This relationship is called ‘fellowship.’ The Bible speaks of it as a relationship with Christ by participation in the life of the members of His Body, the redeemed. This fellowship requires vulnerability and trust that go beyond worldly relationships. Fellowship is spirit to spirit between the people of God. It’s a picture of the trinity and their relationship to one another: love and dedication beyond human capabilities. The hand cannot forsake the other hand; they are attached to the same body. The mouth and the ears need one another: they co-exist and are co-dependent, as ordained by God.
When Jesus fellowship with the Father was broken because of our sins, He cried out in anguish “My God, My God! Why have You forsaken Me?” His separation from fellowship with the Father was agonizing. Such is the great fellowship we share with the Father, but also with one another. It is so intimate that we are spiritually a part of one another. When this is broken there is great agony of the heart and soul within us and a longing to repair the breach.
We are made for fellowship and we yearn for it. When we don’t have true fellowship we are not able to experience God’s fullness for our lives. We have been put on this earth together to impact one another and the rest of the world for Him. Our process of growth and sanctification is partially dependent on this fellowship as the Body feeds and helps the rest of the Body to maturity.
Give and receive grace and love. Give and receive wisdom and guidance. Walk through the dark tunnels with one another in honesty and forgiveness. Keep the fellowship, called “Koinonia” in the Bible, on a daily basis. Going to church is not fellowship in itself – that can simply be a gathering of people. Fellowship is living this life intimately intertwined with one another through the Spirit of God on a daily basis.
Are you willing?
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