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Harvest Glasgow

Posted Tuesday, July 12 2011 @ 7 AM byScott Hamilton Tagged No tags 0 comments Add comment

Being asked to write a blog about a Sunday service here in Glasgow seems a bit like telling you all stuff you already know. But maybe that’s the point. We had a couple from Harvest Oakville come visit us last summer (just to whet your sense of the competitive - Oakville holds the record for the most non-missions trip visitors to Harvest Glasgow). It was such a great thing to see the tears well up in the eyes of those ex-patriot Glaswegians as they saw the four pillars, heard the worship team running through songs so familiar, Party with the Pastor, the commitment to preaching for transformation not just information, and "you are loved." They marvelled that God’s hand had been so gracious to allow a Harvest to be planted in their home city. (Even if you move away from Glasgow, it’s always home.)

That’s the great thing about being part of the Harvest family; you can be far away and still feel at home. So right now we are working through a series called ‘Basic Instructions’ on the book of Proverbs. We have studied parenting, speech, discipline, friendship with pride and teachability still to come. God’s Word is transforming lives. As senior pastor here I am always blessed by the tangible sense of hunger that there is for God’s Word and the earnest desire to apply it.

We sing songs that are contemporary in style with the core being a desire to lift Jesus' name high and within the content a commitment to sing God’s Word. God has blessed us from the outset of the church with some gifted musicians and singers in disproportionate number to our size. Lead guitarists, keyboard players, singers, drummers (okay we have one drummer who works amazingly hard regularly and humbly). So here are my present (albeit changing regularly) top five songs that we sing at Harvest Bible Chapel Glasgow.

1. Lift Up The Name
2. Everlasting God (my kids love this song so I need to put it down)
3. Your Love Never Fails
4. Made Us Alive
5. Revelation Song

One of the most encouraging things that we have found is that Sundays have become like a family gathering. In fact more and more people are using the term "church family" to describe who we are to one another. And that includes you, our church family in Barrie. We already have a sense of belonging with you in the convictions we share. We already have a sense of longing with you for the city you call home. We already have a sense of excitement for you at all that God will do in and for and through you as you stand faithfully for him, strengthened by him.

Come visit us - it will feel a lot like home.

You are loved!

Scott Hamilton
Senior Pastor, Harvest Glasgow