We Are the Church (The World Was Made for the Glory of God)

My next project for hymnal archeology is to find all the leftover songs from Australia’s Catholic Worship Book 1 that I haven’t yet blogged from other sources.

Before I do that, I want to finish up the Emmanuel Worship EPs from last year. I was very grateful to Samuel Mead, whose parish’s Youth Led Masses at The Gap in Brisbane use Emmanuel material, for letting me know that the lead sheets for these EPs had been posted rather than just the chord charts. It makes a lot of difference to see what they are doing and their melodies so intricate and syncopated that figuring the melody line without a lead sheet is particularly difficult and time consuming. He also helped me with some MIDI files, but he is not blame for the backing I made. The chords and lead sheets are here.

The Gap’s YLM have been using “We Are the Church” from the Emmanuel EP, Rivers in the Desert for communion, but it is also an entrance song, a Pentecost song and a Praise and Worship song. It was written by Madelaine Luciani and Dom Dougherty.

This EP seems more somewhat reflective than the Streams in the Wasteland EP also released in 2024.

Making backings for these songs, even with the melody line, on BIAB is more difficult than most hymns, due to the syncopation and irregular repetition. For more typical hymns you can just put a repeating chorus and be finished in 5 minutes. Not so with Emmanuel.

I’ve gone electronica here. Wherever they say free praise I let BIAB solo.

1 You – You were there, shaping earth and skies above,

Giving life and giving love. You were the word,

Though the world knew you not

You occupied our hearts

CHORUS

We are the church of Jesus Christ, we come to worship You .
Holy is the Lord of hea ven and earth, come bow before our King.

2 Grace upon grace, the Truth is Jesus Christ, resurrection light

Fall like the dove, Holy Spirit come, we receive your power.

BRIDGE x2
Come and eat, come and drink, come and be filled.
Come and see, come and rest, come and be still.
For the One Who is here, the holy one, our Lord.

CHORUS x2

OUTRO x2

You are Holy, You are Holy, You Ho -ly Lord

You are worthy, You are worthy, You worthy Lord From beginning to the end,

Your covenant will stand
Now we worship, till you come again

BRIDGE x2

CHORUS

© Emmanuel Worship