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No Greater Passion

06.07.16 | Music and Worship | by Ken Puls

No Greater Passion

    On Sunday June 5, 2016 Grace Baptist Church in Cape Coral, Florida celebrated the 30th Anniversary of Dr. Tom Ascol serving as pastor. I have had the privilege of serving with Tom and leading music at Grace since 2003. As part of the celebration I wrote a new song with the help of Becca Sissons entitled “No Greater Passion.”

    The chorus of the song has words very familiar to our church family. Pastor Tom has taught us to remember that the gospel is all about Jesus: “Who He is, what He’s done, and why it matters.”

    The idea for the verses came from another pastor, whose words Tom borrowed as an encouragement to our church. Inspired by Spurgeon’s first words at the Metropolitan Tabernacle, these were the first words that Pastor Tom spoke from the pulpit when we began meeting in our new building on Easter Sunday, April 8, 2012:

    This building has been prepared to serve the advance of the gospel here in Southwest Florida and around the world. Because of that I propose that the theme of all the preaching and teaching that will come from this platform shall be the person and work of Jesus Christ. We believe many things in this church. We love the law of God and delight in it because it is not only right but it is good. We love the great doctrines that are revealed in the Bible, especially those wonderful doctrines of God’s sovereign grace in salvation. But if asked what is our creed our answer must now and forever be, “Jesus Christ and Him crucified.” The one message that we have to proclaim to our community is simply this: “Jesus Christ came into the world to save sinners.” His life, death and resurrection is our joy and our passion.

    No Greater Passion

    “For I decided to know nothing among you except
    Jesus Christ and Him crucified” (1 Corinthians 2:2).

    We have no greater passion,
    No greater joy we own;
    No other cause so great unites us
    Than making Jesus known.
    We have one simple message
    That Jesus came to save;
    To rescue dead and helpless sinners,
    His life He freely gave.

    Let our lives and our lips
    Declare the gospel.
    All praise to Christ we give!
    Who He is, what He’s done,
    And why it matters,
    He’s the reason that we live.

    Read more of the lyrics and listen to a recording of the song from our evening service (June 5, 2016).