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Do You Love Me

Do You Love Me carries Jesus' second most important question into song — asked of Peter beside a charcoal fire on the shore. “Simon, son of John, do you love Me?” It moves from failure and shame to restoration and renewed calling.

Topic: Restoration & CallingKey of G (Capo 2 for A)

Lyrics, scripture, and biblical reverie — Bill Perkins’s own lyrics.

Do You love Me — that’s the question,

asked by the One I’m living for.

Three denials in the darkness,

three restores by the sea.

Rooster in the courtyard,

Jesus on the shore,

and the One whose love I denied was always by my side.

and the One whose love I denied was always by my side.

In the palace by the fire,

I wrapped my cloak in tight,

trying hard to disappear

in the shadows of the night.

But out there on the water,

when I saw my Lord once more,

I flung my cloak aside—

no further need to hide.

The fire’s smoke — it hit me—

three denials in the night.

But Jesus met me with a smile

and breakfast by the fire.

Then Jesus signaled with a wave,

inviting me to walk—

he said the two of us need some time to talk.

Do You love Me — that’s the question,

asked by the One I’m living for.

Three denials in the darkness,

three restores by the sea.

Rooster in the courtyard,

Jesus on the shore,

and the One whose love I denied was always by my side.

and the One whose love I denied was always by my side.

In the palace by the fire,

I wrapped my cloak in tight,

trying hard to disappear

in the shadows of the night.

But out there on the water,

when I saw my Lord once more,

I flung my cloak aside—

no further need to hide.

The fire’s smoke — it hit me—

three denials in the night.

But Jesus met me with a smile

and breakfast by the fire.

Then Jesus signaled with a wave,

inviting me to walk—

he said the two of us need some time to talk.

Do You love Me — that’s the question,

asked by the One I’m living for.

Three denials in the darkness,

three restores by the sea.

Rooster in the courtyard,

Jesus on the shore,

and the One whose love I denied was always by my side.

and the One whose love I denied was always by my side.

And the One whose love you denied was always at your side.

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Do You Love Me

“Simon, son of John, do you love Me?”

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