Discipleship

ALL WHO CLAIM TO FOLLOW JESUS

Tune:

HYFRYDOL 87.87D and refrain
Melody: Roland Huw Pritchard 1811-87
DISCIPLESHIP 87.87D
Melody: William L. Wallace
Harmony: Larry E. Schultz
 

1. All who claim to follow Jesus
   To prophetic roles are called.
   Prophets in the now see future
   Options open and not walled.
   They announce what then will happen
   If there’s no desire for change.
   “In the world not ambushed by it” *
   They at times may seem quite strange.

2. Some are called to be out-spoken,
   Some more timid just observe.
   All of us must choose our battles,
   What to challenge or preserve
   But this should be done with loving,
   Burning love that always cares,
   Love that works for greater changes
   Through each day and future years.

3. We are called to honour prophets
   Who unmask corruption’s face,
   Pay attention when they focus
   On those Christians lacking grace.
   Each time prophets face harsh censure
   We should choose to join the fray
   Changing apathy to action
   As we walk the prophet’s way.

*John 15/19 and John 17/15-16
Text and Discipleship melody © William Livingstone Wallace
Harmony © Larry E. Schultz
 
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William (Bill) Livingstone Wallace is a retired New Zealand Methodist Minister and one of our most prolific contributors. Bill says that his work springs from communicating with the fire in his gut and his observation of both the internal and external aspects of the Cosmos. Since an early age, he has been both sympathetic to and critical of the church, announcing at the age of 13 his belief in evolution. In his youth, he struggled with the disconnection between art and spirituality in his own and other denominations and with the way in which all of the liturgies prior to the sermon were regarded as preliminaries and longer sermons were viewed as superior to more concise ones.

He holds a B.A. in philosophy and a Dip. Ed. and is the author of nine published collections of his hymns as well as other resources on our website. His aim is to help people be empowered by the divine within them and the Cosmos and to work to overthrow the forces of personal and institutional greed which destroy both the ecosystem and human society.

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