Quotes About Fellowship

The evidence that a person has truly opened their life to Christ is continued fellowship with Christ.

A cricketer's life is a life of splendid freedom, healthy effort, endless variety, and delightful good fellowship.

We must have a strong inner life of fellowship and intimacy with Jesus if we are going to have a strong outer life of ministry

Brotherhood is not just a Bible word. Out of comradeship can come and will come the happy life for all.

The life and fellowship of the church is to be a foretaste of life in the Kingdom of God.

You can't live the Christian life without a band of Christian friends, without a family of believers in which you find a place.

It sure is nice being part of a group, feeling like I belong

Hard by the church stood the public house; so often the two are closely conjoined, honorably sharing both joys and sorrows.

A willingness to share our possessions with one another is a very important aspect of true biblical community.

This is fellowship: sharing with one another what God is teaching through the Scriptures, and this is an important part of true community.

It is not the fact that we are united in common goals or purposes that makes us a community. Rather, it is the fact that we share a common life in Christ.

Without this relationship with God, there can be no spiritual relationship with one another.

God does not require a perfect, sinless life to have fellowship with Him, but He does require that we be serious about holiness, that we grieve over sin in our lives instead of justifying it, and that we earnestly pursue holiness as a way of life.

If we are to master the scriptural principles of true biblical community, we must master this one: True greatness in the kingdom of heaven involves serving one another. Jesus said, "Whoever wants to become great among you must be your servant" (Matthew 20:26).

Fellowship is much, much more than food and fun and even more than reading and studying the Scriptures with another believer. Fellowship at times may involve blood, sweat, and tears as we stand side by side with our persecuted brothers and sisters.

believe this truth, that we are fellow members of the body of Christ and that God loves each of us, could serve to diffuse a lot of hostility and disagreement among fellow believers. I am grateful that God taught me this lesson early in my training to be a Navigator staff member.

Whether fellowship is perceived as participation or partnership, in either case it implies a responsibility to fulfill our function in the body. We usually don't think of fellowship in terms of fulfilling a responsibility, but that is because we have lost sight of the biblical meaning of fellowship. Fellowship is not just a social privilege to enjoy; it is more basically a responsibility to assume.

But this is what servant-hood within the fellowship of believers is all about: being alert to the little things that need to be done and then doing them.

If Christ grieved over unrepentant Jerusalem, does He not grieve over unrepentant America as well? If we would fully enter into the fellowship of His sufferings, we must begin to see sin from His point of view.

Fellowship is not just a social privilege to enjoy; it is more basically a responsibility to assume.

Biblical community is first of all the sharing of a common life in Christ.

If we desire to experience the totality of fellowship with Christ, we must expect to experience the fellowship of His sufferings.

The universal testimony of those who have suffered for the sake of Christ and His church is that they have experienced a deep fellowship, an intimate communion with Him in the midst of their sufferings.

To experience His fellowship in suffering we must do as the apostles did: rejoice because we have been counted worthy to suffer for His name (see Acts 5:41).