Lord I'm Coming Home by John Forrest Deborah Blincoe

Author:John Forrest, Deborah Blincoe [John Forrest, Deborah Blincoe]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781501727849
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Publisher: Cornell University Press
Published: 2018-08-15T00:00:00+00:00

He expounded on each of these topics in turn, returning from time to time to the hand metaphor. This kind of neat, firm structure is well received by the congregation. After a well-structured sermon with plenty of booming crescendos and admonitions, the congregation genially remark to each other on how good it was.

Toward the end of the sermon the preacher changes from the hortatory style to one of invitation. The change is not abrupt but smoothly executed. At the very end he invites anyone who wishes to come forward and be baptized. This invitation most often includes quotations or paraphrases from the day’s hymn of invitation. As he makes the invitation he descends from the pulpit and stands just in front of the first pew. He then announces the hymn of invitation.

The Hymn of Invitation is always one of a small stock of hymns reserved for this special purpose. The most common is “Jesus Is Calling” (# 229), and others include “Out of My Bondage, Sorrow and Night” (# 233) and “Lord I’m Coming Home” (# 237). In these hymns the commonest metaphor for the desire to be baptized is coming home, as the following segments show:

I’ve wandered far away from God,

Now I’m coming home.

(# 237)

Come home, come home,

Ye who are weary come home.

Earnestly, tenderly, Jesus is calling,

Calling, o sinner come home.

(# 236)

Jesus is tenderly calling thee home,

Calling today, calling today.

(# 229)

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