Category: Letters to the Choir

1 Blest be the tie that binds our hearts in Christian love; the fellowship of kindred minds is like to that above.
2 Before our Father’s throne we pour our ardent prayers; our fears, our hopes, our sins are one, our comforts and our cares.
3 We share each other’s woes; our mutual burdens bear; and often for each other flows a sympathetic tear.

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

1 Praise, my soul, the King of heaven, to the throne thy tribute bring; ransomed, healed, restored, forgiven, evermore God’s praises sing. Alleluia! Alleluia! Praise the everlasting King.

2 Praise the Lord for grace and favor to all people in distress; praise God, still the same as ever, slow to chide, and swift to bless. Alleluia! Alleluia! Glorious now God’s faithfulness.

4 Angels in the heights, adoring, you behold God face to face; saints triumphant, now adoring, gathered in from every race. Alleluia! Alleluia! Praise with us the God of grace.

Bless the Lord, Oh my soul and all that is within me; bless His holy name (bless His holy name) (x2)
He has done great things (x3)
Bless His holy name (Bless His holy name) 

Surely the presence of The Lord is in this place; I can fell His mighty power and His grace. I can hear the brush of angels’ wings, I see glory on each face; surely the presence of The Lord is in this place.