Hymns:God is here As we your people

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God is here As we your people
Title God is here! As we your people
Author Fred Pratt Green
Composer Cyril Vincent Taylor
Published
Orig. Key C Major
Orig. Language
Meter 8.7.8.7 D
Melody
1st Line God is here! As we your people
Scriptures

God is here! As we your people

Contents

Summary

Scripture References

Notes

Fred Pratt Green wrote this text early in 1978 in Norwich, England. Russell Schulz-Widmar had requested that Pratt Green write a hymn text to be sung at the closing service of an eight-month festival on worship, music, and the arts, held at the University United Methodist Church in Austin, Texas. In that service on April 30, 1978, the church dedicated its new chancel furniture (thus st. 2), and the people rededicated themselves to God. The text was first published in the British/Methodist supplementary volume Partners in Praise (1979).

"God Is Here" helps us celebrate what it means to be a church: to offer praise and prayer to God with "all our varied skills and arts" (st. 1), to preach the Word and participate in the sacraments (st. 2), to foster faith and service (st. 3), and to live lives ill "church and kingdom" that bring glory to our Lord (st. 4). This text presents a catalog of the central tasks of the church (see also 515) and emphasizes the relationship between Sunday worship and daily living.


Liturgical Use

Regular Sunday worship; festivals, dedications, anniversaries of the church; worship conferences and missions.

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Lyrics

  1. God is here! As we Your people
    Meet to offer praise and prayer,
    May we find in fuller measure
    What it is in Christ we share.
    Here, as in the world around us,
    All our varied skills and arts
    Wait the coming of the Spirit
    Into open minds and hearts.
  2. Here are symbols to remind us
    Of our lifelong need of grace;
    Here are table, font, and pulpit;
    Here the cross has central place.
    Here in honesty of preaching,
    Here in silence, as in speech,
    Here, in newness and renewal,
    God the Spirit comes to each.
  3. Here our children find a welcome
    In the Shepherd's flock and fold,
    Here as bread and wine are taken,
    Christ sustains us as of old.
    Here the servants of the Servant
    Seek in worship to explore
    What it means in daily living
    To believe and to adore.
  4. Lord of all, of church and kingdom,
    In an age of change and doubt
    Keep us faithful to the gospel,
    Help us work Your purpose out.
    Here, in this day's dedication,
    All we have to give, receive;
    We, who cannot live without You,
    We adore you! We believe!

Hymnal Instances

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References

  1. ↑ Emily, Brink (April 1, 1998). Psalter Hymnal Handbook. Grand Rapids, MI: CRC Publications. 
  2. ↑ Hymnary.org (2009). "Text: God is here! As we your people". 
  3. ↑ Hymnary.org (2009). "Instances: God Is Here!". 
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