Archive for November 20, 2024

Gathering | The Summons

Will you come and follow me
If I but call your name?
Will you go where you don’t know
And never be the same?
Will you let my love be shown,
Will you let my name be known,
Will you let my life be grown
In you and you in me?

Preparation of the Gifts | We Bring Our Gifts to Your Altar

Prepare our hearts to receive You, O Lord God of hosts
Cleanse us and wash away our sins
We sing Your praise with the angels and saints at Your throne
For this is where Heaven enters in
Prepare our hearts to receive You, O Lord

We bring our gifts to Your altar, O Lord God of hosts
May our sacrifice be pleasing in Your sight
Fruit of the earth and work of human hands
Which will become for us the Bread of Life
We bring our gifts to Your altar, O Lord

We bring our gifts to Your altar, O Lord

Communion | Your Heart Today

Where there is fear
I can allay
where there is pain
I can heal

Where there are wounds
I can bind
and hunger
I can fill

Lord, grant me courage
Lord, grant me strength
Grant me compassion
that I may be___Your heart___today

When comes the day I dread
to see a broken world
compel me from my cell grown cold
that Your people I may behold

Where there is fear
I can allay
where there is pain
I can heal

Where there are wounds
I can bind
and hunger
I can fill

Lord, grant me courage
Lord, grant me strength
Grant me compassion
that I may be___Your heart___today

And when I’ve done
all that I could
yet there are hearts
I cannot move

Lord, give me hope
that I may be
Your heart___today

Closing | Can We Love

It’s more than shouting God’s name
It’s more than singing His praise
It’s bringing forgiveness to injury’s wound
and hope to those imprisoned by shame

Can we love?
Can we lay down our lives?
Can we wear His crown of thorns?
Can we drink the cup that He drinks?
We must lay down
We must lay down
We must lay down
our lives