#546: To Be Your Presence

[lutheranhymns]

I'm going ahead and putting this in the "awesome texts" category--I helped recommend it as part of my class's confirmation service. (It helps to have an in with the pastors.) The verses in turn explain that our mission is to be Christ's "heart," "hands," and "voice," and then that all gets recapitulated in the last verse. So it's good for sending people forth, not just at the end of a normal worship service, but as a rite of passage.

This is also to the excellent tune Engelberg, although it's not the very awesome fit for it I had in mind.