Posts with the tag “fellowship”

We must not downplay the importance of the shared lives of believers. Scripture paints a far richer picture of Christian life than just what happens during a worship assembly. The early church embodied a whole-life response to Jesus: “Now all the believers were together and held all things in common.” — Acts 2:44  Read More

In John 17, our King prayed that “we may be one.” Jesus wanted for the body of Christ to be bound and knit together by love. While others are bound together by work relationships, convenience, proximity and other factors—God himself is to be our binding agent. He is the rock on which our faith is built.  Still, these are divisive times. Many of us have been made to struggle in news ways, we’ve bee...  Read More