1 24 2 https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/files/original/2abf9f44b1e5ebf3ca0778144a13c172.pdf b518fb1c6341b19e29b6d4cbbb0ad6de PDF Text Text Authentication From the series: The Human Face of God Text: Luke 24:5; Philippians 2:11 Richard A. Rhem Christ Community Church Spring Lake, Michigan Easter, April 12, 1998 Transcription of the spoken sermon Well, we made it once again; we have paid our dues, walked through the darkness, remembered the passion and pain of Jesus, lingered at least briefly at the cross and now, thank God, we’ve emerged on the other side. A new world dawns this Easter morn. The alleluias return, the thrill of triumph, unalloyed joy permeates our being, all is well, life is good. Spring is here. Thank God it’s over - Lent, that is, the minor-keyed music, the extinguishing of light, the disconcerting "My God, my God, why ..." Were I a decent pastor, I would let you off the hook, let you cut loose, ring bells, shout Alleluias, let you have at least this day for total triumph, celebration, and release. But, for a few moments, let me ask you to reflect on the meaning of the stark contrast between Good Friday and Easter Sunday. There were only a handful of you here Friday noon, so let me picture it for you. In fact, let me begin with Thursday evening. The meal shared, the altar stripped, the sanctuary darkened, the choir lined the brick walls with tiny, illuminated crosses: I then took the Paschal Candle, walked it out, snuffed it out, using the words with which John tells the story as Judas was dismissed from the Last Supper, "It was night." Friday, the altar stripped, the old wooden cross leaned against the table draped in black by Cathy Weideman who waited at the cross as a few pilgrims straggled in. Then as Greg Martin sang, "Were You There?" she danced in vivid portrayal of the nailing to the tree, the laying in the tomb. In a darkened sanctuary, the Seven Words from the cross were read, prayers following, concluding with the somber tolling of the bell. That’s all - we heard the words again, "My God, why." "It is finished." "Into thy hands ..." © Grand Valley State University   �Authentication Richard A. Rhem Page 2   And now, look at us - White replacing black, flowers in resplendent beauty, joyful anthems, hymns resonate with joy. You know this; it’s all familiar. Some of you have actually experienced it again right here in these past days. Most of you have had at least some exposure to it through the worship of the season of Lent. But, I want you to think about it for a moment. Darkness to Light Despair to Hope Death to Life. That is the central paradigm of the Christian faith, is it not? In the appointments of the sanctuary, the mood of the music, the tone of the liturgy, the stark contrast is brought to expression. Now, here is a question for you: What is the relationship of Lent to Easter, of the darkness to the light, of Good Friday to Easter Sunday? For most of my life and ministry, this is how I would have answered the question: The human family, alienated from God through disobedience, was lost in darkness, destined to eternal death. God sent Jesus to live among us, to do what we failed to do. As Paul in Phil. 2 writes, Jesus, though he was in the form of God, did not regard equality with God as something to be exploited ... That was Adam’s problem, who stands for us all - created in the image of God, he asserted himself rather than humble himself as befits the creature before the Creation. Jesus perfectly obeyed, took upon himself the sins of the world, endured God’s just judgment on the cross, and was raised by God as a sign that the penalty for human guilt was paid in full; therefore, once destined for death, now by faith in Jesus Christ we are destined for life. It happened once for all, back there - The darkness was engaged, defeated. This is now an Easter world. Therefore, the bare altar and darkened sanctuary, sign of the judgment of God borne by Jesus, become the brightness of Easter morning with new Easter fire. To say it in other words - Jesus’ death was about atoning for human sin, absorbing human punishment, effecting salvation, life now and forever. That is the classic salvation myth we have inherited from the Christian tradition. © Grand Valley State University �Authentication Richard A. Rhem Page 3   A new age dawned. A new world was born. Death is overcome; heaven is won. Therefore, we remember the darkness of his abandonment on Good Friday, hardly able to wait to get beyond it to the celebration of this happy morning. But, something doesn’t seem to fit with the manner in which we have observed Lent. The focus has been The Human Face of God. We have followed the life of Jesus from his baptism, his call and claim, his identity as the Suffering Servant, the clarity of his vision to portray an alternative world - a world marked by grace, including all and excluding none, a world marked by compassion, justice and non-violence. In a word, Jesus was about the mending of creation, the shaping of a different kind of society, about the transformation of this world, this good earth, this present concrete human experience. If that focus is true to the real Jesus, then one might wonder what all the shouting is about because it doesn’t seem that much has changed in 2000 years. In the course of the Lenten messages, I have had occasion to point out the parallel between Jesus weeping over Jerusalem and contemporary voices weeping over Jerusalem as Israel prepares to celebrate 50 years of statehood. I have pointed to figures within our own historical experience who, following the way of Jesus, have suffered the same fate - Gandhi, Bonhoeffer, Martin Luther King, to mention only three. Let me suggest that we have declared victory too soon. We have grasped eagerly on the resurrection of Jesus as a victory that is ours to celebrate, as though the battle’s o’er, the victory won, when, in reality, the battle is not over and the victory has not been won. Sorry to ruin your Easter, but if I would be a faithful servant of the Word of God and honest with the human condition, I must tell you the old world has not changed. This is not an Easter world; it is rather very much still a Good Friday world. To deny that is to live in denial. The only way to avoid that conclusion is to stick with the old evangelical explanation that Jesus was about securing personal forgiveness and promises of heaven through his death and resurrection. But, I don’t know how one can fail to recognize that Jesus was about something much larger, about the transformation of the world, no less. So, what, then - is there nothing to celebrate? Is there no reason for singing an Easter song? Is there really no Good News? © Grand Valley State University �Authentication Richard A. Rhem Page 4   There is good news. It is really good news, given an honest appraisal of the world as a continuing Good Friday world. The Good News is that our history marked by Good Friday is not the whole story; it is part of something larger, the dimensions of which we cannot conceive and from beyond history, beyond the limits of our Good Friday world, the way of Jesus was confirmed as authentic, reflecting the way through one in the big picture. I came across a tribute to a biblical theologian who died December 30 of last year. John Howard Yoder was a Mennonite, people whose roots lie in the Netherlands in the first part of the 16th century. They were part of the radical Reformation; that is, they went further in their reforms than Luther and Calvin. A distinguishing mark is non-violence. They are pacifist, living in simplicity, similar to the Amish. In Sarasota, Florida, in February, we walked out on the beach in bright sunshine with a great variety of human flesh exposed to the sun’s rays. There sat a half dozen or so folk, full-clad, all in black, on lawn chairs, on the beach. They were Mennonites, appearing so out of place. John Howard Yoder was an excellent scholar. He served for a time at Notre Dame. His most popular work was entitled The Politics of Jesus - a politics very much as we have observed in our Lenten focus. In the piece, in memory of John Howard Yoder, was this paragraph appearing near the end of that work: The key to the obedience of God’s people is not their effectiveness but their patience. The triumph of the right is assured not by the might that comes to the aid of the right, which is of course the justification of the use of violence and the other kinds of power in every human conflict; the triumph of the right, although it is assured, is sure because of the power of the resurrection and not because of any calculation of causes and effects, nor because of the inherently greater strength of the good guys. The relationship between the obedience of God’s people and the triumph of God’s cause is not a relationship of cause and effect but one of cross and resurrection. Let me see if I can express Yoder’s point and thus express what I am claiming is the really good news of Easter. Yoder is saying that the triumph of right is assured. But that triumph will not be the result of the obedience of God’s people as cause and effect. The key to obedience is not effectiveness, it is patience, or persistence - the willingness of following a way that never has and never will win the world. It is a patient persistence in the embodying of the life of the Kingdom of God in the midst of this world, which always manages to crucify such embodiment. The end © Grand Valley State University �Authentication Richard A. Rhem Page 5   of obedience is the cross. Resurrection is God’s action beyond the cross, beyond history. But the victory is assured. How can I believe that? Because - a quote from Yoder, "The people who bear the crosses are working with the grain of the universe." I find that a fascinating statement. I have always claimed that the way of Jesus cut against the grain of our natural inclination. And it does. The call of the way of Jesus brings us into conflict with the way of the world, with the way of our natural I inclination. But, here’s the point: The way of Jesus goes with the grain of the universe. From beyond history comes the power of resurrection. Authentication is God’s act after the Good Friday world has worked its worst. We want to pull Easter into history. We want victory now. We want to win now. But, we won’t to the extent we follow the way of Jesus. It is not ours to win; it is ours patiently to live out the way of Jesus. That will mean going against the grain of every natural drive and compulsion, but it will be going with the grain of the universe - and it will count; it will count with God. And the end will be transformation. To the extent that we would do that seriously, we would stick out as sharply as Mennonites on lawn chairs, completely covered in black, sunning ourselves amidst the company of nearly nude sun worshipers. Let me put this question to you: If Jesus’ death and resurrection were not the effecting of your personal salvation as has been so commonly claimed in the church, would you still follow Jesus? What if we simply bracket the question of our personal forgiveness and assurance of salvation - not denying that, but simply putting that to one side for a moment, would you still follow Jesus because you really believed his way is the only way the creation can be mended and the world transformed? Again - apart from questions of salvation, heaven when you die, etc., apart from that - do you believe Jesus’ way of being and doing is God’s way? If it got you a noose, a bullet and surely a cross, are you so gripped by Jesus that you would follow his way? I could on this day simply let all the stops be pulled out, simply cut loose, claim the victory. I suspect there is even some place for that. But, is that really honest? Does that really prepare you to go back into a Good Friday world? Is it not more honest for me to tell you that following Jesus’s way will meet the same opposition today and have the same consequences today as then? © Grand Valley State University �Authentication Richard A. Rhem Page 6   So then, if you are really inwardly compelled to walk that way in fear and trembling, partially, falteringly, you will not be disappointed by lack of success or startled by opposition. Why would one do it? Why did Jesus? or Bonhoeffer? Because it is right, it is true - and to obey what one is convinced is right and true is to be free, is to live, is to experience resurrection now, and the eternal brightness of God finally. It is to be working with the grain of the universe. Resurrection is a present freedom of spirit and hope for the dawning of Light Eternal. It is living from inside out, true to one’s vision, finding hope in the resurrection of Jesus as sign from God of ultimate authentication. When one reaches that state of integrity of vision and life, one has moved beyond the possibility of disappointment or defeat. That is life eternal. Jesus is Lord to the glory of God. That was, they say, the earliest Christian creed. Jesus is Lord. That was the confession that flowed out of Good Friday darkness and the dawning consciousness of Easter light. Jesus is Lord! Kurios Jesus! The whole world shouted back, No way! Caesar is Lord! Kurios Caesar! Jesus is dead! But, a few followers knew better "The Lord is risen!," they cried. Jesus is Lord! Jesus’ way authenticated in a Good Friday world by those whose lives reflect that way, living with the grain of the universe, trusting God that history’s final darkness is not final; that the darkness will not forever suppress the light, but finally yield to the brightness of Light Eternal. The Lord is risen. Jesus is Lord! That is the good news in a Good Friday world. History reels on its violent, drunken drive for power and glory toward death. But, history is not the last word. The crucified lives. Jesus is Lord. Therefore, in this Good Friday world strewn with crosses of the gentle ones, there is reason to hope and to keep on loving, gracing, caring - forgiving, for from beyond history’s limits dawns the Easter world. © Grand Valley State University � https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/files/original/0bd07834e260887764076ebca9e843cf.mp3 b4b6e0baea28ecb433a7688c419f3f6e Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Richard A. Rhem Collection Description An account of the resource Text and sound recordings of the sermons, prayers, services, and articles of Richard Rhem, pastor emeritus of Christ Community Church in Spring Lake, Michigan, where he served for 37 years. Starting in the mid 1980's, Rhem began to question some of the traditional Christian dogma that he had been espousing from the pulpit. That questioning was a first step in a long and interesting spiritual journey, one that he openly shared with his congregation. His journey is important, in part because it is reflective of the questioning, the yearnings, and the gradual revision of beliefs that many persons in this part of the century have experienced and continue to experience. It is important also because of the affirming and inclusive way his questioning was done and his thinking evolved. His sermons and other written and spoken materials together document the steps in his journey as it took a turn in 1985, yet continued to revolve around the framework and liturgies of the Christian calendar. Subject The topic of the resource Clergy--Michigan Reformed Church in America Christ Community Church (Spring Lake, Mich.) Religion Interfaith worship Sermons Sound Recordings Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Rhem, Richard A. Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived <a href="https://gvsu.lyrasistechnology.org/repositories/2/resources/514">Richard A. Rhem papers (KII-01)</a> Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Grand Valley State University. University Libraries. Special Collections & University Archives. 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Event Easter Series The Human Face of God Scripture Text Luke 24:5, Philippians 2:11 Location The location of the interview Christ Community Church, Spring Lake, MI Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context KII-01_RA-0-19980412 Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1998-04-12 Title A name given to the resource Authentication Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Richard A. Rhem Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Grand Valley State University Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a href="http://rightsstatements.org/page/InC/1.0/?language=en">In Copyright</a> Subject The topic of the resource Clergy--Michigan Reformed Church in America Christ Community Church (Spring Lake, Mich.) Sermons Relation A related resource Richard A. Rhem - An Archive of Sermons, Prayers, Talks and Stories: http://richardrhem.org/ Language A language of the resource eng Type The nature or genre of the resource Text Sound Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource audio/mp3 application/pdf Description An account of the resource A sermon given by Richard A. Rhem (Dick) on April 12, 1998 entitled "Authentication", as part of the series "The Human Face of God", on the occasion of Easter, at Christ Community Church, Spring Lake, MI. Scripture references: Luke 24:5, Philippians 2:11. Easter Grain of the Universe Non-violence Transformation Way of Jesus https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/files/original/804d5784ce4832dc35b9b065627365b0.mp3 3d3e09307a76a88ce6dfa63e8468d1bc https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/files/original/885ec2dd43d0a4f02b6a3446723d8822.pdf c4f46a25e2a3df2c2bb3fe3aa641e832 PDF Text Text As Intimate As Breathing From the series: Credo Acts 2:1-4; John 14:15-20 Text: John 14:17 Richard A. Rhem Christ Community Church Spring Lake, Michigan Pentecost, June 3, 2001 Transcription of the spoken sermon On this Pentecost, I want to say that God is as intimate as your breathing; that is, God is in you and you are in God, and that is good news. You don't have to look elsewhere, "out there," "up there," you don't have to wonder. You can be assured God is in you and God will be with you always. I don't watch television. I should, because it is a good connector to contemporary culture and one who preaches as I do ought to get his nose out of the theology books once in a while and see what people are thinking about. But, I understand that the dramatic series, "West Wing," in its finale, had some serious theology about it. Or, so the reporter in the Grand Rapids Press said in yesterday's edition, and, as I read that, I recognized that I probably had missed something to which I should have been attuned. The "West Wing" drama series is a fictionalized White House setting with a President, Jed Bartlett, who is apparently a very religious, deeply Christian man, and he is having one of those days, one of those days which we all have once in a while, although for a President, I suppose there are a few more dimensions to it. Hostages have been taken at the embassy in Haiti, a tropical storm is bearing down on Washington D.C., he's on his way to the funeral of his secretary who was killed in an accident, hit by a drunken driver, he has just revealed that he has Multiple Sclerosis after eight years of denying it. It's just not a good day for the President. He goes to the National Cathedral for the funeral and after the funeral, he asks that the doors be sealed because this man who was seriously Christian has some things to say to God. He becomes very much like one of those Old Testament prophets who rails against heaven. He cries out against God. All of these actions that are going on, he says to God, "Are those the actions of a caring God? Of a just God? Of a benevolent God? A wise God? Well, to hell with your punishments! I've served you, I've proclaimed your word and done your work and now to hell with your punishments, to hell with you!" He curses God. Because it is the season's finale and that is not a nice way to end a season, the secretary who has been killed appears in angelic form to say to him, "Come now. © Grand Valley State University �As Intimate as Breathing Richard A. Rhem Page 2 You know God doesn't cause cars to crash." And he begins to remember all the work there is yet to be done and, like the Old Testament prophets, he gets up and gets back at it. The journalist calls it "Serious Theology on Prime Time TV." Well, true. The railing against God - as I said, that has good, particularly Old Testament precedent. The shaking of the fist at heaven, the outpouring of an anguished heart or an angry heart - who has not been there? Who has not done it? And God can take it, as it were. I mean, it is not a problem with God, but it is a way that we humans react in the midst of our misery and our tragedy. There seems to be something almost endemic in us that, in the midst of that kind of crisis, causes us to cry out, shake our fist at heaven, to plead, cajole, whatever. And yet, that is an image of God that really won't wash anymore. Our knowledge and our human experience today tell us that that ancient conception of a God "out there" who is running the universe won't work anymore. I think the emotional response probably written into our genetic code – probably out of the early dawn of what it was to be human, confronted with the mysteries and the tragedies that are a part of the human scene – still find utterance in that kind of call and prime time TV 2001. And yet, I have to say that presentation on "West Wing" is very much of the biblical view, isn't it? It is a supernaturalistic view of things. There is this realm, this world, this universe, and there is another where God dwells. There is the ongoing drama of nature and there is one above nature who controls nature and intrudes into nature. On this Pentecost Sunday we would have to say in the Gospel of John, Jesus is the word made flesh who comes from the father and who returns to the father and who promises, "I will not leave you orphaned, I will come to you, I will send another advocate or spirit to be with you." So, "West Wing" is not only consonant with something that is intuitive in the human being, but also reflected in the biblical story. Too bad we can't believe it anymore. Because it is really counter to everything we know about the way things work, about our world, the cosmic drama, about the human being. There was something comforting about it, something "up there" in control. Somebody pulling the strings, working the gears, interrupting the process on occasion. But, I suppose the angel visitant at the end of the drama on "West Wing" which not only gave the season finale a softer touch and a bit of hope, a little sentimentalism and a little romanticism (don't we all love angels?) was also an admission, once we think about it, we know better. God doesn't cause cars to crash. We're on our own. There was a time, because I was nurtured in that biblical story, as were all of you, when I thought in terms of a natural realm and a supernatural realm, but I know now that that just doesn't work, that the God, whatever God may be, will be experienced and known in that total phenomenon of which we are a part called nature. And in terms of that ancient cosmology, I now must move to that which © Grand Valley State University �As Intimate as Breathing Richard A. Rhem Page 3 we understand, and that is that there was a moment, some 15 billion years ago when all of matter and energy was concentrated into one infinitely small point. I can't understand that. I'm only telling you what I have heard. But, I think that is the best scientific understanding of things today, that everything that is, this total universal system, all of the galaxies, all of the stars and the planets, the earth, the trees, the oceans, the mountains, and you and I are all the consequence of that which was all in a point in a moment. And that explosion in that infinite time past is still expanding so that this drama of which we are a part is underway. Someone has said if you would compress those 15 billion years into one year, the appearance of the human being would be in the last minute or two. I can't take that in. But, when I think about God in cosmos, God and human being, then it seems to me that that scientific picture is a picture which would indicate that the whole of reality must somehow or other be permeated by that divine presence, that sacred, that holy, call it God if you will. Not out beyond it somewhere, but within it. God as intimate as breathing. Even though the Bible is solidly supernatural and the day of Pentecost is an invasion from beyond, nonetheless, there are little hints in the biblical story itself. For the word becomes flesh and dwells among us so that God is in the human celebrated at Christmas. And Pentecost is a celebration of the presence of the Spirit of God and the breath of God within us, and John's Gospel you well know, "I am in the father and the father in me, and you in me." How do you intellectually understand that mysterious language? Isn't it a stammering attempt to hint at the fact that God is not "out there," but in here? You know, Graduates, if I were in your spot, if I had your youthful energy, your razor- sharp minds and all of your years, you know what I'd do? I wouldn't go to seminary. There is hardly a seminary alive that isn't still teaching that old biblical, supernaturalistic understanding of God. If I were you and I wanted to pursue God passionately, I would become an astronomer, a physicist. I'd study cosmology, because for years I have known and always said I should write a dissertation on the fact, which can be traced, of a shift in cosmological understanding, the nature of the universe. A shift there is reflected eventually in a shift in theological understanding. It can be traced down through the eons of the Christian story - change the conception of the universe, of the cosmos, of nature, and eventually, well, it takes the Church a long time, but eventually what we come to know impacts how we image what we believe. And so, let me tell you the good news - God is not against you. And to be spiritual is not to swim against the tide. But, rather, it is to move with the grain of the universe, for what is coming to expression, what is emerging in this drama of billions of years is Spirit. Think of it. An explosion 15 billion years ago, the cooling of that soupy chaos, the coming into formation of the stars and galaxies, eventually life, conscious life, conscious life that - here we are, reflecting on it all! It's amazing! How many generations before us could have some vista of 15 billion years of a drama that is still occurring as we speak, and within us? © Grand Valley State University �As Intimate as Breathing Richard A. Rhem Page 4 And then, this conscious life developing a spiritual dimension, a dimension of spirit, breath, which is the enlivening of the whole by the God who is not "out there" somewhere grinding the gears of the universe, but the God who is to be sensed in the stillness, in our very breathing. God present to us, in us. Thank God. Someone has said it so beautifully, speaking of you, "Offspring of the stars, children of earth, we are great mothering nature's soul-space. Her heart and vocal cords, and her willingness if we consent to it, to be spirited, to be the vessel of the holy one." God is not "out there." God is in here, and you are a vessel of the holy one, full of spirit and our task together is to make this world civil, decent, full of love and grace. God, as intimate as breathing. © Grand Valley State University � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Richard A. Rhem Collection Description An account of the resource Text and sound recordings of the sermons, prayers, services, and articles of Richard Rhem, pastor emeritus of Christ Community Church in Spring Lake, Michigan, where he served for 37 years. Starting in the mid 1980's, Rhem began to question some of the traditional Christian dogma that he had been espousing from the pulpit. That questioning was a first step in a long and interesting spiritual journey, one that he openly shared with his congregation. His journey is important, in part because it is reflective of the questioning, the yearnings, and the gradual revision of beliefs that many persons in this part of the century have experienced and continue to experience. It is important also because of the affirming and inclusive way his questioning was done and his thinking evolved. His sermons and other written and spoken materials together document the steps in his journey as it took a turn in 1985, yet continued to revolve around the framework and liturgies of the Christian calendar. Subject The topic of the resource Clergy--Michigan Reformed Church in America Christ Community Church (Spring Lake, Mich.) Religion Interfaith worship Sermons Sound Recordings Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Rhem, Richard A. 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