Schitterend: Groot uni­ver­si­teits­koor zingt 'Come Thou Fount of Every Blessing'

Neem even de tijd om het samenspel tussen jonge mannen- en vrouwenstemmen tot je door te laten dringen. Van alle kanten hoor je in Europa over kerkverlating en toenemende secularisatie. Maar zolang de nieuwe generatie zo mooi, harmonieus en massaal tot God blijft zingen, is er volop hoop!

Drie jaar geleden zongen we dit lied ook in het Nederlands:

Liedtekst:

Come, thou Fount of every blessing;
tune my heart to sing thy grace;
streams of mercy, never ceasing,
call for songs of loudest praise.
Teach me some melodious sonnet,
sung by flaming tongues above;
praise the mount! I’m fixed upon it,
mount of God’s unchanging love!

Here I raise my Ebenezer;
hither by thy help I’m come;
and I hope, by thy good pleasure,
safely to arrive at home.
Jesus sought me when a stranger,
wandering from the fold of God;
he, to rescue me from danger,
interposed his precious blood.

O to grace how great a debtor
daily I’m constrained to be!
Let that grace now, like a fetter,
bind my wandering heart to thee.
Prone to wander, Lord, I feel it,
prone to leave the God I love;
here’s my heart; O take and seal it;
seal it for thy courts above.