Hymn text: “We Are Baptized Into Christ”

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This text was written in honor of the 2024 confirmation class at Brown Memorial Park Avenue Presbyterian Church. It is an assurance of what we profess in our baptisms, that “everflowing grace does stream to every fear and strife,” and that none can “e’er contain the Fount of steadfast grace,” our Creator and friend.

Throughout the hymn, we remember that in both the turbulence of our inner life—our fear, our relationships, our complexity—and the terrors of the outer life—hell and high water—we will always be held in the safe embrace of Christ and our redeemer’s “plunging love, unrestrained.”

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Recorded by the choir of Brown Memorial Park Avenue Presbyterian Church, May 19, 2024.

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1. [We are] baptized into Christ
   From death into new life
   Whose ever-flowing grace does stream
   To every fear and strife. [Refrain]
   
   Refrain:

   For who can e’er contain
   The Fount of steadfast grace!
   Cross every heart and time and space,
   Spans plunging love unrestrained.
   

2. In wilderness within,
   When heart with grumbling roar
   Does strike the Rock with spiteful rod
   Shall quenching love outpour. [Refrain]

3. When terror’s fiery flames
   Wick font and basin dry
   The Christ, our wellspring, faithful one
   With hope shall spring forth neigh. [Refrain]

4. Now draw, O Church, and stream
   To waters boundless, wide
   Of love, of grace, of hope so great,
   Shall every ill subside.
   For drowned is hell’s last reign
   In this, that Fount of grace!
   Now go in peace, in safe embrace
   Of plunging love unrestrained.