Strengthen Church Community, Fellowship, and Family

There is a connection between family and fellowship. In Acts chapter 2 we find families but we also find fellowships. Like-minded people are gathering together to sharpen one another, nurture, encourage, and celebrate God together. They worshipped, prayed, ate, and gathered together outside of the temple/tabernacle and lived life with one another.

If Jesus is our center, everything we do, think, and decisions we make are based on that relationship as individuals. It is as we orient our lives to Jesus and make Him the central point of influence, do we find our lives where God and Christ would need us. We are not trying to serve two masters, we are not living for self and God. We have decided to love one and hate the other. We have decided to become servants of God, co-heirs with Christ, and ambassadors of the heavenly kingdom. We live our lives outwardly for Christ and not divided between our wants and Christ's calling.

Just as Jesus knew His priorities, His values, His boundaries, and His purpose and mission, so should our family know our priorities, our values, our boundaries, our purpose, and our mission. If we do not set the foundations in place that God has established for us in our families and in our fellowships, the Church will suffer foundational failures and be brushed to the side of society as irrelevant and antiquated. Our fellowship with like-minded believers, and who are based in Christ are essential to cause impactful growth in us personally, and in our families.

One person, committing to make others in the family see Christ in a real and tangible way, impacts the family, the family impacts the fellowship, the fellowship impacts the Church and then the Church impacts the community in so many ways. But the cycle does not end. Individuals respond.