Quotes about Fellowship

Sometimes I wondered if it even mattered whether our communion cups were filled with consecrated wine or draft beer, as long as we bent over them long enough to recognize each other as kin.

First we are to seek peace in our local fellowship, to end strife and to seek reconciliation with God and with one another, and out of this peace-shaped, kingdom-shaped church we spill over peace into the world.

God's idea of redemption is community-shaped.

Our mission is to declare the glories of Christ, to preach the gospel, to teach the Word, to administer the sacraments, and to live in fellowship with one another as a signpost of the new Jerusalem

The church God wants is one brimming with difference,

Every scene of heaven in the Bible shows us a vision of the Church praying together and singing together and praising together.

To eat and drink without a friend is to devour like the lion and the wolf.

Where God tears great gaps we should not try to fill them with human words. They should remain open. Our only comfort is the God of the resurrection, the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who also was and is his God. In him we know our brothers and in him is the biding fellowship of those who have overcome and those who still await their hour. God be praised for our dead brother and be merciful to us all at our end.

Where a people prays, there is the church; and where the church is; there is never loneliness. - Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Then we'll go up the road and tell the good news to the others.

Better a dinner of herbs where your chums are than a stalled ox in a lonely boardinghouse.

Many people seek fellowship because they are afraid to be alone...let him who cannot be alone beware of community. He will do harm to himself and to the community. Alone you stood before God when he called you; alone you had to answer that call; alone you had to struggle and pray; and alone you will die and give an account to God. You cannot escape yourself, for God has singled you out.