CREATIVE FELLOWSHIP

 

Every summer our church enjoys a series of messages from our Pastor, Dr. Matt Morrell, followed by midweek Home Bible Fellowships. This year the theme of the preaching series was “The Promises of God.”

Carmen and I enjoyed the fellowship of a group of eighteen friends from church who came together to discuss the previous Sunday’s message. Some were people we had known for years. Others were new to us, but only for the first week.

We shared personal testimonies of how we came to know the Lord. We talked about sanctification and all that God has promised to do in us because of our new life in Christ. We discussed the promise of His coming and His promise to be faithful. We talked about pain and suffering, rejoicing in God’s promise to sustain us through every path of life.

Then we prayed. We prayed for our church, for one another, for spiritual insight, for physical needs, and for wisdom. We prayed for our world, and our state, and our neighbors.

As we talked, and read scripture, and prayed, the blessing of creative Christian fellowship drew us closer to Christ and to one another.

And yes, we ate. After all, we are Baptists. But that too provided time for greater personal fellowship.

It was a great summer.