![]() And he said, “You know, I’m tired of hearing folks sing that song, ‘You can have all this world, just give me Jesus.’” And he said, “That’s exactly what our folk got. A polite debate with one of my uncles who was a preacher, Baptist preacher. And one of my cousins got in a debate, a polite debate, because in those day you didn’t talk back to the elders. On this one occasion, this was 1968, the summer of ‘68, Dr. And then in my family, on my father’s side, folk, they would debate politics, and sports, and the Bible. He wasn’t no saint now.”īut anyway, folk would come back. He was a…” And we say, “You know, we loved uncle so and so, but we knew him. Because sometimes the preachers will preach folk into heaven and say, “Oh, so and so, oh, he was a saint. They tell stories and lies, and usually critique the preacher. But usually the repast is the time folk tell stories, and that’s what people do at funerals anyway. I don’t know if this is an ethnic thing or not. I don’t know if y’all’s families are like this. And then we buried her out in the country and came back to Birmingham for the family repast after the funeral. And she had gone on the glory, and so the whole family trucked to Birmingham for a funeral. The funeral had been at 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, where my Aunt Callie taught Sunday school. I suspect that’s where I heard it, but I remember at one particular funeral-this would’ve been the summer of 1969, I believe. You can have all this world, give me Jesus. Those funerals were so short, they’re not memorable, but anyway, oops.īut in the Baptist side of my family, the Pentecostal Holiness side of my family, that was always sung. ![]() And I think I know it because it tended to get sung at family funerals, at least at the Baptist side of my family. That spiritual, you can have all the world, give me Jesus, I’ve known it all my life. Or as he would’ve said in south of Judah, y’all come. When it’s time for me to die, when it’s time for me to die, when it’s time for me to die, just give me Jesus. It’s freedom.Īn old spiritual said it this way, “In the morning when I rise, in the morning when I rise, in the morning when I rise, give me Jesus. For my yoke is easy, and my burden is not slavery. Instead of the yoke that’s imposed on you from this world, take my yoke and learn from me. Come unto me whosoever will, who are weary, tired, beaten down, worn out, COVID crazy, right? Come unto me, all ye who are weary and heavy laden, and I will give you rest. Come unto me, people who follow in my way and claim the name Christian. Come unto me, all ye who have been consecrated since then and all who soon will be. Take my yoke upon you and learn from me, for my yoke is easy.” It’ll fit, because my burden is light.Ĭome unto me, all ye who were bishops before this pandemic, and all ye, bishops who were consecrated during the pandemic. “Come unto me all ye who are weary and heavy laden and I will give you rest. Words of Jesus found in the 11th chapter of Matthew: Something said, “I got another text for you.” And this is a welcome back text. When I saw the lessons that were appointed for today, I said, “Those are good lessons.” But I think I heard the Spirit, maybe. You can love in a dialectical sort of way. So when I saw the lessons that had been appointed-because I love lectionaries. ![]() And now a world that hasn’t been this close to self-destruction since the Cuban missile crisis. ![]() COVID, racial reckoning, an attempted overthrow of the government of the United States. Some of y’all remember the TV show “Welcome Back, Kotter”? Welcome back, Kotter. In the name of our loving, liberating and life-giving God, Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. These remarks have been lightly edited for clarity. NAVASOTA,TX - The following is a transcript of the sermon of Presiding Bishop Michael Curry at the House of Bishops of The Episcopal Church, meeting in retreat at Camp Allen, Navasota, Texas, through March 21.
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