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

The Church's One Foundation with The Solid Rock

7 May 2014 · 5 min

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This content is a verbatim transcription of a multi‑voice performance of two classic Christian hymns merged into a single piece: “The Church’s One Foundation” and “On Christ the Solid Rock I Stand.” Three labeled speakers (A, B, and C) alternate delivering verses that proclaim Jesus Christ as the sole foundation of the Church, describe the Church as a new creation, affirm the unity of faith, hope, and love, and invoke the eschatological hope of a victorious, peaceful Church. The refrain repeatedly emphasizes the metaphor of Christ as a solid rock while all other ground sinks like sand. The transcription captures lyrical repetitions, theological affirmations (one Lord, one faith, one baptism), and a worshipful tone that underscores the hymn’s doctrinal and devotional purpose.

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The church's one foundation is Jesus Christ her Lord; she is his new creation, By water and the word.
From heaven he came and sought her to be his own and buy her.
With his own bloody body and for her life he died. Elected from every nation, yet one around the earth.
Her charter of salvation: one Lord, one faith, one birth. One holy name she blesses, partakes one holy food..
And to one hope she presses with every grace endued.
Through toil and tribulation and through all other woe, she waits the consummation of peace forevermore.
Till happy vision glorious her longing eyes have blessed, and the great Church victorious shall be the Church at rest.
<LYRICS>On Christ the solid rock I stand, all other ground is sinking sand.
All other ground is sinking sand.
Sinking sand. Oh, on Christ the</LYRICS> On solid rock I stand, all other ground is sinking sand.
All other ground is sinking sand.
Yet she on earth hath union with God the Three-in-One, and mystic sweet communion with those whose rest is won. O happy ones and holy, Lord, give us grace that we, like them, the meek and lowly, On high, they dwell with thee.
On Christ the solid rock I stand, all other ground is sinking sand, all other ground is sinking sand.
On Christ the solid rock I stand. All other ground is sinking sand.
All other ground is sinking sand.