This Must Be The Place

THIS MUST BE THE PLACE

words and music by Steve Amerson & Cary Schmidt

Copywrite 1998 Steve Amerson Music (BMI) & Centergy Music (BMI)

VERSE 1 :  Souls on the street

Addicted to sin

Selling themselves to survive

Not understanding the hope

they could find

In a place where God's love is alive

They doubt that they could meet

The standards necessary

And fear that they'd find judgment

Rather than a sanctuary

CHORUS:

This must be a place

Where a broken heart can mend

This must be a place

Where the outcast finds a frIend

For we cannot lift the fallen

If our hand still holds a stone

And their sin that seems so great to us

Is no greater than our own

There must be a point where shame meets grace

And this must be the place

VERSE 2:  The neighbor next door

Keeps the house looking good

But the home is collapsing within

Pressures of life pull a family apart

And temptation's destruction begins

They doubt the church could have

The answers necessary

And fear they'd find rejection

Rather than a sanctuary.

SECOND CHORUS:

This must be a place

Where a broken heart can mend

This must be a place

Where the outcast finds a friend

For we cannot lift the fallen

If our hand still holds a stone

And their sin that seems so great to us

Is no greater than our own

There must be a point where

shame meets grace

BRIDGE:

And the church must be the arms of God

Reaching out to bring them

To a place where they can find His love

Regardless of their sin

Sermon Idea: - When you want your kids to come home do you lie in wait to give them a beating for their waywardness?  Do you expect this to drive their sinfulness from them?  In effect this will merely drive them away from home again and a step farther from a right standing with God.