Works

Many churches complain about works

but you know they're really a good deal.

Especially when they're done for others

leastwise that's how I kinda feel.

The preachers they say “it's by grace

not of works lest all ye should boast”

then attendees sit back in their pews

claiming “saved” and they coast.

They act as if their prayers

will be the cure for all life's woes

then quite often they quickly become

for the poor, their most formidable foes.

Nothing at all gets done

and the needy go without

the providing for the hungry

is a never ending bout.

Shelter from the elements

some warmth from all that cold

it's the kind of help that's needed

that we never should withhold.

Now it's not just the homeless

there are many many more poor.

Can't we see out of our windows

don't we even know the score.

You see it's up to individual people

to help others when we see that it's needed

getting up off our backsides

forgetting for a moment about the word seeded.

For if all it is that we offer

is kind words and or prayers

then all that we're really showing them is

that we're good at putting on airs.

So where are all the churches

far too many just won't act

seldom practicin' what they been preachin'

and you know that that's a fact.