“Love Your Neighbor and Forgive" Original Hymn (Love, Forgiveness, Community)
“Love Your Neighbor and Forgive" Original Hymn (Love, Forgiveness, Community)
DIGITAL SHEET MUSIC DOWNLOAD
This hymn, originally written for the Wandering Heart bundle for Lent 2024, is created for use in congregational worship and other ministry contexts. We’ve set fresh words of faith to a well-loved public domain hymn tune for maximum singability.
License for congregational use is included in the purchase—no reporting to CCLI or other licensing agencies is required. To inquire about other uses, such as recording or publishing, please contact us.
“Love Your Neighbor and Forgive”
Inspired by Matthew 18:15-22
Tune: REDHEAD 76 (“Go to Dark Gethsemane”)
Text: Anna Strickland, 2024
Music: James Montgomery (1825)
DOWNLOAD includes:
PDF sheet music with four-part harmony
PNG image of the lyrics and melody for use in bulletins
Lyrics to copy and paste for bulletins and screens
Lyrics:
Love Your Neighbor and Forgive
Tune: REDHEAD 76 (“Go to Dark Gethsemane”)
Text: Anna Strickland, 2024
Music: James Montgomery (1825)
“Love your neighbor and forgive”
Words so simple yet so hard
We have wounds because we’ve lived
Calluses enfold our hearts
Jesus reaches out to touch
Wounds and hearts that hold too much
Sounds of bombs and bullets ring
War is all we’ve ever known
Pacifists are framed as weak
We rely on might alone
Jesus paves the paths of peace
Even as the threats increase
Love is risky, peace is faint
And forgiveness feels naive
All are sinners, all are saints
And we all God’s grace receive
So we follow mercy’s way
Softening our hearts to grace
credit info:
Hymn text by Rev. Anna Strickland | A Sanctified Art, LLC | sanctifiedart.org
