Facts about Fellowship

1. Fellowship is among believers

Acts 2:41-42 

41 Those who accepted his message were baptized, and about three thousand were added to their number that day.

42  They devoted themselves to the apostles’ teaching and to the fellowship, to the breaking of bread and to prayer.

2. It is with the Father and the Son

1 John 1:3  

We proclaim to you what we have seen and heard, so that you also may have fellowship with us. And our fellowship is with the Father and with his Son, Jesus Christ.

3. It is of the Holy Spirit

2 Corinthians 13:14  

May the grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, and the love of God, and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit be with you all.

4. It is by walking in light

1 John 1:7  

But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus, his Son, purifies us from all sin.

5. It is not to be given up

Hebrews 10:25  

Let us not give up meeting together, as some are in the habit of doing, but let us encourage one another—and all the more as you see the Day approaching.

6. Paul longed to know it

Philippians 3:10  

I want to know Christ and the power of his resurrection and the fellowship of sharing in his sufferings, becoming like him in his death,

7. It cannot go on in darkness

1 John 1:6  

If we claim to have fellowship with him yet walk in the darkness, we lie and do not live by the truth.