CHURCH ALIVE

We have all heard in some form or another that "PEOPLE DON'T CARE HOW MUCH YOU KNOW UNTIL THEY KNOW HOW MUCH YOU CARE". For me this is just another way explaining the difference between DOING CHURCH vs. BEING THE CHURCH. Yesterday GRANITE UNITED CHURCH believing that no family should go without a meal this THANKSGIVING season filled a U-Haul truck full for groceries to be distributed to a number of local area food banks. I felt like a proud father watching his kid growing up! It was so cool to see the HUNDREDS of HUNDREDS of bags of groceries being brought into our auditorium and placed on the platform as first an offering and testimony to God's goodness in all our lives, we have BEEN BLESSED TO BE A BLESSING. Secondly as a demonstration of the outstretched arms of love to our community as the BODY OF CHRIST. Our prayer is too draw attention to our church for one reason and one reason only, to bring people to THE TABLE so that they may eat of the BREAD OF LIFE! As hard as times are for people, we have a wonderful opportunity as THE CHURCH to introduce people to the SOLUTION, His name is Jesus Christ!

It is not a human right

To stare not fight

While broken nations dream

Open up our eyes, so blind

That we might find

The Mercy for the need

Singing, Hey now

Fill our hearts with your compassion

Hey now

As we hold to our confession

Yeah

It is not too far a cry

To much to try

To help the least of these

Politics will not decide

If we should rise

And be your hands and feet

Singing, Hey now

Fill our hearts with your compassion

Hey Now

As we hold to our confession

Woah-oh-oh,

God be the solution

Woah-oh-oh

We will be Your hands and be Your feet.

Yeah, yeah

Higher than a circumstance

Your promise stands

Your love for all to see

Higher than protest line and dollar signs

Your love is all we need

Only You can mend the broken heart

And cause the blind to see

Erase complete the sinners past

And set the captives free

Only You can take the widows cry

And cause her heart to sing

Be a Father to the fatherless

Our Savior and our King

We will be Your hands, we will be Your feet

We will run this race

On the darkest place, we will be Your light

We will be Your light

We will be Your hands , we will be Your feet

We will run this race for the least of these

In the darkest place, we will be your light

We will be your light

We'll sing

Woah-oh-oh,

God be the solution

Woah-oh-oh

We will be Your hands and be Your feet.

Woah-oh-oh,

God be the solution

Woah-oh-oh

We will be Your hands and be Your feet.

Yeah, yeah

We will run we will run

We will run with the solution [2x]

We will be Your hands we will be Your feet

We will run this race for the least of these

In the darkest place we will be Your light

We will be Your light

We sing