Unity and Fellowship

Being a part of a healthy church is like having lots of caring brothers and sisters. It is a network of support.
God Still Heals, James L. Garlow


In prior posts I wrote about
unity and vision
Unity and healing
Unity and diversity



About a year and a half ago we started putting blank name tags into our worship bulletin, the information material that everyone receives when they enter the sanctuary (place of worship). We wanted to do it for the summer in anticipation of new people coming. By giving name tags, we could learn names of each other and be able to greet each other without saying, “what was your name again”, or trying to disguise our lack of memory with the generic Christian greeting “Hi, brother (or sister)”.

The summer experiment carried over to the fall, and then just kept going. To quote the song from an old television show, “you want to go where everyone knows your name.” We want to be in a place where we belong, where people care, where we know and can be known. That describes our church. Almost every church thinks they are friendly, but the key is, are you friendly to those who are new or recently involved? The answer to the latter is yes. This is a genuinely friendly church, where people immediately “at home.” That defines fellowship, and that is a part of the puzzle that makes up the unity of the body here.
Acts 2:42 "And they were continually devoting themselves tothe apostles teaching and to fellowship, to the breaking of bread and to prayer."