Hi!

       This weekend, a fantastic song about our God's Church has been rattling in my head, and more often then not to the chagrin of those around me, bursting out. It's Build Your Kingdom Here by Rend Collective Experiment (pretty sure it's a certain Mississippian's fault, shared a while ago... :). You might want to check it out if you haven't heard it already so you can follow this post a little easier.

      A repeating line stuck out to me at the end of each verse, but each time its sung, it ends a different way. "We are Your Church; we need Your power in us... we are Your Church; We pray revive this earth....(and lastly) build Your Kingdom here we pray; we are the hope on earth." Ephesians is a letter to the church in Ephesus, and I'd sure be surprised if the writers of this song hadn't studied it to share it in this song.

    Paul begins where all things should, in prayer. "For this reason, because I have heard of your faith in the Lord Jesus and your love toward all the saints, I do not cease to give thanks for you, remembering you in my prayers," (Ephesians 1:15-16).
"We are the hope on earth."

When a church is filled with the salt that gives it its saltiness - what a gift from God. "...that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give you the Spirit of wisdom and of revelation in the knowledge of Him, having the eyes of your hearts enlightened, that you may know what is the hope to which He has called you, what are the riches of His glorious inheritance in the saints," (Ephesians 17-19).
"We pray revive this earth."

       A church with this God is incredible! Our churches are marred by us, by humans who sin, but Jesus Christ is what it's all about. "And what is the immeasurable greatness of his power toward us who believe, according to the working of his great might that he worked in Christ when he raised him from the dead and seated him at his right hand in the heavenly places, far above all rule and authority and power and dominion, and above every name that is named, not only in this age but also in the one to come," (Ephesians 1:19-22).
"We need your power in us."

All thanks and praise to Jesus Christ for "He put all things under is feet and gave Him as Head over all things to the Church, which is His body, the fullness of Him who fills all in all," (Ephesians 1:19-23).

-Sarah