Practice 4: Fellowship
Our Life Group is one of my favorite events each week. In the past, fellowship always meant 16 dishes of bad food that left the whole church smelling like cat food for a week and sitting with people that were socially awkward. But these people, my friends, in our Life Group are helping me redefine that (the food and the fellowship part).
“Fellowship” is first used in the Bible to describe someone’s relationship with God—”...Enoch lived in close fellowship with God for another 300 years.” It changed in Acts chapter 2 when it began to mean what we see it as today—a deep bond of spiritual significance between people.
How do you see church? Have you been hurt or made to feel insignificant? When you have experience after with people with stolen identities, your vision becomes clouded. Because of people, our view of the church is messed up. Many of us see church as a spiritual feeding mechanism, and while it is, it is designed to spur us into growth. Many of us see it as a spiritual growth shot that lasts for a week, when we should see it as just another morning at the gym.
Fellowship though is a huge and overlooked part of church. Think about it… God bringing together people that claim devotion to him. Why is it not the relationship hub of our lives? If it’s not the church’s fault, the only one left to blame is here doing the reading.
Read Acts 2
The experience of the first mass Holy Spirit encounter was intense! Who is one person who you’ve had an intense or amazing experience with? What is that bond like?
Do you trust God to bring more those relationships to you at your church?
Often God will reveal parts of our true identity, and his, to us through other people. Fellowship—the deep spiritual bond—is the way he will do it. What changes in relationships should you make based on this?
Our Life Group is one of my favorite events each week. In the past, fellowship always meant 16 dishes of bad food that left the whole church smelling like cat food for a week and sitting with people that were socially awkward. But these people, my friends, in our Life Group are helping me redefine that (the food and the fellowship part).
“Fellowship” is first used in the Bible to describe someone’s relationship with God—”...Enoch lived in close fellowship with God for another 300 years.” It changed in Acts chapter 2 when it began to mean what we see it as today—a deep bond of spiritual significance between people.
How do you see church? Have you been hurt or made to feel insignificant? When you have experience after with people with stolen identities, your vision becomes clouded. Because of people, our view of the church is messed up. Many of us see church as a spiritual feeding mechanism, and while it is, it is designed to spur us into growth. Many of us see it as a spiritual growth shot that lasts for a week, when we should see it as just another morning at the gym.
Fellowship though is a huge and overlooked part of church. Think about it… God bringing together people that claim devotion to him. Why is it not the relationship hub of our lives? If it’s not the church’s fault, the only one left to blame is here doing the reading.
Read Acts 2
The experience of the first mass Holy Spirit encounter was intense! Who is one person who you’ve had an intense or amazing experience with? What is that bond like?
Do you trust God to bring more those relationships to you at your church?
Often God will reveal parts of our true identity, and his, to us through other people. Fellowship—the deep spiritual bond—is the way he will do it. What changes in relationships should you make based on this?
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