What a Fellowship!

Knowing the God of the Bible up close and personal is a great joy. To enter into a relationship with Him through the finished work of Messiah (see my What is the Gospel? post) and to grow in that relationship is the best. We get to know Him more and more everyday by reading His Word the Bible and talking directly to Him in prayer. He is my heavenly Father, and also my friend that sticketh closer than a brother (Proverbs 18:24). Say, speaking of the word “brother” did you know that everyone who is born again scripturally (see John 3) is a brother or sister in Christ. If your trust and confidence is in Christ alone, apart from dead works, you are my brother or sister! We are in God’s family. He is our heavenly Father.

Another way God has provided for us to grow in our faith in Him is by having fellowship with other believers. The best way to do this is within a local church. Acts 2:46-47 says, “And they, continuing daily with one accord in the temple, and breaking bread from house to house, did eat their meat with gladness and singleness of heart, Praising God, and having favor with all the people. And the Lord added to the church daily such as should be saved.”

There are two points that I want to lift from this verse: First these fellow believers delighted in God and each other without being obnoxious, this is clear because they had “favor with all the people”. This means they truly loved each other and those not yet saved. Secondly the “saved” were added to the church. The best expression of Christian fellowship is within a Bible believing church.