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 New Hymn
"For Freedom, Christ Has Set Us Free!"
June 16, 2001

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June 17th is the first Sunday of several that has the lectionary's epistle lesson from Galatians. Here is a new hymn that Carolyn Gillette wrote inspired by Paul's letter.

For Freedom, Christ Has Set Us Free!
tune: ELLACOMBE CMD "I Sing the Mighty Power of God"

  Galatians:
"For freedom, Christ has set us free!"
What joy is ours to claim! 		5:1
No more enslaved, humanity
Finds life in Jesus' name. 		4:31
We try, Lord, to be justified
Through all the works we do. 		2:17
Yet you adopt us, saying, "Child,
It's Christ who makes you new." 		4:4-7

We're clothed in Christ and we belong;
Now no one waits outside.
In him we find our common song;
Old ways no more divide.

3:27-28
"It is no longer I who live,
But Christ who lives in me." 		2:20
He died for us, new life to give—
And new identity. 		2:18-21

Now, Spirit-filled, may we be led
From ways that would destroy.

5:19
May we your people turn instead
To lives of love and joy.
May we find peace that makes us whole
And patience everywhere.
God, give us kindness, self-control,
And hearts and hands that share. 		5:22-23

Tune: Gesangbuch der Herzogl, Wirtembergischen, Katholischen Hofkapelle, 1784; alt. 1868
Text: Copyright © 2000 by Carolyn Winfrey Gillette. All rights reserved.
305 South Broadway, Pitman, NJ 08071. Telephone: (856)-589-8444
Email: Bruce.Gillette@ecunet.org

Bruce Gillette writes:
Please drop us an email note to our personal user box for permission to use the hymn since Carolyn does like to know who are using her hymns. Thank you.

You are welcome to share the hymn(s) with neighboring pastors or other online friends, but please include the copyright and contact information.

A complete list of Carolyn's hymns, including links to a dozen of the hymn texts posted online, go to http://www.firstpresby.org/hymnlist.htm

Carolyn Winfrey Gillette is the co-pastor of the First Presbyterian Church in Pitman, NJ and author of Gifts of Love: New Hymns for Today's Worship (Geneva Press, 2000).

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