Quotes about Fellowship

God will dwell in community with his people so that they can know community with one another

Maintain the unity of the Spirit

Because it is grounded in the Trinity, our unity also allows us to celebrate our diversity in the body of Christ.

So that the body of Christ may be built up

Specifically, in our attempts to understand how God speaks to us and guides us we must, above all, hold on to the fact that learning how to hear God is to be sought only as a part of a certain kind of life, a life of loving fellowship with the King and his other subjects within the kingdom of the heavens.

The church of Jesus Christ is not necessarily present when there is a correct administration of the sacrament and faithful preaching of the Word of God. The church of God is present where people gather together in the power of the resurrected life of Jesus Christ.

If I'm a pastor, the trinitarian fellowship is my first team. My ultimate loyalty is to that fellowship. My primary identity is as a part of that fellowship. My understanding of how I am doing in life comes out of that trinitarian fellowship. No other team is allowed to determine my identity or evaluate my performance beyond that one.

You don't live in a world all alone. Your brothers are here too.

He stands not alone. You would die before your stroke fell.

What men call good fellowship is commonly but the virtue of pigs in a litter which lie close together to keep each other warm.

When a man unites with the church, he should not come saying, "I am so holy that I think I must go in among the saints," but, "O brethren, I find I am so weak and wicked that I cannot stand alone; so, if you can help me, open the door and let me enter."

For Jesus the home is not what defines the table; the table is what defines the home.