Open our eyes, Lord

Open our eyes, Lord. Robert M. Cull* (1949- ). Written in Hawaii in 1975. This one-stanza worship song was written to address those who had, in Cull’s words, ‘closed minds’ to the Christian gospel. The music is by Cull himself. It has become very popular, and has appeared in many worship song books in the USA and in Britain. It has also been included in one mainstream denominational hymnal in Britain, BPW (1991). Cull described the circumstances of composition:  I was touring in Hawaii as a soloist and had been invited to a parochial school to give a concert. I just assumed I would find a lot of Christians there since it was run by a religious organization. I arrived early for the...