'New Creation' rocks annual conference

The reason: the conference was celebrating the arrival of its inaugural theme song, "New Creation" by Greg Graham of Blue Grass UMC in Evansville.

Graham, director of creative arts at Blue Grass, received a flier from his pastor regarding a theme song contest for the annual conference. "I wrote the song and submitted it. We're excited to be here," said Graham, backstage after the first playing of the song. "We're just having a blast."

Graham is joined onstage with his fellow musicians John Wells, Ray Buttry and Erick Scales.

The process of writing the song was easy for Greg. "I started in the Bible." After some prayer and other thoughts about the passages he read, he sat down to write the song. "The chorus just came to me. I was blessed. I had it done the morning I started it."

'New Creation'

Words and music by Greg Graham;
copyright by Greg Graham; used by permission

Stanza 1

We had our start with God
Then fell apart from God
Separated by our sinful inclinations
Then we were won by Christ
To be one with Christ
Brought back together to be his delegation
From the pieces of a broken body
He made all things new

Chorus

We stand before you a new creation
The old is gone, the new has come
Oh Lord we lift your name as we together claim
This new creation in You

Stanza 2

We are compelled by love
To go and tell his love
To a world that needs to hear of his salvation
And put back one by one
What this sin had undone
Back to the way it was when we were first created
Share the story of his broken body
And he'll make all things new
Bridge
There are those who want like us to begin anew
So we must tell them the story, tell what our Jesus can do.

Last updated on 25 Apr 2008

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