When brothers are together

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Scriptures:
  • Genesis 13:8
  • Genesis 25:19-34
  • Genesis 45:24
  • Exodus 28:15-29
  • Exodus 29:4-7
  • Exodus 30:25
  • Exodus 39:8-21
  • Leviticus 25:21
  • Deuteronomy 28:8
  • Deuteronomy 3:8-9
  • Psalms 133:1
  • John 17:21-23
  • Acts 2:44-47
  • Acts 4:32-37
  • Galatians 3:28
  • Ephesians 2:13-16
  • Ephesians 4:3
  • Colossians 1:20
  • Philemon 16
  • Hebrews 10:24-25
  • Hebrews 13:1
Book Number:
  • 133B

When brothers are together,
in unity together,
in the Lord together,
it is pleasant, it is good.
The fellowship keeps growing,
like sacred oil it’s flowing,
so that everyone is knowing
they are gathered in its flood.

2. When brothers are together,
in unity together,
it is like the holy oil
upon the high priest’s head.
It ran down upon his shoulders,
it scented all the breast-plate,
and the names of all the family
were gathered in its flood.

3. When brothers are together,
in unity together,
it is like the dew of Hermon,
flowing down on Zion’s mount.
There the gift of life is flowing,
the Spirit’s life is flowing,
eternal life is flowing,
like a never-ending fount.

4. When brothers are together,
Lord, keep us all together,
in unity together,
made one through Jesus’ blood.
Let his blessing be upon us,
his perfume be upon us,
and the names of all the family
be gathered in its flood.

© Author
Bev Savage

The Church - Fellowship

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The story behind the hymn

Beverley (Bev) Savage’s quite different and fuller approach uses the art of subtly-varied repetition, and in stz 4 makes explicit the Christian application. The metre is unusual and not wholly regular; the text, wrote its author in 2001, ‘arose simply out of my “discovery

A look at the author

Savage, Beverley (Bev)

b Woodlands (between Cadnam and Lyndhurst), New Forest, Hants 1940. Woodford Sch, Essex; S Wales Bible Coll. After 10 years in heavy engineering on the railways, became pastor of an FIEC church in NW London, then from 1978 to 1990 at The Slade (People’s Hall) Evangelical Church in Plumstead, SE London, before moving to Wootton Bassett, Wiltshire. He was then General Secretary of FIEC until 2004, after earlier service on its staff. He has encouraged many others to produce printed material for training and teaching, and provided the needed support through FIEC. In 2004 he moved to Chicago to become Executive Pastor of Arlington Heights Evangelical Free Church. No.133B.