We Are the Church

The church is not a building

Author: Richard K. Avery (1972); Author: Donald S. Marsh (1972)
Tune: PORT JERVIS
Published in 7 hymnals

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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 colors and all age, 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)

4 At Pentecost some people
received the Holy Spirit
and told the good news through the world
to all who would hear it. (Refrain)



Source: Sing With Me #246

Author: Richard K. Avery

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Author: Donald S. Marsh

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Text Information

First Line: The church is not a building
Title: We Are the Church
Author: Richard K. Avery (1972)
Author: Donald S. Marsh (1972)
Meter: 7.7.8.7 wiht refrain
Refrain First Line: I am the church! You are the church
Copyright: © 1972 Hope Publishing Co.

Timeline

Media

The United Methodist Hymnal #558
Worship and Rejoice #550

Instances

Instances (7)TextImageAudioScore
Church Hymnal, Fifth Edition #521
Church Hymnary, Fourth Edition #204Text
Sing With Me #246Text
Songs for Life #236Text
The United Methodist Hymnal #558TextImageAudioScore
Together in Song: Australian Hymn Book II #467
Worship and Rejoice #550TextImageAudioScore