When the runners came from Bethlehem
All breathless with good news
They were passing a baton forward through time
The commission, from God? s lips to our ears
Carried by His Saints, two thousand years
Connects us all to the same lifeline
As I fix my eyes ahead
I can feel the Spirit? s breath
And I can hear the mission bell
Ringing out loud and clear
It's the revolution Jesus started
And it's here
Echoing across the world
From the shores of Galilee
I can hear the mission bell call
For you and me
I wanna run with fire
It? s my heart? s desire
Lifting Your love higher
In the history of our faith? s arrivals
Great awakenings, Welsh revivals
Saints and martyrs, summoned by a new birth
Patrick? s save of the Irish nation
William Carey? s expectation
Lambs and lions called to the ends of the earth
Gotta put my hands to the plow
Not looking back, not now
I can hear the mission bell
Ringing out loud and clear
It's the revolution Jesus started
And it's here
Echoing across the world
From the shores of Galilee
I can hear the mission bell call
For you and me
I wanna run with fire
It? s my heart? s desire
Lifting Your love higher
It? s my heart? s desire
I can hear the mission bell
Ringing out loud and clear
It's the revolution Jesus started
And it's here
Echoing across the world
From the shores of Galilee
I can hear the mission bell call
For you and me
I can hear the mission bell
Ringing out loud and clear
It's the revolution Jesus started
And it's here
I wanna run with fire
It? s my heart? s desire
Lifting Your love higher
It? s my heart? s desire
