What a fellowship...what a joy divine....

Pursuing Love through fellowship. 

My mother told me more than once that to have a friend you have to be a friend.  I have come to understand this even more when I have read Acts 2:42-47:

 "They devoted themselves to the apostles’ teaching and fellowship, to the breaking of bread and the prayers. Awe came upon everyone, because many wonders and signs were being done by the apostles. All who believed were together and had all things in common; they would sell their possessions and goods and distribute the proceeds to all, as any had need. Day by day, as they spent much time together in the temple, they broke bread at home and ate their food with glad and generous hearts, praising God and having the goodwill of all the people. And day by day the Lord added to their number those who were being saved." 

Churches talk a lot about fellowship.  We usually mean coffee and cookies after worship, a pot-luck dinner or a night out with the ladies or men.  But in this description of what the church is to be and do it is easy to see that this is not what Luke understood fellowship to be.    "They" - the church members are listed 4 different times and "all who believed" is a fifth notification of what it meant to be in the church.

To be in the church means to:
  learn together
  worship together
  pray together
  eat together
  share together

It is about "being together" as a body - with Christ as the head.  Meeting the needs of the people - physical, emotional, spiritual needs all.  Real fellowship ends with miracles being done, lives being changed, hope being found, hunger being satisfied.  Real fellowship results in new people coming into the church  every day.  Real fellowship results in a sense of "awe" being experienced by all the people.  Real fellowship results in generous hearts.  Real fellowship results in "good will" being expressed by ALL the people.  

This is the kind of fellowship I want to be a part of.  How about you?  Know where it starts?  Right here with each of us.  Right here with you and I coming together.

Blessings on your journey - on our journey!