Don Whitney, Simplify Your Spiritual Life: The easiest and most direct way to experience [the] blessings of koinonia [fellowship] is just to talk with another believer about the things of God.  This includes anything related to knowing God, Christian living, understanding the Bible, and applying it to particular issues such as work or family or […]

William Ham: There are many things which a person can do alone, but being a Christian is not one of them.  As the Christian life is, above all things, a state of union with Christ, and of union of his followers with one another, love of the brethren is inseparable from love of God.  Resentment […]

David Hegg, in Reforming Pastoral Ministry: Those who take pride in their independence and self-sufficiency will not come to prize a fellowship of interdependence until the myth of their independence is reformed according to the truth of Christ.  The fruit of true fellowship demonstrated through mutual dependence among believers, comes only as we acknowledge our […]

David Hegg, in Reforming Pastoral Ministry: Fellowship among believers is the fruit of fellowship with Christ.  To produce the first, you must fertilize the second.  What elevates true fellowship far above what the world would call friendship and belonging is simply this:  Our relationship with fellow believers is a demonstration of our union with Christ, […]

David Hegg, in Reforming Pastoral Ministry: Fellowship is a mutual participation in a common life that gives rise to shared enjoyment and responsibility.…The relationship that exists between believers is one of shared life, not merely the sharing of the things that fill our lives.  To be sure, this relationship of interdependence, of interlocking lives, necessarily […]