Come After Me

Lyrics

Verse 1:
If you would follow me
You must lay down your life
Take up your cross, and count as loss
Your glory and your pride

Verse 2:
The riches of this world
All power and human praise
Will slip like sand, right through your hands
But my love will remain

Chorus:
Come, come after me, come after me
Don’t lose your life trying to save it
I know it’s hard but it’s worth it, you’ll see
Come after me

Verse 3:
If you would follow me
My way leads first to death
But then to life, my risen life
To lasting joy and rest

I’m the treasure in the field
You must sell your all to buy
But the riches there, beyond compare
It makes the cost seem light

Chorus

Tag (5x):
If I am anything, I must be everything
Come after me

Words and music by Caroline Cobb (ASCAP). Copyright 2021 Caroline Cobb Smith.
CCLI # 7170105. Key: C. Tempo: 81.
Luke 9:23-25 (see Matt 16:24-26, Mark 8:34-38); Phil 3:7-11; Matt 13:44-46; 2 Cor 4:16-18

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Let It Be So With Your Church

Lyrics

Verse 1:
As our Jesus in love touched the leper
Offered grace when they’d cast a stone
As he ate with the outcasts and sinners        
With his church, let it be so 

Verse 2:
As he preached the good news of the kingdom
As he healed them both body and soul
As he gave up his life for God’s children
With his church, let it be so

Chorus:
Let it be so with your church, O God
We are your hands and feet
As Jesus bent low to serve in love
So with us let it be
So with us let it be

Verse 3:
Let us go with our Lord to the margins
To the broken, the poor and the lost
By His Spirit, we’ll push back the darkness
Let his church take up her cross 

Chorus

Bridge:
Come help us, Lord Jesus
To love as you loved (Oh, let it be so)
We remember your gospel
How you first loved us (Oh, let it be so)

To seek justice, love mercy
And care for the weak (Oh, let it be so)
To live now in light of
The kingdom we seek (Oh, let it be so)

Chorus

Words and music by Caroline Cobb (ASCAP). Copyright 2021 Caroline Cobb Smith.
CCLI # 7159424. Key: A. Tempo: 136.
Luke 5:12-16, John 8:2-11, Mark 2:13-17, 1 Cor 12:27, Phil 2:1-11, Matt 4:23, Eph 5:1-2, Micah 6:8, Matt 6:33

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Joy (As Far As the Curse Is Found)

Lyrics

Verse 1:
Eternal God, there at the beginning
Stepping into time, into the world
All for love, the infinite descending
To kick inside the womb of a girl

Verse 2:
A king is born, far from any palace
Bending low to serve instead
Majesty, He’s given up his status
Robed in the weakness of the flesh

Pre-chorus:
Unto us a child is born
Heaven coming down to earth
Joy to all the weary world
The human soul will feel it’s worth

Chorus:
Joy to the world Good, good news
O come let us adore Him
Joy to the world
It’s breaking through
He’s come and he will come again

Verse 3:
Let’s go with the wise men
Laying down our treasures
Falling on our knees to give him praise
With the angel choir
Singing to the shepherds
Glory to God in the highest place

Pre-chorus:
Unto us a child is born
Heaven coming down to earth
Joy to all the weary world
The human soul will feel it’s worth
It’s worth!

Chorus:
Joy to the world Good, good news
O come let us adore Him

Joy to the world
It’s breaking through
He’s come and he will come again

Bridge:
As far as the curse is found
As far as the curse is found
As far as the curse is found
As far as the curse is found
(Joy to the world)

As far as the curse is found
(Let earth receive her king)
As far as the curse is found
(Let all creation sing)

As far as the curse is found
(And let his blessings flow)
As far as the curse is found
(Til the whole world knows!)

Chorus

Words and music by Caroline Cobb (ASCAP). Copyright 2020 Caroline Cobb Smith.
CCLI # 7159411. Key: Eb. Tempo: 150.
John 1:1-18, Phil 2:6-11, Luke 2:8-20, Is 9:6-7, Matt 2:10-12. See Gen 3:18

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