0516 THIS IS THE PLACE (SONG OF THE WEEK)

THIS IS THE PLACE 

(Ellen, Ted Troxell and I wrote this a couple of decades ago, and yet I just made this rough recording to be able to share it. I really like the message, and included it with the sermon today. So here it is.)

Is there a place for starting over?

Is there a place for trading old for new?

A place where we can be servants who are free?

Can we dare to live unselfishly?

Is there such a place?

Is there a place to learn to trust again?

A place where human hands just help and hold and heal?

A place where we can belong?

That's a place that I've been longing for

For a long long long time

 

I know a place where love is

It is a place where Jesus lives

It is a place for learning how to love and to forgive

It is a place for sharing

It is a place for people caring

This is the place

This is the family of God

 

So let's learn to serve like the Master

And let's follow in His footsteps all the way

Oh, if we could only be blind enough we'd see

that we can help this world survive

When we show Your body is alive!

 

Let's make a place where love is

Let's make a place where Jesus lives

Let's make a place for learning how to love and to forgive

Let's make a place for sharing

Let's make a place for people caring

This is the place

This is the family of God