Significance of Fellowship

1

Builds the church – about three thousand were added … to the fellowship –

Acts 2:41-42

So those who received his word were baptized, and there were added that day about three thousand souls.
 The Fellowship of the Believers

 And they devoted themselves to the apostles' teaching and the fellowship, to the breaking of bread and the prayers

2

God’s calling – God, who has called you into Fellowship

1 Corinthians 1:9

God is faithful, by whom you were called into the fellowship of his Son, Jesus Christ our Lord.

3

Purifies us – we have fellowship … and the blood … purifies

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 cleanses us from all sin.

4

Completes Joy – Our fellowship.. We write this to make our joy complete

1 John 1:3-4

That which we have seen and heard we proclaim also to you, so that you too may have fellowship with us; and indeed our fellowship is with the Father and with his Son Jesus Christ.  And we are writing these things so that our joy may be complete.

5

Full Understanding – be active in sharing, so that full understanding

Philemon 1:6

And I pray that the sharing of your faith may become effective for the full knowledge of every good thing that is in us for the sake of Christ.

6

Like-Mindedness –if any fellowship when they recognized the grace

Philippians 2:1-2

So if there is any encouragement in Christ, any comfort from love, any participation in the Spirit, any affection and sympathy, complete my joy by being of the same mind, having the same love, being in full accord and of one mind.

7

Recognizes grace – gave me fellowship when they recognized the grace

Galatians 2:9

and when James and Cephas and John, who seemed to be pillars, perceived the grace that was given to me, they gave the right hand of fellowship to Barnabas and me, that we should go to the Gentiles and they to the circumcised.