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What a Fellowship

Author: Elisha A. Hoffman, 1839-1929 Meter: 10.9.10.9 with refrain Appears in 610 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

Blest Be the Tie That Binds

Author: John Fawcett, 1740-1817 Meter: 6.6.8.6 Appears in 2,273 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

The Church's One Foundation

Author: Samuel J. Stone, 1839-1900 Meter: 7.6.7.6.7.6.7.6 Appears in 859 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

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 721 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

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

All Creatures of Our God and King

Author: Francis of Assisi, 1182-1226; William H. Draper, 1853-1933 Appears in 265 hymnals Topics: Community Scripture: Psalm 105 Used With Tune: LASST UNS ERFREUEN

Come, Thou Fount of Every Blessing

Author: Robert Robinson Meter: 8.7.8.7 D Appears in 2,203 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