Quotes about Fellowship

THINGS JESUS NEVER SAID: You should come with me to church.

Jesus does not want us floating through space or sitting in front of our televisions. Jesus wants us interacting, eating together, laughing together, praying together. Loneliness is something that came with the fall.

God's image…is found not best in individual humans, but in humans as they relate to each other.

The need to belong goes beyond the need for superficial social ties . . . it is a need for meaningful, profound bonding.

There is a communion of more than our bodies when bread is broken and wine drunk.

We don't need accountability groups; we need fellow warriors, someone to fight alongside, someone to watch our back.

How wonderful to discover that God has never been alone. He has always been Trinity—Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. God has always been a fellowship. This whole Story began with something relational.

One of the deepest of all human longings is the longing to belong, to be a part of things, to be invited in. We want to be part of the fellowship. Where did that come from?

we were made to be a part of a great adventure. An adventure that is shared. We do not want the adventure merely for adventure's sake but for what it requires of us for others. We don't want to be alone in it; we want to be in it with others.

In losing stewardship we lose fellowship; we become outcasts from the great neighborhood of creation.

Christianity is not a purely intellectual, internal faith. It can only be lived in community.

in the meantime praying the God and Father of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, who has, of the riches of his grace, recovered us from a state of enmity into a condition of communion and fellowship with himself, that both he that writes, and they that read the words of his mercy, may have such a taste of his sweetness and excellencies therein, as to be stirred up to a farther longing after the fulness of his salvation, and the eternal fruition of him in glory.