"What Wondrous Love Is This" | Fourth Sunday in Lent

ZACHARY'S NOTES:

Stanza 1 // Because this is a Scripture passage we’ve heard many times in life [and many times in the lectionary] it is helpful to hear and sing of God’s love in new ways. This hymn helps us hear John 3:16 in what might be a new way. God’s love is seen in Christ “bearing the dreadful curse” for our soul! The curse of sin is our own. Christ comes to make it his own, that we might have his gift of forgiveness and new life.

Stanza 2 // “God did not send the Son into the world to condemn the world” says the famous Scripture passage. This is not only good news because we do not wish to know the wrath of God, but [as this stanzas points out] we were fairly well condemned without God’s help! Though we were utterly helpless, Christ became helpless for us, laying aside his power and glory to forgive those who were condemned.

Stanza 3 // More than a simple hope that singing might take place in all congregations, we join with the “millions” of sinners in need of God’s forgiveness. This is the theme of the Church - week after week, Sunday after Sunday - who stand in need of the “wondrous love” God gives.

Stanza 4 // The song we sing today is one that does not end! The Son came that we might have life eternal, and sing today in faith, and forever in glory around the throne of the Lamb.

OTHER SUGGESTIONS:

ELW 666 - What Wondrous Love Is This // ᴡᴏɴᴅʀᴏᴜꜱ ʟᴏᴠᴇ

ELW 321 - Eternal Lord of Love, Behold Your Church - OLD 124TH

ELW 323 - God Loved the World - ROCKINGHAM OLD

ELW 339 - Christ, the Life of All the Living - JESU, MEINES LEBENS LEBEN

ELW 442 - All Who Believe and Are Baptized - ES IST DAS HEIL

ELW 451 - We Are Baptized in Christ Jesus - OUIMETTE

ELW 456 - Baptized in Water - BUNESSAN

ELW 660 - Lift High the Cross - CRUCIFER

ELW 666 - What Wondrous Love Is This - WONDROUS LOVE

ELW 803 - When I Survey the Wondrous Cross - HAMBURG

ELW 848 - Give to Our God Immortal Praise! - DUKE STREET

LBW 96 - Christ, the Life of All the Living - JESU, MEINES LEBENS LEBEN

LBW 192 - Baptized into Your Name Most Holy - O DASS ICH TAUSEND ZUNGEN HÄTTE

LBW 194 - All Who Believe and Are Baptized - ES IST DAS HEIL

LBW 292 - God Loved the World - DIE HELLE SONN LEUCHT

LBW 377 - Lift High the Cross - CRUCIFER

LBW 385 - What Wondrous Love Is This - WONDROUS LOVE

LBW 482 - When I Survey the Wondrous Cross - ROCKINGHAM OLD

LBW 520 - Give to Our God Immortal Praise! - DUKE STREET

LSB 420 - Christ, the Life of All the Living - JESU, MEINES LEBENS LEBEN

LSB 425/426 - When I Survey the Wondrous Cross - HAMBURG // ROCKINGHAM OLD

LSB 543 - What Wondrous Love Is This - WONDROUS LOVE

LSB 571 - God Loved the World So That He Gave - st. crispin

LSB 590 - Baptized into Your Name Most Holy - O DASS ICH TAUSEND ZUNGEN HÄTTE (DRETZEL)

LSB 601 - All Who Believe and Are Baptized - ES IST DAS HEIL

LSB 837 - Lift High the Cross - CRUCIFER

RH 12 - Give to Our God Immortal Praise! - DUKE STREET

RH 74 - We Are Baptized in Christ Jesus - OUIMETTE

RH 75 - All Who Believe and Are Baptized - ES IST DAS HEIL

RH 132 - When I Survey the Wondrous Cross - HAMBURG

RH 218 - Christ, the Life of All the Living - JESU, MEINES LEBENS LEBEN

RH 254 - What Wondrous Love Is This - WONDROUS LOVE

RH 269 - Lift High the Cross - CRUCIFER