396 Lord God Your Love Has Called Us Here
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Lord God Your love has called us here
As we by love for love were made.
Your living likeness still we bear
Tho marred dishonored disobeyed.
We come with all our heart and mind
Your call to hear Your love to find.
Lord God Your love has called us here
As we by love for love were made.
Your living likeness still we bear
Tho marred dishonored disobeyed.
We come with all our heart and mind
Your call to hear Your love to find.
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We come with self-inflicted pains
Of broken trust and chosen wrong
Half-free half-bound by inner chains
By social forces swept along
By powers and systems close confined
Yet seeking hope for humankind.
We come with self-inflicted pains
Of broken trust and chosen wrong
Half-free half-bound by inner chains
By social forces swept along
By powers and systems close confined
Yet seeking hope for humankind.
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Lord God in Christ You call our name
And then receive us as Your own
Not thro some merit right or claim
But by Your gracious love alone.
We strain to glimpse Your mercy-seat
And find You kneeling at our feet.
Lord God in Christ You call our name
And then receive us as Your own
Not thro some merit right or claim
But by Your gracious love alone.
We strain to glimpse Your mercy-seat
And find You kneeling at our feet.
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Then take the towel and break the bread
And humble us and call us friends.
Suffer and serve till all are fed
And show how grandly love intends
To work till all creation sings
To fill all worlds to crown all things.
Then take the towel and break the bread
And humble us and call us friends.
Suffer and serve till all are fed
And show how grandly love intends
To work till all creation sings
To fill all worlds to crown all things.
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Lord God in Christ You set us free
Your life to live Your joy to share.
Give us Your Spirit s liberty
To turn from guilt and dull despair
And offer all that faith can do
While love is making all things new.
Lord God in Christ You set us free
Your life to live Your joy to share.
Give us Your Spirit s liberty
To turn from guilt and dull despair
And offer all that faith can do
While love is making all things new.