Chords
Built On The Rock

Key: A

Introduction:

Am                                                                                      E  
Built on the Rock the Church shall stand
Am                    C                                 DE  Am  
Even when steeples are falling.
Am                                                                            E  
Crumbled have spires in ev'ry land 
Am                                      C                         D    E  Am  
Bells still are chiming and calling,
Am                         Em                    C      G    C  
Calling the young and old to rest,
Am                      C                 B                 E  
But above all the soul distressed,
Am                            F                 E      Am  
Longing for rest everlasting.
Am                                                                    E  
Surely in temples made with hands
Am                              C                              DE     Am  
God, the Most High, is not dwelling 
Am                                                                    E  
High above earth his temple stands,
Am                         C                    DE     Am  
All earthly temples excelling.
Am                      Em                    C              G  C  
Yet he who dwells in heav'n above
Am                      C                      B            E  
Chooses to live with us in love,
Am                      F                         E    Am  
Making our bodies his temple.
Am                                                                      E  
We are God's house of living stones,
Am                              C                 DE  Am  
Built for his own habitation.
Am                                                                         E  
He through baptismal grace us owns
Am                            C                            DE  Am  
Heirs of his wondrous salvation.
Am                         Em              C         G    C  
Were we but two his name to tell,
Am                            C                         B            E  
Yet he would deign with us to dwell
Am                            F                                 E  Am  
With all his grace and his favor.
Am                                                                              E  
Here stands the font before our eyes,
Am                         C                         DE     Am  
Telling how God did receive us.
Am                                                                              E  
Th' altar recalls Christ's sacrifice
Am                            C                      DE        Am  
And what the sacrament gives us.
Am                                 Em                      C         G    C  
Here sound the Scriptures that proclaim
Am                            C                 B                 E  
Christ yesterday, today, the same,
Am              F                            E    Am  
And evermore, our Redeemer.
Am                                                                              E  
Grant then, O God, your will be done,
Am                                 C                                         DE  Am  
That, when the church bells are ringing,
Am                                                            E  
Many in saving faith may come
Am                                      C                         DE     Am  
Where Christ his message is bringing
Am                      Em              C      G         C  
"I know my own  my own know me.
Am                            C                      B                         E  
You, not the world, my face shall see.
Am                      F                                    E  Am  
My peace I leave with you always."