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Listen Now for the Gospel!

Author: John L. Bell Appears in 3 hymnals First Line: Come, Holy Spirit, melt and break our hearts of stone Text Sources: Zimbabwean liturgical acclamation

[Come, Holy Spirit, melt and break our hearts of stone]

Appears in 3 hymnals Tune Sources: Zimbabwean traditional Tune Key: F Major Incipit: 55553 53444 25552 Used With Text: Listen now for the Gospel

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Hymnal: Church Hymnary (4th ed.) #779 (2005) First Line: Come, Holy Spirit, melt and break our hearts of stone Lyrics: Refrain: Listen now for the Gospel! Alleluia! It is God's word that changes us! Alleluia! 1 Come, Holy Spirit, melt and break our hearts of stone until we give our lives to God and God alone. 2 Come, Holy Spirit, root in us God's living word, that we may show the faithfulness of Christ our Lord. 3 Come, Holy Spirit, bind the broken, find the lost, confirm in us the fire and love of Pentecost. Topics: Short Songs; The Holy Spirit in the Church Illumination of God's Word; Gospel Call; Holy Spirit illunination of; Multi-cultrual and World-church Songs; Word of God Scripture: Acts 2:1-3 Languages: English Tune Title: [Come, Holy Spirit, melt and break our hearts of stone]

Listen now for the Gospel

Hymnal: Hymns of Glory, Songs of Praise #779 (2008) First Line: Come, Holy Spirit, melt and break our hearts of stone Lyrics: Cantor: Listen now for the Gospel; All: Alleluia! Cantor: It is God's word that changes us; All: Alleluia! 1 Come, Holy Spirit, melt and break our hearts of stone until we give our lives to God and God alone. 2 Come, Holy Spirit, root in us God's living word, that we may show the faithfulness of Christ our Lord. 3 Come, Holy Spirit, bind the broken, find the lost, confirm in us the fire and love of Pentecost. Topics: Short Songs; The Holy Spirit in the Church Illumination of God's Word; Gospel Call; Holy Spirit illunination of; Multi-cultrual and World-church Songs; Word of God Scripture: Acts 2:1-3 Languages: English Tune Title: [Come, Holy Spirit, melt and break our hearts of stone]

Listen Now for the Gospel!

Author: John L. Bell Hymnal: Sing a New Creation #188 (2022) First Line: Come, Holy Spirit, melt and break our hearts of stone Languages: English Tune Title: [Come, Holy Spirit, melt and break our hearts of stone]

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John L. Bell

b. 1949 Transcriber of "Listen Now for the Gospel!" in Sing a New Creation John Bell (b. 1949) was born in the Scottish town of Kilmarnock in Ayrshire, intending to be a music teacher when he felt the call to the ministry. But in frustration with his classes, he did volunteer work in a deprived neighborhood in London for a time and also served for two years as an associate pastor at the English Reformed Church in Amsterdam. After graduating he worked for five years as a youth pastor for the Church of Scotland, serving a large region that included about 500 churches. He then took a similar position with the Iona Community, and with his colleague Graham Maule, began to broaden the youth ministry to focus on renewal of the church’s worship. His approach soon turned to composing songs within the identifiable traditions of hymnody that began to address concerns missing from the current Scottish hymnal: "I discovered that seldom did our hymns represent the plight of poor people to God. There was nothing that dealt with unemployment, nothing that dealt with living in a multicultural society and feeling disenfranchised. There was nothing about child abuse…,that reflected concern for the developing world, nothing that helped see ourselves as brothers and sisters to those who are suffering from poverty or persecution." [from an interview in Reformed Worship (March 1993)] That concern not only led to writing many songs, but increasingly to introducing them internationally in many conferences, while also gathering songs from around the world. He was convener for the fourth edition of the Church of Scotland’s Church Hymnary (2005), a very different collection from the previous 1973 edition. His books, The Singing Thing and The Singing Thing Too, as well as the many collections of songs and worship resources produced by John Bell—some together with other members of the Iona Community’s “Wild Goose Resource Group,” —are available in North America from GIA Publications. Emily Brink