Change Your Church, O God, to Be

Change your church

O God to be

More the church you long to see

More the peo­ple you have claimed

More the child­ren you have named!

Change your Church! Re­new us

Lord

Till we all re­flect your Word!

Make of us a shin­ing light

Ever pleas­ing in your sight!

God

re­vive us by your love;

Send your Spir­it to re­prove!

Take away sin’s aw­ful blight

Help us all to do the right!

Cultivate us

God

so we

Grafted to your vine

may be

Thriving best

with­in your care

Blossoming

your love to share.

God

re­view our ur­gent schemes!

Guide our vi­sion

mold our dreams!

As we

to­ward your fu­ture move

All our be­ing

God

im­prove!

May we

by Christ’s love

be warmed!

Bless your church

by faith re­formed;

Hastened by your Spir­it’s pace:

God re­new us by your grace.