Risen Christ, your living presence

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Risen Christ, your living presence
calls us to decision,
searching out both men and women,
urging us to act;
bringing hope of transformation
by the fulness of your love.

2. Humble Christ, where your disciples
struggle for position,
come, reveal your servant spirit,
make remembrance real;
sharing bread and wine together
in the fulness of your love.

3. Suffering Christ, where deep division
tears our world asunder,
teach us to display your passion,
justice as our end;
seeking reconciliation
through the fulness of your love.

4. Loving Christ, your call to mission
draws us into action,
out of selfish inward-looking
to a world of need;
to the poor, the sick, the hungry,
with the fulness of your love.

5. Saving Christ, without your presence
good intention falters.
Give us, in our imperfection,
hope to travel on;
that in time we may mature
into the fulness of your love.

© 1993 MARTIN SCOTT
Martin Scott

The Church - Evangelism and Mission

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The story behind the hymn

This hymn was commissioned by Rev Dr Brian Haymes for his inauguration as president of the Baptist Union of Great Britain in 1993. It was first sung at the opening service of the Baptist Union Assembly that year in Nottingham.

A look at the author

Scott, Martin

Martin was born in Motherwell in 1954. He attended Dalziel High School, Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama, Jordanhill College of Education, International Baptist Seminary, Rüschlikon, Switzerland, Universitȁt Zürich, University of Durham, attaining a DipMusEd RSAM; PGCE (music); BD; PhD (theology/New Testament).
He taught music before becoming a Baptist Minister in Jarrow. He moved on to Greenfield Church in Urmston, where he also tutored in New Testament at the Northern Baptist College.
Martin served as the Education officer, then Director of Vocational services, both for the Church of Scotland, before becoming the Council Secretary for Ministries.
Martin is actively involved in a number of singing groups, in particular the Edinburgh Royal Choral Union, where he served as president for 2006-2010.
He holds a season ticket for Motherwell football club and is a keen gardener and embroiderer.
Martin has published numerous articles in a variety of New Testament journals and other sources. His other publications are ‘Sophia and the Johannine Jesus (Sheffield: SAP, 1992) and the ‘Gospel of John’ in Eerdmans Commentary on the Bible (2002).
Martin is published by Praise! online at number 1081.