  SPEAKER_00: strategy,
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  SPEAKER_00: and influence,
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  building large churches and strong programs that reach many
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  people with mega
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  SPEAKER_00: churches.
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  SPEAKER_00: And some Christians refocused on nations.
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  power and cultural control blending the cross with the flag
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  treating political
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  victory as the measure of god's endorsement and that stream is
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  sometimes described
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  as christian nationalism and is one of the great influences of
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  our time right now
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  SPEAKER_00: so how do we make sense
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  all of this and all of these refocusing movements without
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  getting lost in it?
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  How do we participate in the movement of God without being
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  swept away into every
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  SPEAKER_00: trend,
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  SPEAKER_00: every argument,
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  SPEAKER_00: every outrage?
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  SPEAKER_00: And when there seems to be so many options, what do we do with each one?
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  SPEAKER_00: Which one do we participate in?
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  And I think a big question,
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  were these movements reformations or just refocuses?
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  SPEAKER_00: And this, I think, is where 1 Peter becomes a gift.
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  SPEAKER_00: 1 Peter was written to Christians in 62 CE,
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  SPEAKER_00: Christian era,
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  just before the destruction of the Jerusalem temple and the
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  Nero persecutions.
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  SPEAKER_00: And these folks,
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  though they were being formed by the apostles and into this new
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  Christian movement,
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  SPEAKER_00: they felt scattered and they felt small.
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  SPEAKER_00: They lived under pressure.
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  SPEAKER_00: They were misunderstood.
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  SPEAKER_00: They were not in charge.
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  SPEAKER_00: They did not control the culture.
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  SPEAKER_00: They did not have a microphone to speak from or a platform to speak from.
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  They had to figure out how to live faithfully when their
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  neighbors looked at them
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  SPEAKER_00: with suspicion.
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  SPEAKER_00: And Peter does not tell them to win the culture wars.
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  SPEAKER_00: He does not tell them to seize power.
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  SPEAKER_00: He does not tell them to withdraw into bitterness.
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  SPEAKER_00: He tells them to become a certain kind of people.
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  SPEAKER_00: 1 Peter 2.9 says,
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  SPEAKER_00: You are a chosen people,
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  SPEAKER_00: a royal priesthood,
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  SPEAKER_00: a holy nation,
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  SPEAKER_00: God's own people,
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  so that you may declare the mighty acts of the one who called
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  you out of darkness
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  SPEAKER_00: and into marvelous light.
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  And then Peter says something that is almost this whole sermon
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  in one line.
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  SPEAKER_00: In 1 Peter 2.12,
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  SPEAKER_00: he says,
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  SPEAKER_00: live such good lives among your neighbors that even when they accuse you,
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  SPEAKER_00: they will see your goodness.
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  SPEAKER_00: That is not a strategy.
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  SPEAKER_00: That is a way of being in the world.
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  SPEAKER_00: The reformation of the 21st century,
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  SPEAKER_00: at its best,
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  SPEAKER_00: I believe,
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  SPEAKER_00: is not about re-establishing institutions.
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  It is about forming communities of Jesus-shaped presence in a
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  world that is aching
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  SPEAKER_00: and needing good neighbors.
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  SPEAKER_00: Mr. Rogers.
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  SPEAKER_00: And believe it or not, that brings us to suffering.
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  SPEAKER_00: Because suffering is one of the great common experiences of our time.
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  SPEAKER_00: Many of us carry private suffering.
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  SPEAKER_00: Grief that no one sees in your life because you're covering it up.
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  SPEAKER_00: health struggles,
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  SPEAKER_00: anxiety,
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  SPEAKER_00: family tension,
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  SPEAKER_00: financial pressures,
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  SPEAKER_00: loneliness,
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  the feeling that the world is moving faster than our souls can
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  ever keep up with.
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  And many of us carry public suffering,
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  the temperature of our culture,
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  the constant noise.
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  SPEAKER_00: The sense that everyone is angry and no one is listening.
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  SPEAKER_00: The fear that our kids will not be okay.
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  SPEAKER_00: Our kids fears that they will not be safe at school.
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  The fear that yesterday the United States and Israel initiated
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  military action against Iran.
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  We carry a lot of fears and stress and tensions and inner
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  suffering in our lives today.
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  SPEAKER_00: I read a book,
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  SPEAKER_00: there was a book review actually,
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  SPEAKER_00: this last week,
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  SPEAKER_00: that described suffering like moving through a long night.
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  SPEAKER_00: Sunset, dusk, midnight, and then dawn and daylight.
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  These are seasons when things fall apart these long nights and
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  we can tell that the
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  SPEAKER_00: light is fading in our world.
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  There are seasons when we feel disoriented and we do not know
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  what to trust.
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  There are seasons that feel like midnight when we are unable to
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  see the path and we
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  SPEAKER_00: wonder if morning is ever coming.
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  SPEAKER_00: And then
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  SPEAKER_00: Fortunately, eventually, a thin line of light appears on the horizon.
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  Not because everything is fixed overnight,
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  but because we begin to breathe again.
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  SPEAKER_00: And we find meaning, and we find strength, and we find a way to live.
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  SPEAKER_00: First Peter speaks to that same kind of long night.
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  SPEAKER_00: But Peter names something that the psychology books cannot fully name.
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  SPEAKER_00: Peter calls it living hope in the midst of suffering.
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  SPEAKER_00: Living hope is not denial,
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  SPEAKER_00: it is not pretending,
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  SPEAKER_00: it is not saying that everything happens for a reason.
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  SPEAKER_00: Living hope is the conviction that God is still God even at midnight.
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  Living hope is the belief that Jesus has already passed through
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  death and come out
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  SPEAKER_00: on the other side.
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  Living hope is the strength to keep doing good even if the
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  world is not clapping for you.
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  SPEAKER_00: So what guidance does 1 Peter give for suffering,
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  SPEAKER_00: and how does it shape our participation in this new reformation?
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  SPEAKER_00: Well,
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  SPEAKER_00: here are three simple invitations,
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  SPEAKER_00: and there are plenty more in 1 Peter,
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  SPEAKER_00: but I only had time for three.
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  SPEAKER_00: The first invitation, do not be surprised by the fire.
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  SPEAKER_00: Peter says, do not be surprised when trials come.
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  In other words,
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  do not interpret suffering as proof that God has abandoned you.
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  SPEAKER_00: Do not treat hardship as a strange interruption to faith.
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  SPEAKER_00: Because suffering is simply part of being a human being.
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  SPEAKER_00: Sometimes it's a cost of doing good.
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  SPEAKER_00: Sometimes it's just the pain of living in a world that is not yet healed.
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  And this matters because one of the biggest spiritual traps in
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  suffering is shame.
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  SPEAKER_00: We assume something must be wrong with us.
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  SPEAKER_00: We assume that somehow we fail.
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  SPEAKER_00: We assume maybe God's angry with us.
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  SPEAKER_00: We assume that we're alone in all of this.
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  SPEAKER_00: But Peter says, you are not alone.
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  SPEAKER_00: You are not the first or the last ones that are going to suffer.
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  SPEAKER_00: You are not abandoned.
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  SPEAKER_00: And friends, that is the word we need in the church today.
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  SPEAKER_00: If we want to participate in the reformation of our time,
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  we need to become a community where people can tell the truth
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  about their pain
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  SPEAKER_00: without being judged,
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  SPEAKER_00: without us trying to fix them,
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  SPEAKER_00: and without rushing them to say,
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  SPEAKER_00: God is good all the time and all the time God is good.
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  SPEAKER_00: We must allow for true grief in the midst of suffering.
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  SPEAKER_00: If someone is in the sunset, we do not scold them for losing daylight.
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  SPEAKER_00: If someone is at midnight, we do not demand a smile.
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  SPEAKER_00: We sit with them.
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  SPEAKER_00: We pray.
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  SPEAKER_00: We bring meals.
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  SPEAKER_00: We show up.
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  SPEAKER_00: We keep loving them.
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  SPEAKER_00: This is and has long been the brethren way.
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  SPEAKER_00: This is what we do when we are at our best.
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  SPEAKER_00: A second invitation, respond to suffering with gentleness and goodness.
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  SPEAKER_00: Peter says, do not repay evil for evil.
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  SPEAKER_00: Do not return insult for insult.
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  SPEAKER_00: Bless instead.
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  SPEAKER_00: And I'll have to tell you,
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  SPEAKER_00: in our current moment,
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  SPEAKER_00: the easiest thing is to become reactive,
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  SPEAKER_00: to mirror the anger around us,
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  SPEAKER_00: to sharpen our words,
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  SPEAKER_00: to treat people as enemies,
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  SPEAKER_00: to live as if outrage is courage.
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  SPEAKER_00: Peter offers a different path.
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  SPEAKER_00: He says,
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  SPEAKER_00: be ready to give an answer for the living hope that is in you,
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  SPEAKER_00: but do it with gentleness and with respect.
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  SPEAKER_00: Notice what Peter assumes in his letter.
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  SPEAKER_00: He assumes that we will be asked about our hope.
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  SPEAKER_00: He assumes that we will be asked about our hope.
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  That means our lives should look different enough that someone
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  notices our
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  SPEAKER_00: difference and asks about it.
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  SPEAKER_00: And let me be clear.
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  SPEAKER_00: Not because we're louder.
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  SPEAKER_00: Not because we're meaner.
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  SPEAKER_00: Not because we are more certain about everything.
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  SPEAKER_00: But because we are steadier,
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  SPEAKER_00: kinder,
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  SPEAKER_00: more honest,
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  SPEAKER_00: less afraid,
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  this is one of the most important ways we resist the unhealthy
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  currents of our
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  SPEAKER_00: time,
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  SPEAKER_00: including the blending of faith with fear-based power.
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  SPEAKER_00: If the gospel becomes a tool for control, it ceases to be the gospel.
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  SPEAKER_00: If the church becomes a machine for winning, it stops being the church.
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  SPEAKER_00: The church of the brethren has a calling here, I believe.
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  SPEAKER_00: We are a peace church,
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  which means we say we believe that the way of Jesus does not
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  require coercion.
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  SPEAKER_00: We follow a crucified individual, if you didn't know.
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  SPEAKER_00: Not a conquering ideology.
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  SPEAKER_00: We practice humility, service, and reconciliation, not domination.
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  So,
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  in our day-to-day life,
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  this looks like choosing a different tone in your home.
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  SPEAKER_00: It looks like refusing the cheap pleasures of sarcasm,
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  SPEAKER_00: which I'm a big fan of,
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  SPEAKER_00: I apologize,
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  SPEAKER_00: and argument.
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  SPEAKER_00: It looks like listening before speaking.
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  SPEAKER_00: It looks like blessing the person who irritates you.
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  SPEAKER_00: It looks like telling the truth without trying to crush the other person.
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  SPEAKER_00: This is how we participate in God's movement in a polarized world.
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  We become a people who embody a different spirit as we speak
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  the truth in love.
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  SPEAKER_00: And lastly, the third invitation.
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  SPEAKER_00: Turn suffering into serving.
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  SPEAKER_00: Peter says, above all, love one another deeply.
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  SPEAKER_00: Offer hospitality without complaining.
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  SPEAKER_00: Use whatever gift you have received to serve others.
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  SPEAKER_00: This is where suffering and reformation meet.
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  SPEAKER_00: Because suffering can shrink us.
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  SPEAKER_00: It can turn us back.
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  SPEAKER_00: inward on ourselves.
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  SPEAKER_00: It can make us protective and isolated.
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  SPEAKER_00: But Peter says, don't let that happen.
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  SPEAKER_00: Let hardship make you more human, not less.
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  SPEAKER_00: Let pain open you to compassion.
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  Let midnight become a place where you learn how to carry
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  someone else's midnight.
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  SPEAKER_00: And how can this be lived out?
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  SPEAKER_00: Well,
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  SPEAKER_00: If you're discouraged, serve someone.
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  SPEAKER_00: If you feel powerless, do one small act of goodness.
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  SPEAKER_00: If you feel overwhelmed by the world, make a meal for a neighbor.
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  SPEAKER_00: Write a note.
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  SPEAKER_00: Visit someone.
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  SPEAKER_00: Pray for your children.
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  SPEAKER_00: Give generously or just volunteer at a non-profit.
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  SPEAKER_00: Not because these acts erase suffering.
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  SPEAKER_00: They do not.
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  SPEAKER_00: but because they keep love alive and visible in the world.
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  The reformation movement of the 21st century will not be
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  measured by new church
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  SPEAKER_00: brands or new worship trends,
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  SPEAKER_00: in my opinion.
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  SPEAKER_00: It will be measured, however, by whether ordinary Christians
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  SPEAKER_00: become people of faithful, neighboring presence.
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  Friends,
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  if you feel like the church is in a state of flux right now,
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  you are not imagining it.
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  SPEAKER_00: Things are being sorted.
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  SPEAKER_00: Some will be tossed,
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  SPEAKER_00: some will be repaired,
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  SPEAKER_00: some will be carried forward with thankfulness,
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  SPEAKER_00: and some things will be replaced by something simpler and truer.
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  So let us participate in this reformation of our time by living
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  the way 1 Peter
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  SPEAKER_00: calls us to live.
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  SPEAKER_00: Not afraid, not bitter, not grasping for control.
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  SPEAKER_00: Hopeful, humble, and active in love.
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  SPEAKER_00: And when the world asks, how are you still alive?
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  SPEAKER_00: How are you still kind in all of this?
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  SPEAKER_00: How are you still hopeful in the midst of this?
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  May we be ready to answer with gentleness and respect because
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  our Redeemer lives.
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  SPEAKER_00: And because the morning is coming.
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  SPEAKER_00: Amen.