The Mission

When the runners came from Bethlehem

All breathless with good news

They were passing a baton forward through time

The commission, from God?s lips to our ears

Carried by His Saints, two thousand years

Connects us all to the same lifeline

As I fix my eyes ahead

I can feel the Spirit?s breath

And I can hear the mission bell

Ringing out loud and clear

It's the revolution Jesus started

And it's here

Echoing across the world

From the shores of Galilee

I can hear the mission bell call

For you and me

I wanna run with fire

It?s my heart?s desire

Lifting Your love higher

In the history of our faith?s arrivals

Great awakenings, Welsh revivals

Saints and martyrs, summoned by a new birth

Patrick?s save of the Irish nation

William Carey?s expectation

Lambs and lions called to the ends of the earth

Gotta put my hands to the plow

Not looking back, not now

I can hear the mission bell

Ringing out loud and clear

It's the revolution Jesus started

And it's here

Echoing across the world

From the shores of Galilee

I can hear the mission bell call

For you and me

I wanna run with fire

It?s my heart?s desire

Lifting Your love higher

It?s my heart?s desire

I can hear the mission bell

Ringing out loud and clear

It's the revolution Jesus started

And it's here

Echoing across the world

From the shores of Galilee

I can hear the mission bell call

For you and me

I can hear the mission bell

Ringing out loud and clear

It's the revolution Jesus started

And it's here

I wanna run with fire

It?s my heart?s desire

Lifting Your love higher

It?s my heart?s desire