Go Tell Everyone

1. God’s Spirit is in my heart.

He has called me and set me apart.

This is what I have to do, what I have to do.

Refrain:

He has sent me to give the Good News to the poor,

Tell prisoners that they are Pris'ners no more,

Tell blind people that they can see,

And set the downtrodden free.

And go tell everyone the news,

That Kingdom Of God Has Come,

And go tell everyone the news,

That the Kingdom has come.

2. Just as the Father sent me,

So I’m sending you out 

To be my witnesses throughout the world,

The whole of the world. Refrain.

3. Don’t worry what you have to say.

Don’t worry because on that day God’s Spirit.

Will speak in your heart.

Will speak in your heart. Refrain.

Gather Us In

1. Here in this place, new light is streaming.

Now is the darkness, vanished away.

See, in this space, our fears and our dreaming.

Brought here to you in the light of this day.

Gather us in the lost and forsaken.

Gather us in the blind and the lame;

Call to us now, and we shall awaken,

We shall arise at the sound of our name.

2. We are the young, our lives are a mystery.

We are the old who yearns for your face.

We have been sung throughout all of history.

Called to be light to the whole human race.

Gather us in the rich and the haughty.

Gather us in the proud and the strong;

Give us a heart so meek and so lowly,

Give us the courage to enter the song.

3. Here we will take the wine and the water,

Here we will take the bread of new birth.

Here you shall call your children at table,

Call us anew to be salt for the earth.

Give us to drink the wine of compassion.

Give us to eat the bread that is you;

Nourish us well and teach us to fashion,

Lives that are holy and hearts that are true.

4. Not in the dark of buildings confining,

Not in some heaven, light years away.

But here in this place, the new light is shining.

Now is the kingdom, now is the day.

Gather us in and hold us forever.

Gather us in and make us your own;

Gather us in all peoples together.

Fire of love in our flesh and bones.

Marty Haugen