Chords for Jesus In Our Time by Bob Bennett - 6/2/2012

[Bb] _ _ [C] _ _ [Bb] _ [Fm] _ _ [Bb] _
_ _ _ _ [Gm] _ _ _ [Bb] _
_ _ _ _ _ [Eb] I've always said that [N] I will pretty much play anywhere where there is not anything illegally
going on or the need for protective chicken wire.
So I will play, you know, I've played at, you know, folk festivals and pubs and Irish,
you know, [E] gatherings and Tupperware parties and just, you know, whatever it takes.
I'll go and play songs.
But most of the time I'm doing what I'm doing right now, playing in [Ab] church and I'm playing
for church people.
And I love [Fm] doing this work.
[C] [Bb] And _ _ [G] _
[C] it's sort of interesting to [Ab] me because, you know, back when I started out doing this
work in church, there were plenty of guys like me, people who told stories in their songs.
Now we are quite literally a dying breed.
There's not very many of us [E] left.
This is not very valued too much at large.
But that's okay.
I sort of [Ab] stick to my guns and say, hey, I can still do it if you want it.
[G] But I love going in and being a part of the body and remembering that although [E] God certainly
does deal with me individually, [Ab] he very much means to deal with me also in the company
of other believers. _
Christianity, I say, is [G] a full contact sport.
The way that you do it right [Bb] is to be in the presence of other people.
[F] And that's the riskiest thing of all.
In our culture, we deify individuality.
We all want to be cool.
We all want to be James [Ab] Dean.
Rubble without a cause.
You're not going to do it to me, pal, because I'm an island and no problem.
Really, any two-year-old can assert their independence and lay on the floor and have a tantrum.
It's easy.
It's much more difficult to be in and around people and to not be independent of them but
to be interdependent upon them.
Because if you're in range, then you're in range of being able to be hugged and blessed
and you're also in range of the occasional sucker punch in Jesus' name.
[Db] And that's not very much [G] fun, but that part is the deal.
That's how we learn.
That's how we grow.
I would never excuse bad [Eb] behavior.
So all those people who are, you know, my father one time said to me in a fit of, you
know, just being my dad, he goes, you know, [B] I don't know, church, you know, there's [Db] all
those hypocrites in church.
And I said [Cm] to my father, I was growing up by then, I [N] said, you know, we hypocrites need
a place to gather too, don't you think?
And so I would never argue that sometimes we do what I call the reverse bait and switch.
Sometimes we, our behavior or our [Em] opinions or things that we concentrate on, we give people cover.
They can reject all [Ab] that stuff.
They never have to get to the cross.
They never have to get to the gospel because we've done a fine, fine job of obscuring the whole deal.
So I don't, I'm misunderstanding.
In the household of faith, we still got plenty of work to do.
[C] But the point is we need to be doing it together.
And I love that part of it.
I love the community of faith.
I love the church.
And this is a [F] Valentine, a musical Valentine [Bb] to the church [G] of Jesus, of which I am a great
[F] _ _ [C] _ _ [G] _ _
[Bb] _ _ _ _ [D] _ _ [C] _ _
[F] _ _ [C] _ _ [G] _ _ _ _
[Bb] _ _ [D] _ _ [C] _ _ _
Chalice [Bm] leeches of the [Dm] faithful crossing every generation, [F] hand to shoulder in an unbroken [C] line. _
Lead us to the Sabbath morning.
We [Dm] humbly count [G] ourselves in their [F] place and find the face of Jesus in our [C] time.
_ _ [Bb] _ _ [C] _ _ Though [C] an imperfect [Dm] congregation, [A] full of [Bb] folly and doubt, we [F] presume to ask [G] our questions
when we wrestle with their finding of.
[C] Break the bread [Dm] and pass the cup, [Am] try to bear each other.
[G] The [Dm] mystery of [B] Jesus.
[F] _ _ _
_ [G] _ [C] Oh, Jesus.
[F] Oh, Jesus.
[Gm] _ [C] Jesus. _ _
There _ [Bb] _ [C] _ _ _ _
are those who [Dm] are among us who believe they are.
We [F] are.
[G] _ _ [Gm] _ _ _ [G]
On the [C] mercy we have tasted [D] and love.
[Gm] _ _
[F] Come to [Dm] your place.
_ [G] _ [C] Jesus. _
_ [F] _ Oh, [C] Jesus. _
[F] Oh, Jesus.
_ [C] Jesus.
_ [F] _
_ _ [G] And as he promised.
[Db] So [Dm] proclaim.
_ [Bb] He [G] will be among us.
[F] Yeah.
_ _ _ [C] Brokenhearted.
To ease our [Dm] troubled minds.
We want to know [D] you.
Follow [F]
you.
[G] Jesus.
_ _ [C] Oh. _
[F] _ _ _ _ [C] _ _ _ _
_ _ Oh, _ Jesus.
[F] Oh, Jesus.
_ [G] _ [Dm] _ _ _
[F] _ Jesus.
In our time. _ _
_ [Bb] _ _ [C] _ _ _ [Fm] _ _