Worship is a huge thing! In fact, the Christian is called to live a life of worship (Romans 12:1,2). The Bible also places a unique emphasis on using our bodies to worship our Creator. Psalm 22:3 tells us the God actually inhabits the praise of His people. Wow! What an amazing thing! It pleases God when we sing to Him! It's our desire at Elkin Valley to not only use music as a tool for encouragement and teaching, but also to provide unique experiences for our church family to express their praise to God each week in corporate worship. While we incorporate hymns of timeless value as well as modern texts into our worship services, we utilize a relevant musical style driven by our praise band to lead us into God's presence.
If you would like to get some more information on how you can be involved in either our worship choir or praise band, please send an email to Justin@evbcfamily.org for more information.
Worship is a huge thing! In fact, the Christian is called to live a life of worship (Romans 12:1,2). The Bible also places a unique emphasis on using our bodies to worship our Creator. Psalm 22:3 tells us the God actually inhabits the praise of His people. Wow! What an amazing thing! It pleases God when we sing to Him! It's our desire at Elkin Valley to not only use music as a tool for encouragement and teaching, but also to provide unique experiences for our church family to express their praise to God each week in corporate worship. While we incorporate hymns of timeless value as well as modern texts into our worship services, we utilize a relevant musical style driven by our praise band to lead us into God's presence.
If you would like to get some more information on how you can be involved in either our worship choir or praise band, please send an email to Justin@evbcfamily.org for more information.
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Come Thou Fount
Robert Robinson
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 Thy redeeming love
I was lost in utter darkness
Till you came and rescued me
I was bound by all my sin when
Your love came and set me free,
Now my soul has found a new song
Now my heart has found a home
Now Your grace is always with me
And I’ll never be alone
Here I raise mine 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 Thy goodness, 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
Come Thou Fount
Robert Robinson
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 Thy redeeming love
I was lost in utter darkness
Till you came and rescued me
I was bound by all my sin when
Your love came and set me free,
Now my soul has found a new song
Now my heart has found a home
Now Your grace is always with me
And I’ll never be alone
Here I raise mine 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 Thy goodness, 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
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Hymn of the Month History
The Story
Robert Robinson was born in Norfolk, England, in the year 1735. At age 14, Robinson’s widowed mother sent him to London to learn the trade of barber and hair dresser. However, his master found he enjoyed reading more than work. Converted to Christ at age 17, Robinson became a Methodist minister. He later moved to the Baptist church and pastored in Cambridge, England. He wrote a number of hymns, as well as on the subject of theology. His later life was evidently not an easy one, judging from a well known story about his hymn “Come, Thou Fount of Every Blessing.”
One day, he encountered a woman who was studying a hymnal, and she asked how he liked the hymn she was humming. In tears, he replied, “Madam, I am the poor unhappy man who wrote that hymn many years ago, and I would give a thousand worlds, if I had them, to enjoy the feelings I had then.”
The Message
Come Thou Fount of Every Blessing begins and ends by calling us to remember God’s amazing grace. The first stanza calls us to praise our God for His undeserved grace, never ending mercy, and His redeeming love. The second stanza reminds us of the condition we were in before God interposed His incredible grace into our lives. The third stanza looks back to the turning point in our lives when we repented and confessed Jesus as Lord. As we look back, we see that Christ drew us to Himself and now commands our destiny. The final stanza proclaims the debt we all owe to God and His abounding grace. In contrast to the second stanza which says, “I was bound by all my sin,” we now ask God to “bind our wandering hearts” to Himself. It ends with the realization that although our hearts are prone to wander, all who are in Christ are safe and sealed.
The Story
Robert Robinson was born in Norfolk, England, in the year 1735. At age 14, Robinson’s widowed mother sent him to London to learn the trade of barber and hair dresser. However, his master found he enjoyed reading more than work. Converted to Christ at age 17, Robinson became a Methodist minister. He later moved to the Baptist church and pastored in Cambridge, England. He wrote a number of hymns, as well as on the subject of theology. His later life was evidently not an easy one, judging from a well known story about his hymn “Come, Thou Fount of Every Blessing.”
One day, he encountered a woman who was studying a hymnal, and she asked how he liked the hymn she was humming. In tears, he replied, “Madam, I am the poor unhappy man who wrote that hymn many years ago, and I would give a thousand worlds, if I had them, to enjoy the feelings I had then.”
The Message
Come Thou Fount of Every Blessing begins and ends by calling us to remember God’s amazing grace. The first stanza calls us to praise our God for His undeserved grace, never ending mercy, and His redeeming love. The second stanza reminds us of the condition we were in before God interposed His incredible grace into our lives. The third stanza looks back to the turning point in our lives when we repented and confessed Jesus as Lord. As we look back, we see that Christ drew us to Himself and now commands our destiny. The final stanza proclaims the debt we all owe to God and His abounding grace. In contrast to the second stanza which says, “I was bound by all my sin,” we now ask God to “bind our wandering hearts” to Himself. It ends with the realization that although our hearts are prone to wander, all who are in Christ are safe and sealed.
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