Fellowship

The Practice of Fellowship

Pastor Richard Hovey

Defining Fellowship

"Christianity will have power when we have vital communities which can, concretely, offer an alternative to the second-best compensations that our world offers. When the touch of human warmth, genuine community, is withheld, we will always have a lot of unbelievers and a lot of struggling believers."

Ronald Rolheiser

"So koinonía can be a sharing in the benefits of the death of Jesus, or in the financial relief of the saints, or in the sufferings of Christ. So when we talk about Christian koinonia — fellowship or sharing or participation that is unique to our relationship with other believers — what we are referring to is the shared union, the shared participation that we have together with Christ."

John Piper

Practicing Fellowship

While fellowship is perhaps more of a recognition of our fellowship with Christ and the implications of that in connection with the local church (our fellowship with one another) than a tangible practice to be incorporated into our lives, my encouragement for you is this: ponder the fellowship you have in Christ with God and evaluate how that is being mirrored in your relationship with God's people.

Resources

We Need Each Other: Christian Fellowship as a Means of Perseverance by John Piper

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