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# My Charge and Benediction
- URL: https://www.reyes-chow.com/my-charge-and-benediction/
- Published: 2023-11-09T13:10:23.000Z
- Updated: 2025-07-14T03:48:50.000Z
- Description: It's all that easy and it's all that hard
- Author: Bruce Reyes-Chow
- Tags: worship, prayer, pastors, benediction

Folks often ask about the Charge and Benediction I use when leading worship. It has gone through many shifts and changes over the past 20+ years and is a mishmash of words and phrases picked up and passed down.

A few years ago,[ I did shift two phrases](https://breyeschow.medium.com/after-25-years-im-changing-my-charge-and-benediction-2b6a94415216?ref=reyes-chow.com), and I still tweak the whole thing every once in a while, but here it is as it stands today.

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*Your Charge and Benediction...*

> Go forth into the world with compassion and justice in your heart  
> Hear voices of the long-silenced  
> See strength in that which has been deemed weak  
>  
> See one another  
> Hear one another  
> Care for one another  
> And love one another  
>  
> It’s all that easy  
> And it’s all that hard  
>  
> Now may the grace of Christ  
> The love of God  
> And the power of the Holy Spirit  
> Be with us all, now and forevermore  
>  
> And all God’s people say,  
> **AMEN**

I love that so many folks have gravitated to the [*It’s all that easy. And it’s all that hard*](https://www.google.com/search?q=%E2%80%9CIt%E2%80%99s+all+that+easy.+And+it%E2%80%99s+all+that+hard%E2%80%9D&sca%5Fesv=71794f1fdb36e6f3&rlz=1C5CHFA%5FenUS901US901&sxsrf=AM9HkKlrzXdpdAMArK63Sa-NBF70OB60LQ%3A1699510110558&ei=XndMZYTbIcCwwt0PmrWCiA0&ved=0ahUKEwiEgrrDoLaCAxVAmLAFHZqaANEQ4dUDCBA&uact=5&oq=%E2%80%9CIt%E2%80%99s+all+that+easy.+And+it%E2%80%99s+all+that+hard%E2%80%9D&gs%5Flp=Egxnd3Mtd2l6LXNlcnAiNOKAnEl04oCZcyBhbGwgdGhhdCBlYXN5LiBBbmQgaXTigJlzIGFsbCB0aGF0IGhhcmTigJ0yBxAjGK4CGCdIqFlQAFi4RnAAeAGQAQCYAZECoAHjFKoBBjAuMTMuMrgBA8gBAPgBAcICBRAAGKIEwgIFECEYoAHiAwQYACBBiAYB&sclient=gws-wiz-serp&ref=reyes-chow.com) phrasing, so please feel free to use it and attribute and link back to this post as able.

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