204. The Church is not a building, the Church is not a steeple
[Refrain:]
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!
1 The Church is not a building, the Church is not a steeple.
The Church is not a resting-place, the Church is a people! [Refrain]
2 We're many kinds of people, with many kinds of faces:
all colours and all ages, too, from all times and places. [Refrain]
3 And when the people gather there's singing and there's praying,
there's laughing and there's crying sometimes, all of it saying: [Refrain]
5 At Pentecost some people received the Holy Spirit
and told the good news through the world to all who would hear it. [Refrain]
6 I count if I am ninety, or nine, or just a baby;
there's one thing I am sure about and I don't mean maybe: [Refrain]
| Text Information | |
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| First Line: | The Church is not a building, the Church is not a steeple |
| Author: | Donald Stuart March (b. 1923) |
| Author: | Richard Kinsey Avery (b. 1934) |
| Publication Date: | 2005 |
| Meter: | Irregular |
| Topic: | The Living God: Our Response to God - in the worship of God's house |
| Language: | English |
| Refrain First Line: | I am the church! You are the church! |
| Copyright: | © 1972 Hope Publishing Co. |
| Tune Information | |
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| Name: | WE ARE THE CHURCH |
| Composer: | Richard Kinsey Avery (b. 1934) |
| Composer: | Donald Stuart Marsh (b. 1923) |
| Meter: | Irregular |
| Key: | G Major or modal |
| Copyright: | © 1972 Hope Publishing Company |
