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What Is This Bread We Eat?
Liturgical Use:
Communion
Text: Thomas Fischer
Tune: “In God, My Faithful God” or "The God Of Abram
Praise" ("Yigdal"
6.6.8.4.6.6.8.4)
Suggested Usage: Communion
What Is This Bread We Eat?
What is this bread we eat?
It’s God’s incarnate Son
Who died and rose, ascended high
On God’s own throne.
In, under and within,
This bread is His own flesh
Which giv’n for us by death and pain
Forgives our sins.
What is this wine we
drink?
It’s Christ’s most precious blood
Which from His holy veins had quenched
Guilt’s drowning flood.
When we in faith partake
His very blood receive,
This wine, His blood, our strength revives
And guilt relieves.
Each time we eat this
bread,
Each time we drink this wine,
Unworthy sinners though we are…
With Christ we dine.
Lord, come to us we pray,
Be at Your Table now.
Come, give Your grace, Lord, as we kneel
And humbly bow.
Those who believe this
bread
Is Christ’s real body giv’n
Receive His body worthily
And grace receive.
And those who trust His blood
Is truly in this wine,
Drink worthily, discerning well
This gift divine.
But those who do not
see
With faith’s e’er-trusting eyes,
Christ’s blood and body in this meal
His words despise.
On them God’s judgment wrests,
For they have been deceived,
For Christ’s own words, “This is,” invite us
To believe.
All glory to the Lamb
Who was for sinners slain!
To Him all might and pow’r be giv’n
His Name proclaim!
He’s worthy for He died
And rose in victory.
Our Lord, God’s Lamb, our Victory—
He comes again.
What is this bread we
eat?
What is this wine we take?
They are Your body and Your blood
So we partake.
Lord, as You come today
In this most holy meal,
Come, Lord, reveal Yourself in us,
In presence real.
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2007 Thomas F. Fischer and CreativeHymns.com.
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