The words of a particular old hymn have returned to my mind several times throughout this Good Friday.<\/p>\n\n\n
Too many modern churches have lost all but the most famous of hymns. Man of Sorrows<\/i> by Philip Bliss is one I don’t believe I have ever heard in a local church worship service. My only exposure to it was at the Urbana Missions Conference I attended when I was in college (long before I ever seriously considered becoming a missionary myself). And yet, I have never forgotten the tune or the power of thousands of voices united in fervently singing:<\/p>\n\n\n
“Man of Sorrows,\u201d what a name Bearing shame and scoffing rude, Guilty, vile, and helpless, we, Lifted up was He to die, When He comes, our glorious King, Here’s a very pleasant version of the hymn on YouTube:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The words of a particular old hymn have returned to my mind several times throughout this Good Friday. Too many modern churches have lost all but the most famous of hymns. Man of Sorrows by Philip Bliss is one I don’t believe I have ever heard in a local church worship service. My only exposure […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4970","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4970","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4970"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4970\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4971,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4970\/revisions\/4971"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4970"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4970"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4970"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
For the Son of God who came
<\/span>Ruined sinners to reclaim!
Hallelujah! what a Savior!<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n
In my place condemned He stood;
Sealed my pardon with His blood;
Hallelujah! what a Savior!<\/p>\n\n\n
Spotless Lamb of God was He;
Full redemption\u2014can it be?
Hallelujah! what a Savior!<\/p>\n\n\n
\u201cIt is finished!\u201d was His cry;
Now in heaven exalted high;
Hallelujah! what a Savior!<\/p>\n\n\n
To His kingdom us to bring,
Then anew this song we\u2019ll sing
Hallelujah! what a Savior!<\/p>\n\n\n