The Dynamic Christian Life

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The Dynamic Christian Life
2 Tim 17 For God has not given us a spirit of
timidity, but of power and love and discipline.
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The Dynamic Christian Life
2 Tim 35 holding to a form of godliness,
although they have denied its power.
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The Dynamic Christian Life

• Devoted to Fellowship

Acts 242 They were continually devoting
themselves to the apostles' teaching and to
fellowship, to the breaking of bread and to
prayer
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What is Fellowship?

• Sharing
• koinonia, koinonos, koinos - Having in common,
  sharing, participating together, partnership.

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What is Fellowship?

• Sharing
• In business

Luke 510 and so also were James and John, sons
of Zebedee, who were partners with Simon.
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What is Fellowship?

• Sharing
• In our humanity

Heb 214 Therefore, since the children share in
flesh and blood, He Himself likewise also partook
of the same, that through death He might render
powerless him who had the power of death, that
is, the devil.
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What is Fellowship?

• Sharing
• In the sins of others

1 Tim 522 Do not lay hands upon anyone too
hastily and thereby share responsibility for the
sins of others keep yourself free from sin.
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What is Fellowship?

• Sharing
• In the sins of others

Eph 511 Do not participate in the unfruitful
deeds of darkness
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What is Fellowship?

• Characteristics of Biblical Fellowship
• An interdependent relationship
• Requires more than one person.

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What is Fellowship?

• Characteristics of Biblical Fellowship
• A inner, spiritual unity
• Fellowship of Jesus Christ -- 1 Cor 1.9

1 Cor 19 God is faithful, through whom you were
called into fellowship with His Son, Jesus Christ
our Lord.
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What is Fellowship?

• Characteristics of Biblical Fellowship
• A inner, spiritual unity
• Fellowship of Jesus Christ -- 1 Cor 1.9
• Fellowship of the Holy Spirit 2 Cor 13.14
• Fellowship with the Father 1 Jn 1.3,7
• Fellowship in the Gospel Phil 1.5
• Fellowship of salvation Jude 3

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What is Fellowship?

• Characteristics of Biblical Fellowship
• Outward actions
• E.g. Contribution, distributing, participation

Rom 1213 contributing to the needs of the
saints, practicing hospitality.
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What is Fellowship?

• Characteristics of Biblical Fellowship
• Outward actions
• E.g. Contribution, distributing, participation

Rom 1526-27 For Macedonia and Achaia have been
pleased to make a contribution for the poor among
the saints in Jerusalem. Yes, they were pleased
to do so, and they are indebted to them. For if
the Gentiles have shared in their spiritual
things, they are indebted to minister to them
also in material things.
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What is Fellowship?

• Characteristics of Biblical Fellowship
• Outward actions
• E.g. Contribution, distributing, participation
• Christians helping each other in their needs
  Acts 2.44-45 4.32 (all things in common)

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What is Fellowship?

• Characteristics of Biblical Fellowship
• Outward actions
• E.g. Bible classes, worship (1 Cor 10.16-20),
  benevolence (2 Cor 8.4), evangelism and outreach
  (Gal 2.9 Philm 6 NIV), greeting one another
  Showing sympathy and sharing in the suffering of
  others (Heb 10.33-34)

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What is Fellowship?

• Characteristics of Biblical Fellowship
• A spiritual focus and purpose
• Even in physical, earthly activities

Rom 1526-27 For Macedonia and Achaia have been
pleased to make a contribution for the poor among
the saints in Jerusalem. Yes, they were pleased
to do so, and they are indebted to them. For if
the Gentiles have shared in their spiritual
things, they are indebted to minister to them
also in material things.
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What is Fellowship?

• Characteristics of Biblical Fellowship
• A spiritual focus and purpose
• Even in physical, earthly activities

2 Cor 84 begging us with much urging for the
favor of participation in the support of the
saints
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What is Fellowship?

• Characteristics of Biblical Fellowship
• A spiritual focus and purpose
• Even in physical, earthly activities
• Eating together -- Act 2.46

Acts 246 Day by day continuing with one mind in
the temple, and breaking bread from house to
house, they were taking their meals together with
gladness and sincerity of heart
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What is Fellowship?

• Characteristics of Biblical Fellowship
• A spiritual focus and purpose
• Even in physical, earthly activities
• Eating together -- Act 2.46
• taking their meals together (metalambano)
• Meta root word for metachos, a synonym koinos
  or koinonos (Lk 5.7,10)
• Same as share in Heb 12.10 share His
  holiness.

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What is Fellowship?

• Characteristics of Biblical Fellowship
• An interdependent relationship
• A inner, spiritual unity
• Outward actions
• A spiritual focus and purpose

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Why is Fellowship so Important?

• Our Source of Strength and Encouragement

Prov 2717 Iron sharpens iron, So one man
sharpens another.
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Why is Fellowship so Important?

• Our Source of Strength and Encouragement

Eccl 49-11 Two are better than one because they
have a good return for their labor. For if either
of them falls, the one will lift up his
companion. But woe to the one who falls when
there is not another to lift him up. Furthermore,
if two lie down together they keep warm, but how
can one be warm alone?
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Why is Fellowship so Important?

• Our Source of Strength and Encouragement

Heb 1023-26 Let us hold fast the confession of
our hope without wavering, for He who promised is
faithful and let us consider how to stimulate
one another to love and good deeds, not forsaking
our own assembling together, as is the habit of
some, but encouraging one another and all the
more as you see the day drawing near. For if we
go on sinning willfully after receiving the
knowledge of the truth, there no longer remains a
sacrifice for sins
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Why is Fellowship so Important?

• Means of Personal Growth

Eph 411-16 And He gave some as apostles, and
some as prophets, and some as evangelists, and
some as pastors and teachers, for the equipping
of the saints for the work of service, to the
building up of the body of Christ until we all
attain to the unity of the faith, and of the
knowledge of the Son of God, to a mature man, to
the measure of the stature which belongs to the
fullness of Christ. As a result, we are no longer
to be children, tossed here and there by waves
and carried about by every wind of doctrine, by
the trickery of men, by craftiness in deceitful
scheming but speaking the truth in love, we are
to grow up in all aspects into Him who is the
head, even Christ, from whom the whole body,
being fitted and held together by what every
joint supplies, according to the proper working
of each individual part, causes the growth of the
body for the building up of itself in love.
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Why is Fellowship so Important?

• Means of Personal Growth

Acts 242 They were continually devoting
themselves to the apostles' teaching and to
fellowship, to the breaking of bread and to
prayer
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Why is Fellowship so Important?

• Essential to the Functioning and Growth of the
  Church

Eph 415-16 the whole body, being fitted and
held together by what every joint supplies,
according to the proper working of each
individual part, causes the growth of the body
for the building up of itself in love.
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Why is Fellowship so Important?

• Essential to the Functioning and Growth of the
  Church

1 Cor 1214f For the body is not one member, but
many. If the foot says, Because I am not a hand,
I am not a part of the body, it is not for this
reason any the less a part of the body. And if
the ear says, Because I am not an eye, I am not
a part of the body, it is not for this reason
any the less a part of the body. If the whole
body were an eye, where would the hearing be? If
the whole were hearing, where would the sense of
smell be? But now God has placed the members,
each one of them, in the body, just as He
desired. If they were all one member, where would
the body be
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Why is Fellowship so Important?

• Essential to the Functioning and Growth of the
  Church

1 Cori 1220-25 But now there are many members,
but one body. And the eye cannot say to the hand,
"I have no need of you" or again the head to the
feet, "I have no need of you." On the contrary,
it is much truer that the members of the body
which seem to be weaker are necessary and those
members of the body which we deem less honorable,
on these we bestow more abundant honor, and our
less presentable members become much more
presentable, whereas our more presentable members
have no need of it. But God has so composed the
body, giving more abundant honor to that member
which lacked, so that there may be no division in
the body, but that the members may have the same
care for one another.
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Devoted to Fellowship

• Biblical Fellowship
• An interdependent relationship
• A inner, spiritual unity
• Outward actions
• A spiritual focus and purpose

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Devoted to Fellowship

• Importance of Fellowship
• Our Source of Strength and Encouragement
• Means of Personal Growth
• Essential to the Functioning and Growth of the
  Church