What shall our greeting be (StF 691)
- Authors & translators:
- Pratt Green, Fred
- Metre:
- 66.4.666.4.
- Tune:
- Moscow
- Composers & arrangers:
- Giardini, Felice de
- Theme:
- Life and Unity in the Church
- Source:
- Singing the Faith: 691 (CD28 #20)
- Verses:
- 3
- STF Number:
- 691
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In one of his most assertive texts, Fred Pratt Green both neatly adapts words attributed to St Paul (e.g. Ephesians 4: 4-5) and also alludes to John Wesley’s sermon called A Catholic Spirit. Wesley headed this sermon (designed to be read rather heard) with a biblical quotation apt, among other occasions, for the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity: “Is your heart right, as my heart is with your heart?” And Jehonadab answered: “It is.” [Jehu said
], “If it is, give me your hand.” (
2 Kings 10: 15
)
Fred Pratt Green was a Methodist poet and hymn writer who died in 2000.
Also see Life and Unity in the Church
Fred Pratt Green was a Methodist poet and hymn writer who died in 2000.
Also see Life and Unity in the Church