Acts 2:42 ~ Fellowship

Question 1: What is fellowship?
Answer:
1.       To have fellowship is to be bound together going the same way (2 Corinthians 6:14).

• Outside of the NT context, a husband and wife have fellowship (cf. 3 Macc. 4:6 & Wisdom 8:18).
• It is impossible for two distinctly different things to be in fellowship with each other (2 Corinthians 6:14 [cf. light and darkness]).

2.       To extend fellowship to someone is to recognize a common purpose (Galatians 2:9).
 
Question 2: With whom do we fellowship?
Answer:
1.       Believers fellowship with the Holy Spirit (2 Corinthians 13:13, Philippians 2:1), with God the Father (1 John 1:3), and with Jesus (1 John 1:3). We have fellowship with the Godhead because we walk in truth (1 John 1:5-6) and because Jesus’ blood cleanses us from all our sins (1 John 1:7).
2.       Our fellowship with God enables us to have fellowship with other believers (1 John 1:3).
3.       Believers must break fellowship with those who claim to be Christians who are living in unrepentant sin (1 Corinthians 5:11).
4.       Believers cannot have true fellowship with unbelievers (1 John 1:3).
 
Question 3: What is our common fellowship as Christians?
Answer:
1.       Believers share in Christ’s sufferings (Philippians 3:10)
2.       Believers are partners together in the Gospel (Philippians 1:5).
 
Question 4: What does it mean to be devoted to fellowship?
Answer:
1.       Believers are to provoke other believers to love and good works (Hebrews 10:24-25).
2.       Believers are to restore repentant believers to fellowship (Galatians 6:1).
3.       Believers share in the needs of other believers (2 Corinthians 8:4; cf. James 2:16).