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Originally Posted by Terry
Fellowship today sort of has the ring of popcorn. “Fellowship. Well, we’ll have fellowship.” That means a little back slap. Here’s what it means, “that they may all be one.” Its not sublimating your differences and swallowing them down, or by concealing issues or turning your back on them. It means by totally giving oneself over to the issues of truth. It means expressing what’s in your heart, speaking the truth in love and exhorting one another daily while it is yet today. It means confrontation. It means bringing to the surface and to the light the things that are concealed in the dark rather than swallowing them down and looking the wrong way and hoping by a little glib smile and a slap on the back to pass them over!
(p 7 True Fellowship by Art Katz)
Terry
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Amen Terry!
Popcorn styled fellowship can only satisfy so much.(Superficial) Diet food. No real growth can be expected from it.
But Real, deep, open/honest fellowship is healthy grub for spiritual growth in our church life. (Unrestrictive) And it also helps wash down those popcorn kernels which stick to the back of our spiritual throats which could lead eventually to choking.
