Community of Christ Sings ‎#566

566. Christ Has Called Us to New Visions

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1 Christ has called us to new visions,
here to celebrate and praise,
here confess our old divisions,
here our peace petitions raise.
Come repentant, come forgiving,
come in joy and hope and prayer.
Christ, once crucified, now living,
bids us faith and love to share.

2 As we listen to each other,
as we speak in joy and pain,
we become as sister, brother,
reconciled, at one again.
Only thus in work and feeling
for our neighbor far or near
can we worship God, revealing
gifts of grace among us here.

3 All creation struggles, earning
for a time of true shalom.
Are we trying, are we learning
now to make the earth our home?
For the hungry and despairing,
for the poor of all the earth,
make us partners, burdens sharing,
bringing all a sense of worth.

4 Christ still calls us, young and aging,
men and women, bound and free,
colors, talents, thoughts engaging,
joined in one community.
Christ remolding, healing, leading,
sins forgiven! Life restored!
Let us live, God's justice heeding,
strengthened by our risen Lord.

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Text Information

• First Line: Christ has called us to new visions
• Title: Christ Has Called Us to New Visions
• Author: Jane Parker Huber, 1926-2008
• Meter: 8.7.8.7.D.
• Language: English
• Publication Date: 2013
• Scripture:
  Romans 8:22-28
  ;
  Galatians 3:28
• Topic: Call/Calling; Challenge; Christian unity; Confession; Diversity; Ecology; Forgiveness; Marginalized; Neighbors; New Life in Christ; Reconciliation; Repentance; Shalom; Transformation; Vision
• Copyright: © 1982 Jane Parker Huber (admin. Westminster John Knox Press)

Tune Information

• Name: NETTLETON
• Composer: John Wyeth, 1770-1858
• Meter: 8.7.8.7.D.
• Key: D Major