Friday, September 12

What is Fellowship?


Thinking about the weekend ahead, especially a breakfeast with some of the men. It could easily be the high point of my week. Why.....?

I wondered, what is Fellowship? Here is what I found without too much trouble, see if it works:

Fellowship is a devotion, about strengthening from humility in real relationships of the highest purpose.

(....a devotion...) Acts 2:42
They devoted themselves to the apostles' teaching and to the fellowship, to the breaking of bread and to prayer.

(... about strengthening...) 1Cor1-8-9
He will keep you strong to the end, so that you will be blameless on the day of our Lord Jesus Christ. 9God, who has called you into fellowship with his Son Jesus Christ our Lord, is faithful.

(...from humility...) Phil 2:1
If you have any encouragement from being united with Christ, if any comfort from his love, if any fellowship with the Spirit, if any tenderness and compassion, 2then make my joy complete by being like-minded, having the same love, being one in spirit and purpose. 3Do nothing out of selfish ambition or vain conceit, but in humility consider others better than yourselves. 4Each of you should look not only to your own interests, but also to the interests of others.

(...in real relationships...)

1 John 1:3-7
3We proclaim to you what we have seen and heard, so that you also may have fellowship with us. And our fellowship is with the Father and with his Son, Jesus Christ. 4We write this to make our joy complete. 5This is the message we have heard from him and declare to you: God is light; in him there is no darkness at all. 6If we claim to have fellowship with him yet walk in the darkness, we lie and do not live by the truth. 7But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus, his Son, purifies us from all sin.

(...of the highest purpose. ) 2 Cor 13:14
May the grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, and the love of God, and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit be with you all.


What do you think?

Here is a pretty good look at fellowship....
http://www.bible.org/page.php?page_id=437

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