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I think most of us would like to be dating. Many like me feel isolated at times. One reason for this is that churches can have a wrong understanding of the term fellowship. Let me explain what I mean.
Many times when I used to go to church, we would go in and a hymn would be playing while we quietly waited for the meeting to start. A hymn and then another... And then the pastor would say "Let us fellowship together" and he would lead in a prayer and we would listen to his preaching for half an hour or more, and then would be another hymn with the collection followed by the last hymn or chorus and a quick prayer and we would head for home.
Yet in the whole service above there was NO fellowship as the pastor took the meaning of fellowship to mean joining him in prayer or just being there in church (He is only on the fringes of what I feel fellowship means for a church!).
To me more fellowship takes place between the church and the car or the walk home then the whole service itself as basically put, fellowship is a two way conversation. It is talking to each other on whatever we are to talk about and time needs to be made for this separate to the church service. Maybe on a separate time in the week just meeting for fun and a chat? This is where we get to really know one another. To know each others needs. To share some fun!
It is this absence a lot of us crave and seek by joining sites like this.
Many times when I used to go to church, we would go in and a hymn would be playing while we quietly waited for the meeting to start. A hymn and then another... And then the pastor would say "Let us fellowship together" and he would lead in a prayer and we would listen to his preaching for half an hour or more, and then would be another hymn with the collection followed by the last hymn or chorus and a quick prayer and we would head for home.
Yet in the whole service above there was NO fellowship as the pastor took the meaning of fellowship to mean joining him in prayer or just being there in church (He is only on the fringes of what I feel fellowship means for a church!).
To me more fellowship takes place between the church and the car or the walk home then the whole service itself as basically put, fellowship is a two way conversation. It is talking to each other on whatever we are to talk about and time needs to be made for this separate to the church service. Maybe on a separate time in the week just meeting for fun and a chat? This is where we get to really know one another. To know each others needs. To share some fun!
It is this absence a lot of us crave and seek by joining sites like this.