Message from Jim Koan, Superintendent

I normally eschew songs with lots of repetition, but Chris Tomlin’s songs tend to be the exception. The song below, “Our God Is Greater” really strikes a cord with me. I think it touches me because it forces me to take my eyes off me. Way too often my focus is on me – it may be securing my own comfort one day; the next it might be focusing on how I will figure out the solution and do it in my own strength.

This song, through its repetition, drives home the point that “OUR GOD” is our answer; “OUR GOD” is to be our focus. I count no less than 70 times that phrase “OUR GOD” is used. As I listen, God’s all-sufficient nature comes pounding through the song. And I like it: I like having a God who is greater…stronger… higher than every other. It’s all capped off by Romans 8:31 “If God is for us, who can be against us.”

My brothers and sisters of PC, no matter what you face; no matter the height of the ‘mountain’ nor the dark and gloom of the ‘night’…OUR GOD IS GREATER.

31 What, then, shall we say in response to these things? If God is for us, who can be against us? 32 He who did not spare his own Son, but gave him up for us all—how will he not also, along with him, graciously give us all things? Romans 8:31-32


Our God Is Greater
By Chris Tomlin
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zlA5IDnpGhc

Water You turned into wine
Open the eyes of the blind
There’s no one like You
None like You
Into the darkness You shine
Out of the ashes we rise
There’s no one like You
None like You

CHORUS
Our God is greater, our God is stronger
God You are higher than any other
Our God is Healer, awesome in power
Our God, Our God…

Into the darkness you shining
Out of the ashes we Rise
There’s no One like You
None like You.

Our God is greater, our God is stronger
God You are higher than any other
Our God is Healer, awesome in power
Our God, Our God…
Our God is greater, our God is stronger
God You are higher than any other
Our God is Healer, awesome in power
Our God, Our God…

BRIDGE
And if Our God is for us, then who could ever stop us
And if our God is with us, then what can stand against?
And if Our God is for us, then who could ever stop us
And if our God is with us, then what can stand against?
What can stand against?