Here we renew our covenant and experience salvation and mercy. Stanza 4: We continue to build churches as structures for worship, prayer, praise, beauty and blessing.Wherever two or three are gathered, God is in their midst. Stanza 3: We, our bodies, are God's temple, built and claimed through baptism and salvation.Stanza 2: While God dwells with us in our congregational buildings, God also dwells in heaven and, through Jesus' birth, in us.Although individual churches may struggle, even crumble, the mission and work of the church continue. Stanza 1: The church is built on a strong foundation.Built on a rock the Church shall stand,ħ. Built on the Rock the Church doth stand,ġ. Here is a side-by-side comparison of Doving's original translation and the present version:ġ. The Worship & Song version of this hymn has edited the original seven stanzas to make them more inclusive and slightly more modern and has reduced the number of stanzas by one. The hymn is especially suited to themes of reformation, the church, worship, and proclamation. This text and tune have never before appeared in any of our Methodist publications. It was his first hymn tune, and it was first published in 1840 in Wilhelm Wexels' Christelige Psalmer. The KIRKEN tune was composed for this text by Ludwig M. He collected and published almost 2,000 Norwegian folk tunes. Composer Ludwig Lindeman was the son of a concert pianist, an organist in Oslo, and one of Norway's leading musicians of the nineteenth century. He wrote many works, including some on Norse mythology and more than 1,000 hymns. The adaptation in Worship & Song is of the 1958 Service Book and Hymnal translation by Carl Doving done in 1909.Īuthor Nikolai Grundtvig was ordained in 1811. The Scandinavian hymn's original seven stanzas were first published in 1837 in Sang-Värk til den Danske Kirke. This hymn has long been a favorite among Scandinavians and Lutherans and included seven stanzas in the 1941 Lutheran Hymnal (Concordia), reduced to five in the 1978 Lutheran Book of Worship. 3147 SCRIPTURE: Matthew 16:1Ĩ Romans 6:4 Hebrews 13:8 1 Peter 2:1-7 Revelation 7:15 TOPIC: affliction, tribulation, struggle, strife, altar, table, worship, new birth, blessing, build/builder, building dedication, cheer, joy, cornerstone, foundation, covenant, eternity, faith, baptism, font, grace, house of God, kingdom of God, proclamation, redemption, Reformation, word of God, young and old, generation, church
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