Father, God of mission

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  • 1249

Father, God of mission,
send your living word
to each tribe and nation,
those who have not heard;
gathering a people
from all humankind,
those who did not seek you
are the ones you find

Send us on your mission,
answering your call,
all your grace proclaiming,
sovereign Lord of all.

2 Jesus, God incarnate,
though you are a King,
you came down from heaven
light and life to bring,
living as a servant,
dying in our place,
raised to life triumphant
Lord of time and space

Send us as your servants,
answering your call,
all your grace proclaiming,
sovereign Lord of all.

3 God the Holy Spirit,
wind of Pentecost,
cleanse us, fill us, gift us
as we reach the lost;
be our strength in weakness,
give us power to fight,
and where hearts are blinded
shine your gospel light.

Send us in your fullness,
answering your call,
all your grace proclaiming,
sovereign Lord of all.

4 Father, Son and Spirit,
gloriously One,
let us be united
as your work is done;
let your truth burn in us,
set our hearts aflame,
as we preach salvation
only in your name.

Going to all nations,
calling sinners home,
hastening his coming:
‘Come, Lord Jesus, come!’

© 2011 JIM SAYERS/GRACE BAPTIST MISSION www.gbm.org.uk
Jim Sayers

The Church - Evangelism and Mission

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Sayers, James (Jim) David

b Epsom, Surrey 1966. Ashcombe Sch Dorking, Univ Coll of Wales, Aberystwyth (LL.B) and Edinburgh Theological Seminary (DipTh, M.Th). After two and a half years as assistant to Brian Edwards at Hook Evangelical Ch (FIEC), Surbiton, he became Pastor of Kesgrave Grace Baptist Ch, Ipswich, Suffolk, from 1995. Then in 2009 he moved to Abingdon to become Communications Director of Grace Baptist Mission. In 2020 he moved to Didcot to lead a church-plant, Grace Church Didcot. He chaired the team selecting versions of the 150 Psalms for Praise! He became a trustee of Praise Trust in 2016, and chairman in 2018.

He has 10 published texts, as here, of which the first he wrote (1994) was based on Ps 30. Nos.2B, 30A, 39, 59, 69A, 71, 86, 719, 1013, 1249. He also wrote the revised version of O Holy Night CP47