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What a Fellowship
Author: Elisha A. Hoffman, 1839-1929 Meter: 10.9.10.9 with refrain Appears in 608 hymnals Topics: Community in Christ First Line: What a fellowship, what a joy divine Refrain First Line: Leaning, leaning Used With Tune: LEANING ON THE EVERLASTING ARMS
What a Fellowship
Blest Be the Tie That Binds
Author: John Fawcett, 1740-1817 Meter: 6.6.8.6 Appears in 2,272 hymnals Topics: Community in Christ; Community in Christ Lyrics: 1 Blest be the tie that binds
Our hearts in Christian love;
The unity of heart and mind
Is like to that above.
2 Before our Father’s throne
We pour our ardent prayers;
Our fears, our hopes, our aims are one,
Our comforts and our cares.
3 We share our mutual woes,
Our mutual burdens bear,
And often for each other flows
The sympathizing tear.
4 From sorrow, toil, and pain,
And sin we shall be free;
And perfect love and friendship reign
Through all eternity. Used With Tune: DENNIS
Blest Be the Tie That Binds
The Church's One Foundation
Author: Samuel J. Stone, 1839-1900 Meter: 7.6.7.6.7.6.7.6 Appears in 858 hymnals Topics: Community in Christ; Community in Christ Lyrics: 1 The Church’s one foundation
Is Jesus Christ, her Lord;
She is his new creation
By water and the Word.
From heav'n he came and sought her
To be his holy bride;
With his own blood he bought her,
And for her life he died.
2 Elect from ev'ry nation,
Yet one o’er all the earth;
Her charter of salvation:
One Lord, one faith, one birth.
One holy name she blesses,
Partakes one holy food,
And to one hope she presses
With ev'ry grace endued.
3 Though with a scornful wonder
This world sees her oppressed,
By schisms rent asunder,
By heresies distressed,
Yet saints their watch are keeping;
Their cry goes up: “How long?”
And soon the night of weeping
Shall be the morn of song.
4 Through toil and tribulation
And tumult of her war,
She waits the consummation
Of peace forevermore;
Till with the vision glorious
Her longing eyes are blest,
And the great Church victorious
Shall be the Church at rest.
5 Yet she on earth has union
With God, the Three in One,
And mystic sweet communion
With those whose rest is won.
O blessed heav'nly chorus!
Lord, save us by your grace,
That we, like saints before us,
May see you face to face. Used With Tune: AURELIA
The Church's One Foundation
All People That on Earth do Dwell
Author: William Kethe (1530?-1594?); Roger Chapal (1912-); Benjamin T. Arreak (1947-) Meter: 8.8.8.8 Appears in 720 hymnals Topics: Gathering of the Community; Gathering of the Community First Line: All people that on earth do dwell Lyrics: 1 All people that on earth do dwell,
sing to the Lord with cheerful voice;
him serve with mirth, his praise forth tell;
come ye before him, and rejoice.
2 Know that the Lord is God indeed;
without our aid he did us make;
we are his folk, he doth us feed,
and for his sheep he doth us take.
3 O enter then his gates with praise,
approach with joy his courts unto;
praise, laud, and bless his name always,
for it is seemly so to do.
4 For why, the Lord our God is good;
his mercy is forever sure;
his truth at all times firmly stood,
and shall from age to age endure.
Moose Cree text:
1 Illilitok otu uskik
Nikumostak washihiwat,
Soka nasta utoskastak
Naspich a sikilasiyak.
2 Welu kichimunitoweo
Ahnu ka ki oshiituk,
Kit ililimimikonao
Moshuk kanuwalimituk.
3 Petokak ot iskwotamik
Naspich kichimamichimak:
Nunatomik, nunaskomik
Kay ishi totumakipun.
4 Chihova kishawatiseo
Moshuk we shawalichikao,
Otapwaywin sokunileo
kakikay kutuayaleo.
Scripture: Psalm 100 Used With Tune: OLD 100TH Text Sources: Moose Cree trans. A Collection of Hymns and Psalms in the Language of the Cree Indians of North-West America, 1887, rev. 1946
All People That on Earth do Dwell
We Are the Church
Author: Richard K. Avery; Donald S. March Meter: 7.7.8.7 wiht refrain Appears in 12 hymnals Topics: Church Community in Christ First Line: The church is not a building Refrain First Line: I am the church! You are the church Lyrics: [Refrain:]
I am the church! You are the church!
We are the church together!
All who follow Jesus, all around the world!
Yes, we're the church together!
1 The church is not a building,
the church is not a steeple,
the church is not a resting place,
the church is a people.
(Refrain)
2 We're many kinds of people,
with many kinds of faces,
all colors and all ages, too,
from all times and places.
(Refrain)
3 Sometimes the church is marching,
sometimes it's bravely burning,
sometimes it's riding, sometimes hiding,
always it's learning.
(Refrain)
4 And when the people gather,
there's singing and there's praying,
there's laughing and there's crying
sometimes, all of it saying:
(Refrain)
5 At Pentecost some people
received the Holy Spirit
and told the Good News through the world
to all who would hear it.
(Refrain) Used With Tune: PORT JERVIS
We Are the Church
All Creatures of Our God and King
Author: Francis of Assisi, 1182-1226; William H. Draper, 1853-1933 Appears in 264 hymnals Topics: Community Scripture: Psalm 105 Used With Tune: LASST UNS ERFREUEN
All Creatures of Our God and King
Come, Thou Fount of Every Blessing
Author: Robert Robinson Meter: 8.7.8.7 D Appears in 2,201 hymnals Topics: The Church as Community Gathering Lyrics: 1 Come, Thou Fount of every blessing,
tune my heart to sing Thy grace;
streams of mercy, never ceasing,
call for songs of loudest praise:
teach me some melodious sonnet,
sung by flaming tongues above;
praise the mount! I’m fixed upon it,
mount of Thy redeeming love.
2 Here I raise my Ebenezer;
hither by Thy help I’m come;
and I hope, by Thy good pleasure,
safely to arrive at home:
Jesus sought me when a stranger,
wandering from the fold of God;
He, to rescue me from danger,
interposed His precious blood.
3 O to grace how great a debtor
daily I’m constrained to be!
Let Thy goodness, like a fetter,
bind my wandering heart to Thee:
prone to wander, Lord, I feel it,
prone to leave the God I love;
here’s my heart, Lord, take and seal it,
seal it for Thy courts above. Scripture: 1 Samuel 7:12 Used With Tune: NETTLETON
Come, Thou Fount of Every Blessing
We Gather Together
Author: Julia C. Cory, 1882-1963 Meter: 12.11.12.11 Appears in 2 hymnals Topics: Community in Christ First Line: We gather together to ask the Lord’s blessing Used With Tune: KREMSER
We Gather Together
Called as Partners in Christ's Service
Author: Jane Parker Huber Meter: 8.7.8.7 D Appears in 8 hymnals Topics: Community in Christ Scripture: John 15:12-17 Used With Tune: BEECHER
Called as Partners in Christ's Service
Together We Serve
Author: Daniel Charles Damon Meter: 5.5.11 D Appears in 3 hymnals Topics: Community in Christ Lyrics: 1 Together we serve,
united by love,
inviting God's world to the glorious feast.
We work and we pray
through sorrow and joy,
extending God's love to the last and the least.
2 We seek to become
a beacon of hope,
a lamp for the heart and a light for the feet.
We learn, year by year,
to let love shine through
until we see Christ in each person we meet.
3 We welcome the scarred,
the wealthy, the poor,
the busy, the lonely, and all who need care.
We offer a home
to those who will come,
our hands quick to help, our hearts ready to dare.
4 Together, by grace,
we witness and work,
remembering Jesus, in whom we grow strong.
Together we serve
in Spirit and truth,
remembering love is the strength of our song. Scripture: Psalm 119:105 Used With Tune: SAN ANSELMO
Together We Serve
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