Called To The Kingdom For A Time Like This (Text)

Gareth Hill, British Methodist pastor and hymn writer, has written this text in celebration of the 50th anniversary of full clergy rights for women in The United Methodist Church (2006). As text only, it may be used as a congregational prayer, or the basis for a responsive litany, or perhaps part of a sermon

Called to the Kingdom for a Time Like This (Sibelius format)

Called to the Kingdom for a time like this,
Chosen and precious to you, Lord.
Here in this moment, here in this place,
We stand in answer to your call for a time like this.

Before you formed us in the womb you knew
Your chosen purpose for our days:
To be the prophets, to speak your Word,
To help the nations know your plan to make all things new.

And in the dark days you said: "Do not fear,
I am beginning, I am end."
You stood beside us, your promise sure.
You held us in the grip of grace and dried ev'ry tear.

Why you have called us is a mystery;
Can any good thing come from us?
Yet we are faithful and trust in you.
We pledge to serve your Kingdom's cause; to change history.

Words copyright 2003, 2011 Gareth Hill Publishing/Song Solutions CopyCare, 14 Horsted Square, Uckfield, TN22 1QG, England. www.songsolutions.org . Used by permission. This hymn may be reproduced and used in congregational worship with the inclusion of the complete copyright clause on each copy. It may not be used for profit, sold, republished, altered, or placed on a Web site.