We Are the Church Together

We Are the Church Together

The Lord added to the church daily

 those who were being saved.

Acts 2:47 

We are freed to free others

We are affirmed to affirm others.

We are loved to love others.

We are family – we are community

We are the church triumphant!

           

You, me, anyone who would come to the Lord

            Renewed, redirected, empowered,

            To change things and lives

            Together in love and wholeness.

We are the Lord’s church.

          The church of justice and mercy.         

The people sent to open prisons,

            To heal the sick

            To clothe the naked

            To feed the hungry

            To reconcile,

To be alleluias when there is no music.

The mantle is upon our shoulders.

Joy is apparent in our living.

We have been commissioned to be

The Church of Jesus Christ.

            -Ann Weems

            Kneeling in Bethlehem

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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.

The church is not a building, 

The church is not a steeple,

The church is not a resting place,

The church is the people.

The United Methodist Hymnal, No. 558