722. When the Church of Jesus

1 When the church of Jesus shuts its outer door,
lest the roar of traffic drown the voice of prayer:
may our prayers, Lord, make us ten times more aware
that the world we banish is our Christian care.

2 If our hearts are lifted where devotion soars
high above this hungry, suffering world of ours:
lest our hymns should drug us to forget its needs,
forge our Christian worship into Christian deeds.

3 Lest the gifts we offer, money, talents, time,
serve to salve our conscience, to our secret shame:
Lord, reprove, inspire us by the way you give;
teach us, dying Savior, how true Christians live.

Text Information
First Line: When the Church of Jesus
Title: When the Church of Jesus
Author: Fred Pratt Green (1968)
Publication Date: 1990
Meter: 6.5.6.5.D.
Scripture: Hebrews 2:14-17; Matthew 23:23; Mark 14:22-25; James 1:27; 1 John 3:17
Language: English
Copyright: Words © 1969 Hope Publishing Company
Tune Information
Name: KING'S WESTON
Composer: Ralph Vaughan Williams (1925)
Meter: 6.5.6.5.D.
Key: d minor
Copyright: Music used by permission of Oxford University Press



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