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Christ is made the sure foundation (StF 677)

Elements of Worship:: Gathering
Elements of Worship:: Praise
Authors & translators:: Neale, John Mason
Tune:: Westminster Abbey
Composers & arrangers:: Purcell, Henry
Composers & arrangers:: Hawkins, Ernest
Metre:: 87.87.87.
Theme:: Life and Unity in the Church
Source:: Singing the Faith: 677 (CD28 #2)
Verses:: 4
STF Number:: 677

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The example of Jesus and his position as “Lord” in Christian tradition is the start and ending point of a way of talking about God that inspires many pleas for Christian unity and outward looking discipleship. The theme is central to this 7th or 8th century hymn translated by John Mason Neale: “Christ is made the sure foundation, / Christ the head and corner-stone”.

See also Fred Pratt Green's What shall our greeting be: sign of our unity? (StF 691) and Life and Unity in the Church.

Christ, from whom all blessings flow (StF 676)

Come, all who look to Christ today (StF 678)