581- When the Church of Jesus
Christian Life: Loving Service
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 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.