Welcome to the recorded livestream of worship, on Sunday 4th February 2024, from Bellshill Central Parish Church of Scotland.
Leading worship is Mr Ian Douglas
The reader today is Zandra Swan
Music is led by the Organist and Choir.
Download today’s pew sheet from https://bellshillcentral.church/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/2024-02-04.pdf
If you need to speak with anyone at Bellshill Central please email hello@bellshillcentral.church or call Mr Stanley Cook on 747144.
Our Locum Minister (Rev Margaret Rose) can be contacted on minister@bellshillcentral.church
Bellshill Central is your Town Centre Church with a warm and welcoming Church Family waiting to say hello. Our Sunday School meets during morning worship so we look forward to welcoming families along to our time of worship
Bellshill Central Church of Scotland Registered Charity: SC012556
Please consider donating to Bellshill Central Parish Church Via this link https://cos.churchofscotland.org.uk/donate/?cong=171073
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All songs and hymns are published using our various CCLI licences which are:
Church Copyright Licence 876673;
Music Reproduction Licence 876680
Church Video Licence 2258718;
PPL Church Licence 1593113
CLA Church Licence 1002856;
PRS for Music Church Licence 1448921
Streaming Licence 1638311
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Author: Bellshill Central
As the Church of Scotland in Bellshill we extend a warm welcome to any of our activities. People have been coming to this building to worship God for over a hundred years. While our town has journeyed through many changes over those years, the constancy of the witness of the “Church at 346 Main Street” has remained uninterrupted. The mission of any Church is to reflect through its presence, its music, its fellowship and its beauty the greatness of God, and we seek to do that here in all that we share.
We hope that everyone who enters these doors will find an encouraging, friendly group of people. While we are far from perfect, we are regularly discovering truths that are changing us individually and enriching our lives as a church community. As we worship together, learn from the Bible, and pray for one another, we are strengthened in our commitment to Jesus Christ as well as to each other. If this is your first time here, we welcome you, and invite you to share the joy that we have found.
Guild Guest Night with Ian Walker Band
The Guild hosted their Annual Guest night for 2024 with Ian Walker Band providing the entertainment. You can take part in some good music and chit chat through the player below.
BCPC Sunday Livestream 28th January 2024
Welcome to the recorded livestream of worship, on Sunday 28th January 2024, from Bellshill Central Parish Church of Scotland.
Leading worship is Rev Margaret ES Rose
The reader today is Elspeth Dornan
Music is led by the Organist and Choir.
Download today’s pew sheet from https://bellshillcentral.church/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/2024-01-28-1.pdf
If you need to speak with anyone at Bellshill Central please email hello@bellshillcentral.church or call Mr Stanley Cook on 747144.
Our Locum Minister (Rev Margaret Rose) can be contacted on minister@bellshillcentral.church
Bellshill Central is your Town Centre Church with a warm and welcoming Church Family waiting to say hello. Our Sunday School meets during morning worship so we look forward to welcoming families along to our time of worship
Bellshill Central Church of Scotland Registered Charity: SC012556
Please consider donating to Bellshill Central Parish Church Via this link https://cos.churchofscotland.org.uk/donate/?cong=171073
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All songs and hymns are published using our various CCLI licences which are:
Church Copyright Licence 876673;
Music Reproduction Licence 876680
Church Video Licence 2258718;
PPL Church Licence 1593113
CLA Church Licence 1002856;
PRS for Music Church Licence 1448921
Streaming Licence 1638311
#bellshillchurch #bellshill #church #thisischurch #community #worship #sundayworship #sundaymorning #welcome
Week of Prayer – Day 7
Jesus said: “Which of these three, do you think, was a neighbour?” (Lk 10:36)
Lord, show us how to respond to our neighbour
Additional scripture passages
Philippians 2.1-5
Psalm 10:17-18
Commentary
At the end of the parable, Jesus asked the lawyer: who was the neighbour to the man who was robbed? The lawyer replied “the one who showed him mercy”. He does not say “the Samaritan” and we might imagine that the hostility between Samaritans and Jews
made that answer hard to admit.
We often discover our neighbours in the most unexpected people, even those whose very name or origins we find difficult to utter. In today’s world, where polarised politics often set those of different religious identities against one another, Jesus challenges us through this parable to see the importance of our vocation to transgress borders and
walls of separation.
Like the lawyer, we are challenged to reflect upon how we live our lives, not merely in terms of whether we do good or not, but whether, like the priest and the Levite, we are
neglecting to do mercy.
Reflection
Them,
those people,
people like that,
you know…
But you don’t know,
that’s the point,
because you don’t want to know.
They’re not important,
as long as they know their place.
Thanks be to you, dear God,
that your interfering mercy
has put us in our place
for those others.
Prayer
Holy God,
your Son Jesus Christ came among us
to show us the way of compassion.
Help us by your Spirit to follow his example,
to serve the needs of all your children,
and so witness together as
Christians to your ways of love and mercy.
We pray in Jesus’ name. Amen.
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