September 16, 2018: Our Lamb Has Conquered

Seventeenth Sunday after Pentecost

Our Lamb has conquered: let us follow him, with eagerness of heart and strength of limb, brave in endeavor, with your vision clear, and high thanksgiving for God’s purpose here. Our Lamb has conquered: let us follow him.

In loving service may our lives be spent, in others’ gladness finding sweet content, striving to show God’s fellowship to all. To show God’s loving work—the servants’ call. In loving service may our lives be spent.

Our Lamb has conquered: let us follow him, from life’s fair dawning to its twilight dim, fighting with selfishness and all its brood, sin and disease, the enemies of good. Our Lamb has conquered: let us follow him.

This hymn, #587 in the Moravian Book of Worship, is a response to the question of Jesus, “Who do you say that I am?” It was written by a British Moravian, Dorothy A. Connor, in 1941.