Sermon for January 27th, 2019 - Revision history

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 ==Faith & Film VII: Won't You Be My Neighbor?==
-[https://youtu.be/qnkGejHOMu4 Film Clip #1 - Trailer]
+[https://youtu.be/qnkGejHOMu4 Film Clip #1 - Trailer 2:35]
 ==Who Was Fred Rogers?==
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 And from this film, we learn that even someone as amazing and kind and gracious as Mr. Rogers struggled with things like fear and anxiety.  To help us learn more about who Fred Rogers was, here's a clip featuring his favorite puppet, Daniel the Striped Tiger.
-[https://youtu.be/SWlYiOtP5mI Film Clip #2 - Daniel the Striped Tiger]
+[https://youtu.be/SWlYiOtP5mI Film Clip #2 - Daniel the Striped Tiger 2:21]
 Rogers wasn't just adept at talking to children, though.  His simple, effective communication style was sometimes aimed at adults, parents, professionals, and even senators.  This next clip also helps to answer the frequent question, "was that personality just an act for the show?  What was he like outside of his neighborhood?"
-[https://youtu.be/gMdTl2R354A Film Clip #3 - PBS]
+[https://youtu.be/gMdTl2R354A Film Clip #3 - Saving PBS 4:20]
 ==Who Is My Neighbor?==
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 In the same way, Fred Rogers constantly used his television show to subtly push and expand our idea of what (and who) a neighbor is:
-[https://youtu.be/K6O_Ep9bY0U Film Clip #4 - Officer Clemmons]
+[https://youtu.be/K6O_Ep9bY0U Film Clip #4 - Officer Clemmons 2:42]
 As radical and subtle as his approach to adults and world issues was, however, Fred Rogers main audience was always children--especially those children that otherwise might not have been seen, heard, or appreciated.  In this, he also resembled Jesus, who, when his disciples were arguing about who was the greatest among them (as adults often do, even today) lifted up a small child in his arms and said, "Whoever welcomes one such child in my name welcomes me, and whoever welcomes me welcomes not me but the one who sent me.”
-[https://youtu.be/USWXF1XW2zo Film Clip #5 - Jeff Erlanger]
+[https://youtu.be/USWXF1XW2zo Film Clip #5 - Jeff Erlanger 3:24]
 ==Evangelism, Presbyterian Style==

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	At one point in the film, a producer for the show says that, "If you take all the elements that make good television, and do the exact opposite, you have Mr. Rogers' Neighborhood: Low production values, simple set, unlikely star--yet it worked, because he was saying something really important." I think there is a profound truth in that for the way we do church, and for the way we live our lives.		At one point in the film, a producer for the show says that, "If you take all the elements that make good television, and do the exact opposite, you have Mr. Rogers' Neighborhood: Low production values, simple set, unlikely star--yet it worked, because he was saying something really important." I think there is a profound truth in that for the way we do church, and for the way we live our lives.
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		+	For what it's worth, Mr. Rogers would have said that the "unlikely star" of your show...is you. God always uses unlikely stars to advance his work in this world, in simple, meaningful ways.
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		+	I want to end the sermon today the way Mr. Rogers used to end many of his speeches, when he received awards or was invited to speak at graduation ceremonies. It's how the film ends too. When the spotlight was on him, when he was being honored for all that he was and did, he would pause...look right at his audience, and tell them: "All of us have special ones who have loved us into being. Would you just take, along with me, ten seconds to close your eyes and think of the people who have helped you become who you are; those who have cared about you, and wanted what was best for you in life. Ten seconds of silence. I'll watch the time. (ten seconds) May God be with you."

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 And so day in, day out right up until the end of his life, Fred Rogers preached the gospel of God's love for all people, the core Christian message of loving your neighbor as yourself, while rarely ever specifically mentioning God, Jesus, or the Bible.  And there is something quite quintessentially Presbyterian in that sort of evangelism.
-Presbyterians don't have altar calls.  We don't knock on doors, proselytize, or try to convert people to our religion by argument.  We care far more about doing the things Christ actually did (loving each other, caring for each other) than whether or not people label themselves as Christians.  We care more about what's going on in the world, and how we can help hurting people, than whether they are following all the rules and obscure bible passages that many Christians seem to obsess over today.
+Presbyterians don't have altar calls.  We don't knock on doors, proselytize, or try to convert people to our religion by argument.  We care far more about doing the things Christ actually did (loving each other, caring for each other) than whether or not people label themselves as Christians.  We care more about what's going on in the world, and how we can help hurting people, than whether they are following all the rules and obscure bible passages that so many Christians seem to obsess over today.
+At one point in the film, a producer for the show says that, "If you take all the elements that make good television, and do the exact opposite, you have Mr. Rogers' Neighborhood:  Low production values, simple set, unlikely star--yet it worked, because he was saying something really important."  I think there is a profound truth in that for the way we do church, and for the way we live our lives.
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-*Low production values, simple set, unlikely star
-*Always trying to get a message across

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 And so day in, day out right up until the end of his life, Fred Rogers preached the gospel of God's love for all people, the core Christian message of loving your neighbor as yourself, while rarely ever specifically mentioning God, Jesus, or the Bible.  And there is something quite quintessentially Presbyterian in that sort of evangelism.
-Presbyterians don't have altar calls.  We don't knock on doors, proselytize, or try to convert people to our religion by argument.
+Presbyterians don't have altar calls.  We don't knock on doors, proselytize, or try to convert people to our religion by argument.  We care far more about doing the things Christ actually did (loving each other, caring for each other) than whether or not people label themselves as Christians.  We care more about what's going on in the world, and how we can help hurting people, than whether they are following all the rules and obscure bible passages that many Christians seem to obsess over today.
 *Low production values, simple set, unlikely star
 *Always trying to get a message across

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 [https://youtu.be/USWXF1XW2zo Film Clip #5 - Jeff Erlanger]
 ==Evangelism, Presbyterian Style==
 *Low production values, simple set, unlikely star
 *Always trying to get a message across

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	[https://youtu.be/K6O_Ep9bY0U Film Clip #4 - Officer Clemmons]		[https://youtu.be/K6O_Ep9bY0U Film Clip #4 - Officer Clemmons]

		+	As radical and subtle as his approach to adults and world issues was, however, Fred Rogers main audience was always children--especially those children that otherwise might not have been seen, heard, or appreciated. In this, he also resembled Jesus, who, when his disciples were arguing about who was the greatest among them (as adults often do, even today) lifted up a small child in his arms and said, "Whoever welcomes one such child in my name welcomes me, and whoever welcomes me welcomes not me but the one who sent me.”

		+	[https://youtu.be/USWXF1XW2zo Film Clip #5 - Jeff Erlanger]

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	[https://youtu.be/SWlYiOtP5mI Film Clip #2 - Daniel the Striped Tiger]		[https://youtu.be/SWlYiOtP5mI Film Clip #2 - Daniel the Striped Tiger]
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		+	Rogers wasn't just adept at talking to children, though. His simple, effective communication style was sometimes aimed at adults, parents, professionals, and even senators. This next clip also helps to answer the frequent question, "was that personality just an act for the show? What was he like outside of his neighborhood?"
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		+	[https://youtu.be/gMdTl2R354A Film Clip #3 - PBS]

	==Who Is My Neighbor?==		==Who Is My Neighbor?==
		+	Everything that Mr. Rogers did--from the title of his famous show "Mr. Rogers Neighborhood" to the iconic song "Won't you be my neighbor--focused on this idea of what it meant to be a neighbor and part of a community, a neighborhood.
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		+	Jesus also spent a considerable amount of time talking about neighbors and neighborhoods. He taught that the greatest commandments were to love God and love your neighbor. On the surface, that doesn't sound too hard, right? Love the person who lives right next door to you. You can still hate everyone else. But when Jesus' disciples asked him who exactly counted as a neighbor, he told them a long story--the story of the good samaritan--where he basically expanded the whole category of "neighbor" to include unlikely and unexpected people: those dreaded samaritans that the people of Israel didn't like very much.
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		+	In the same way, Fred Rogers constantly used his television show to subtly push and expand our idea of what (and who) a neighbor is:
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		+	[https://youtu.be/K6O_Ep9bY0U Film Clip #4 - Officer Clemmons]
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−	~~[https://youtu.be/K6O_Ep9bY0U Film Clip #? - Officer Clemmons]~~

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	==Evangelism, Presbyterian Style==		==Evangelism, Presbyterian Style==
		+	*Low production values, simple set, unlikely star
		+	*Always trying to get a message across