1 And did you risk yourself, O Christ, for such a world as ours, into its hands to yield your life, your name, your gifts and powers? So few had seen and touched and heard, so few received your love! but now your Spirit and your word have set us on the move. 2 What stories fill those early days of saints whose names we know, who risked their lives to speak your praise and saw your kingdom grow! What news escapes to reach us now and shames our little faith believers risking all for you through prison, pain and death. 3 Lord, help us to release our grasp on all that chokes the seed, on all that undermines our task or contradicts our creed; to find the new security of launching into space when you baptize us, set us free and give the opening grace! 4 No status, goods or power of choice, no right and no renown can matter when we hear your voice or glimpse your thorny crown; when we are least in human eyes in you we are most strong; can this be risk, to die, to rise with you, our Glory Song?