I Am The Church

Written by Richard K. Avery and Donald S. Marsh

Refrain:
I am the church! You are the church!
We are the church together!
All who follow Jesus,
all around the world!
Yes, we're the church together!

The church is not a building;
the church is not a steeple;
the church is not a resting place;
the church is a people.

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We're many kinds of people,
with many kinds of faces,
all colours and all ages, too
from all times and places.

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Sometimes the church is marching;
sometimes it's bravely burning,
sometimes it's riding, sometimes hiding;
always it's learning.

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And when the people gather,
there's singing and there's praying;
there's laughing and there's crying sometimes,
all of it saying:

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At Pentecost some people
received the Holy Spirit
and told the Good News through the world
to all who would hear it.

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