fellowship

Said 79 times in Romans, in 29 of 262 sermons, across 16 Sundays. Spoken as 3 forms: fellowship 99, fellowshipping 3, fellowshiped 1.

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Sunday	Passage	Lines
Introduction/Main Theme	1:1-17	1
The Blessings of Righteousness	5:1-11	1
Through One Man	5:12-21	5
SELF - Incapable in Relation to the Law of God	7:1-12	1
The Spirit - Sets Us Free	8:1-8	1
The Spirit - Makes Us True Sons & Daughters	8:12-17	2
The Spirit - Gives Us Victory	8:28-39	1
Reach - Romans Road	3:10-18; 3:23; 6:23; 5:8; 10:9-10; 10:13	6
Gather - Encouragement	1:12; 14:19; 15:2	20
Grow - Conforming to the Image of Christ	8:29	1
Israel's Future	11:1-36	1
Applying Righteousness: Towards the Lord	12:1-2	2
Applying Righteousness: Towards…	12:9-21	2
Applying Righteousness: Towards…	13:11-14	1
Applying Righteousness: Towards…	14:1-15:13	7
Conclusion	15:14-16:27	27

79 lines in context

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Introduction/Main Theme

1:1-17

ng here that's just such a blessing. Paul describes Christian fellowship look at verse 12 again. He says that I may be encouraged toge

Chuck Lindsey27 Apr 202549:44

The Blessings of Righteousness

5:1-11 Righteousness

way for people to be saved from their sin, to be restored in fellowship with God. Let's go back to Romans now. We've been reconciled.

Josh Combs22 Jun 202534:23

Through One Man

5:12-21 Righteousness

for him. So here they are in perfect harmony, in love. God is fellowshipping with them. They have a beautiful home. And then the serpent c

Josh Combs29 Jun 20255:02

ansom for many. And so what does Jesus hold out? He holds out fellowship with him. He holds out new life through him. And he says, tak

Josh Combs29 Jun 202527:32

s? How do we pursue sanctification? Let's look at God's word. Fellowship with believers, Acts 2, 42. And they devoted themselves to th

Patrick Turner29 Jun 202514:49

hing, the gospel, and they devoted themselves to teaching and fellowship , to the breaking of bread, and with prayers. For me, going to

Patrick Turner29 Jun 202515:10

ray, where to pray, and how to have our hearts right. Through fellowship and edify, brothers and sisters, be set apart and giving dail

Patrick Turner29 Jun 202532:15

SELF - Incapable in Relation to the Law of God

7:1-12 SIN / SELF

o God for the first time ever. You're alive to God. You're in fellowship with God. You can talk to God, respond to God, be moved by Go

Chuck Lindsey20 Jul 202526:59

The Spirit - Sets Us Free

8:1-8 The Spirit

t's also just super important for us to grow in community and fellowship with each other. So please help me get out of my comfort zone

Aaron Snider3 Aug 20251:32

The Spirit - Makes Us True Sons & Daughters

8:12-17 The Spirit

irit will speak to us through somebody else. So this is where fellowship with other believers, is important, and accountability with f

Eric Hayes17 Aug 202513:49

h, we get to sit at the king's throne at his table. We get to fellowship with the most high God. And he doesn't just sit us there at h

John Carter17 Aug 202540:32

The Spirit - Gives Us Victory

8:28-39 The Spirit

God's love first to you his forgiveness God offers to you his fellowship he loves you may seem lame but maybe you just need to go home

Josh Combs31 Aug 202531:01

Reach - Romans Road

3:10-18; 3:23; 6:23; 5:8; 10:9-10; 10:13 REACH, GATHER, GROW

rage each other in what God is doing and in who he is. That's fellowship , right? Fellowship is when you and I, are talking about who h

Chuck Lindsey7 Sep 20259:29

what God is doing and in who he is. That's fellowship, right? Fellowship is when you and I, are talking about who he is and what he's

Chuck Lindsey7 Sep 20259:29

ng about who he is and what he's done together, right? That's fellowship . And so gathering is the second thing that any good church sh

Chuck Lindsey7 Sep 20259:34

r. The church was a group of people who assembled together to fellowship around the name of Jesus. That was the church. So, the church

Josh Combs7 Sep 20253:32

o yes, we're created by God, loved by God, but we have broken fellowship with God by our sin. What is sin? Sin we see in the 10 comman

Josh Combs7 Sep 202514:42

, and teach. Go and tell people, baptize, bring them into the fellowship , and teach them what it means to follow Jesus. Then the great

Josh Yates7 Sep 20255:01

Gather - Encouragement

1:12; 14:19; 15:2 REACH, GATHER, GROW

. And they continued steadfastly in the apostles doctrine and fellowship in the breaking of bread and in prayers. So in Acts chapter t

Chuck Lindsey14 Sep 202512:13

Well, next they came together. It says there in verse 42 for fellowship , fellowship. So this is what we said. They came together for

Chuck Lindsey14 Sep 202516:56

they came together. It says there in verse 42 for fellowship, fellowship . So this is what we said. They came together for him, but als

Chuck Lindsey14 Sep 202516:56

They came together for him, but also for each other. The word fellowship means in common. Okay. That's what the word means. It means i

Chuck Lindsey14 Sep 202517:07

m and him alone, his work and his alone. And so in common, in fellowship . Now, what did fellowship look like when they came together?

Chuck Lindsey14 Sep 202518:44

and his alone. And so in common, in fellowship. Now, what did fellowship look like when they came together? Well, it, it looked like e

Chuck Lindsey14 Sep 202518:46

y the way, let me just. Say something obvious. You can't have fellowship by yourself. You can try to do that in a mirror, but it's wei

Chuck Lindsey14 Sep 202519:09

do that in a mirror, but it's weird. Okay. But you can't have fellowship by yourself. So there was no way to be in fellowship at home,

Chuck Lindsey14 Sep 202519:18

n't have fellowship by yourself. So there was no way to be in fellowship at home, right? They were, they, they came together. And so t

Chuck Lindsey14 Sep 202519:21

sus did, looking to him, talking about him together, they had fellowship . And so this happens, listen, just very simply. It happens as

Chuck Lindsey14 Sep 202519:34

ou don't rush out and you interact. You interact with people. Fellowship is something that only his people can have. You can't have fe

Chuck Lindsey14 Sep 202519:46

ip is something that only his people can have. You can't have fellowship anywhere else. It's only in the church. It's only because of

Chuck Lindsey14 Sep 202519:52

he has done. And it is a tremendous blessing. The blessing of fellowship is what Paul describes in Romans chapter one. When he says th

Chuck Lindsey14 Sep 202520:02

office. Let's go. But there is nothing in this world like the fellowship of the church. Your love for the Lord is such an encouragemen

Chuck Lindsey14 Sep 202521:42

so they continue to come together to learn, but then also for fellowship . And then they did a third thing. It says there, they. Contin

Chuck Lindsey14 Sep 202521:51

re, they. Continued steadfastly in the apostles, doctrine and fellowship , and also in the breaking of bread. So you're like, well, I'm

Chuck Lindsey14 Sep 202521:57

together notice and had all things in common. So there's that fellowship word again. And they even, they even went so far, they sold t

Chuck Lindsey14 Sep 202526:52

r, we worship. We come for instruction from the scripture. We fellowship and we encourage one another. And we evangelize. People come

Gary Wright14 Sep 20251:46

just going to list off a couple of things. Encouragement and fellowship . We need to be with each other. In 1:12, Paul writes this, th

Gary Wright14 Sep 202519:12

l see people praying with each other, caring for one another, fellowshipping with one another. See, our gathering time isn't restricted to

Jayson Combs14 Sep 202513:52

Grow - Conforming to the Image of Christ

8:29 REACH, GATHER, GROW

hurch, to reach people with the gospel, to gather together in fellowship and care and growing in God's word. And so today, we're going

Jayson Combs21 Sep 20253:29

Israel's Future

11:1-36 Romans 9-16

it says. That's being very kind. They're having some intense fellowship here. They're arguing, right? They're bickering between one a

Gary Wright12 Oct 202525:52

Applying Righteousness: Towards the Lord

12:1-2 Romans 9-16

courage one another. That's why it's important to be here and fellowship and grow in relationships. Right? We need a relationship with

Gary Wright19 Oct 20254:59

way. It says, It's when we grow in God's word and grow in his fellowship and the gathering of God's people together becomes more impor

Jayson Combs19 Oct 202531:44

Applying Righteousness: Towards Others/Everyday

12:9-21 Romans 9-16

ans it's a noun version. The noun version of contribute means fellowship . And who is he? What are the needs we're meeting? If the sain

Gary Wright2 Nov 202523:12

eaning a pretend or an. Acting Warren Wiersbe says, Christian fellowship is much more than a pat on the back and a handshake. So to be

Josh Combs2 Nov 20255:39

Applying Righteousness: Towards Others/Eternity

13:11-14 Romans 9-16

says if we walk in the light as he is in the light we'll have fellowship one with the other. There's scriptures all about dark and nig

Gary Wright16 Nov 202526:51

Applying Righteousness: Towards Others/Selflessness

14:1-15:13 Romans 9-16

y, look as I look, always do as I do, then and only then I'll fellowship with you. Shame on the church today. And I'm preaching at mys

Caleb Combs23 Nov 202548:54

. Matter of fact, after lunch today, it's going to be intense fellowship trying to figure out where we're going to have dinner togethe

Gary Wright23 Nov 20251:55

art, knocking, saying, I want to, please let me in. I want to fellowship with you. Bible says that if you will confess with your mouth

Josh Combs23 Nov 202540:07

you'll be saved. And that salvation, that being born again is fellowship with God. It's a restoration with your heavenly father. It's

Josh Combs23 Nov 202540:24

Look as I look. Do always as I do. Then and only then will I fellowship with you. So often that becomes true of so many of us in the

Josh Yates23 Nov 20254:19

ghty preachers of the gospel. Early in their ministries, they fellowshiped and even exchanged pulpits. Then they had a disagreement and

Josh Yates23 Nov 202516:19

e are not being loving. If you invite someone over to, to, to fellowship with them and they're recovering alcoholic and you pour a gla

Mitchell Holmes23 Nov 202516:46

Conclusion

15:14-16:27 Romans 9-16

ome of the ways we can describe it, it's like community, it's fellowship , it's this idea of participation. Not just active, but active

Keaton Washburn30 Nov 202515:47

e you have something loosely in common with, but this is this fellowship that believers have with one another. It's a bond. 1 John cha

Keaton Washburn30 Nov 202516:09

and heard, we proclaim also to you, so that you too may have fellowship with us. And indeed, our fellowship is with you. Our fellowsh

Keaton Washburn30 Nov 202516:18

so that you too may have fellowship with us. And indeed, our fellowship is with you. Our fellowship is with the Father and with his S

Keaton Washburn30 Nov 202516:25

llowship with us. And indeed, our fellowship is with you. Our fellowship is with the Father and with his Son, Jesus Christ. This is th

Keaton Washburn30 Nov 202516:26

ist. This is the word koinonia. It's used right here. So it's fellowship with believers, one believer to another. But even more than t

Keaton Washburn30 Nov 202516:31

, one believer to another. But even more than that, it's also fellowship , participation, being connected to the Lord in heaven, the Fa

Keaton Washburn30 Nov 202516:35

ord for this that we're going to use throughout the sermon is fellowship . I said it's fellowship. It's more than a community, more tha

Keaton Washburn30 Nov 202517:00

going to use throughout the sermon is fellowship. I said it's fellowship . It's more than a community, more than a partnership. It's mo

Keaton Washburn30 Nov 202517:03

together. I think Christians sometimes throw around the word fellowship . We're like, oh, Lord, bless our fellowship as we're just lik

Keaton Washburn30 Nov 202517:11

w around the word fellowship. We're like, oh, Lord, bless our fellowship as we're just like hanging out together. And there's an aspec

Keaton Washburn30 Nov 202517:15

's a couple of things I want to point out. The nature of this fellowship in Romans chapter 16, if we tie it all together in the first

Keaton Washburn30 Nov 202517:29

it all together in the first 16 verses here. We see that this fellowship that believers have with one another and also with the Lord i

Keaton Washburn30 Nov 202517:37

loved, the ones he loves so dearly. We also see the nature of fellowship and that it's made up of ordinary people. The letter of Roman

Keaton Washburn30 Nov 202517:59

ryday Christians. And the third thing that we see about their fellowship with one another is that there was a shared, important gospel

Keaton Washburn30 Nov 202518:20

st pictures that I think of this and what this koinonia, this fellowship looks like is student camp as a student pastor. One of my fav

Keaton Washburn30 Nov 202519:32

you've seen the need and also a picture of the nature of our fellowship here, but there's a couple of results of being in fellowship

Keaton Washburn30 Nov 202521:50

fellowship here, but there's a couple of results of being in fellowship that we see in the following verses. Let's pick it up in vers

Keaton Washburn30 Nov 202521:55

ome soon. They all are going to be crushed. So the results of fellowship , what do we see here? I think as we look at this, as we put t

Keaton Washburn30 Nov 202530:08

is, as we put this in tandem with the first couple of verses, fellowship , this koinonia that believers have with one another, fellowsh

Keaton Washburn30 Nov 202530:16

llowship, this koinonia that believers have with one another, fellowship looks like guarding one another against fellowship. False tea

Keaton Washburn30 Nov 202530:20

e another, fellowship looks like guarding one another against fellowship . False teaching. Having one another's backs. Knowing what the

Keaton Washburn30 Nov 202530:20

true, solid, biblical teaching here? But the other result of fellowship here is preserving this unity and obedience and holiness. The

Keaton Washburn30 Nov 202530:55

hrough Jesus Christ. Amen. To wrap this up, the source of our fellowship , the reason we can have this connection, this bond with one a

Keaton Washburn30 Nov 202533:46

ift of God is eternal life in Jesus Christ, our Lord. To have fellowship with one another, we've got to leave that life of sin behind.

Keaton Washburn30 Nov 202534:59

your sin that you will be saved. You'll be invited into this fellowship , koinonia, this bond, this family of believers. And so becaus

Keaton Washburn30 Nov 202536:20

tting very busy, especially, around here in Lake Orion as the Fellowship Hall is being transformed. We got toys all over, as Toys for

Noble Baird30 Nov 20251:39

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