For the Church should be our service,
Service - For the Church
Verse 1
For the Church should be our service,
'Tis the perfect will of God;
'Tis the only way of working
Which the Lord's apostles trod.
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For the Church should be our service,
Not our aims to satisfy;
This the perfect will of God is,
And with it we must comply.
Verse 2
For 'tis God's eternal purpose
That the Church His vessel be;
He intends that all our service
Build His Church continually.
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For the Church should be our service,
Not our aims to satisfy;
This the perfect will of God is,
And with it we must comply.
Verse 3
All the gifted persons given
To the Body by the Head
Are to aid the Church's building,
That to fulness she be led.
chorus
For the Church should be our service,
Not our aims to satisfy;
This the perfect will of God is,
And with it we must comply.
Verse 4
All the gifts and all the functions,
All the spirit's power shown,
All the ministries are given
For the Church and that alone.
chorus
For the Church should be our service,
Not our aims to satisfy;
This the perfect will of God is,
And with it we must comply.
Verse 5
All the preaching of the Gospel,
All the teaching ministry,
Every other kind of service
For the Church alone should be.
chorus
For the Church should be our service,
Not our aims to satisfy;
This the perfect will of God is,
And with it we must comply.
Verse 6
Ministry is for the Churches,
Not the Church for ministry;
All the lampstands are the Churches,
Not a form of ministry.
chorus
For the Church should be our service,
Not our aims to satisfy;
This the perfect will of God is,
And with it we must comply.
Verse 7
This will keep the Church's oneness,
Saving us from every sect;
This will ever test our motives,
And our aim will thus correct.
chorus
For the Church should be our service,
Not our aims to satisfy;
This the perfect will of God is,
And with it we must comply.
Verse 8
Lord, deliver us from our work,
From the work of any sect;
For Thy Church alone we'd labor
And its building up effect.
chorus
For the Church should be our service,
Not our aims to satisfy;
This the perfect will of God is,
And with it we must comply.
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