Next Sunday our regular services are moving to Friendship Christian School in south Forsyth
Today we held the last meeting at our rented facility at Lakefield Drive in Johns Creek. Beginning Sunday, October 4, we will meet each Sunday morning at Friendship Christian School (map it). The school is on the campus of New Life Church, located just a couple of miles north of our future building site.
Friendship Christian School
3160 Old Atlanta Road
Suwanee, GA 30024
Harter: I Will Not Leave You Comfortless
Elder Gus Harter preaches from John 14:15-20, focusing on the promise in verse 18: “I will not leave you comfortless.” The word translated comfortless is the Greek word orphanos, from which we derive orphan in English–a parentless child. In context, Jesus was promising his disciples that as He departed, they could anticipate the arrival of the Holy Spirit in His stead. It is the message of a loving Father to His children, a reassurance that they will not be abandoned.
Elsewhere, we are assured that wherever two or more gather in His name, the Spirit will be present. The church is the chiefest place on this earth where God’s children can go to be encouraged by His felt presence. In a message particularly stirring for the members of Bethany, Elder Harter encourages us to make our church a haven for our families and a place of love for the brethren and for all who feel the weight of sin and failure. The love we show each other is the working out of salvation and is an antidote for the enervation God’s children experience in their journey on this earth.
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Harter: Traveling with Paul, part 3 of 3
Elder Gus Harter speaks from Acts, chapters 13 and 14. This is the third of three messages tracing Paul’s first missionary journey to southern Galatia. The church of Antioch in Syria sponsored and supported Paul’s journey. Paul spent many months among the cities of Galatia, an area in modern-day Turkey: Derbe, Lystra, Iconium, and Antioch (a city of the same name as the one in Syria supporting Paul’s journey). It was during this journey that Paul was stoned, apparently to death, but revived by the Lord to resume preaching the very next day. Here was persecution! Yet the joy evidenced by Paul’s warm letter to the Galations, and his lifelong fellowship with Timothy of Galatia, bear witness to the truth that God’s children can experience joy despite persecution.
Paul also models the proper method of churches giving support to evangelists. The minister follows his burden to carry the gospel message; a church sponsors him; he does the work and returns to report it.
See also parts 1 and 2 of this message.
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