The Church and fellowship

Today I want to post some of my thought on the life and fellowship of the faith family. I had the privilege of seeing some of this first hand today as I got to spend time enjoying my newer faith family. I discovered that when we spend time together even if it is with others we might not know very well yet, a love and affection can start to grow and a deeper fellowship is born. After today I can truly tell the world again and with more affection and a deeper passion that I love my faith family.

Fellowship

Relationships in the body of Christ are often not the ones the people of God would have chosen. But this does not mean the members of the church and faith family can refrain from fellowshipping together. In the early church, fellowship was a founding act of the faith family ( Acts 2:1, 42, 3:32-34). Simply stated, when fellowship happens in the faith family, members of that body are spending time together loving one another, serving one another, caring for one another, worshipping together, reaching out to the community together, and truly deeply enjoying the company of one another. Fellowship is important in the life of the faith family because that is where the real relationships and encouragement takes place. When the faith family is fellowshipping together, learning with one another or from one another can take place. When the faith family spends time together the world will take notice when love is shared and the good of each person is found as they enjoying getting to know one another, learn each other’s gifts and passions, and a unity is discovered as fellowship takes place. Unity is found in a church that spends time together even among members that do not always see eye to eye on the same ideas. Fellowship does not always have to be with those we love and adore every time as God has ordained who is in the faith family, sometimes fellowship can take place with those that we do not always like or those we do not always know. Fellowship can take place around a meal, worship service, outreach event, birth of a new life, a lifetime achievement, or simply over a cup of coffee. But fellowship is vital and foundational to having a love for one another and God is never truly honored and worshiped by a church that does not fellowship together in unity and love.