Acts 2:41 – 42

what is fellowship ?

2 Cor 6:14

what fellowship has light with darkness

John 17:14–15

¹⁴ I have given them your word, and the world has hated them because they are not of the world, just as I am not of the world. ¹⁵ I do not ask that you take them out of the world, but that you keep them from the evil one.

Ephesians 5:7

Be not you therefore partakers with them.

Ephesians 5:11

And have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather reprove them.

1 John 1:6

If we say that we have fellowship with him, and walk in darkness, we lie, and do not the truth:

John 14:20 On that day you will know that I am in My Father, and you …

 

New International Version On that day you will realize that I am in my Father, and you are in me, and I am in you. New Living Translation When I am raised to life …

John 14:11 Believe Me that I am in the Father and the Father is in Me …

Just believe that I am in the Father and the Father is in me. Or at least believe because of the work you have seen me do. English Standard Version Believe me  …

John 17:20 ¶ “I do not ask on behalf of these alone, but for those also who believe in Me through their word;

John 17:21 that they may all be one; ^aeven as You, Father, are in Me and I in You, that they also may be in Us, ^bso that the world may ¹believe that ^cYou sent Me.

John 17:22 “The ^aglory which You have given Me I have given to them, that they may be one, just as We are one;

John 17:23 ^aI in them and You in Me, that they may be perfected ¹in unity, so that the world may ²know that ^bYou sent Me, and ^cloved them, even as You have loved Me.

ultimate model of fellowship is Trinity

We see what the “best we can be” looks like: 

• believers totally devoted to scriptural teaching, fellowship, worship, selflessness)
• Acts 5:1-11 Ananais and Sophira show the distortion of giving, and the Holy Spirit’s response.