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