Fellowship

Christian fellowship is common sharing in the Gospel in faith, and in other spiritual and mutual gifts. God creates it by calling us into fellowship or partnership with His Son so that we share in all Christ’s works, blessings, glory, and goods. It is a union of believers in Christ through fellowship of the Spirit. This communion of believers is unity or “oneness’ in Christ, which transcends race, social position, and death. Non-relatives are called father, mother, brother, and sister.
Christian fellowship involves participation in the experiences of Christ and of fellow Christians. Out of basic communion in the Gospel of Christ comes the communication of spiritual and material gifts.
As faith always produces fruit, so fellowship of the Spirit in Christ manifests itself in action. Christian fellowship is activity in the Gospel. Its mark is love. It causes Christians to treat each other as close relatives. It is a fellowship of feelings, burdens, and a communication of help. It is activated by desire to bring others into its fellowship and avoid or heal schism within itself. A climax is in the Lord’s Supper. (CPH, 1975 p 295)