When home can be no more our home

When home can be no more our home,

        Follow the call of God.

No more a place of true shalom,

         Follow the call of God.

Refrain:

See Jesus go before us,

         Showing the call of God; 

And Holy Spirit helps us

         Follow the call of God.

 

When home our gifts will not receive,

         Follow the call of God.

When home rejects what we believe,

         Follow the call of God.

Refrain

 

Now follow in our Savior's lead,

         Follow the call of God.

Bear witness in both word and deed;

         Follow the call of God.

Refrain

 

We travel on the path of peace,

         Follow the call of God.

Where God's own kingdom shall increase.

         Follow the call of God.

Refrain

 

 

TEXT: Charles Spence Freeman, June 2024, after Mark 6:1-13.

MUSIC: Tune McAFEE, Cleland Boyd McAfee, 1901.

When dealing with this passage that includes Jesus's rejection in his hometown, it's wise to remember the earlier account of his family coming to "restrain" him earlier in this gospel. But this rejection didn't mean Jesus sat and sulked or anything like that; indeed, you might say he launched a big new initiative. For those of us who really can't go home, there's still work to do in God's family. Or something like that.