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637- Son of God, Eternal Savior

Christian Life: Stewardship

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  • Son of God, eternal Savior,
  • Source of life and truth and grace,
  • Word made flesh, whose birth among us
  • Hallows all our human race,
  • You our head, who throned in glory,
  • For Your own will ever plead:
  • Fill us with Your love and pity,
  • Heal our wrongs, and help our need.

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  • Bind us all as one together
  • In Your church's sacred fold,
  • Weak and healthy, poor and wealthy,
  • Sad and joyful, young and old.
  • Is there want or pain or sorrow?
  • Make us all the burden share.
  • Are there spirits crushed and broken?
  • Teach us, Lord, to soothe their care.

3

  • As You, Lord, have lived for others,
  • So may we for others live.
  • Freely have Your gifts been granted;
  • Freely may Your servants give.
  • Yours the gold and Yours the silver,
  • Yours the wealth of land and sea;
  • We but stewards of Your bounty
  • Held in solemn trust will be.

4

  • Come, O Christ, and reign among us,
  • King of love and Prince of Peace,
  • Hush the storm of strife and passion,
  • Bid its cruel discords cease,
  • By Your patient years of toiling,
  • By Your silent hours of pain,
  • Quench our fevered thirst of pleasure,
  • Stem our selfish greed of gain.

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  • Son of God, eternal Savior,
  • Source of life and truth and grace,
  • Word made flesh, whose birth among us
  • Hallows all our human race:
  • By Your praying, by Your willing
  • That Your people should be one,
  • Grant, oh, grant our hope's fruition:
  • Here on earth Your will be done.