Song Spotlight

"The Church's One Foundation"

This great song of the faith is such a clear and important proclamation of who the author and perfecter of the Church is - Jesus Christ!
Join us as we dig deeper into this song to learn it, encourage others as we sing it and pass these truths on to the next generation.

by Samuel John Stone & Samuel Sebastian Wesley - Public Domain

Verse 1:
The Church’s one foundation Is Jesus Christ her Lord
She is His new creation by water and the Word
From heav’n He came and sought her to be His holy bride
With His own blood He bought her and for her life He died.

Verse 2:
Elect from ev’ry nation yet one o’er all the earth
Her charter of salvation, one Lord, one faith, one birth
One holy Name she blesses, partakes one holy food,
And to one hope she presses with ev’ry grace endued.

Verse 3:
Though with a scornful wonder Men see her sore oppressed
By schisms rent asunder by heresies distressed
Yet saints their watch are keeping their cry goes up, “How long?”
And soon the night of weeping shall be the morn of song.

Verse 4:
The church shall never perish! Her dear Lord, to defend
To guide, sustain, and cherish is with her to the end;
Though there be those that hate her and false sons in her pale
Against the foe or traitor she ever shall prevail.

Verse 5:
‘Mid toil and tribulation and tumult of her war
She waits the consummation of peace for evermore
Till, with the vision glorious her longing eyes are blest,
And the great church victorious shall be the church at rest

Verse 6:
Yet she on earth hath union With God the Three in One
And mystic sweet communion With those whose rest is won.
O happy ones and holy! Lord, give us grace that we
Like them, the meek and lowly, on high may dwell with Thee.