Worship songs about community are the songs a church sings about its life together: welcoming people in, praying for one another, and serving the town around it. The ten below are all on Worship Online, sorted by those three jobs.
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Need ten songs for Sunday? The table lists each song’s recorded key and tempo. Each title links to the song’s page on Worship Online, where members open the tutorials. The notes underneath say what each song asks a congregation to do and where it sits in a service.
| Song | Artist | Key | Tempo (BPM) |
|---|---|---|---|
| House Of The Lord | Phil Wickham | Bb | 86 |
| The Father’s House | Cory Asbury | Db | 81 |
| Good Grace | Hillsong UNITED | A | 71 |
| Build Your Church | Elevation Worship, Chris Brown, Maverick City Music, Naomi Raine | A | 89 |
| The Lord’s Prayer (It’s Yours) | Matt Maher | A | 75 |
| Don’t Stop Praying | Matthew West | C | 77 |
| Hosanna | Hillsong Worship | E | 76.5 |
| We Believe | Newsboys | D | 65 |
| Center | Bethel Music, Abbie Gamboa | A | 66 |
| Build Your Kingdom Here | Rend Collective | D | 134 |
About these keys: these are the keys the artists recorded, and every lesson video keeps that original key. If your room sings better somewhere else, pick a new key. Worship Online then moves the mixer audio, chord charts, and guitar and bass tabs to that key (the help article on keys explains how). The help center says the mixer covers 99% of the library.
Worship Songs About Community: Gathering and Belonging
A church community starts at the door. These four songs are for the first part of a service, when people are still arriving, greeting each other and finding out whether they belong here.
1. House Of The Lord by Phil Wickham
The verses run through what God has done: open prison doors, a parted sea, healing, the cross and the empty grave. The chorus then turns to the room itself. It says God is present in this place today, and the people in it will not keep quiet about Him.
That makes it a song about the gathering, not just a song sung at one. Open with it while people are still coming in. The chart has a vamp before the bridge, which is a good place for the leader to welcome the room and ask people to greet someone they do not know.
The bridge and the final chorus are each marked to repeat twice. The recording sits in Bb at 86 BPM. If Bb is awkward for your guitar players, A is a half step down.
2. The Father’s House by Cory Asbury
Of these ten, this is the song most about belonging. The chorus tells the listener to set their burdens down and leave their shame outside, because they are in the Father’s house. The second verse says a failure is never final when the Father is in the room.
On any Sunday, someone in the room may have nearly stayed home because of how last week went. This song tells that person they are expected. Sing it on a Sunday with visitors, or after a sermon on Luke 15, where the father runs to meet the son who left.
The song ends with four short bridges in a row. The first three name people God brings back: prodigals, the helpless, prisoners, the dead and the cynical. Decide who sings each one before rehearsal, and build the band up one bridge at a time. It is in Db at 81 BPM; C or D are a half step either side.
3. Good Grace by Hillsong UNITED
The opening verse gathers people who never knew each other, from every generation and nation, and makes them one family through the blood of Jesus.
The chorus is unusual: it is sung to a person, not to God. It tells them not to be troubled, to take courage, and to remember where their help comes from. It does what Hebrews 10:24 and 25 asks of believers: encourage each other. After a hard week in your church, a funeral or a round of layoffs in town, invite people to sing the chorus to the person beside them.
Good Grace is in A at 71 BPM. The chart lists the chorus only once, between the first verse and the first refrain. If you want the room to own it, duplicate the chorus near the end of the song structure.
4. Build Your Church by Elevation Worship
Recorded with Chris Brown, Maverick City Music and Naomi Raine. The first verse names Christ as the cornerstone, with no other foundation to build on. The chorus draws on Jesus’ promise to Peter in Matthew 16:18: He is the one building His church, and no power of death or hell can bring it down. The bridges keep asking Him to build it, starting at the foundations.
This is a song about who a church community is and whose it is. It fits a church anniversary, a launch Sunday for a new campus, or the week new members join.
Expect A at 89 BPM, in 6/8. The chart is long, with two passes through both bridges, then two more refrains before the outro. Agree on how many bridge passes you will do, and count the song in at rehearsal so nobody slips into a straight four-beat feel.
Songs for Praying Together as a Church
Community prayer is the simplest form of life together: people bringing each other’s needs to God. James 5:16 asks believers to be honest with one another about their failures and to bring one another to God. These three songs give a whole room words for that.
5. The Lord’s Prayer (It’s Yours) by Matt Maher
This sets the prayer Jesus taught in Matthew 6:9 to 13. Jesus gave it in the plural: every request is made for the group, not for one person. The chorus keeps that, and its middle line asks God to pardon us in the same measure that we pardon the people who hurt us. The bridges hand all rule, strength and honor back to God.
That forgiveness line is the hard part of community. It is difficult to sing it with a grudge against someone three rows back. Have the congregation pray the prayer aloud first, then begin the song.
Matt Maher recorded it in A at 75 BPM. Each verse sings its lines twice, so a room that knows the prayer can join by the second time through.
6. Don’t Stop Praying by Matthew West
The first verse speaks to someone who has asked God for a breakthrough and is close to giving up. The chorus tells them to keep calling on the name of Jesus, because the Father has heard every word. The two bridges then list what to keep praying for: the prodigal, a miracle, an end to addiction, deliverance, healing and God’s kingdom.
Use those bridges as a prayer guide. On a prayer night, let the band hold under each bridge while people pray for someone near them who is carrying one of those things. Galatians 6:2 asks believers to help hold up the weight a friend cannot hold alone.
The key is C and the tempo 77 BPM. C sits well on guitar and keys, so it travels to a small group or a hospital room without much change.
7. Hosanna by Hillsong Worship
The second verse pictures a generation rising up with selfless faith, and revival stirring while the church prays on its knees. The bridge is a personal prayer for a clean heart and open eyes, for the ability to love others the way Jesus loves, and for a heart that grieves over what grieves God.
That last request is where prayer turns toward other people. Place the song just before a time of prayer for your city, or before a church takes up a need in the neighborhood.
Hosanna is listed in E at 76.5 BPM. The chart ends on the bridge, after a doubled instrumental. Let the bridge repeat as long as the room is praying.
Worship Songs About Serving Others and Your Community
A community that only gathers stays inside its own walls. These three songs point it outward. For more on the love behind that, see our list of worship songs about loving others.
8. We Believe by Newsboys
The chorus is a creed: the Father, Jesus, the Spirit, the cross, the resurrection and His return. In the second verse, the singers ask that their faith be bigger than their songs. The bridge asks for love to break into the here and now.
Sing it on the Sunday before a serve day or an outreach weekend. The second verse sets up the pastor’s point: what the church believes on Sunday shows on Tuesday, in a neighbor’s kitchen or a school parking lot.
We Believe is in D at 65 BPM, and the chart is short: one chorus, then the second verse, the bridge and the ending. Add a chorus after the bridge if you want people to sing the creed one more time.
9. Center by Bethel Music and Abbie Gamboa
Most of the song keeps Jesus at the center of a life. In verse two, the singers want to learn the difference between a moment for serving and a moment for sitting at His feet. That is Martha and Mary in Luke 10:38 to 42: one sister rushing around getting the house ready, the other sitting still and listening to Jesus.
Every community runs on its Marthas: greeters, kitchen crews, parking teams, the people who set up chairs before anyone else arrives. Sing this at a volunteer night or the start of a ministry year. It thanks the servers and reminds them where their serving comes from.
Center is in A at 66 BPM. On its first pass the bridge repeats three times, so plan the build there.
10. Build Your Kingdom Here by Rend Collective
Its second verse asks to see captive hearts set free and the hurt, the sick and the poor at peace. The chorus asks God to heal the streets and the land. It is a prayer about the town outside the church doors.
Close with it on a Sunday that ends in a serve project: a food drive, a school supply day, a yard clean-up for an elderly neighbor. Sing it, then send people out to do it.
Rend Collective play it in D at 134 BPM. The chart has a single chorus, after the second verse, and ends on an instrumental after the last pre-chorus. If you want the chorus ringing as people leave, duplicate it at the end of the song structure.
A Sample Community Sunday
This order moves from arriving to praying to going. The keys are the recorded ones.
- Arrive: House Of The Lord (Bb). Use the vamp to greet each other.
- Belong: The Father’s House (Db), for anyone who nearly stayed home.
- Pray together: The Lord’s Prayer (It’s Yours) (A), with the prayer spoken aloud first.
- Pray for each other: Don’t Stop Praying (C), with time to pray under the bridges.
- Go: Build Your Kingdom Here (D), straight into the serve project.
Bible Passages About Christian Community
Each one below can be read aloud before the song it is matched with. We wrote the summaries ourselves; check the wording in your church’s own Bible translation.
- Acts 2:42 to 47. The early church learns from the apostles, shares meals and prayer, gives away what it owns so nobody goes without, and meets in homes day after day. Read it before House Of The Lord.
- Hebrews 10:24 and 25. Keep showing up for each other, and look for ways to nudge one another toward kindness and practical help. Read it before Good Grace, the encouragement song.
- Luke 15:20 to 24. The father spots his son coming home, runs out to meet him, and throws a party for the child he thought he had lost. Read it ahead of The Father’s House.
- Matthew 16:18. Jesus promises that He Himself builds His church, and that not even death can defeat it. It sits under Build Your Church.
- James 5:16. Admit your wrongs to one another and bring one another to God, so that healing can come. Read it before the congregation prays The Lord’s Prayer (It’s Yours).
- Galatians 6:2. Help one another with what is too heavy to bear alone; that is how followers of Christ keep His command. Read it before Don’t Stop Praying.
- 1 Peter 4:10. Whatever ability God has given you is meant to be spent on other people. Read it at the volunteer night, before Center.
Questions About Community Worship Songs
What about hymns about community?
Lists of community songs often name older ones such as The Family of God, by William J. and Gloria Gaither, and Bind Us Together, by Bob Gillman. If your church sings older songs, one of them can sit next to The Lord’s Prayer (It’s Yours), which sets the prayer from Matthew 6 to music.
How is a community set different from a unity set?
Unity songs ask God to make different people one. Community songs are about what those people then do for each other week to week: welcome, pray, serve. For the first kind, see our list of worship songs about unity.
Which of these work in a small group with one guitar?
Pick songs with sections that repeat. The Lord’s Prayer (It’s Yours) sings each verse line twice. Good Grace has two wordless refrains anyone can join. Don’t Stop Praying is in C, which needs no capo. Worship Online chord charts transpose to any key, so a small-group leader can print one that suits a few voices in a living room.
Learn Your Part Before the Serve Day
This short video is a tour of Worship Online itself: the lessons, the charts and the mixer.
Serve days end tired. If your leader drops Build Your Kingdom Here from D to C so the room can still sing it, the guitar tab and the chord chart switch to C, and the Acoustic 1 lesson shows you how the part moves. The help center puts the mixer on 99% of the library; where this song has it, set it to C, mute the acoustic track and play along with the band. Get all ten of these songs ready in a free, no-risk 14-day trial. These ten sit in a library of 800+ album-accurate song tutorials, trusted by over 9,000 worship teams.
