Fellowship In The Gospel

David Guzik said, “Without a heart of sacrifice there can be no real effective, eternal ministry — and it should be a glad sacrifice, knowing the blessedness of it all.” (David Guzik)

From grateful hearts, the redeemed ones of the Lord should serve the Lord with our time, talents, and treasures as we partner in the ministry of the gospel.

Hebrews 6:10 For God is not unjust to forget your work and labor of love which you have shown toward His name, in that you have ministered to the saints. NKJV

Our treasure. The Philippians “partnered” with Paul to spread the Gospel through prayer, friendship, and financial support.

The Lord has been so good to Living Faith Fellowship and I rarely bring up money. But as Christians, we should partner with the Gospel through prayer, friendship, and financial support.

Our time. There are 168 hours in a week, how many of those hours are you giving to serve the King?

This is not a legalistic thing, but a question to cause us to check our priorities.

Our talents. Someone has said, “Every believer is created for ministry, gifted for ministry, authorized for ministry, and needed for ministry.”

We are told to reach the lost (Go and make disciples), and then assimilate them into the life of the body of Christ.

God’s church is to be manned like a battleship, not like a cruise liner. On a cruise liner, a crew is hired to serve the passengers. On a battleship, everyone is part of the crew and has a mission.

When people think back to the times when they served the Lord and fellowshipped with you, do you want to be remembered like these Philippian Christians were remembered by Paul?

Paul was thankful for their Fellowship. Fellowship/Koinonia is an association, community, communion, or joint participation.