Who Is the Sender?���s penultimate song, "World of Life", is buoyed by strings and a fanfare of horns. Fay delivers the opening verse like he���s toasting an heir. He���s hardly singing as he turns his gaze outward: "This can���t be all there is," he says, and there he is saying that at his age with a sense of wonder that will just about liquify you. Fay���s brothers and sisters���and make no bones about it, they are his brothers and sisters���in the Jesus music movement longed for transcendence, for the chance to escape even momentarily from this world. But it���s transformation that Fay longs for. "May gates be thrown open wide to receive you," go the last lines of the song, "into the world of life." It is, in the truest sense of the phrase, a redemption song.

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