{"id":2228,"date":"2024-07-05T06:33:00","date_gmt":"2024-07-05T10:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kenpulsmusic.com\/blog\/?p=2228"},"modified":"2024-07-04T22:26:47","modified_gmt":"2024-07-05T02:26:47","slug":"how-dear-and-treasured-is-the-church-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kenpulsmusic.com\/blog\/2024\/07\/how-dear-and-treasured-is-the-church-2\/","title":{"rendered":"How Dear and Treasured Is the Church"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/kenpulsmusic.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/Unsplash-pillar70.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" data-attachment-id=\"2229\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/kenpulsmusic.com\/blog\/2024\/07\/how-dear-and-treasured-is-the-church-2\/unsplash-pillar70-2\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/kenpulsmusic.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/Unsplash-pillar70.jpg?fit=720%2C480&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"720,480\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Unsplash-pillar70\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/kenpulsmusic.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/Unsplash-pillar70.jpg?fit=300%2C200&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/kenpulsmusic.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/Unsplash-pillar70.jpg?fit=640%2C427&amp;ssl=1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/kenpulsmusic.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/Unsplash-pillar70.jpg?resize=640%2C427&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Pillars holding up a building\" class=\"wp-image-2229\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/kenpulsmusic.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/Unsplash-pillar70.jpg?w=720&amp;ssl=1 720w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/kenpulsmusic.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/Unsplash-pillar70.jpg?resize=300%2C200&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>New Recording<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Listen and download a recording of this song from Bandcamp:<\/p>\n\n\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"100%\" height=\"120\" style=\"position: relative; display: block; width: 100%; height: 120px;\" src=\"\/\/bandcamp.com\/EmbeddedPlayer\/v=2\/track=1624859857\/size=large\/bgcol=333333\/linkcol=0f91ff\/tracklist=false\/artwork=small\/\" allowtransparency=\"true\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>How Dear and Treasured Is the Church<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>\u201cIf I delay, [I write so that] you may know how one ought to behave in the household of God, which is the church of the living God, a pillar and buttress of the truth\u201d (1 Timothy 3:15).<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>How dear and treasured is the church,<br>With voices joined in praise and prayers,<br>For God has made us one in Christ,\u00a0<br>To share our sorrows, joys and cares.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Entrusted with the truth of God,<br>Called out to make the gospel known,<br>We boldly as His church proclaim:<br>There\u2019s grace and hope in Christ alone!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>God fashions us as living stones;\u00a0<br>Assembled as His dwelling place.<br>Though we were dead, He gives us life,<br>Each soul a miracle of grace.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Built as a buttress of the truth,<br>A pillar rising to the sky,<br>God sets His church before the world,<br>His Word and name to magnify.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To all the world we testify,<br>Our lives display in word and deed<br>The matchless worth of knowing Christ,<br>The boundless depth of our great need.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Brought near to God by Christ\u2019s shed blood,<br>Loved and adopted as His own,<br>A household built upon the Word,<br>With Christ Himself the Cornerstone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Built on this Rock, the church will stand,<br>The gates of hell shall not prevail,<br>All who are Christ\u2019s shall be raised up,<br>The Word of God will never fail.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Words \u00a92017 Kenneth A Puls<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Arranged to the tune:&nbsp;ERHALT UNS HERR<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/kenpulsmusic.com\/hsw070.html\">Download the lyrics and free sheet music<\/a> for this hymn, including an arrangement of the tune\u00a0ERHALT UNS HERR\u00a0for classical guitar.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/kenpulsmusic.com\/Hymns_and_Songs.html\">More Hymns and Songs<\/a> by Ken Puls<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Above image from <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/unsplash.com\">Unsplash<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Recording Listen and download a recording of this song from Bandcamp: How Dear and Treasured Is the Church \u201cIf I delay, [I write so that] you may know how one ought to behave in the household of God, which is the church of the living God, a pillar and buttress of the truth\u201d (1 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[21,22],"tags":[47,220,98,28,264,26],"class_list":["post-2228","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hymn","category-music-for-worship","tag-church","tag-doctrine","tag-hymn","tag-trials","tag-truth","tag-word-of-god"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4lLgO-zW","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kenpulsmusic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2228","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kenpulsmusic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kenpulsmusic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kenpulsmusic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kenpulsmusic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2228"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kenpulsmusic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2228\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2230,"href":"https:\/\/kenpulsmusic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2228\/revisions\/2230"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kenpulsmusic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kenpulsmusic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kenpulsmusic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}