#317 - David Gibson - Minister @ Trinity Church - Living Life Backward, Ecclesiastes, Building a Church!

David Gibson is the Minister of Trinity Church, in Aberdeen, Scotland, where he has lived for the last 19 years. David is passionate about reaching the city where he lives with the gospel, and the Trinity congregation is preparing to restore Aberdeen's largest church building (built in 1904) after decades of neglect. Most recently, he has published in academic and more popular contexts on the beauty of the Wisdom literature in everyday life: Living Life Backward: How Ecclesiastes Teaches us to Live in Light of the End. On this episode, Chris and David discuss: Christianity in Europe/The UK vs. The United States Making sense of the Gospel and coming to Christ David's journey buying and restoring a church The book of Ecclesiastes The value of embracing death Introducing your kids to Ecclesiastes We'd appreciate you filling out our audience survey, so we can continuously work on providing relevant content to our listeners.  https://www.thefortpod.com/survey Links: TrinityAberdeen.org.uk Trinity Church Aberdeen on YouTube Living Life Backward by David Gibson Remaking the World by Andrew Wilson The Air We Breathe by Glen Scrivener The Pastor by Eugene H. Peterson The Tech-Wise Family by Andy Crouch Topics: (00:00:00) Intro (00:01:27) David’s background and career (00:05:32) Christianity in the Europe/UK vs. the United States (00:11:56) Making sense of the Gospel and Coming to Christ (00:15:24) The Christian environment in Ireland (00:20:20) Buying a church (00:25:02) How to help David  (00:28:17) The book of Ecclesiastes  (00:42:09) The value of embracing death (00:54:18) How to NOT become the messiah (00:54:18) Introducing your kids to Ecclesiastes  Support our Sponsors Fort Capital: https://bit.ly/FortCapital Follow Fort Capital on LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/company/fort-capital/ Chris on Social Media: Twitter: https://bit.ly/3BYIjcH LinkedIn: https://bit.ly/45gIkFd   Watch The Fort on YouTube: https://bit.ly/3oynxNX Visit our website: https://bit.ly/43SOvys Leave a review on Apple: https://bit.ly/45crFD0 Leave a review on Spotify: https://bit.ly/3Krl9jO  The FORT is produced by Johnny Podcasts

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