“Take Your Shoes Off" Original Hymn (Maundy Thursday, Community, Vulnerability)
“Take Your Shoes Off" Original Hymn (Maundy Thursday, Community, Vulnerability)
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This hymn, originally written for the Full to the Brim bundle for Lent 2022, 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.
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“Take Your Shoes Off”
Tune: STOCKTON 8.6.8.6 with refrain (“Come, Every Soul by Sin Oppressed” / “Only Trust Him”)
Text: Anna Strickland, 2021
Music: John H. Stockton, 1874
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Lyrics:
“Take Your Shoes Off”
STOCKTON 8.6.8.6 with refrain (“Come, Every Soul by Sin Oppressed” / “Only Trust Him”)
Text: Anna Strickland, 2021
Music: John H. Stockton, 1874
As Christ invited friends to share
In one last holy meal
We gather here in song and prayer
To witness Christ revealed
Refrain:
Take your shoes off, let me wash you
You’re on holy ground
Take your walls down, let me love you
Christ is all around
As grains of wheat are gathered in
To be one loaf of bread
We are one body following
Where Jesus Christ has led
Refrain
With tender hearts and tender hands
We wash each other’s feet
In holy vulnerability
We serve each one we meet
Refrain
To be the body Christ has called
We follow Christ’s command
To love and serve each other well
And seek to understand
Refrain
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Hymn text by Rev. Anna Strickland | A Sanctified Art, LLC | sanctifiedart.org
