Christ Is Alive

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1. Christ is alive! Let Christians sing. The cross stands empty to the sky. Let streets and homes with praises ring. Love, drowned in death, shall never die.

2. Christ is alive! No longer bound to distant years in Palestine, but saving, healing, here and now, and touching every place and time.

3. Not throned above, remotely high, untouched, unmoved by human pains, but daily, in the midst of life, our Savior with the Father reigns.

4. In every insult, rift, and war where color, scorn or wealth divide, Christ suffers still, yet loves the more, and lives, where even hope has died.

5. Women and men, in age and youth, can feel the Spirit, hear the call, and find the way, the life, the truth, revealed in Jesus, freed for all.

6. Christ is alive, and comes to bring good news to this and every age, till earth and sky and ocean ring with joy, with justice, love, and praise.

Words by: Brian Wren
Music by: Psalmodia Evangelica

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Story of the hymn "Christ is Alive"

📅 Written in the Shadow of Tragedy

Brian Wren composed the hymn immediately after the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. in April 1968 Churches were preparing for Easter, yet the world felt shaken by violence, racism, and grief.

Wren wanted a hymn that refused to retreat into a distant, sentimental resurrection story; one that insisted Christ is present in the real suffering of the world.

✍️ A Hymn of Protest and Resurrection

Wren later said he wanted to challenge the idea of a remote, untouchable Christ. The hymn proclaims that:
Christ is alive "here and now," touching every place and time”

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