Sunday, March 25, 2007

Lyrics to "1 Cor 13" - Those of you who heard the song in Winnipeg and want an audio file, It will be up shortly. Also, feel free to make up your own music and sing it in church, read it as poetry, pull out the Bible and make your own paraphrase...
It's actually kinda fun.

If I speak words of men and words of angels with my voice
Without Love, I am nothing but distorted background noise
If I speak of God with power, revealing mystery
If I have faith to send the mountains crashing to the sea
Without love I am nothing and its just empty prophesy
And if I give up my posessions, If I part with all I own
And I gladly give my life up for someone I don't know
Without love I am no where, no further down the road

Love doesn't give up easily, isn't filled with jealousy.
Never puts itself first, isn't angry when we're at out worst.
Doesn't keep score when we're wrong, and doesn't revel when we fall.
Does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth behind it all.

Always protects, always trusts, always hopes, keeps going 'til the end.

There will be an end to our speech in tongues and all our prophesy
When all knowledge passes over, and our limits are all reached
Love never dies, but our knowledge and our vision's incomplete.

Time will come and cancel spaces in our lives
When I was young I spoke and acted out of line
Now that I am older I have left those ways behind

And we can't yet see it clearly, we're just straining to hear your song
But it won't be long before we hear your words and we'll know where we've been wrong

See it then, see him completely as God knew us all along

But for now, three things will lead us the right way:
Trust steadily,
Hope unswervingly
Love extravagantly

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