Glory to God ‎#300

300. We Are One in the Spirit (They’ll Know We Are Christians by Our Love)

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Text Information

• First Line: We are one in the Spirit
• Title: We Are One in the Spirit (They’ll Know We Are Christians by Our Love)
• Author: Peter Scholtes (1966)
• Refrain First Line: And they'll know we are Christians by our love
• Meter: 7.6.7.6.8.6 with refrain
• Language: English
• Publication Date: 2013
• Scripture:
  John 13:34-35
  ;
  1 Corinthians 12:12-13
  ;
  Ephesians 4
  ;
  Philippians 2:4
  ;
  1 John 4:7-12
• Topic: The Church; Evangelism; Love for Others; Praise; The Triune God; Work; Unity
• Copyright: © 1966 F.E.L. Publications, assigned 1991 to The Lorenz Corp.

Tune Information

• Name: THEY’LL KNOW WE ARE CHRISTIANS
• Composer: Peter Scholtes (1966)
• Meter: 7.6.7.6.8.6 with refrain
• Key: f minor
• Copyright: © 1966 F.E.L. Publications, assigned 1991 to The Lorenz Corp.

Text Information:

A parish priest at St. Brendan’s on the South Side of Chicago in the 1960s was very involved in the local Civil Rights movement and needed something for his youth choir to sing at ecumenical, interracial events. Finding nothing, he wrote this song in a single day.