Introduction

Words & Mu­sic: Scott Wer­de­baugh, 2009 (🔊 pdf nwc).

WE HAVE COME TO WORSHIP YOU, O LORD
© 2009 Scott Werdebaugh
These words and mu­sic may be free­ly re­pro­duced or pub­lished for Chris­tian wor­ship or de­vo­tions, pro­vid­ed they are not al­tered, & this no­tice is on each co­py. All oth­er rights re­served.

I read some words to a si­mi­lar chor­us in a church bul­le­tin some years ago and came up with this pa­ra­phrase and mu­sic. I have re­searched ov­er the years look­ing to find the orig­in­al score and com­pos­er and au­thor of the orig­in­al lyr­ics to give him/her the pro­per credit…but al­as I have been un­suc­cess­ful in my search. I have long since lost that church bul­le­tin so I on­ly have my words to fall back on.

This hymn is in­tend­ed to be sung at the be­gin­ning of a wor­ship ser­vice or just be­fore a pas­tor’s mes­sage. The first stan­za is first per­son plur­al, as an in­vi­ta­tion to wor­ship to the church con­gre­ga­tion as a whole. The se­cond stan­za, in first person sin­gu­lar, is a more per­son­al in­vi­ta­tion to each in­di­vi­du­al con­gre­gant.

Scott Werdebaugh, 2018