Who Do You Say?

What motivates us to live as followers of Jesus? How is our discipleship formed and shaped? How can music be an active catalyst for these actions? Just as this series is a dance between the Gospel of Matthew and Paul’s letter, it is a dance of these two questions of how and why.

An excellent hymn that brings together many of the themes for this series is “A Place at the Table,” 3149 in Worship & Song. Click here to read the History of Hymns article.

Another excellent song for this series is “The Servant Song,” 2222 in The Faith We Sing, which sets forth the theme of journeying toward discipleship together and helping one another along the way.

Week 5 - Holding Fast

This week wraps up the series. Here, select hymns and songs that call us to a higher way of living, a deeper love, Christlike love that motivates us. Consider the well-known Wesley hymn “Love Divine, All Loves Excelling” in The United Methodist Hymnal, 384, for example. Or teach “Rule of Life” in Worship & Song, 3117, to your congregation. This is a musical approach to the Wesley quote: “Do all the good you can, by all the means you can, in all the ways you can, in all the places you can, at all the times you can, to all the people you can, as long as ever you can.” This simple hymn could serve as a benediction as well as a wrap up to this series.