Fellowship

This morning Pastor DB (although freshly ordained) did not give a sermon at OCBC. Instead a guy who is like district superintendent for like Manitoba and Ontario spoke about Fellowship.

He started with the passage from Acts 2 asking "how can our churches today see expansion like back then?" and explained a numebr of the terms used at the end, like devoted to the teaching and prayer and everything. But then he shared how most of this last section is actually about fellowship and community. He spoke of how at a conference the speaker was saying 'if you take one thing away from this conference it has done its purpose' and he took this back: that community and fellowship is super important. The conference speaker challenged everyone to go back to their churches and eavesdrop over fellowship time at church (coffee time) and see what they were talking about. The weather. Sports. That isn't fellowship.

So he told us about real community in small groups. Getting to actually know the guys in your groups. At his church they implemented small groups of 4-12 people and since then the atmosphere really changed from cold to warm and it was awesome.

Fellowship = in depth spiritual community. Open, honest, Christ-centered community.

That is what happened tonight for the BaD guys' study. (Becoming a Disciple, guys' Bible study). We have open conversations and discussions of Biblical topics, eat and fellowship with each other. This week the group was a little different cause a couple guys couldn't come and we had a new guy to the group, but it was sweet. Talking about baptism. lol. After the study today me and a couple guys stayed and really discussed our stories and what God has done. It was awesome. And ya. This group is kinda the highlight of my week now.

Now that we are done the study on baptism we can start getting to the teaching and applying it. Cannot wait. lol.

Ttyl.

D.Fa

PS. Blessed and humbled to be a part of this study. So much grace.