Philippians 2: 1 – 13
Hymn: This is God born in a stable
This is God born in a stable.
This is God hung on a cross.
This is Christ, our God incarnate,
knowing gain and sharing loss.
This is God yet fully human,
walking down a street in time.
This is God yet faulted language
makes it hard to hold this rhyme.
How can God be fully human,
or a man be God, divine?
This is where our human logic,
moves our reason out of line.
Talk of Father, Son and Spirit
all too soon make three of one,
struggle as we will, the centre
of our faith can be undone.
Verses 3-4 follow
Tune: ST WINIFRED; DIM OND IESU
Andrew Pratt (born 1948)
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