So what are we to look for when it comes to fellowship. My only associations in this respect have been with the Worldwide Church of God back around the early 1970's. Also went to a Catholic church as a child.
we should want high character fellowship people who reflect the nature of Christ none of us do that perfectly but most Christian’s have certain aspects of Christs. Store that they are strong in . As we relate to one another as family truly developing a love in Christ for others we tend to build each other up with our strengths and the areas were weak in they help strengthen us through fellowship and example
we don’t want to ever exclude people because we judge them unworthy for sure but we also want to remember that bad company corrupts good character and good company builds character
it’s not really in my own thinking about denomination but individuals who reflect the mirror of Christ we find in the scriptures when we really see ourselves
“Wherefore
lay apart all filthiness and superfluity of naughtiness, and
receive with meekness the engrafted word, ( the New Testament word ) which is able to save your souls.
But
be ye doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving your own selves.
For if any be a
hearer of the word, and not a doer, he is like unto a man beholding his natural face in a glass: for he beholdeth himself, and goeth his way, and straightway forgetteth what manner of man he was.
But whoso looketh into the
perfect law of liberty, ( John 8:31-35) and continueth therein, he being not a forgetful hearer, but a doer of the work, this man shall be blessed in his deed.”
James 1:21-25 KJV
this is the engrafted word the perfect law of liberty which we need to hear and start doing
“Then said Jesus to those Jews which believed on him,
If ye continue in my word, then are ye my disciples indeed; and ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.”
John 8:31-32
when we’re looking into the gospel we’re seeing who Gods children are meant to be we want to believe and learn from and follow that doctrine Because that’s who we are and that’s where God offers to save us .
this law can’t save us
“and not as Moses, which put a vail over his face, that the children of
Israel could not stedfastly look to the end of that which is abolished: but
their minds were blinded: for until this day remaineth the same vail untaken away in the reading of the old testament; which vail is done away in Christ.
But even unto this day, when Moses is read, the vail is upon their heart.”
2 Corinthians 3:13-15 KJV
The law of liberty is the gospel it can save our souls but this can’t save us or make us free
“For
as many as are of the works of the law are under the curse: for it is written,
Cursed is every one that continueth not in all things which are written in the book of the law to do them. ( the book ofnthe law has every ordinance and command Moses spoke to them ) But that
no man is justified by the law in the sight of God, it is evident: for, The just shall live by faith. And the law is not of faith: but, The man that doeth them shall live in them.
the law was meant to cease when Christ came
Wherefore then serveth
the law? It was added because of transgressions, till the seed should come to whom the promise was made; and it was ordained by angels in the hand of a mediator.”
Galatians 3:10-12, 19
we need to accept the eternal covenant given to the world the gospel and let go of the book of Moses
we want people who reflect the gospel and not the eye for an eye book of Moses that also is important we don’t want to shape ourselves after the rebellious children of Israel