We have favorite anthems at 6 o'clock. Our leader is great about finding anthems with good lyrics. We do happy clappy but we also do anthems about sin and the human condition (i.e. desperately needing a savior).

One of my favorites of the latter kind is "Were It Not For Grace". We did it just recently. It features a tenor solo. Here is a contralto doing the song.

"Were it not for grace, I can tell you where I'd be. Wandering on some lonesome road to nowhere with my salvation up to me. I know how that would go ..."

Yep, I'd be lost and I would be hopeless.

"Forever running and losing the race, were it not for grace!"

Paul in 2 Corinthians 5:1-10 speaks of his heavenly home. He is here serving but he would prefer to be with God in his eternal body. For now he is in this earthly body. He is limited.

Even as an already saved Christian I feel like I am still wandering on some lonesome road. Fortunately my salvation is not up to me. Certainly the unspoken Good News is that the work has already been done for me. It was not up to me. I needed a savior. Fortunately there was one. Praise the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ!

Any good works I do I accomplish with others and certainly not as the lead dog. That is best for me. I need support from others. I need help from others. That is really how God intended for most of us. That what the church is for.

Paul himself was one of those rare leaders, mostly on his own, a self starter and very self motivated. But he preached to his churches about unity, working together, each person having his own part. He used the metaphor of the human body with all the different parts, each necessary for life. We each have different roles in the church and in the world wide church. There are no unimportant Christians to God.