The Church's one foundation

HD video of the hymn The Church's one foundation

Produced by ianbritton.co.uk

Soundtrack recorded live at the NBA Big Sing

The Church's one foundation
is Jesus Christ her Lord;
she is his new creation,
by water and the word:
from heaven he came and sought her
to be his holy bride;
with his own blood he bought her,
and for her life he died.

Elect from every nation,
yet one o'er all the earth,
her charter of salvation,
one Lord, one faith, one birth;
one holy Name she blesses,
partakes one holy food,
and to one hope she presses,
with every grace endued.

Though with a scornful wonder
men see her sore oppressed,
by schisms rent asunder,
by heresies distressed;
yet saints their watch are keeping,
their cry goes up, "How long?"
and soon the night of weeping
shall be the morn of song.

Mid toil and tribulation,
and tumult of her war
she waits the consummation
of peace for evermore;
till with the vision glorious
her longing eyes are blessed,
and the great Church victorious
shall be the Church at rest.

Yet she on earth hath union
with God, the Three in one,
and mystic sweet communion
with those whose rest is won.
O happy ones and holy!
Lord, give us grace that we
like them, the meek and lowly,
on high may dwell with thee.

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• the big sing
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[TheFirstChadJ]

Amazing.

[psrpradeep4187]

im vry glad to play dis song in my church organ, dis beautiful hymnal is one of the favourite song to me, especially my choir `ll singing partz dis song, really vry beautiful to hear dis song....

[tonganfoilole69]

I love this beautiful song, cause my choir sing this song in our Catholic Church. 1 of my favourite hymn. i love how this choir sing it, cause my choir's not this good, .

[mkl62]

It's me, again. Today (February 20), I filled in at a local Lutheran Church and played this as the Hymn of the Day. I did so because our New Testament (or Epistle) reading was 1 Corinthians 3:10-11, 16-23. This is a good hymn to compliment this Scripture. This is to all denominations. Take care and God Bless.

[brandenburg2388]

@stanhalll I would like to encourage you to pray to God to strengthen your faith in Him and to remove all traces of doubts in your mind and heart that is blocking your communion with God. All of us will go through the "lows" in our lives and this is the time for us to lay our burdens on Jesus to carry us through.

[mkl62]

What a coincidence. I visited Singapore in July 1989 when I served in the US Navy.

[brandenburg2388]

@mkl62 our congregation at Trinity Methodist Church, Malaysia sang this great hymn as our opening hymn a fortnight ago. It is United Methodist Hymal #545.

[2003bornagain]

The Church is not some building or lifeless object, the Church is a living thing because it is the BODY OF CHRIST, and we we live in Him who died and rose again for us. He redeemed us by His Blood. And we shall never perish.

[helenthomas123]

This is truly a beautiful hymn, my church choir will be singing this great song for our 69th church anniv. (Galilee Missionary Baptist Church - Detroit MI),

[emergencyCALL911]

I just learned to play this on the harp. It doesn't sound anywhere near this good when I play it though. :)