2. What does Fellowship mean?
• Webster's –
• A friendly relationship among people
• A group of people who have similar interests
• Strong’s – κοινωνία
• To share in
• A partnership
3. Three types of Fellowship
3 that which we have seen and heard we declare to you,
that you also may have fellowship with us; and truly
our fellowship is with the Father and with His Son
Jesus Christ. 4 And these things we write to
you that your joy may be full.
5This is the message which we have heard from Him
and declare to you, that God is light and in Him is no
darkness at all. 6 If we say that we have fellowship with
Him, and walk in darkness, we lie and do not practice
the truth. 7 But if we walk in the light as He is in the
light, we have fellowship with one another, and the
blood of Jesus Christ His Son cleanses us from all sin.
1 John 1: 3-7
4. •1 Cor. 1:9 – “God is faithful, by whom you
were called into the fellowship of His Son,
Jesus Christ our Lord.”
•We have a “partnership” with Christ
• Philippians 3:7-11
“Fellowship is with the Father God
and with His Son”
5. Do Not have Fellowship with Evil
1 John 1
5This is the message which we have heard from
Him and declare to you, that God is light and in
Him is no darkness at all. 6 If we say that we have
fellowship with Him, and walk in darkness, we lie
and do not practice the truth.
6. Do Not Fellowship with Evil
• Psalm 94:20 – “Shall the throne of iniquity, which
devises evil by law, Have fellowship withYou?”
• 1 Cor. 10:20 – “Rather, that the things which the
Gentiles sacrifice they sacrifice to demons and
not to God, and I do not want you to
have fellowship with demons.”
• Eph. 5:11 – “And have no fellowship with the
unfruitful works of darkness, but rather
expose them.”
7. Fellowship with Brethren
• 1 John 1:7 – “7 But if we walk in the light as He is in
the light, we have fellowship with one another,
and the blood of Jesus Christ His Son cleanses us
from all sin.”
• Strong’s – “share in”
• We share the Salvation of Jesus Christ! (Gal. 2:9)
• Webster’s – ”A friendly relationship among people”?
• A common Salvation in Jesus Christ is not just “a
friendly relationship among people”
8. Expressions of Fellowship
• Acts 2:42 – “And they continued steadfastly in the
apostles’ doctrine and fellowship, in the breaking of
bread, and in prayers”
• Phil. 1:3-6 – “Fellowship in the Gospel”
• 1 John 1:3 – “that you also may have fellowship with us;
and truly our fellowship is with the Father and with His
Son Jesus Christ. 4 And these things we write to
you that your joy may be full.”
