Rick Lee JamesHealthcare Chaplain, Bon Secours Mercy Health · Husband, Dad, Hospital Chaplain, Recording Artist, Podcast Host, Loyola University IPS Graduate, Alpha Sigma Nu Member, and Recording Academy (GRAMMY®) member - Contributing musician on a Grammy-nomin

Brethren We Have Met To Worship (Come Bow Down)

22 Jul 2015 · 5 min

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The video presents a call‑and‑response worship hymn in which two vocal parts (Speaker A and Speaker B) alternate verses and refrains. The lyrics repeatedly urge the gathered believers to pray, to seek the Holy Spirit’s presence, and to receive "holy manna" as divine provision. The song weaves biblical imagery—Moses’ sister, the promise of salvation, the looming presence of death and hell, and the hope of a heavenly table—to motivate repentance, communal love, and devotion. Refrains such as “Come bow down, rend your hearts before him now, gathered here on holy ground” reinforce a collective act of worship. The overall tone is earnest, exhortative, and hopeful, emphasizing love for God, love for one another, and the promise of renewal.

Chapters

3, 4. Brethren, we have met to worship and adore the Lord our God. Will you pray with all your power while we try to preach the word?
All is— is vain unless the Spirit of the Holy One comes down.
Brethren, pray and holy manna will be showered all around. Brethren, see poor sinners round you slumbering on the brink of woe. Death is coming, hell is moving, can you bear to let them go?
See our fathers and our mothers and our children sinking down.
With Renkri and holy mana will be showered all around.
Come bow down, rend your hearts before him now, gathered here on holy ground. Come bow down.
Sisters, will you join and help us Moses' sister aided him. Will you help the trembling mourners who are struggling hard with sin?
Tell them all about the Savior. Tell them that he will be found.
Sisters, pray and holy manna will be showered.
All around. Come bow down, rend your hearts before him now, gathered here on holy ground. Come bow down, come bow down, rend your hearts before him now. Gathered here on holy ground, come bow down.
Let us love our God supremely, let us love each other too. Let us love and pray for sinners till our God makes all things new.
Then he'll call us home to heaven, at his table we'll sit down.
Christ will gird himself and serve us with sweet manna all around.
Come bow down, rend your hearts before him now. Gathered here on holy ground, come bow down. Come bow down, rend your hearts before him now. Gathered here on holy ground, come bow down.