Fellowship Team

“And let us consider how to stir up one another to love and good works, not neglecting to meet together, as is the habit of some, but encouraging one another, and all the more as you see the Day drawing near.”  (Hebrews 10:24-25)

Basic principles:

1. Our God is a relational God.  He is Father, Son, and Holy Spirit in eternal communion.  We have been created in His image, according to His likeness.  Thus, in order to be “truly human,” we need not only communion with Him but with one another as well.  And we have been commanded to pursue this.
2. Our struggle with this essential reality.  This manifests itself in the superficiality of our relationships with one another.  And, like many other things, is implicit in the commands to peacemaking and hospitality.

The implication:

1. The need to create and to encourage a “culture of fellowship” in our church and through our church in this community.
2. If we are to realize biblical fellowship, both as a congregation and as individuals, it will require intentional strategies and conscious effort.

Current response:

• Plan social events for the entire church family.
• Encourage smaller gatherings through the week.
• Create as welcome an atmosphere as possible on Sunday mornings, especially for our guests.

“Let him who cannot be alone beware of Christian community…Let him who is not in community beware of being alone…Only in fellowship do we learn to be rightly alone and only in aloneness do we learn to live rightly in fellowship.”
Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Life Together