Fellowship is such a Christian term. If you aren’t a Christian, you probably have no idea what it is. But it is more than just hanging out and being around people. We all know how to hang out and have a good time, but do we really know about going deeper with each other?
I have been studying and speaking to my youth about fellowship and the importance of it. In the Greek fellowship is koinwniða. It is intimacy, communion. It means to really know each other on an intimate level. Just not the surface stuff we are all pretty well accustomed too.
Do you have friends you can be real with? Friends that you can get down and dirty with? Friends that you share your feelings and say whatever you want and they still know your heart? Do you have friends where you can receive from them, because you know their heart and they love you?
Now that is fellowship!! Going deeper with one another.
It takes humbleness. It takes vulnerability. It takes an attitude that says I want more than fake relationships. It takes someone wanted to be set free from what everyone wants or thinks?
Do you want it? I do. I am blessed to have a couple close people like that in my life. It wasn’t easy and didn’t come over night. I have a fellowship with them like I have with none other. It is a beautiful thing, but it always takes work. It is worth it.
Justin
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yes…. I miss having this in my life on a consistent basis…every since I stepped down at LW… but I am finding bits of it and it’s like fresh air!
I know Heather!! I miss it also. I, too get it in bits and pieces, but nothing like what I had at Living Well. I also need to step up and fight for true fellowship in my life. Fresh Air is a great analogy.
Justin,
Indeed. To some degree, I enjoy the fellowship we have among the pastors at SSCC, especially in our bi-monthly pastors staff mtg time.
Personally, I also have a “band of brothers” – most of them are in Pensacola, FL – whom I’ve prayed and fasted with going on nearly 13 years. They are long-distance, but only an “instant message”, “email”, or “phone call” away, and we’re always there to hear one another.
I like when the pastors get together too. It would be even more effective if we met outside of church and did some life together.