Everyone’s welcome at Bellshill Central Church on a Sunday morning, particularly in person but also online if you can’t come. We start at 11am.
Our next three services are:
Sunday 5th February
Our theme is Praise and saying thank you! We’ll have some favourite Happy hymns, have a video for the kids and big kids, and our worship team will lead us in prayers and some readings and reflection. After this service tea and coffee are served in the hall.
Some hymns include
Jubilate
To God be the Glory
Our God is a great big God
And more…………..
Sunday 12th February
The theme is Love is all around. This is the Sunday nearest to St Valentines day so we need to talk about LOVE! A worship team will lead us in our prayers and readings.
How can we share love with others?
How can we share God’s love?
Come along and find out!
Some hymns include:
The King of love
I’ve got the joy, joy, joy, joy, down in my heart
Love divine
You shall go out with joy
Sunday 19th February
Alan Mathew will take a service for Thinking Day 2023 and we look forward to seeing all our Rainbows, Brownies and Guides.
The theme is Creation and looking after our planet and saying thank you to God for all he’s provided.
Our youth organisations have some rewards to present and will renew their promises.
Our Sunday School meets in the hall. They join us for the first bit of the service then continue their fun in the hall.
Each week you are invited to donate non perishable food stuffs for the Neighbourhood Centre. The box is located in the vestibule at the main entrance
Regular Activities are:
Wednesday – Bowls 2pm in the hall (please think of this as a warm place – all are welcome)
7pm Church Choir (please note the earlier time)
Thursday 6pm Brownies
7.45pm The Guides
Sunday 10:45am Young Church and Creche
11am Sunday Worship
Monday 1.30pm The Guild – no 1.30pm meeting on 30th January.
7:30pm Online Zoom Prayer – no meeting on 30th January.
Tuesday 6pm The Rainbows
The Bellshill Central guild and friends have organised a free concert, in the Church with tea, coffee and refreshments on Monday 30th January at 7pm. The entertainment is provided by the Saffronhall Singers, a Hamilton based community choir led by Campbell Barr. All are most welcome. Please bring a friend along, you’re guaranteed a warm welcome.
Advance notice of a meeting of our trustees, all board and Session members, on Tuesday 7th February at 7pm.
Bellshill Central Parish Church is here for you. We are your church of Scotland presence in the town centre, Orbiston and Mossend areas.
Our minister Revd Kevin de Beer would be extremely pleased to hear from you if you are needing any support.
Shortly before He went to the cross, Jesus prayed for unity among His followers: “Holy Father, protect them by the power of your name, the name you gave me, so that they may be one as we are one” (John 17:11).
Later in the same prayer, Jesus asked “that all of them may be one, Father, just as you are in me and I am in you. May they also be in us. . . . I have given them the glory that you gave me, that they may be one as we are one—I in them and you in me—so that they may be brought to complete unity” (John 17:21–23). Obviously, Christian unity is important to our Lord.
Jesus not only prayed for unity, but He gave the reasons that Christian unity is important: He asked that all believers may be in the Father and the Son, “so that the world may believe that you have sent me” (John 17:21). And then Jesus prayed for “complete unity” so that “the world will know that you sent me and have loved them even as you have loved me” (verse 23). When Christians are united in Christ, the world sees two things clearly: Jesus was sent by the Father, and Jesus loves His church.
In Romans 15:5–6, we see another, more general reason that Christian unity is important: “May the God of endurance and encouragement grant you to live in such harmony with one another, in accord with Christ Jesus, that together you may with one voice glorify the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ” (ESV). The bottom line is God’s glory. God’s people should be speaking with one voice in glorifying God.
Christian unity comes with Christian maturity, and it is always something that we strive to attain. Paul instructs us to “make every effort to keep the unity of the Spirit through the bond of peace” (Ephesians 4:3). Helping us toward that unity are the gifts of the Spirit. God has given each Christian different gifts, and their exercise in the edification of the church leads to more and more unity. One purpose of the gifts is that “we all reach unity in the faith and in the knowledge of the Son of God and become mature, attaining to the whole measure of the fullness of Christ” (Ephesians 4:13).
To promote Christian unity, God presents the church in 1 Corinthians 12:12–27 as a living body. The body has many members, each with specialized work to do, but all the parts are united in the Head of the Body, which is Christ (see Ephesians 4:15).
Christians naturally form local communities in which no one needs to rejoice or suffer alone (Romans 12:15; 1 Corinthians 12:26). Christians from many different backgrounds working in unity display the power of the gospel and the universality of its saving message (Galatians 3:26–28). Christians bring honor to God’s name by pursuing unity in the power of the Holy Spirit who brings us together as one through faith in Christ.
Christian unity is a virtue, but there are some things that can and should limit unity. We don’t pursue unity simply for the sake of unity; it is Christ and His truth that unite us. Scripturally, we are to separate from professed brothers and sisters in Christ who live in persistent, unrepentant sin (Matthew 18:15–17; 1 Corinthians 5:1–2) and from those who teach false doctrine (Revelation 2:14–15). “Watch out for those who cause divisions and put obstacles in your way that are contrary to the teaching you have learned. Keep away from them” (Romans 16:17).
As Ephesians 4:13 intimates, we won’t reach full Christian unity until we attain “to the whole measure of the fullness of Christ.” So we probably won’t fully realize Christian unity in this world. But we strive for it. The unity that faith in Christ brings extends God’s love on earth and demonstrates the truth of who Jesus is. Unity in the church also foreshadows the worship in heaven, where a great multitude “from every nation, tribe, people and language” stands before God and cries out with a loud voice, “Salvation belongs to our God, who sits on the throne, and to the Lamb” (Revelation 7:9–10).
Christian Unity….. is anyone actually interested? As Christians it is important that we put aside petty differences and share in our common belief of God, our common belief in the power of prayer and the good that it can do.
Bellshill Central Church is hosting a service for ALL on Sunday 22nd January at 3pm. This is an ecumenical service for all faiths.
All Churches have been invited. Please come along and make sure your church is represented.
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