June 13th 2010

This week we say a massive thank you to employees from Cadbury's as they rescued the jungle down the side of the hall and turned it into an amazing space!

Matthew 16:24-26

"Then Jesus said to his disciples, "If anyone would come after me, he must deny himself and take up his cross and follow me. For whoever wants to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for me will find it. What good will it be for a man if he gains the whole world, yet forfeits his soul? Or what can a man give in exchange for his soul?"

Will you come and follow me

if I but call your name?

Will you go where you don't know

and never be the same.

Will you let my love be shown,

will you let my name be known,

will you let my life be grown

in you and you in me?

Will you leave your self behind

if I but call your name?

Will you care for cruel and kind

and never be the same.

Will you risk the hostile stare

should your life attract or scare,

will you let me answer prayer

in you and you in me.

Will you let the blinded see

if I but call your name?

Will you let the prisoner free

and never be the same.

Will you kiss the leper clean

and so such as this unseen

and admit to what I mean

in you and you in me.

Will you love the 'you' you hide

if I but call your name?

Will you quell the fear inside

and never be the same?

Will you use the faith you found

to reshape the world around

through my sight and touch and sound

in you and you in me?

Lord your summons echoes true

when you but call my name.

Let me turn and follow you

and never be the same.

In your company I'll go

where your love and footsteps show.

Thus I'll move and live and grow

in you and you in me.