- He Lives
"He Lives" is a
Christian hymn , otherwise known by its first line, "I Serve a Risen Savior". It was composed in 1933 byAlfred Henry Ackley (1887-1960), and remains popular today. [ [http://www.cyberhymnal.org/misc/frh.htm Frequently Requested Hymns] listed at The Cyber Hymnal]The hymn discusses the experience claimed by Christians that
Jesus Christ lives within their hearts. It is disliked or excluded by some conservative evangelicals, on the grounds that the appeal to experience is less reliable than the words ofscripture and can lead toheresy . [Richard J. Mouw, Mark A. Noll, [http://books.google.com/books?id=3FofrOJE3CIC&pg=PA205&lpg=PA205&dq=%22i+serve+a+risen+saviour%22&source=web&ots=lA40AhwgC4&sig=H4sZobKguaAEaLxYTorQxzewK3s "Wonderful Words of Life: Hymns in American Protestant History and Theology"] , 2004, Calvin Institute, page 205.]References
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