Category: Unity

David Gourley at Towerview Church Bangor

It was a privilege and great joy for my family and I to be invited by the Reverend Kathie & Dr Ivan Filby to spend a morning with the family of God who meet at Towerview Church Bangor.

Having the opportunity to share God’s heart and great desire for his children to share their stories of conversion and ongoing stories their lives lived in fellowship with him, our Great God and Saviour Jesus Christ was a wonderful blessing.

If you would like to invite me to come to your own church/fellowship/small group or even personally to share the burden and message that the Lord has given me to encourage the family of God with please get in touch. I’d love to hear your story too.

May the Lord bless us all.

David Gourley

Ards & North Down Christian Community Hub

Keeping the Unity of the Spirit – a sermon from Dr. Martyn Lloyd-Jones

Do you ever struggle to get along with a brother or sister in Christ? Conflict is an ongoing part of life today, just as it was for the church at Ephesus. This challenging message by Dr. Martyn Lloyd-Jones opens Paul’s letter to the Ephesians and address how Believers can live in unity and peace. Rather than ignore sin or avoid confrontation, we must quickly exhort and forgive one another, guarding the unity of the Spirit, and guarding the fellowship of believers. This is supernatural unity that can only belong to those indwelt with the Spirit. Therefore, to not guard this unity is actually a grievance to the Holy Spirit. So how can we guard our Holy Spirit unity? Lloyd-Jones proclaims that being humble, gentle, patient, and bearing with one another are critical characteristics of believing relationships. We must do this because we love one another and we desire to guard our unity. Just as parents humbly serve and instruct their children with patience and gentleness, we must do the same thing with our brothers and sisters in Christ. This sermon will be a great encouragement to your personal fellowship with the church body.

https://www.mljtrust.org/sermons/keeping-the-unity-of-the-spirit/

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Assistance Needed

Hello Folks,I’m looking for help with content to share on the Ards & North Down Christian Community Hub, a service and resource for the local Christian community and those seeking to know more.

Local stories of salvation and faith

Local people involved in Christian arts/media/music or literature

Local people involved in mission and Christian charity work both home and abroad

Local Christian business people

Some news!

The first issue of “Stories From The Good News Letter” a booklet with local people’s stories of their journey to and with God is soon to be launched and made freely available throughout the Ards & North Down area.

This is a companion publication of “The Good News Letter” which is available now on the website in digital format https://ardsnorthdownchristiancommunityhub.com/the-good…/ and will also be available in digital format in the near future.

I am looking for assistance with its distribution to make it as widely available as possible. God willing this will be a quarterly publication.

If you can help and/or identify local shops or businesses that would be willing to have a booklet dispenser/small information poster/information cards I would be most grateful.

Yours sincerely,

David Gourley

“In this the love of God is known to us: for God sent his only Son to the world so that it shall live by him. God showed his love for us when he sent his only Son into the world to give us life. By this hath the charity of God appeared towards us, because God hath sent his only begotten Son into the world, that we may live by him.”

The Fellowship of Believers

A sermon from Dr. Martyn Lloyd-Jones https://www.mljtrust.org/sermons/the-fellowship-of-believers/

A Christian is a person who has received abundant life from God and what does the Christian do in response to this incredible measure of grace? He goes to church. Dr. Lloyd-Jones quotes a Welsh politician in the 1960’s who said, “I’m a Christian, but the non-churchgoing type.” Dr. Lloyd-Jones exposes this wrong thinking, showing that a Christian is not one who goes to church once a year or not at all, but one who participates actively in Christ’s body in a response of thankfulness and servitude. Reaching the world does not start with asking people to go to church; it starts with sharing the gospel, as the gospel is the most important truth in the world. As Dr. Lloyd-Jones explains, if an unbeliever is saved by Christ, they will naturally want to join the local, visible family of Christ. Ultimately, Christians gather because they rejoice in the same Savior. As Dr. Lloyd-Jones preaches from Acts 2:41–47, we learn that in this life, there is only one way to get to the favorable side of eternity: through Christ’s blood. Those who respond to His sacrifice and rejoice in Him will be in fellowship with believers today.

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