Hymns -- about Service from Hymnal: A Worship Book
(Page 226 by Marty Haugen, 1985)
You are salt for the earth, O people, salt for the city of God!
Share the flavor of life, O people: life in the kingdom of God!
You are a light on the hill, O people, light for the city of God!
Shine so holy and bright, O people: shine for the kingdom of God!
You are a seed of the word, O people, bring forth the kingdom of God!
Seeds of mercy and seeds of justice, grow in the kingdom of God!
We are the bless'd and a pilgrim people, bound for the kingdom of God!
Love our journey and love our homeland: love is the kingdom of God!
Refrain:
Bring forth the kingdom of mercy,
bring forth the kingdom of peace.
Bring forth the kingdom of justice,
bring forth the city of God!
(Page 369 - by Albert F. Bayly , 1961)
Lord, whose love in humble service bore the weight of human need,
who upon the cross, forsaken, worked your mercy's perfect deed;
we, your servants, bring the worship not of voice alone, but heart,
consecrating to your purpose ev'ry gift which you impart.
Still your children wander homeless, still the hungry cry for bread.
Still the captives long for freedom, still in grief we mourn our dead.
As you, Lord, in deep compassion, healed the sick and freed the soul,
by your Spirit send your power to our world to make it whole.
As we worship, grant us vision, till your love's revealing light
in its height and depth and greatness dawns upon our quickened sight,
making known the needs and burdens your compassion bids us bear,
stirring us to ardent service, your abundant life to share.
