Quotes about Fellowship

Real fellowship happens when people get honest about who they are and what is happening in their lives.

When God seems distant, you may feel that he is angry with you or is disciplining you for some sin. In fact, sin does disconnect us from intimate fellowship with God. We grieve God's Spirit and quench our fellowship with him by disobedience, conflict with others, busyness, friendship with the world, and other sins.10

We were created to live in community. We are designed by God for relationships.

The Christian life is more than just commitment to Christ; it includes a commitment to other Christians.

Fellowship is a place of grace, where mistakes aren't rubbed in but rubbed out.

The New Testament does not envisage solitary religion; regular assembly for worship is everywhere in the epistles.

We are obliged to respect, defend and maintain the common bonds of union and fellowship that exist among all members of the human race.

To gather with God's people in united adoration of the Father is as necessary to the Christian life as prayer.

Let us be so taken up with the knowledge of God's goodness and the desire to fellowship with Him that our emotions are warmed and our outer man reflects great love. Although we must not seek emotional experiences for their own sake, we must not shun them merely because others misuse them or ignore God's instructions on worship.

God designed humans to live in community.

This second step calls one to yield to that local part of the Body of Christ, and to dedicate oneself to that congregation and its work.

Though it was not right, and never can be, we understand what went on in the heart of those who sought escape from the world, in cell or hermitage, for the sake of unbroken fellowship with God. It might have been efficacious, if in withdrawing from the world they had been able to leave the world behind. But we carry it in our heart. Wherever we go it goes with us.