Lord Jesus, You have built Your church

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  • 1342

LORD JESUS, YOU HAVE BUILT YOUR CHURCH:
you are our faithful, living head.
Across the years the flame has passed,
across the earth the light has spread.

2 Lord Jesus, build your church today:
may we be faithful to your word,
delighting in its glorious truth,
rejoicing in its gracious Lord.

Keep us in the faith,
make us one in Christ,
pressing on in hope to win the prize.
Let the light still shine,
may the flame burn bright,
till the day your glory fills the skies.

3 Lord Jesus, build your church today:
may we be faithful to your love,
one body bound by bonds of peace,
one holy bride for Christ our God.

Keep us in the faith…

4 Lord Jesus, build your church today:
may we be faithful to proclaim,
to go and make your gospel known,
to go and magnify your name.

Keep us in the faith… (sing twice)

Commissioned and written for the centenary of the Fellowship of Independent Evangelical Churches 1922–2022 fiec.org.uk https://fiec.org.uk/resources/centenary-son

WORDS: © 2022 TIM CHESTER PUBLISHING (adm. by SONG SOLUTIONS songsolutions.org) CCLI #7208501
Tim Chester

CCLI: 7208501

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Chester, Tim

Tim is published by Praise! online at number 1134, which he co-wrote with Bob Kauflin.

Tim has worked in partnership with Colin Webster and Phil Moore and is published at 1289.

Moore, Phil

Phil has worked in partnership with Colin Webster and they are published at numbers 1258 and 1306, and with Colin and Tim Chester at 1289.
He has worked in partnership with Glen Scrivener and they are published at 1288.