The Bond of Fellowship

Knowing God in a loving relationship through Jesus Christ and the presence of his Holy Spirit includes Christians as members of the community of the Trinity, the community of God himself. Community in the Trinity defines individual and corporate Christian identity and community. Individual Christians relate to one another by sharing their individual testimonies as communal witnesses to the extraordinary presence and glorious work of God in themselves, each other, the Bible and the world around them. Christians instantly recognize and love each other as family the moment they meet. They are bound together by their mutual bond through the Holy Spirit to the community of the Trinity, an unbreakable bond that instantly unites Christians when they come together. Often, all that is necessary to make this connection, even in a momentary encounter, is a look in each other’s eyes that says, “Yes! I see him too! I know you and I love you!” Such loving familiarity is called fellowship; the relational recognition of an eternal quality that makes even a moment shared together a loving memory that lasts for eternity.