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Welcome. My name is the Reverend Alex Rogers. I am um an alumni of this beautiful and sacred institution. I am also serving as the moderator of the Presbytery of Greater Atlanta and on behalf of the

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Presbytery of Greater Atlanta, I do welcome you to this very, very special service of ordination. It is unusual and exciting. It is both incarnation and connection. The spirit is certainly among us. We

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have commissioners from Greater Atlanta, both here in person and joining us via Zoom. It is certainly a first for me, but it is wonderful to be here and I'm so glad that all of you um

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have chosen to be with us here today. God's beloved. Will you please stand as you are able and let us join and worship together the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, the love of God and

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the communion of the Holy Spirit, be with you all and also with you as many of you as were baptized into Christ, have clothed yourselves with Christ . There is one body and one spirit of no

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. Let us pray almighty and eternal God by your grace. You have called us to this time and place to be your servant people. As we follow our servant, Lord, make your holy spirit move

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within and among us that together we may live a new life in the crucified and risen Christ, bind us together in faith so that as we receive all spiritual gifts needed to fulfill our calling, we may

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support one another in common ministry through Jesus Christ, our Lord, I'm at Yes. Let's turn to the font. Even when we were dead through our sin, our merciful and loving God made us alive

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together with Christ and raised us up through Him in humility and faith. Let us confess our sin to God merciful and loving God. You have called us to be your people and claimed us for the service

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of Jesus Christ. We confess that we have not lived up to our calling to proclaim the good news in word and deed. We are quick to speak when we ought to listen and remain silent. When

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it is time to speak. We put too much faith in our own actions and fail to trust the strength of your spirit. Oh God, forgive our foolish and sinful ways. Strengthen us an new to

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follow Christ's way in the world by your holy spirit . Give us the grace. We need to be faithful disciples and fulfill our common calling through Jesus Christ , our Lord and Savior by grace. You have

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been saved through faith and this is not your own doing. It is the gift of God. I declare to you in the name of Jesus Christ, we are forgiven. Thanks be to God. Lead

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a life worthy of your calling with humility, gentleness , and patience, bearing with one another in love and making every effort to maintain the unity of the spirit, in the bond of peace, the peace

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of Christ, be with you some of you. Maybe so driving. No and so last year. Yes. Podemos. Let us pray. Dios Santo por el poder to spirit Velas Oy to voluntad a

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Traves to Palabra Leida. I proc A you know , I in tender to Obra credo. Cred I consol Aora, I conduces al mundo la bonanza. That was spirit to a promar Bazar ear and en

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Nombre de Jesus Cristo. No, Senor. Amen . La lectura de la angels and Cuenta and Marcos ocho de los Capito. Los Trento ocho IC we men. So Ensar Elijo de Lomb tienne. Que

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Sufrir Muchas Cosas Isre Chao Polos, Lire Deliso Polos Jefe de los ADOS IPOS Maestros de la la es Cesario. Que Marten, I AO Tres reus hablo de esto con Toda Clarida. Pedro lo yebo apart

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I como a repo Pero Jesus Ceda Velta Miro as Suis repa Pedro aleja de Misa Taas Levi Tuno Piana de las Cosas de Dios Sino and Las de Los Hombres and to Yamo, a multitude. I asos

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S queer medico Dijo. Que Aimo Tomes su cruz I mea porque el quere salar Suda ladera pero. Que pie de sua por mi casa, I poo la salva, the ques a uno gar el mundo

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tero CPR de la vida. O que se Puede dar A Campo de la vida C C aza de Mi Mis Palabras and medo de esta Generac Atera. I pecado tambien lijo de lore sever Gonza de el

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Juanda Wega and La Gloria de su pare Conus Santos Angeles. Yes, Sami Man, I Sami in a, a reading from the book of Mark, then he began to teach them that the son of

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man must undergo great suffering and be rejected by the elders, the chief priests and the scribes and be killed. And after three days rise again and he said this quite openly and Peter took him aside and

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began to rebuke him but turning and looking at his disciples, he rebuked Peter and said, get behind me, Satan for you are setting your mind not on divine things but on human things. He called

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the crowd with his disciples and said to them, if anyone to become my followers, let them deny themselves and take off their cross and follow me for those who want to save their life, will lose

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it and those who lose their life for my sake and for the sake of the gospel will save it for what will it profit them to gain the whole world and forfeit their life? Indeed. What can

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they give in return for their life? Those who are ashamed of me and my words in this adulterous and sinful generation of then the son of man will also be ashamed when he comes in the glory of

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his father with his holy angels. This is the word of our Lord. And you want to say J Y X, this is as far as my three months of Korean will take me. But for

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inviting me to preach this morning, Kam Zama. 40 years ago, the main newspaper on the island of Puerto Rico published a two part story, an article and about an event that was until that moment

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unknown to the public with the sharp precision of a historian who dissects data consciously to provide the precise names of characters, dates of events, thick descriptions of environments and pictures of documentary evidence. The author revealed

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the fat time an American military campaign was carried out in the small town of Seba on the east coast of the island. Two years before the official occupation of the island by American forces. After the residents

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of seva offer resistance. General Miles. The commander of these forces during the Spanish American war ordered the soldiers to kill all inhabitants, adults and Children and bury them underground where they will build a military base

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to hide the traces of the genocide. As you can imagine the article ST national outrage. While the name of the town was not to be found in the current map, people who were executing the story

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made the inference that the town in reference was not Seba but sa where the American Roosevelt Roads naval station was in fact located. So thousands made the pilgrimage to SA to protest. Some came carrying pigs and

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shovels to unearth the dead as if making these corpses visible will at least give them recognition after they have been made invisible to historical memory. This story gave motivation to people who have been the subject of colonial

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subjugation. It gave them the opportunity to validate their fears by having unmistakable evidence of what they already suspected that in the eyes of the colonizer, they were no more than dispensable subjects at this second class citizens

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. So it was when the whole social commotion was about to get out of hand and a serious historians requested to review the evidence to understand how the research has missed such a crucial event that the newspaper through

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its editors found themselves forced to publish a note clarifying that that article written as a chronicle was indeed a work of well crafted fiction for a moment. Those who invested passionate energies in making the story real,

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felt deceived paradoxically since the horror of the story validated their suspicions and gave credence to their outlooks. Many who have preferred the story of barbaric genocide was in fact true. For at times, we believe only

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that which satisfies our expectations, the real world each day becoming just a mirror of our ambitions. We have entered a new age of philosophical and theological wrestling with the idea of truth for truth is just a

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name we give today to the actualization of our expectations . If we are satisfied with it, if it confirms our biases, if it confirms our preferences, our instincts, it may be true. Everyone then

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is entitled to possess an equally valid truth. Each person endowed with an almost omnipotent authority to undo reality by Revi revising facts and replacing them with alternative ones . It may have happened that way. It can

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be evidence that it happened in a certain way. It can be experienced one way through our senses. But it is not true until I say so for the principles of objective observation and logic are no longer

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sufficient to determine what we should believe. Many of us are met daily with an overabundance of stories. Each offering its own version of reality. If there is one marble universe and one DC universe and they

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overlap in time and space with our universe, we can certainly entertain the existence of multiverses where more than one thing can be true at the same time. But why has human imagination created such a need for

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locations where our personal beliefs diverse and contrasting as they are can be simultaneously true. When did we lose the moral compass where something we call truth was our north? When did we accept to be captive to

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our own deceptions and motivations rather than pursuing the truth that we heard once will make us free. Has the theological field of reason dried up, forcing us to plant seeds of meaning and purpose in the shifting

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sense of technology making my Uber drivers instru correct when he called me a couple of weeks ago to state that he was waiting for me in front of a sign that says Austin Technological Seminary for in today's society

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. Technology has provided us novel spaces where our expectations can live and find validation, even if they are not related to something we can construe as true. Whatever our story is, that story is factual.

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Somewhere in cyberspace, immigrants are important to the economic success of societies check what immigrants can destroy the social fabric of a nation. Check. It must be true. I did the research vaccines are created by

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governments to insert ships in citizens to track and control our behavior check. Vaccines are developed by scientists and pharmaceutical corporations with the only purpose of curing humanity of all diseases check the man is trying to take us

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down what man, I don't know, but it's somewhere out there check and between these contrasting expectations of what reality is. A chasm is open where the truth falls and disappears. The challenge this new period

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of the so called post truth poses to people of faith and to the church is not resistant by old fashioned gnosticism where individuals refuse to believe anything including God's assistance. But how to engage the idea of truth

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at a time when individuals are prone to believe absolutely everything because what we find to be truth is what it is expected to be. Jesus notes how ambitions in our human pretentiousness to see the world as we

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want it to be can obscure our search for truth . In the story. We read from the witness of Mark Jesus is heading to Jerusalem with his disciples and on the road, he feels necessary to stop

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and deliver a hard lesson. What Peter hears from Jesus mouth makes him uncomfortable to the point that he dares to do something. A disciple rarely does. He pulls the master aside and rebukes him. Not

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a subtle aside to ask for reconsideration of his words . Can you please uh please teach your fine better words, nicer words to explain your truth. Can you use different metaphors? Don't, don't say you

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will be killed, say you will wither away. Can you soften this truth? You can, you are so blatantly sharing. Mark does not specify what part of jesus' claim. Bother this worried disciple.

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Was he concerned that jesus' words were frontal accusations of the religious leaders and authorities putting all of them at risk? Or was he mortified by the scandalous prospect of the master's crucifixion? Something that will be humiliating

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, not only to Jesus but to his followers. For no one finds pride in following a publicly acknowledged criminal. Well, at least in Jesus time where political ethics may have still been in place. What

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we know is that Peter has an expectation regarding this teacher and his Messianic role and the message the teacher was sharing shatter those expectations Jesus was not to be bested by one of his disciples. So he turns

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to Peter with a similar forceful review says, get behind me, Satan, oh snap. Peter may have caught off guard because we did not see him responding at all. Perhaps he was suddenly paralyzed by

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the realization that he was in deep trouble. Do you remember when your mom had different names for you ? Depending on the level of outrage she felt or something you said or did when I was called Joselito

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? My mom was disappointed when she called me Jose with an elongated e she was mad but when she called me Jose Ramon with a strong accent. Oh and a clinging end that resonated in my ear drums

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. I was about to get in serious trouble. She was furious. Jose Ramon really was her conscious and pious way as a Christian woman to avoid calling me Io del demon son of a demon. So

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I understand how Peter felt when he was called by a loved one, Satan because as Jesus was proclaiming what was central to his message, the truth of the cross. Peter's motivations press an inversion of that

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truth. Peter's Messianic expectation was not only a different way of understanding price role, but it was in fact an anti gospel the disciple did not understand that his expectations for a Messiah who could bring the oppressive

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authorities to their needs through similarly oppressive force were not good news at all. That Messianic liberation, through violence, through isolationism, through supremacy, through obligation , through fear was not liberation at all. That

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the worst idea we can pass as truth is that the only way in which we can liberate ourselves and save ourselves is by eliminating others who are in the way of our well being and happiness. For Peter

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Jesus truth was a difficult pill to swallow. Not because it ends in death, but because it implies the erasure of our illusions and our hopes. If I were to infuse this story with dramatic tension beyond

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the double rebuke, I will have Tom Cruise and Jack Nicholson play Peter and Jesus respectively using the dialogue of the movie. A few good men. When Jesus reveals his upcoming suffering and death, Peter takes

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Jesus to the side and tells him that his story does not conform, his understanding of what should happen and what his followers were expecting. He asked Jesus then to turn around face the jury and tell the

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truth. I want the truth. Jesus response, you can handle the truth, you can't handle the truth because the truth is that the cross is the way to liberation. The truth is that the cross

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is the opening for our hope that the cross is the way of life and for those who have other expectations, those who believe that there is a scarcity of freedom and love. Therefore, our happiness is

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only possible if others are captive or denied of this . For those, this is a difficult, difficult lesson to learn. The cross stands as a testament that in Jesus, there is abundance of love,

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there is abundance of freedom, there is abundance of life, waiting for the deniers of truth to get out of the way today. The church is walking towards its Jerusalem. We find ourselves in the middle

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of a road where our future needs to be consciously considered as well as the risk that such future entails . And in doing so, we have to learn some hard lessons, perhaps like Peter, we are

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guided by our expectations, expectations that the church will get back to its better days, holding ambitions of a triumphal return to the institutional church where whole families sat at peace wearing their Sunday's best, where leaders

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were socially respected, where the Christian Proclamation stood as a moral banner for all to follow. And in having these expectations, we dare a theological feed that is highly tubs, our ability to go to the

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past and undo what we have been and done as an imperfect and broken body of Christ. Yes, we cannot make the church great again rather than embracing a soft mechanism where we say that the church will

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be ok if we wait for the right leaders or when we build the right structures or when we fight the right battles. Let's listen to the truth conveyed by the master on the road. Your church may

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need to suffer, you may need to die. You may need to carry across and not be ashamed of it. For this is not your extinction. It is the way that a newer and transformed life

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can come about. This is the time the church is evidently called to carry the cross. And we hear this every, every land we have to carry the cross. But I'm telling you that today at

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this time, we are evidently and clearly called to carry the cross to acknowledge the burden that weighs heavily on our shoulders. Can we feel the weight of centuries of exclusion and domination? Because we took our

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ambitions and expectations as truth? Can we feel the weight of a body of doctrine that has served as a tool of judgment against those who are only seeking the love of God when they fail? Can we

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feel the weight of 1000 silences? When our persuasive voice could have saved many around us today as a symbol of ordination. We will place a soul on the shoulders of one who will join us in this

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important ministry. And this is a reminder to all of us that we commit to carry this weight for that cross is our truth. And when we take this symbol upon us, we confess we are willing

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and able to see ourselves, not as we were in the past or where we are now or want to be. But as a community that is always emerging as a resurrecting people, let this be our

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confession. Yes, we can handle the truth. Amen. You may be seated. There are varieties of gifts, but it is the same spirit who gives them. There are different ways of serving God

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, but it is the same Lord who is served God works through each person in a unique way, but it is God's purpose that is accomplished, come good beloved together. We are the body of Christ

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and individually members of it. We are all called into the church of Jesus Christ by baptism and marked as Christ's own by the Holy Spirit. This is our common calling to be disciples of Jesus Christ and

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servants of our servant Lord within the community of the church. Some are called to particular service as deacons , as ruling elders and as Ministers of Word and Sacrament. Ordination is Christ's gift to the church assuring

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that his ministry continues among us through ordination. God provides for acts of care and compassion in the world , for the ordering and governance of the church and for the preaching of the word and celebration of the

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sacraments, representing the Holy Catholic and Apostolic church. The Presbytery of Greater Atlanta by means of this commission . Now ordains Dong Yong Jong to the Ministry of Word and Sacrament in his work as Associate Professor of

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New Testament for Austin Presbyterian Theological Seminary. Turn to the font as God calls some to particular forms of ministry. God calls us all to bear gladly, the yoke of Christ given in the covenant of baptism

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. Therefore, let us reaffirm our baptismal vows, renouncing all that opposes God and God's rule and affirming the faith of the Holy Catholic Church, trusting in the gracious mercy of God. Do you turn from

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the ways of sin and renounce evil and its power in the world? Do you turn to Jesus Christ and accept Him as your Lord and Savior? Trusting in his grace and love? I do. Will

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you be Christ's faithful disciple, obeying his word and showing his love with God's help with the whole church ? Let us confess our faith. Do you believe in God? The Father? I believe in God

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, the Father Almighty creator of heaven and earth. Do you believe in Jesus Christ, the Son of God? I believe in Jesus Christ. God's only son, our Lord who was conceived by the Holy

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Spirit born of the virgin Mary suffered under Pontius. Pilate was crucified, died and was buried. He descended to the dead. On the third day, he rose again, he ascended into heaven. He

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is seated at the right hand of the Father and he will come to judge the living and the dead . Do you believe in God? The Holy Spirit ? I believe in the Holy Spirit. The Holy

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Catholic Church, the Communion of Saints, the forgiveness of sins, the resurrection of the body and the life everlasting. Amen. The Lord be with you . Let us give thanks to the Lord, our

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God. Bye. Right, gracious and eternal God with joy. We give you thanks and praise. We praise you for leading your people. Israel through the waters of the sea, out of bondage and

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into freedom in the land of your promise. We praise you for sending Jesus your son who for us was baptized in the waters of the Jordan and was anointed as the Christ by your Holy Spirit who teaches

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us and leads us into all truth, filling us with a variety of gifts that we might proclaim the gospel to all nations and serve you as a royal priesthood. We rejoice that you have claimed us in

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our baptism and anointed us for service in Christ's name and that by your grace, we are born a new by your Holy Spirit, renew us that we may be empowered to do your will and continue forever

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in the risen life of Christ. To whom with you and with the Holy Spirit, be all glory and honor now and forever. Amen. Friends may these waters that give us life and these waters that

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signify and seal the new life we have in Christ , bring peace to our minds, joy to our hearts and compulsion to our lips and our whole selves . Remember your baptism and be thankful in the name

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of the father and of the Son and the Holy Spirit. Now and forever. Amen. Right? D young in baptism. You were claimed by the love of God clothed in the grace of Jesus Christ

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and anointed with the gifts of the Holy Spirit to share Christ's mission in the world. Now, you are called by God through the voice of the Church for New Service and Ministry in Christ's name in accordance

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with the constitution of the Presbyterian Church. USA show your commitment to this calling by responding to these questions . Do you trust in the Lord Jesus Christ as your savior acknowledge Him Lord of all and head of

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the church and through him believe in one God, Father, son and Holy Spirit. Do you, I do, do you accept the scriptures of the Old and New Testaments to be by the Holy Spirit

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, the unique and authoritative witness to Jesus Christ and the church universal and God's word to you. Do you, I do, do you sincerely receive and adopt the essential tenets of the reformed faith as expressed

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in the confessions of our church as authentic and reliable expositions of what scripture leads us to believe and do and will you be instructed and led by those confessions as you lead the people of God, do you

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and will you, I do and I will, will you fulfill your ministry in obedience to Jesus Christ under the under the authority of scripture and be continually guided by our confessions. Will you, I will

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, will you be governed by our church's polity? And will you abide by its discipline? Will you be a friend among your colleagues in ministry? Working with them, subject to the ordering of God's word

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and spirit? Will you? I will, will you in your own life seek to follow the Lord Jesus Christ, love your neighbors and work for the reconciliation of the world. Will you? I will

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do you promise to further the peace, unity, and purity of the church? Do you? I do. Will you pray for and seek to serve the people with energy, intelligence, imagination, and

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love? Will you, I will, will you be a faithful minister, a board and sacrament proclaiming the good news, teaching faith and caring for people . Will you be active in government and discipline serving

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in the councils of the church and in your ministry ? Will you try to show the love and justice of Jesus Christ? Will you? I will and these questions are to us. Do we the beloved

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community of Austin Presbyterian Theological Seminary accept Doctor Dong Yong Jung as a pastoral colleague among us chosen by God through the voice of this congregation to help guide us in the way of Jesus Christ. Do we do

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we agree to pray for him, encourage him to respect his decisions and to follow as he guides us serving Jesus Christ, who alone is the head of the church. Do we do? We promise to

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pay him fairly and promise and provide for his welfare as he works among us to stand by him in trouble and share his joys. Do we will we listen to the word he preaches, welcome his pastoral

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care and honor his authority as he seeks to honor and obey Jesus Christ. Our Lord will we, I invite all the ordained among us to come forward and to lay hands on d young as we pray

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for Him today. The Lord be with you. Let us give thanks to the Lord, our God gracious and eternal God with joy. We give you thanks and praise throughout the ages and in every place

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you have chosen servants from among your people to point the way to salvation by your grace. We are grateful for ancestors and the faith who followed without fear , placing their trust in you alone for judges and

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monarchs who rule in righteousness and peace for prophets and apostles who spoke your bold words of mercy and of truth for leaders and teachers in every age who've nurtured your people in faith and faithfulness above all. We

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praise you for Jesus Christ who came not to be served but to serve and to give his life to set others free, anointed by your holy spirit. He proclaimed your reign on earth, revealing your saving

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love and all He said and did gracious God pour out your spirit upon your servant Don young whom you called by baptism as your very own. Grant him the same mind that was in Christ Jesus, give

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him a spirit of truthfulness that he may proclaim your word in Christ from pulpit table and font. And in the words and actions of daily living and teaching by the gifts of your Holy Spirit, empower him

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to build up the church, to strengthen the common life of your people and to lead with compassion and vision in the walk of faith. And for the work of ministry, give to all your servants,

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gladness and strength, discipline and hope, humility, humor, and courage, and an abiding sense of your presence, gracious God, pour out your spirit of power and truth upon the whole church that we

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may be for you. A holy people baptized to serve you in this world, sustain your church and ministry ground us in the gospel, secure our hope in Christ, strengthen our service to the outcast and

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increase our love. For one another, show us the transforming power of your grace in our life together that we may be effective servants of the gospel, offering a compelling witness in the world to the good

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news of Jesus Christ, our Lord. Amen. Right, Dan. You are now a minister of word and Sacrament in the church of Jesus Christ. Be faithful and true in your ministry so that your

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whole life will bear witness to the crucified and risen Christ. Amen. Ok. Hello good books, took a dream leader a um uh uh I think that vision tal T Mo Mo Chua Kim Yang now

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, I didn't understand half of that, but there is one word I did understand Mokin and that is what you are now. You are among us. As many of your faculty colleagues are as a pastor

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and we are glad that you are among us and continue to serve in this ministry with us, bless us. It seems the members of the Austin pre seminary community or the guests and the family members today

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marks a historic occasion as we gather to witness the ordination of Dr Dong Yan, a distinguished new Testim color and the devoted servant of God. Having known him for over seven years, I witnessed his unwavering

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commitment to theological scholarship and pastoral ministry in this pivotal moment. Let us reflect on the significance of his ordination the first to be held on this campus in over two decades. His journey has been marked by

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dedication and scholarly excellence and now he stands ready to serve as an ordained pastor of the president church. USA. It's come a long way. He began his seminary journey 15 years ago in Korea. He

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should have been ordained much earlier, but it has been delayed. I believe this delay is not an extent. God has a plan for him as we celebrate this milestone, I encourage you as a seminary

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community. Embrace the charge to support Reverend John in his pastoral role. Let me tell you my story . I have written many recommendation letters for the pastors who are looking for new positions. And I got

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phone calls from nominating committees. When asked by P N C if a candidate is a good pastor, I responded with a different perspective. I didn't say yes or no. I replied back. Is your

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church? Is your congregation good. This question often surprises them but it is intentional. I believe there isn't a strict dichotomy of good or bad pastors. Every pastor is a work in progress continuously growing alongside

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their congregation and community. Take Doctor Zhong, for example, he holds a phd and serves as a professor at an institution like this now ordained. He embarks on a journey new chapter in ministry. Yet

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he like all pastors isn't perfect. He requires the support and encouragement of this community to flourish. An installation service marks not a culmination, but commencement of his journey is a call for congregation and community to

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envelop him in prayer and upliftment as he navigates this path of growth and service on this day. Reverend Z's ordination, let us not only celebrate his journey and calling but also reflect on our own unique vocations

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and gifts bestowed upon us by our creator as we gather in this sacred sanctuary, let us be reminded that each one of us has been called and equipped for a specific purpose for glory of God and the

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building up of God's Kingdom in celebrating Reverend John. So the nation let us also celebrate the diverse gifts and calling present within this community of faith. Let us encourage and support one another as we seek to

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discern and faithfully fulfill our vocations, knowing that we do not in our own strength but by the power of the Holy Spirit working within us within us. May this special occasion, we are catalyst for new

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commitment and deeper discipleship. As we endeavor to live lives worth of the calling we have received and may the love of God and the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ and the fellows of the Holy Spirit in

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power and sustain us on this journey of faith. May God bless. Reverend John F Y J abundantly as he embarks on this new chapter of ministry and may his life and work bear witness to the transformative

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power of God's love. Thank you, honor of an ordination and into the work of the Holy Spirit . Just as we're in this joy of this occasion . We also have the joy of sharing, sharing

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for candidates of ministry, other candidates in the Greater Atlanta Presbytery. Let us now share either through the QR code or the offering plates as they come around and hear these words of Jesus. Remember the words

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of the Lord Jesus. It is more blessed to give than to receive. Let us return to God , the offerings of our life and the gifts of the earth beloved. We gather at this table,

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not for God's benefit but for our own. We recall the story of salvation because we are the ones who need to hear it again. Remember beloved, the goodness of the one who calls day by day

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, this world into being, who life by life calls humanity into loving relationship. Who is always and everywhere faithful, rejoice, Children of God in the life of Jesus Christ, who is born into our

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lives, who teaches us the way of righteousness, who walks with us through the gates of suffering and death. Who is our resurrection life? Gather at this table to share in these gifts of bread and

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cup, to receive the Holy Spirit, to be made new and united with all God's people, the redeemed of every time and every place at this table and in all our lives, Jesus is yet with

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us even to the end of the age. Well , let's pray the Lord be with you. Lift up your hearts, we lift them to the Lord . Let us give thanks to the Lord, our

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God. It is right to give our thanks and praise. It is truly right and our greatest joy to praise you. Oh God, creator of the universe. In your wisdom, you made all things

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and you sustain them by your power. You formed us in your image, to love and serve you and to live in peace with your creation. When we rebelled against you. You did not abandon us

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, but sent prophets to call us back to your way. Then in the fullness of time, you sent your only son to redeem us and to heal our Brokenness. Therefore, we join our voices with

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the choirs of heaven and with all the faithful of every time and place who forever praise your name, holy, holy, holy Lord, God of power and might, heaven and earth are full of your

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glory. Hosanna. And the highest blessed is the one who comes in the name of the Lord Hosanna and the highest holy God. We thank you for Jesus Christ, your son in Jesus, born of

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Mary, your word became flesh and dwelt among us , full of grace and truth. He lived as one of us, knowing joy and sorrow. He healed the sick, fed the hungry, welcomed sinners

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and proclaimed good news to the poor, dying on the cross. He gave himself for the life of the world rising from the grave. He won for us victory over death. Seated at your right hand

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. He reigns with you in glory and will come again to make all things new. Remembering the risen Christ, we take from your creation, this bread and this cup as we live for the day of

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His coming with thanksgiving, we offer you now the sacrifice of our lives. The great mystery of faith , Christ has died. Christ is risen. Christ will come again. Gracious God, pour out your

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holy spirit upon us and upon these gifts of bread and wine that the bread we break and the cup we bless may be the communion of the body and the blood of Christ by your spirit. Make us

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one with Christ and with all who share in the feast United Ministry in every place as this bread is Christ's body. For us, send us out to be the body of Christ in the world. For

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those who are hungry, we pray for nourishment. For those who are fleeing. We pray for safety . For those who are ill. We pray for your healing. But those who are grieving, we

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pray for your peace. But those who are suffering , we pray for your presence. For those who are divided, we pray for reconciliation. But those who are afraid, we pray for your courage in

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union with your church in heaven and on earth, we pray oh God that you will fulfill your eternal purpose in us and in all the world, keep us faithful in your service until Christ comes in final

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victory and we shall feast with all your saints in the joy of your eternal well through Christ with Christ in Christ, in the unity of the Holy Spirit , all glory and honor are yours almighty God now

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and forever. Amen. The Lord Jesus taught us the prayer. So in the languages you have given us, we are bold to pray our father in heaven. The Lord gave us on the night of

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his arrest, took bread. And after giving thanks to God, he broke it and gave it to his disciples saying pa because in the we had then bo meta I te mata quinoa. In the same

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way he took the cup is a Masur te mata daughter Kamara. Every time you eat this bread and drink from this cup, you proclaim you proclaim the saving death of the reason Lord until he comes the

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gifts of God for the people of God that our community is served by intention. Da So the table , this table is our Lord table and all are welcome. Um Please come and taste the mercy and

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goodness of our Lord Jesus Sony eventually never acted like that. Let us pray nourishing God. Thank you for inviting us to your table where all are welcome and for feeding us with the bread of life and

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quenching our thirst with a cup of blessing as you have filled our lives with love and hope. May we be a source of your love and hope for others who hunger and thirst for good news? Amen

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. Take up the cross. Follow Jesus and participate in God's mission in the power of the Holy Spirit . Would you do? Yes. So could you stay with that Hark? It is the grace of

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our Lord Jesus Christ, the love of God and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit. Be with you all now and forever. Amen. Thank you.