There’s a song on Steve Bell’s excellent new CD, Kin-dness, which would serve as a wonderful ‘sending’ song in worship. The song was written a number of years ago by Brian McLaren. I first heard it used at the Institute for Worship Studies a number of years ago, and I’m really delighted that Steve is bringing it to a wider audience.
Christ has no body here but ours
No hands, no feet here on earth but ours
Ours are the eyes through which He looks
On this world with kindness
Ours are the hands through which He works
Ours are the feet on which He moves
Our are the voices through which He speaks
To this world with kindness
Through our touch, our smile, our listening ear
Embodied in us, Jesus is living here
Let us go now, inspirited (originally, "filled with the Spirit")
Into this world with kindness.
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The song first appeared on the album, Songs for a Revolution of Hope, released in October, 2 007 by Brian McLaren and the Restoration Project. If you go to that site, you can hear that song—and fourteen others—done in their original versions, and view the lyrics and the guitar chords.
You can also find lyrics for the song on the CCLI website (look for "With Kindness"). No chord charts or lead sheets are available there yet, but you can access a pdf of the song (without guitar chords) at the Institute for Worship Studies website. http://alumni.iws.edu/pdf/McLarenBenediction.pdf
Here are some related passages of scripture that might be useful in leading this song: Romans 1 2 ; 2 Corinthians 6 :3 -6 ; Galatians 2 :2 0; Galatians 5 :2 2 ; Ephesians 4 :1 -6 ; Ephesians 5 :1 -2 ; Colossians 3 :1 4 -1 6.
Steve Bell’s Kin-dness CD is available on iTunes and on his website. I highly recommend it!
