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Better To Lose

from Giving Up The Dream by Ian Peacock

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Being part of a church community, I meet people from all sorts of backgrounds and with all sorts of personalities. Together, we get to share one another's joys and struggles. It's not always easy, and sometimes it's tempting to opt out and avoid getting involved in other people's messes, but it's a privilege to carry one another's burdens and to rejoice with those who celebrate. It also challenges me to not judge others' attitudes and actions - could I walk a mile in their shoes?

Jesus said that those who wanted to follow him must 'deny themselves and daily pick up their cross'. This is not an invitation to a victorious life (despite some some-called 'property teaching' in the Christian church) but a call to lose your life for the sake of others, to keep serving even when people take advantage of you, to believe the best about people, even if previous encounters would suggest otherwise.

It's nice to be a winner but Jesus calls us to be losers! 'For all who want to save their lives will lose them and those who lose their lives for my sake will find it'.

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You've given me access to your life story
We're sharing your success in all its glory
In awe of the picture you've painted for me
You've helped me to see it's better to be in community

There but for the grace of God go I
Daily could I lift a cross so high?

Walk a mile in your shoes
Take the rough with the smooth
Sing the rock and the blues
It's nice to win but sometimes in life it's better to lose

You told me your struggles and disappointments
Your terrible troubles and inner torment
Like brothers we'll conquer, each other a Godsend
This life's not a sprint, so I'll be your splint, together we bruise

There but for the grace of God go I
Daily could I lift a cross so high?

Walk a mile in your shoes
Take the rough with the smooth
Sing the rock and the blues
It's nice to win but sometimes in life it's better to lose

Jesus is for losers, for those he calls,
he chooses to sacrifice their riches, the pride their ego itches
Jesus is for weirdos, not for those with halos, it's not for good behaviour, for all who bleed they need a saviour

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from Giving Up The Dream, released August 26, 2017

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Ian Peacock Manchester, UK

Ian has played in bands for over 20 years, most notably headlining the UK Play stage at Leeds Carling Festival in 2000 with a former band, ‘Coasta’. He has written, produced and self released five albums: 'Life and After' (2009), 'The End of Faith' (2012) and 'This Time Tomorrow' (2014), 'Still Human' (2015), 'Ordinary People' (2016) in addition to several E.P's. ... more

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