Episode 111
"In The Name of Jesus" Bishop Trimble's Sermon at North Central Jusisdiction Conference
Bishop Julius C. Trimble is the Resident Bishop of the Indiana Area of the United Methodist Church.
Bishop Trimble has the personal mission to encourage all people with the love of Jesus Christ to rise to their highest potential. It is his commitment to his personal mission that led Bishop Trimble to create the “To Be Encouraged” Podcast along with co-host Rev.Dr. Brad Miller.
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EP.111: Sermon "In The Name of Jesus" presented to North Central Jurisdiction Conference of the United Methodist Church July 11, 2024
In this powerful episode of "To Be Encouraged," Bishop Julius C. Trimble addresses the myriad challenges faced by individuals who have been incarcerated and the critical role the church plays in promoting healing, liberation, and justice. Drawing from his extensive ministry experience and poignant anecdotes, Bishop Trimble urges the congregation and listeners to advocate for systemic changes and embrace the power of faith and community action.
**Key Takeaways:**
**1. Advocate for Justice and Equal Opportunities:**
Bishop Trimble passionately discusses the barriers that formerly incarcerated individuals encounter upon reentry into society. These challenges include difficulties in securing employment, housing, and voter registration due to discriminatory practices and the pervasive stigma of a felony conviction. Trimble calls for the removal of questions about past convictions from job and rental applications and voter registration forms. He emphasizes the importance of equal justice, highlighting the need for policy changes that allow for genuine reintegration and the restoration of dignity and opportunities for these individuals.
**2. The Church’s Role in Promoting Healing and Liberation:**
Throughout his sermon, Bishop Trimble underscores the essential role of the church in addressing societal injustices and supporting those in need. He draws a powerful parallel with Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s denouncement of Nazism and fascism, encouraging the church to be a beacon of hope and a voice for the marginalized. By promoting public policies that serve the common good, such as affordable housing and feeding programs for children, the church can contribute to both immediate relief and long-term systemic change. Furthermore, Trimble shares the inspiring story of a woman who, driven by faith and vision, started a prison visitation ministry with limited resources, leading to significant positive impacts such as reduced recidivism rates.
**3. The Transformative Power of Faith and Prayer:**
Bishop Trimble emphasizes the profound impact of invoking the name of Jesus Christ for healing and empowerment. He shares a moving narrative from the book of Acts, where Peter and John heal a crippled man through their faith. This story serves as a reminder of the ongoing work of Jesus that the church must continue to pursue. Trimble also refers to a walk for peace, where they encountered homeless individuals, highlighting the urgent need for stable housing solutions. By shifting from acceptance of the status quo to active change through prayer and faith-driven action, the congregation can help bring about tangible improvements in their communities.
Join us in this episode as Bishop Trimble shares his wisdom, experiences, and a heartfelt call to action for justice, compassion, and faith-driven community support.
A full transcript of this sermon is available below and the video is available at this link: https://vimeo.com/982680761
Transcript
The Lord be with you. And so with you.
Speaker:Let us pray. Gracious,
Speaker:loving God, for the gift of this day, we give
Speaker:you thanks and praise
Speaker:for the beauty of the Holy Spirit.
Speaker:We give you thanks and praise. Now,
Speaker:Lord, your will, nothing more,
Speaker:nothing less, nothing else.
Speaker:Amen. I'm inclined to, take a few
Speaker:moments to say thank you for, over
Speaker:4 decades of ministry
Speaker:in the north central jurisdiction.
Speaker:As a 19 year old college student in
Speaker:Central Illinois, I met a young lady who was a
Speaker:Baptist, and I was a lifelong Methodist
Speaker:or am a lifelong Methodist. And, 5
Speaker:years later, we were married. And 45
Speaker:years later, we are still married.
Speaker:I'm still a United Methodist. And she's
Speaker:also a United Methodist. But she didn't
Speaker:leave her baptist behind. So I know I can hear first
Speaker:lady Raysell over here say amen. If nobody else says
Speaker:amen, she will be saying amen. Thanks be to
Speaker:God for all of the places as a pastor, as a lay
Speaker:person, as a lay person,
Speaker:nurtured in Chicago, and then
Speaker:becoming a clergy member in the Northern Illinois Conference, and then
Speaker:transferring to the East Ohio conference for 20 years,
Speaker:then being elected a bishop and living in the great state
Speaker:of Iowa for 8 years, serving with
Speaker:the beautiful people of Iowa, then being assigned to the great state of
Speaker:the Hoosier State of Indiana. Amen.
Speaker:And I wanted to say thank you to my wife again. We moved 7 times.
Speaker:Some people thought I couldn't keep a job, but we as United
Speaker:Methodists, we moved 7 times. And she said, this is
Speaker:it. We we we stay in here. Thanks be to God
Speaker:for all of you. I wanna just say to you that there is
Speaker:great power in the name of Jesus Christ.
Speaker:I'm not raising this as a resolution or a petition or
Speaker:something to debate about. I'm not inviting you to a
Speaker:conversation where you can play the devil's advocate because I don't believe
Speaker:the devil needs an advocate. If you wanna be an advocate, be a child
Speaker:advocate, be a justice advocate, be a peace advocate, be a love
Speaker:advocate, be a hope advocate. I'm not raising the
Speaker:point that Jesus Christ is Lord and that there
Speaker:is power in the name of Jesus Christ to cause
Speaker:any disruption only to remind us
Speaker:that there is great power in the name
Speaker:of Jesus Christ. You heard the scripture
Speaker:read from the book of acts. I
Speaker:wanna read a few verses from Eugene's
Speaker:Peterson's The Message. One day at 3 o'clock in the
Speaker:afternoon, Peter and John were on their way to the temple for a prayer meeting.
Speaker:And, a certain man who was crippled
Speaker:from his birth was carried up every day and
Speaker:sat down at the beautiful gate in front of the temple.
Speaker:He was there for the purpose of begging
Speaker:of those who were going into the temple. And the Bible says, Peter
Speaker:and John when Peter and John who are about
Speaker:to enter the temple, saw him
Speaker:and looked at him. They looked straight at him and said, look here.
Speaker:He looked up expecting to get something from them.
Speaker:Peterson puts it this way in the
Speaker:message Bible. Peter said, I don't have a nickel to my name.
Speaker:But what I do have Yes. I give you
Speaker:in the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth.
Speaker:He grabbed him by the right hand. He pulled him up. His
Speaker:feet and ankles became firm and strong. He jumped up his
Speaker:feet on his feet and walked. The man went into the
Speaker:temple with them walking back and forth, back and forth,
Speaker:dancing and praising God.
Speaker:Everybody saw him praising God, recognized him as the one who had been
Speaker:begging at the temple's gate. Beautiful.
Speaker:They were astonished, scarcely believing what they
Speaker:were seeing. The story of Jesus
Speaker:does not end with Jesus' crucifixion and resurrection.
Speaker:It is Luke's task in the book of Acts to
Speaker:prevent us from becoming mere historical spectators of
Speaker:the mighty works of the Holy Spirit through the apostles and
Speaker:the early believers. We,
Speaker:who are standing on the shoulders of those who have gone before us, those
Speaker:who are cheering us on. The great
Speaker:cloud of witnesses, those who have graduated to the
Speaker:church triumphant are now cheering us on.
Speaker:We stand upon their shoulders.
Speaker:We who have received the baton of greater works.
Speaker:Those of us who are in the church militant, the church
Speaker:pilgrim, the church that is still doing that work, we have received the
Speaker:baton of greater works including those of healing,
Speaker:restoration, reconciliation and liberation.
Speaker:I'm halfway through my introduction.
Speaker:We know through the echoed words of Jesus Christ
Speaker:in the gospel of John, truly, truly I say to you, whoever
Speaker:believes in me will also do the works that I
Speaker:do and greater works than these
Speaker:will they do. We know from the Apostle
Speaker:Paul in Ephesians that we are God's handiwork created in
Speaker:Christ Jesus to do good works.
Speaker:It happened a few months ago on a cold
Speaker:Saturday morning. I joined the reverend doctor
Speaker:Ensign Peebles. I don't know if she's still here or not. And deaconess
Speaker:Lisa in Bloomington, Indiana with a
Speaker:diverse group of United Methodist and others. They were not just Methodist
Speaker:and they were not just Christians. And we were on a
Speaker:walk through the 8 Mile Park in Bloomington, Indiana.
Speaker:We were walking with others around the country and literally around the
Speaker:world calling for a ceasefire in
Speaker:Gaza. And as we walked
Speaker:through this beautiful park with hills and trees, we
Speaker:crane came across a long stretch in the park
Speaker:where dozens of unhoused men and women were living
Speaker:in the park.
Speaker:As we walked through this beautiful park, we came across a
Speaker:man who was walking his dog, who also was part of the unhoused,
Speaker:the homeless living in the park. This was
Speaker:his community, community of homelessness.
Speaker:I remember you could ask doctor Peebles if I'm telling the truth. We talked
Speaker:briefly with the man. He kept going on with his dog. We were trying
Speaker:to make it to the gathering spot for those who will be gathered for
Speaker:the press conference around peace in
Speaker:Gaza. But we were unable
Speaker:to unsee what we had just seen. Can I get a
Speaker:witness? In this beautiful
Speaker:park, dozens of men and women,
Speaker:family members if you will of the church
Speaker:living under tarps and cardboard and tin that they had put
Speaker:together as their own community.
Speaker:And even though our purpose this day was a peace walk and a
Speaker:press gathering, a press conference focused on the humanitarian
Speaker:on crisis that was unfolding thousands of miles away and
Speaker:still is, we were reminded that housing and
Speaker:shelter is not a basic right in this country. Did you know that?
Speaker:And the lack of stable affordable housing and access to income and
Speaker:mental health services all contribute to the problem.
Speaker:Beloved, since we last gathered
Speaker:in Fort Wayne as a
Speaker:jurisdictional conference. There's been an
Speaker:increase in the number of unhoused people in this country.
Speaker:And just a few days ago, the supreme
Speaker:court made homelessness a crime. Can I get a
Speaker:witness? Such that dozens of men and
Speaker:women we saw in that park
Speaker:are now subject to force removal and arrest.
Speaker:Today's theme is doing good.
Speaker:I wanna say that we ought to do good. It's part of
Speaker:our general rules. But in
Speaker:tandem, we're doing good. We also be should be doing justice.
Speaker:Bringing blankets and soup and sandwiches
Speaker:to the homeless in the park is doing good and we need to do that.
Speaker:But advocating for affordable housing, public policy,
Speaker:support for housing as a basic human right is doing justice.
Speaker:We ought to be sharing food with the hungry and having hot
Speaker:meals at our churches. We lead the way in the United
Speaker:Methodist Church. We should be packing meals
Speaker:to to to eradicate hunger across the world.
Speaker:That's doing good. But we should also be
Speaker:advocating for a living wage and adequate nutritious
Speaker:nutrition for thousands of children this summer doing justice. That's doing
Speaker:justice.
Speaker:15 states this year in our country
Speaker:refused to accept federal dollars
Speaker:bipartisan supported bill. 15 states
Speaker:said, no, we don't want that money. The money was designated to feed
Speaker:children during the summer. This summer
Speaker:here in the country, the land of the free and the home of the brave.
Speaker:We ought to be feeding children in our after school programs.
Speaker:I'm simply saying doing good should be in tandem
Speaker:with doing justice.
Speaker:Visiting the sick and in prison is doing good,
Speaker:but removing barriers to restorative justice is also our
Speaker:work. There are over 1,300,000
Speaker:people in prison in the United States of
Speaker:America. And I just
Speaker:found this out this information out little more than a week and
Speaker:a half ago. I was invited to serve on a panel,
Speaker:discussion sponsored by Reform Alliance.
Speaker:Didn't know this information. Thousands of people
Speaker:several thousand people meeting in Indianapolis who work in the area of
Speaker:probation and supervision. Probation officers and parole
Speaker:officers and people who are working with diversion programs.
Speaker:I didn't know that there apart from the 1,300,000
Speaker:1,300,000 in prison, there are an additional 4,000,000
Speaker:listen to me, 4,000,000 people, men and women who are
Speaker:under parole, probation and
Speaker:supervision. 4,000,000.
Speaker:4000000. And they told stories, the
Speaker:probation officers, of why people end up going back to jail and
Speaker:back to prison. They say if they come out and they have
Speaker:a substance abuse problem and there's no treatment for them,
Speaker:they return to their communities. If they don't show up for their
Speaker:first appointment, they violated their parole and
Speaker:probation and they are subject to be arrested and go back to prison.
Speaker:If they get a job when they come out of prison and they don't
Speaker:have transportation to make it to that job, if they miss 2 days of
Speaker:work, they're subject to lose their job. They were in violation of
Speaker:their supervision and they go back to prison.
Speaker:I'm simply saying, friends, that there's more than just doing
Speaker:good. We've got to keep doing good but we ought to ought to be embracing
Speaker:our ministry of restorative justice. There is
Speaker:power in the name of Jesus Christ.
Speaker:We ought to remove the question. When
Speaker:people come out of jail, listen to me friends. We should just remove the
Speaker:question on on applications. Have you ever been a convicted
Speaker:felon? Stick with me now. Stick with
Speaker:me. We ought to remove it from job applications and rental
Speaker:applications and voter registration. Friends,
Speaker:if a man can remain on the ballot for the highest
Speaker:office in the land,
Speaker:Listen to me. Listen to me.
Speaker:Yes, sir. Listen to me. If a man can remain on the ballot for the
Speaker:highest office in the land after being found guilty on
Speaker:34 felony accounts, how can we discriminate against those
Speaker:who have done the time after they've been convicted of their
Speaker:crime? This is not a political statement. It's a
Speaker:question of equal justice.
Speaker:Those of you who who have been to seminary probably studied
Speaker:Dietrich Bonhoeffer. But it's
Speaker:scary if you read it. He
Speaker:denounced the rise of Nazism after his transformation
Speaker:through reading the Bible. The Bible is a dangerous book to
Speaker:read. He
Speaker:denounced the rise of Nazism and fascism
Speaker:after his transformation from reading the Bible. He
Speaker:referred to the Bible as the great liberator.
Speaker:Historians write and in fact, Bonhoeffer himself writes that
Speaker:his reading of the Sermon on the Mount and the acts of
Speaker:Jesus Christ resulted in him saying that the church
Speaker:must be an instrument of healing and liberation.
Speaker:Christianity rises and falls on its revolutionary protest
Speaker:against violence.
Speaker:Denouncing the rise of authoritarianism came at the
Speaker:price of clarity, truth
Speaker:telling, the risk of his own freedom. He was
Speaker:arrested and executed.
Speaker:United Methodist believe that love
Speaker:requires resistance
Speaker:and
Speaker:participation in political action
Speaker:that promotes the common good. Now you think Trimble made that
Speaker:up, but I just read that's a excerpt from our social principles.
Speaker:Can I get a witness? You think that's Bishop Trimble up
Speaker:here starting some mess. That's from our social principles.
Speaker:We believe that love requires a response
Speaker:for us to promote public policy that promotes
Speaker:the common good. The
Speaker:church is the church, Bonhoeffer
Speaker:and others have said and it comes through in this
Speaker:passage of scripture. The church is the church only when it exists
Speaker:for others. Well, I know we are concerned
Speaker:about our future, but this is no
Speaker:time for us to be drunk on the eve of
Speaker:reconstruction. This is no time for us
Speaker:to be sleeping when others are
Speaker:pushing back the wheels of progress before
Speaker:our very eyes. The Bible says that the lame man saw
Speaker:Peter and John about to go into the temple.
Speaker:Well, I like it the way the Bible makes it so clear. It says, Peter
Speaker:looked intently at him.
Speaker:And we can learn something from this encounter with the lame man
Speaker:and Peter and John. The man who was begging for
Speaker:alms begging for some money begging for some response
Speaker:We can learn something. Number 1, the courage It takes courage
Speaker:to face the reality and also the real request.
Speaker:Sometimes we're answering questions that our communities are
Speaker:not asking. Can I get a
Speaker:witness? We need to ask
Speaker:our communities how we as a church
Speaker:can be the hands and feet of Jesus Christ in ways
Speaker:that they can and we can all do this together. Courage to
Speaker:face the reality and the request. Second
Speaker:thing we learned from this encounter with the lame
Speaker:man and Peter and John was they offered what they had,
Speaker:not what was requested.
Speaker:The third thing we can learn is that they gained credibility not from
Speaker:proclamation alone, but from proclamation plus
Speaker:demonstration. Well, I
Speaker:know we need to worship as a church, but church
Speaker:including worship and preaching is not to make you feel good but to make
Speaker:us do good. Can I get a witness? We go
Speaker:to church not so that we can feel good so but so that as
Speaker:followers of Jesus Christ, we are sent forth
Speaker:to do good and to do justice and to
Speaker:love mercy and to walk humbly with God.
Speaker:It took him by his right hand. The lame man
Speaker:took him by his right hand and his feet and his ankles were
Speaker:made strong. And what follows in the text
Speaker:is not typical United Methodist worship.
Speaker:Go read it again. The Bible
Speaker:says, when his ankles
Speaker:and his feet were made strong and he stood
Speaker:up, he entered the temple with them,
Speaker:walking and leaping and praising God.
Speaker:Bishop Trimble. Bishop Trimble. Yes.
Speaker:So I heard that you are retiring.
Speaker:I heard you say you're pivoting with passion. Yes, sir. Well,
Speaker:what you gonna do when you leave Sioux Falls?
Speaker:What you gonna do when you leave the NCJ
Speaker:conference? I'm gonna leave praising god,
Speaker:leaping, and praising.
Speaker:I I didn't say I don't love you now. I didn't say it. I didn't
Speaker:say I don't like conference or anything like that.
Speaker:A couple of years ago, was at a United Methodist gathering
Speaker:and I encountered reverend Dennis Oglesby. Some
Speaker:of you from Minnesota in Chicago know
Speaker:Reverend Dennis Oglesbee. He was a great
Speaker:sharp dresser and he he liked nice watches. And he saw I had a nice
Speaker:watch on, Bishop Palmer, and he he asked me about my
Speaker:watch. I told him I have a collection of watches and some of
Speaker:the watches are no longer no longer, I wear them because
Speaker:the band is broken. Some of them, the face of the watch is
Speaker:scratched so I I don't wear the watch.
Speaker:Some of them need maybe a part replaced on the band
Speaker:and and he said, but you still keep the watches. The reason that I keep
Speaker:those watches is because they still work.
Speaker:Turn to your neighbor and say, it still works. It still
Speaker:works. Peter and John
Speaker:said I don't have any money to give you. But
Speaker:in the name of Jesus Christ,
Speaker:rise up and walk.
Speaker:I'm here to tell you sisters and brothers, I stopped by
Speaker:on the doing good day to remind us that the
Speaker:power in the name of Jesus Christ still
Speaker:works. Still
Speaker:works. Silver and gold, you
Speaker:may not have. Sometimes we complain we don't have enough resources.
Speaker:I remember going to Nigeria, leaving as we were leaving Nigeria and
Speaker:they were celebrating, bishop Malone, how many new churches they had
Speaker:started. I said, how did you start these churches? Did you have a
Speaker:conference, church and building location grant? They said, no. We didn't
Speaker:have no grant. I said, well, where did you get the
Speaker:missionaries? They said, we sent people out.
Speaker:We dug a well. And when people found
Speaker:clean water, they came to the well. We
Speaker:put a church there. We didn't need a building. We just needed some people.
Speaker:Then we decided when we got enough money, we will put a clinic and a
Speaker:school there. And we sent a lay minister there.
Speaker:And we started the church. He said, the problem with you in
Speaker:America is that when you speak the name of Jesus, you
Speaker:don't expect anything to happen. Say, when we speak the
Speaker:name of Jesus, we expect something to happen.
Speaker:Seal and gold. You may come from
Speaker:a little church. You may come from a
Speaker:church that has a small budget or so you think.
Speaker:You may come to a church that's had some conflict and we've got districts
Speaker:that had lost churches. But I'm here to tell
Speaker:you, we need to stop telling God how big our problems
Speaker:are and stop telling our problems how big our God
Speaker:is.
Speaker:Cecilia Whitfield, I'm done after
Speaker:this in a few minutes. Cecilia
Speaker:Whitfield of Indianapolis, Indiana
Speaker:started use what you got ministry,
Speaker:keeping families connected with those who are incarcerated. It's
Speaker:a prison visitation ministry. They take families to
Speaker:all of the prisons in Indiana for visitation.
Speaker:My wife is the chair of the board. The board the board chairperson
Speaker:for use what you got, keeping families connected prison
Speaker:visitation ministry. And so I interviewed her just
Speaker:a week ago about how this ministry really
Speaker:got started. She shared her vision of
Speaker:what God wanted her to do and she has a bigger vision
Speaker:now. She said what happened was some years ago,
Speaker:her son was arrested for armed robbery
Speaker:and sentenced to prison. She
Speaker:went to visit her son and as she was going to visit her son, she
Speaker:saw families were having difficulty getting to visit their loved
Speaker:ones in prison. Her vision
Speaker:that God gave her was to purchase a bus
Speaker:and to hire a driver to take families to visit
Speaker:their fathers and mothers and husbands and daughters.
Speaker:But she said she had never been to college.
Speaker:Her husband was retired military. She didn't
Speaker:have a grant. She didn't know how to start a nonprofit organization.
Speaker:All she had, she said, was a vision and a testimony.
Speaker:She said God had given her the vision that families should be able to
Speaker:visit their loved ones in prison. And she was gonna
Speaker:make that happen. So she went and talked to her her
Speaker:elderly mother about the vision God had given her.
Speaker:She said, mama, I don't have any money, you know, and I'm not trained. I
Speaker:don't have a college degree or graduate degree on on
Speaker:how to operate this. But God has given me this vision
Speaker:that families should be able to visit their loved ones in prison.
Speaker:She said her mother told her, use what
Speaker:you got. Use what you got. So she took her money.
Speaker:Her husband pulled out of his retirement, and she pulled some
Speaker:resources together, asked a few United Methodist and others to
Speaker:invest in this ministry. And they bought 1 bus.
Speaker:And they hired a part time driver who volunteered initially.
Speaker:And they began visiting families for
Speaker:35 years, sisters and brothers.
Speaker:Never had an accident. And
Speaker:she has the data to prove that those people who have family
Speaker:members who visit them, the recidivism rate is 21%.
Speaker:She said those who don't have family members visit is about 70%.
Speaker:All she had was a vision. And she said, but I believe
Speaker:in the name of Jesus Christ. Yeah. I can do all
Speaker:things through Christ who strengthens me. I'm here
Speaker:to tell you sisters and brothers, it still works
Speaker:when you speak the name of Jesus Christ and you are
Speaker:doing good and doing justice and loving neighbors, it
Speaker:still works. In the name of Jesus, your
Speaker:burdens can be lifted. In the name of Jesus,
Speaker:your sickness can be healed. In the name of Jesus,
Speaker:your friendships can be fortified. In the name of
Speaker:Jesus, your church can be edified. In the name
Speaker:of Jesus, your soul can be sanctified.
Speaker:In the name of Jesus, your witness can be magnified.
Speaker:In the name
Speaker:of Jesus.
Speaker:In the name of Jesus, our God can be
Speaker:glorified. In the name of Jesus, the devil
Speaker:will be terrified. I'm here to tell you there
Speaker:is power in the name of Jesus. The lame
Speaker:man at the gate of the temple had been lame
Speaker:since birth. He probably was resigned to
Speaker:praying the prayer. You know, the serenity prayer. He kept
Speaker:praying that same line from the serenity prayer. Lord,
Speaker:help me accept the things I cannot change. But
Speaker:Peter said, silver and gold have I none. I give you what I
Speaker:do have. In the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth.
Speaker:Listen to me. That Jesus Christ of Nazareth, he didn't say
Speaker:Yeshua from the west side of Samaria. He said Jesus
Speaker:Christ of Nazareth, the one who was
Speaker:arrested, the one who was crucified, the one who
Speaker:bled and died, the one who was buried in the
Speaker:grave, the one on the 3rd day who rose from the
Speaker:dead, in the name of Jesus of Nazareth,
Speaker:stand up and walk. This is the
Speaker:season to change praying. Lord, help
Speaker:me accept the things I cannot change. We need
Speaker:to pray the prayer. Lord, help me to change the things we cannot
Speaker:accept.
Speaker:You don't hear me. You don't hear me.
Speaker:The name of Jesus has power
Speaker:and it still works. It still works.
Speaker:Andre Crouch phrased it this way. The
Speaker:blood that Jesus shed for
Speaker:me way back
Speaker:on Calvary. The blood
Speaker:that gives me strength from day.
Speaker:Today, maybe y'all didn't seen this, but I grew up a Methodist church. It was
Speaker:a black church, Black United Methodist, but we sang this song in our church.
Speaker:I thought it was a Methodist hymn though. Methodist hymn
Speaker:way back on get the blood that Jesus shed for
Speaker:me way back on Calvary. The blood that gives me
Speaker:strength from day to day, it
Speaker:will never lose
Speaker:its power. It reaches
Speaker:to the highest mountain. Yeah. It flows
Speaker:to the lowest valley. The blood
Speaker:that gives me strength from day to
Speaker:day will never never
Speaker:never lose its power. It still
Speaker:works. The blood still works.
Speaker:The name still works. The church still
Speaker:works. In the right name of Jesus.
Speaker:The power in the name of Jesus. When sorrow invades
Speaker:without invitation, it still works.
Speaker:When you have burdens that are too heavy for human shoulders, it still
Speaker:works. When the doors of opportunity need to be
Speaker:broken wide open, it still works. When the wicked won't
Speaker:cease from troubling Yes, sir. And the weary cannot find rest,
Speaker:it still works. When you are sick and tired of being sick and
Speaker:tired, it still works. Dear beloved
Speaker:United Methodist, the power, the
Speaker:name of Jesus still
Speaker:works.
