A Sung Communion Liturgy for the Season
after Pentecost:
Come, Thou Fount of Every Blessing
(Tune: NETTLETON)
Come, dear
friends, now to the table
Lift your
hearts up to the Lord.
Let us
gather, kneel together
Raise our
voices! Praise God!
Now we
gather at the table
Now we come
to sing our praise
At the
table of forgiveness
Oh, God’s
goodness: see and taste.
Come, thou Fount of every blessing,
Tune our hearts to sing thy grace;
streams of mercy, never ceasing,
call for songs of loudest praise.
Teach us some melodious sonnet,
sung by flaming tongues above.
Praise the mount! We’re fixed upon it,
mount of thy redeeming love.
Out of love
we were created,
From God’s
breath we drew our life.
But God’s
goodness we rejected,
Bound for
pain and grief and strife
So God
sought us through the ages,
Called to
us to turn from sin.
Yet we
would not heed God’s pleading,
Lost and
suff’’ring, broken
So God sent to us Christ Jesus,
God-made-flesh to walk with us.
By his wounds: we found redemption.
In his life: abiding love.
Jesus
sought us when still strangers,
wandering from the fold of God;
he, to rescue us from danger,
interposed his precious blood.
On the
night of that last supper
Jesus broke
and shared the bread.
“This my
body, take and eat it;
Broken so
the world might mend.”
Jesus took
the wine and poured it,
Offering
with it his own life.
Telling us:
“You are forgiven,”
Telling us we’d gained new life.
O to grace how great a debtor
daily we’re constrained to be!
Let thy goodness, like a fetter,
bind our wandering hearts to thee.
Prone to wander, Lord, we feel it,
prone to leave the God we love;
take our hearts, O take and seal them,
seal them for thy courts above.
Holy, Holy,
God Almighty,
Holy
Spirit, fall on us.
Make these
gifts of bread and cup now
Jesus’
body, Jesus’ blood
Though this
gift we are Christ’s body
In this
meal, we are made one
Here we
raise our Ebenezer
At this
table, we are home.
Prayer after Communion:
We give thanks for holy mystery
As you give yourself to us.
Send us forth now, by your spirit
As we journey out in love
Blessed be the tie that binds us
Blessed be the kindred love!
Lead us God, by your good pleasure
On the paths where we now go.
Text: Beth Quick, 2014, with adapted text from Robert Robinson, 1758, "Come, Thou Fount of Every Blessing."
A Sung Communion Liturgy for the Season after Pentecost:
Come, Thou Fount of Every Blessing by Rev. Beth Quick is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License.
