Church Fellowship

 

    Koinonia is the Greek word that gave us fellowship in the Bible.  It represents the body of Christ.  Koinonia means "participation with others in a common purpose".  The Latin word communion is another word for fellowship.  It is about a community of believers that come together to worship God.

    The best form of fellowship is unity within the church.  It is what God desires for all believers.  Christians come together through understanding and conviction. If Christians come together in that manner it promotes unity.  If they come together with their own agenda, this it only causes strife, discord, and division.  

    Christians needs to bare one another in love, humility, gentleness, and patience.  We all have different back grounds, cultures, mind sets, and personalities.  If we work together to understand and unite for God's purpose, then it will make a beautiful picture of strength.  It is the church's responsibility to bond together in peace.  

    The key to maintaining unity within the church is to do nothing out of selfishness or conceit.  Know your worth through God, but consider other people with more importance than your desires.  Being a Christian is not being a door mat or a push over.  It is choosing to love other people in the way that Jesus loved people.  Take care of and serve one another with the attitude that you are serving Jesus and harmony will follow.

    Fellowship with God should bring believers joy.  Time with the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit is a blessing that should be shared with other believers.  The truth is that unbelievers can come to church, but they are not experiencing true fellowship.  It is spiritual just as much as it is physical.  They are unable to tap into the spiritual side because they do not know Jesus.

    True fellowship as the Body of Christ is sharing your lives and ministering to one another in that intimate way.  Fellowship is pursuing peace while promoting each other.  It is freely serving one another and doing good works.  You share the burdens that each of us carry to make it easier to bare.  You pray healing over each other in earnest unity and it will hold great power and wonderful results. 

    Fellowship includes confessing your sins not for repentance, but so that your church knows how to pray and help you avoid temptation.  We need to be gentle and humble when correcting those in the church because we have our own sin and fall into temptation too.  Confess to God for forgiveness and to be able to stay close to Him. 

Romans 14:14-19, 1 Corinthians 1:10-12, 2 Corinthians 6:14-18, 13:11-14, Galatians 5:13-15, 6:1-4, Ephesians 4:1-4, Philippians 2:1-4, James 5:16-18, 1 Peter 4:10-11, & 1 John 1:1-7