Standard (EADGBE)

Verse 1

 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...

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  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

Verse 2

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

Willian Carey's expectation

Lambs and Lions

Called to the ends of the earth

Gotta put my hand to the plow

Not looking back, not now...

Chorus