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620b. Dear Christ, uplifted from the earth

1 Dear Christ, uplifted from the earth,
your arms stretched out above
through every culture, every birth,
to draw an answering love.

2 Still east and west your love extends
and always, near and far,
you call and claim us as your friends
and love us as we are.

3 Where age and gender, class and race,
divides us to our shame,
you see a person and a face,
a neighbour with a name.

4 May we, accepted as we are,
yet called in grace to grow,
reach out to others, near and far,
your healing love to show.

Text Information

• First Line: Dear Christ, uplifted from the earth
• Author: Brian Wren (b. 1936)
• Meter: CM
• Language: English
• Publication Date: 2013
• Scripture:
  Luke 23:34
  ;
  John 12:32
  ;
  Romans 15:7
• Topic: Church year: Passiontide; God: Love of; Healing; Human Dignity; Love for Others; Other Saints and Festivals: Barnabas the Apostle; Other Saints and Festivals: Luke the Evangelist; Wholeness and Healing; Justice and Peace
• Copyright: © 1973, 1996, Stainer & Bell Ltd, London, England Used by permission.
• ONE LICENSE: 19828

Tune Information

• Name: ST BOTOLPH (Slater)
• Composer: Gordon Slater (1896-1979)
• Meter: CM
• Key: E♭ Major
• Copyright: Reproduced by permission of Oxford University Press. All rights reserved.