Good News – hymnsandbooks

What news is good? A hymn inspired by: Luke 5: 1-11

1 What news is good? What words give hope?
What sense of value do we feel
when meeting with our God in Christ,
what gives the sense, provides the seal?

2 This seal of perfect love and faith,
this hope of holiness and grace,
the knowledge that our path is right,
is given in our saviour's face.

3 A face seen in a neighbour there,
in one who calls across the street,
a foreign tongue may frame Christ's call
to honour him in all we meet.

4 And as the first disciples heard
a challenge they could not resist,
may we respond and give our lives,
the call of love must not be missed.

Andrew E Pratt (born 1948)
Words © 2012 © Stainer & Bell Ltd, London, England copyright@stainer.co.uk . Please include any reproduction for local church use on your CCL Licence returns. All wider and any commercial use requires prior application to Stainer & Bell Ltd.
Metre: 8 8 8 8
Tune: FULDA

4:18″The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he has anointed me to bring good news to the poor. He has sent me to proclaim release to the captives and recovery of sight to the blind, to set free those who are oppressed…

1          How can we look, and not be moved
             by lives that end and eyes that plead,
             where parents cry while families part
             amid their last despairing need.

2          Once we were distanced from the ones
             that suffered while we stood to stare.
             God give the gift of empathy
             that we might offer more than prayer.

3          If all the world could live as one
             then we would feel another’s pain,
             we’d feel each death as if our own
             like links within a human chain.

4          When death and misery abound,
             when illness strikes the human race,
             God strengthen, fill us, with your hope
             and bind us with your love and grace.

Andrew E Pratt (born 1948)

Words © 2014 Stainer & Bell Ltd, London, England copyright@stainer.co.uk . Please include any reproduction for local church use on your CCL Licence returns. All wider and any commercial use requires prior application to Stainer & Bell Ltd
Metre: 8 8 8 8
Tunes: BRESLAU; ABENDS