Develop a Discipleship System
This week, we wrap up our series, acknowledge the Ascension, and potentially celebrate Communion! It’s a big week, and our music should reflect the joyous occasion as well as our ongoing call to believe into Christ and become one with one another in the process. For Communion, “Make Us One” (TFWS 2224) and “One Bread, One Body” (UMH 620) would work well. “Blest Be The Tie That Binds” (UMH 557) speaks to our interconnectedness. Tying back into the themes of co-creating the new creation and making our belief in Christ an embodied reality, we recommend the contemporary tunes “Rise Up” and “Kingdom Is Coming.” “Love Rises” celebrates the love among us in the Easter season.
Hymns:
- TFWS 2224 - Make Us One
- UMH 620 - One Bread, One Body
- UMH 557 - Blest Be the Tie that Binds
- UMH 369 - Blessed Assurance, Jesus is Mine
- UMH 707 - Hymn of Promise
- W&S 3129 - Touch the Earth Lightly
- W&S 3152 - Welcome
Contemporary:
- Rise Up - The Many
- Love Rises - The Many
- Kingdom is Coming - Porter’s Gate
- I Believe - Mark Miller
- Beyond Belief - The Many
- Testify - NeedtoBreathe
- Testify to Love – Wynonna
Title | Composer | CCLI | OneLicense | Copyright |
Testify to Love | Henk Pool | Paul Field | Ralph Van Manen | Robert Riekerk | CCLI Song # 2572844 | #38748 | 1996,1998 EMI Blackwood Music, Inc. (MAIN); Universal Music Corp. |
I Believe | Mark A. Miller | 7048796 | CGA1310 | © Words: Public Domain; Music: 2012 Choristers Guild |
Beyond Belief | Gary Rand, Lenora Rand | 7140934 | 63fe4b91ec0ca | Original Recording by THE MANY© 2019 Plural Guild Music |
Testify | Rinehart/Rinehart | CCLI Song # 7075208 | © 2016 Hi Fi Music IP Issuer, L.P.; Kobalt Music Services America II, Inc. (KMSA II) | |
Rise Up | Hannah Rand, Lenora Rand | 7196806 | 63fe4b9205629 | © 2020 Plural Guild Music |
Love Rises | Lenora Rand, Gary Rand, Rob Wildeboer | 63fe4b9201bae | © 2017 Plural Guild Music | |
Kingdom is Coming | Porter’s Gate | 7198056 | ℗ 2022 The Porter's Gate, exclusively distributed by Integrity Music |
Rev. Kristina Sinks is a graduate of Garrett Seminary and a Provisional Deacon in the UMC (California-Nevada). She sings and manages tours for the music collective The Many, which brings justice-oriented music to progressive Christians and spiritual communities around the world, serves at GreenFaith, a global, multi-faith climate justice organization. She resides in the Chicago area on the traditional, unceded homelands of the Council of Three Fires—the Ojibwa, Ottawa and Potawatomi.
