Greetings from Australia. Lovely video. It is wonderful to see the Faith in Jesus alone being held to strongly in other places around the world. Blessings and peace be with you all.
I must thank you once again for this wonderful video. It has sustained me during a journey over the last couple of years that has tested my faith. Thanks to God, that journey is now at a wonderful end, connected to a new Lutheran Congregation with my faith and hope restored. I cannot thank you and Jesus Christ enough for my deliverance through this dark time.
I am an ELCA Lutheran from South Carolina. I play the piano and organ. Today (November 8), I played this for Sunday School Assembly. I did so because our Sunday School lesson was taken from 1 Peter 2: 1-10. This was a recommended hymn for this scripture.
I am lifted everytime I play this video. As an Australian Lutheran, it is wonderful to see your beautiful church and hear this great hymn sung with such joy to God.
Thank you very much for your nice words. I forwarded your comments on to our Pastor, as I know he would be thrilled to know our church is seen in Australia. We are a smaller church of 300+ members, and love to sing! We are in the process if having a new pipe organ installed, which we are hoping will be done in a month or so. More videos will come once thats done.
A beautiful hymn which is also one of my favourites. I just posted a rendition of it as a matter of fact. Quite ironic you would sing this hymn of unity on Reformation Day which marks the start of one of the biggest splits in Chritianity when the hymn mentions "by schisms rent asunder, by heresies distressed." Anyway God bless you all the same for posting this lovely hymn.
I believe this hymn declares that, even in the midst of persecution from without, from heresies within and despite the schisms which have reshaped the church visible, in the end and through it all, Christ preserves that which is His Own. And let us remember that the intention of the earliest Reformers was to purify the Church and to recover the Gospel in its power, not to divide from Rome. Even so, great revivals have broken out in the centuries since the Reformation.
And yet, I see your point,and I think I understand you. I have seen, even in my own life, the pain caused over doctrinal disagreement and division among Christians of different traditions. I have wondered how the Church universal can be unified when so much divides us. I have also wondered how much this must grieve the heart of our Lord. And yet, we cannot simply accept a brand of ecumenism which has no regard for the importance of sound doctrine.
The hymn is focused on a period in the 1860s where there was an Anglican dispute between Bishop John William Colenso and the orthodox teachings of the Anglican (and wider Protestant) Church. The former was heavily influenced by the Enlightenment and through the newer thought of textual criticism and Darwin's evolutionary theories. The context of this hymn has nothing to do with the Protestant Reformation from Romanism.
The hymn focuses on a rebuttal of Colenso's teachings which included: a denial of the substitutionary atonement (from his commentary on Romans), a rejection of Mosaic authorship of the Pentateuch, a claim that the books of Chronicles were merely fictitious, that Joshua was a mythological character, and Jesus was certainly mistaken in quoting Moses in the NT, among others.
For those of us who are orthodox in our Protestant faith, we can see how these views easily remove the only foundation of the church: Jesus Christ. This hymn was taken from the powerful context of 1 Corinthians 3 where it is clearly displayed that Christ is the only foundation for the church, it's faith, and it's practice. I thank God for Anglican brothers like Samuel Stone (Hymnal words) and Samuel Wesley (music). God Bless.
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baxvmz9a 4 months ago
Greetings from Australia. Lovely video. It is wonderful to see the Faith in Jesus alone being held to strongly in other places around the world. Blessings and peace be with you all.
jlandles 1 year ago
I must thank you once again for this wonderful video. It has sustained me during a journey over the last couple of years that has tested my faith. Thanks to God, that journey is now at a wonderful end, connected to a new Lutheran Congregation with my faith and hope restored. I cannot thank you and Jesus Christ enough for my deliverance through this dark time.
chucksfan1 1 year ago
@chucksfan1 you're welcome, peace to you!
hoover1060 1 year ago
I am an ELCA Lutheran from South Carolina. I play the piano and organ. Today (November 8), I played this for Sunday School Assembly. I did so because our Sunday School lesson was taken from 1 Peter 2: 1-10. This was a recommended hymn for this scripture.
mkl62 2 years ago
nice
rfz92 2 years ago
I am lifted everytime I play this video. As an Australian Lutheran, it is wonderful to see your beautiful church and hear this great hymn sung with such joy to God.
chucksfan1 2 years ago
Thank you very much for your nice words. I forwarded your comments on to our Pastor, as I know he would be thrilled to know our church is seen in Australia. We are a smaller church of 300+ members, and love to sing! We are in the process if having a new pipe organ installed, which we are hoping will be done in a month or so. More videos will come once thats done.
hoover1060 2 years ago
Hoover1060, are you (not your pooch) the pastor?
brassspitoon 2 years ago
nope...not the Pastor, just the camera man, and occasionally the organist.
hoover1060 2 years ago
Jeff, That was a beautiful recording of that hymn, I also love this hymn and Michael's trumpet part was great. Your church is very beautiful.
I also wanted to ask if you can possibly do videos of some Easter Hymns
xraytech86 2 years ago
A beautiful hymn which is also one of my favourites. I just posted a rendition of it as a matter of fact. Quite ironic you would sing this hymn of unity on Reformation Day which marks the start of one of the biggest splits in Chritianity when the hymn mentions "by schisms rent asunder, by heresies distressed." Anyway God bless you all the same for posting this lovely hymn.
Legendry101 3 years ago
I believe this hymn declares that, even in the midst of persecution from without, from heresies within and despite the schisms which have reshaped the church visible, in the end and through it all, Christ preserves that which is His Own. And let us remember that the intention of the earliest Reformers was to purify the Church and to recover the Gospel in its power, not to divide from Rome. Even so, great revivals have broken out in the centuries since the Reformation.
Asahel717 3 years ago
And yet, I see your point,and I think I understand you. I have seen, even in my own life, the pain caused over doctrinal disagreement and division among Christians of different traditions. I have wondered how the Church universal can be unified when so much divides us. I have also wondered how much this must grieve the heart of our Lord. And yet, we cannot simply accept a brand of ecumenism which has no regard for the importance of sound doctrine.
Asahel717 3 years ago
The hymn is focused on a period in the 1860s where there was an Anglican dispute between Bishop John William Colenso and the orthodox teachings of the Anglican (and wider Protestant) Church. The former was heavily influenced by the Enlightenment and through the newer thought of textual criticism and Darwin's evolutionary theories. The context of this hymn has nothing to do with the Protestant Reformation from Romanism.
alleigh783 2 years ago
The hymn focuses on a rebuttal of Colenso's teachings which included: a denial of the substitutionary atonement (from his commentary on Romans), a rejection of Mosaic authorship of the Pentateuch, a claim that the books of Chronicles were merely fictitious, that Joshua was a mythological character, and Jesus was certainly mistaken in quoting Moses in the NT, among others.
alleigh783 2 years ago
For those of us who are orthodox in our Protestant faith, we can see how these views easily remove the only foundation of the church: Jesus Christ. This hymn was taken from the powerful context of 1 Corinthians 3 where it is clearly displayed that Christ is the only foundation for the church, it's faith, and it's practice. I thank God for Anglican brothers like Samuel Stone (Hymnal words) and Samuel Wesley (music). God Bless.
alleigh783 2 years ago