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George Walter North (1913 - 2003). British evangelist, author, and founder of New Covenant fellowships, born in Bethnal Green, London, England. Converted at 15 during a 1928 tent meeting, he trained at Elim Bible College and began preaching in Kent. Ordained in the Elim Pentecostal Church, he pastored in Kent and Bradford, later leading a revivalist ministry in Liverpool during the 1960s. By 1968, he established house fellowships in England, emphasizing one baptism in the Holy Spirit, detailed in his book One Baptism (1971). North traveled globally, preaching in Malawi, Australia, and the U.S., impacting thousands with his focus on heart purity and New Creation theology. Married with one daughter, Judith Raistrick, who chronicled his life in The Story of G.W. North, he ministered into his 80s. His sermons, available at gwnorth.net, stress spiritual transformation over institutional religion, influencing Pentecostal and charismatic movements worldwide.
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G.W. North emphasizes the profound truth of Christian communion, highlighting that true unity among believers transcends denominational divides and schism, which God condemns. He explains that while believers may be separated into different groups on earth, they are all part of one body in Christ, gathered in the spiritual assembly in heaven. The sermon calls for a deeper discernment of the body of Christ and affirms that true communion is rooted in the Holy Spirit, uniting all believers in grace and love. North celebrates the completeness of this communion, which includes the body, blood, and Spirit of Christ, affirming that believers are one with God.
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We, Being Many, Are One Body
What truth! What a Communion! Such a communion is The Communion indeed. The breach has been made, the gap closed, the way made clear and the end achieved, Hallelujah! By this we see the immensity of the folly and sin of schism. God hates and condemns it. Schism is that which breaks the Communion among men. Difference of opinion does not, but deliberate schism does, Its worst feature is that it appears (if it does not attempt) to falsify the truth that The Communion cannot be broken ever again. O how great is the need amongst us to discern the body of Christ in these days. Praise God, Communion does not rest upon denominational emphases or exclusivism, or the various 'communions' of men, but is of the Holy Ghost. We who are regenerate have all been made perfect in one and are come to the general assembly and Church of the firstborn ones written in heaven. The full gathering is there. On earth we are of necessity separated into little groups, but there on Mount Zion we are all gathered together, one large assembly around the throne in New Jerusalem, with an innumerable company of angels and perfected spirits in the presence of God the Judge of all and of Jesus the mediator of the New Covenant and the speaking blood. Our communion is in the Spirit with the Father and with His Son through grace and love. The Communion is entire. It is of the whole body. We all together with our Head are the Christ's body; the body and the blood and the Spirit are all ours now. We with God, Father, Son and Holy Ghost, are all one. That is the Communion. Hallelujah"
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George Walter North (1913 - 2003). British evangelist, author, and founder of New Covenant fellowships, born in Bethnal Green, London, England. Converted at 15 during a 1928 tent meeting, he trained at Elim Bible College and began preaching in Kent. Ordained in the Elim Pentecostal Church, he pastored in Kent and Bradford, later leading a revivalist ministry in Liverpool during the 1960s. By 1968, he established house fellowships in England, emphasizing one baptism in the Holy Spirit, detailed in his book One Baptism (1971). North traveled globally, preaching in Malawi, Australia, and the U.S., impacting thousands with his focus on heart purity and New Creation theology. Married with one daughter, Judith Raistrick, who chronicled his life in The Story of G.W. North, he ministered into his 80s. His sermons, available at gwnorth.net, stress spiritual transformation over institutional religion, influencing Pentecostal and charismatic movements worldwide.