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21 results for “Fellowship”
Clear searchA quiet invitation to draw near to Christ
…(Hebrews 13:5). But there is a gentle question worth asking: have we been making room for fellowship with Him? An invitation to draw near The risen Lord speaks to the church at Laodicea with both correction and love. In that setting, He says: “Behold, I stand at the door, and kno…
Read article →An unrequited love for the historic Church
…e ancient Gnostic impulse—a flight from matter, history, authority and ordinary Christian fellowship into a private world of disembodied knowledge. The charge would be easier to dismiss if I felt no attraction to the historic Church. But I do. I love the ancient confession of the…
Read article →The incarnation, the limits of created perspective and the love philosophy could not imagine
…reatures into being? Why should He create persons capable of thought, love, rebellion and fellowship with Himself? Why should He know them individually? The existence of creation already tells us that divine transcendence does not mean divine remoteness. God can create what is ge…
Read article →What the Father's love for the Son reveals about God
…into the divine essence. They remain creatures saved by grace. Yet they are brought into fellowship with the Father through union with the Son. The love which rested upon the Son before the foundation of the world becomes the measure and source of the love into which His people…
Read article →History, heresy, and the temptation of private Christianity
…erly constitutes Christian community. The New Testament does not choose between truth and fellowship. Its fellowship is formed by truth. The apostles proclaim what they have seen and heard “that ye also may have fellowship with us” (1 John 1:3). The church devotes itself to the a…
Read article →Does John 6 teach the literal eating of Christ's body?
…h me hath lifted up his heel against me.” The point is simply that Judas shared bread and fellowship with Christ. Nothing in the word itself demands the apologetic picture of audible gnawing. Third, the lexical change cannot overturn the explanations already supplied by the disco…
Read article →Jesus and the fountain of living water
…sty to a place, a ritual, a priesthood or a technique. Christian truth matters, Christian fellowship matters and Christ commands His people to be baptised and to remember Him together. Yet none of these is the fountain. They have life only because they lead us to and flow from Ch…
Read article →The LORD, Zion, and the meaning of Beulah in Isaiah 62:4–5
…shall choose Jerusalem again.” —Zechariah 2:12 Zechariah 8 joins divine return, covenant fellowship, geographical restoration, fruitful agriculture, and blessing among the nations: “I am returned unto Zion, and will dwell in the midst of Jerusalem.” —Zechariah 8:3 “And I will br…
Read article →Two failures, two responses, and the difference between remorse and repentance
…sorrow may attempt to pay for sin through self-punishment. It may withdraw from Christian fellowship, prayer, Scripture, and anyone who speaks of grace. It tells us to hide from God until we can somehow make ourselves worthy to return. But we cannot cleanse ourselves before comin…
Read article →The peace Christ gives in a troubled world
…. There is no virtue in pretending to be unaffected. Some burdens require prayer, patient fellowship, practical help, medical treatment or wise counsel. Seeking such help is not necessarily a denial of faith. God often cares for us through ordinary means and through other people.…
Read article →How the Lord knows His own—and how their lives bear His name
…e shapes a life. This also explains his words about those who departed from the apostolic fellowship: "They went out from us, but they were not of us; for if they had been of us, they would no doubt have continued with us." —1 John 2:19 Visible association and spiritual reality a…
Read article →Not escape from the body, but its redemption
…be absorbed into a universal consciousness or emptied of everything which makes personal fellowship possible. Scripture speaks of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob in the kingdom, of recognition, communion, service and shared joy. Redemption perfects personal life; it does not erase it.…
Read article →Which Gospel does the Qur'an affirm?
…James, Cephas and John recognised the grace given to him and extended "the right hands of fellowship" to Paul and Barnabas (Galatians 2:9). The disagreement at Antioch was real. Paul opposed Peter publicly when Peter withdrew from eating with Gentile believers. But Paul does not…
Read article →Israel's Messiah, Israel's Scriptures, and a gospel for the world
…36). Three thousand received the word. The believers continued in the apostles' doctrine, fellowship, breaking of bread, and prayers. Peter and John still went to the temple at the hour of prayer (Acts 2:41-47; 3:1). Peter should not be imagined as a Gentile bishop transplanted b…
Read article →John Bunyan · Christian allegory · 1678
…ans often know only as abstractions. Bunyan makes conviction, temptation, discouragement, fellowship, perseverance, and hope into places and people that stay in the mind. It rewards rereading because different stages of Christian's journey become more recognisable as our own pilg…
View recommendation →What Jesus promised the apostles about Israel's future
…. He places them on thrones in the regeneration and appoints them a kingdom. Luke's table fellowship conveys participation in Messiah's reign, not merely testimony for the prosecution. Israel certainly comes under judgement before restoration. The prophets repeatedly join the two…
Read article →What mercy, holiness and the cross reveal about God
…on him" (John 3:36). Jesus also speaks of a particular love connected with obedience and fellowship: "He that hath my commandments, and keepeth them, he it is that loveth me: and he that loveth me shall be loved of my Father" (John 14:21). Christian theology therefore cannot ans…
Read article →Born, begotten and firstborn in the eternal identity and saving work of the Son
…eclared him.” The phrase “in the bosom of the Father” speaks of intimacy, love and unique fellowship. The Son does not merely bring information about a distant God. He makes the unseen Father known because He eternally knows Him from within that incomparable relation (compare Joh…
Read article →Constantine, Arius, the Trinity, the biblical canon—and the myths that refuse to die
…orruption and adoption as God's children. We remain creatures, but creatures brought into fellowship with God. His point depends upon the very distinction Arius blurred: only one who is God by nature can bring creatures into communion with God. What may honestly be criticised A r…
Read article →A sign of Israel's renewal, not Israel's disappearance
…and the thousands added in Jerusalem were Jewish. Gentiles were subsequently brought into fellowship with Israel's Messiah and believing remnant. This history prevents two opposite errors. The Church must not be detached from Israel as though God abandoned one people and began an…
Read article →How Christians can think politically without surrendering conscience to a package deal
…mains perfectly consistent with continued criticism of that candidate. Preserve Christian fellowship where the disagreement truly concerns evidence, strategy, jurisdiction or feasible means. Identical voting decisions are not a hidden article of the gospel. At the same time, do n…
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