Quotes About Fellowship

in the Bible we are saved not simply so we can go to heaven and enjoy fellowship with God but so that we can be his truly human royal priesthood in his world.

Part of the reason for Paul's anxiety about shared table-fellowship, and shared worship, in Galatians 2 and Romans 14 and 15, was that Christian meals, not least but not only the eucharist, constituted a central part of what he meant by celebrate, rejoice. The word celebration has become almost a technical term, certainly in my own church and perhaps elsewhere, for 'holding a eucharist'. We must guard against that becoming a dead metaphor.

The church exists primarily for two closely correlated purposes: to worship God and to work for his kingdom in the world ... The church also exists for a third purpose, which serves the other two: to encourage one another, to build one another up in faith, to pray with and for one another, to learn from one another and teach one another, and to set one another examples to follow, challenges to take up, and urgent tasks to perform. This is all part of what is known loosely as fellowship.

Stay in church, stay in prayer, stay in the Word, and stay in fellowship with other believers.

Living virtuously is how we live well with others. Seneca's claim is that social fellowship is finely textured, a matter of noticing a furrowed brow, an air of arrogance, a groan, hesitation, or on the positive side, the warmth of a smile or a shared laugh.

Contentment disarms a situation that could become stressful. Contentment protects the unity and fellowship we have in Christ.

And when we gather with our fellow believers, confessing our sins, hearing each other's stories, sharing each other's heartbreaks—then, most of all, Jesus is here.

We could not learn love in the abstract any more than we could learn patience and the other cardinal virtues. Just as we cannot know the "fellowship of his sufferings" without suffering, we also come to know real fellowship with our fellowmen only by serving them.

I have come to understand church as this: the presence of Jesus among His people called out as a spiritual family to pursue His mission on this planet.

The church is at its best in two's or three's-not in two or three hundreds or two or three thousands. "Where two or three are gathered together, there am I in the midst of them.

And may the grace of the Lord Jesus Christ and the love of God and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit be with you all." (II Corinthians 13:14)

Mead was the key to good fellowship. A better gift, sometimes, than gold.

The high point of every meal was never the food itself, he taught us, but always the act of sharing it.

Seek ye not riches, seek but the society of good men.

I always think that the essence of a good dinner- or breakfast-party is not the tablecloth, nor even the nature of the food, but the company. I think precisely the same concerning the Lord's Supper.

I will always stay close to all compatriots, and share together the happiness and suffering.

Each time a group of believers in Christ celebrate the Lord's Supper, they rejoice in their current experience of the blessings of the new covenant because of their fellowship with God achieved by the "blood of the new covenant" (Luke 22:20; I Cor. 11:25). These current covenant participants are in a more exalted position than Moses, because with unveiled face they always behold the glory of God, and so pass from glory to glory (II Cor. 3:18).

Let us consider one another in order to stir up love and good works, not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together." Hebrews 10:24–25

The lasting value of our public service for God is measured by the depth of the intimacy of our private times of fellowship and oneness with Him. Rushing in and out of worship is wrong every time—there is always plenty of time to worship God.

When we discern that other people are not growing spiritually and allow that discernment to turn to criticism, we block our fellowship with God. God never gives us discernment so that we may criticize, but that we may intercede.

God does not expect us to work for Him, but to work with Him.

It is impossible to enter into fellowship with God when you are in a critical mood. Criticism serves to make you harsh, vindictive, and cruel, and leaves you with the soothing and flattering idea that you are somehow superior to others.

Am I continually in touch with the reality of God, or do I pray only when things have gone wrong—when there is some disturbance in my life? I must learn to identify myself closely with my Lord in ways of holy fellowship and oneness that some of us have not yet even begun to learn. "I must be about My Father's business"—and I must learn to live every moment of my life in my Father's house.

a full and overflowing life does not rest in bodily health, in circumstances, nor even in seeing God's work succeed, but in the perfect understanding of God, and in the same fellowship and oneness with Him that Jesus Himself enjoyed.