2. Lesson Overview
4. Service
3. Giving
2. Witness
1. Fellowship

3. 1. Fellowship Are these examples of biblical fellowship?
1) A cell group goes hiking together for three days. During that time they talk about nature, work and church.
2) A group of friends sit together in church on Sunday. After church they go out for coffee and share a fun evening together.
3) A men’s prayer group gets together to watch the soccer world cup final. They share a braai afterwards.

4. 1. Fellowship a. The MEANING of fellowship
The Greek word koinonia has two meanings:
1) Partnership: sharing a task
2) Fellowship: sharing your life

5. 1. Fellowship A. The MEANING of fellowship 1 Thessalonians 2:8
We loved you so much that we were delighted to share with you not only the gospel of God but our lives as well, because you had become so dear to us.
Definition
Fellowship is sharing your life with other Christians in intimate and invigorating friendship in which you meet each others’ social, emotional and spiritual needs.

6. 1. Fellowship b. The MOTIVE for fellowship
And let us consider how we may spur one another on toward love and good deeds. Let us not give up meeting together, as some are in the habit of doing, but let us encourage one another—and all the more as you see the Day approaching.
Hebrews 10:24-25

7. Spur one another on Love and good works Encouragement 1. Fellowship
b. The MOTIVE for fellowship
Spur one another on
Love and good works
Encouragement

8. 1. Fellowship
c. The MEANS for fellowship
The chief command, “love one another,” is fleshed out in a host of specific “one another Scriptures.”

9. The chief command is to love one another.
1. Fellowship
c. The MEANS for fellowship
The chief command is to love one another.
The support commands tell us how to do it.

10. Live in harmony with one another forgive one another bear with
1. Fellowship
Live in harmony with one another
forgive
one another
bear with
one another
be devoted to one another
be merciful to
one another
accept
one another
do not lie to
one another
instruct
one another
serve
one another
be kind to
one another
build up
one another
do not judge
one another
honour
one another
pray for
one another

11. 1. Fellowship
d. The MECHANISM of fellowship
The local church is God’s chosen instrument in which we are to build these kinds of relationships.

12. a. The NEED for witnessing
The church is the only organisation in the world that exists primarily for the benefit of those who are not yet members.
Winning the world is the primary mission of God. Therefore, bearing witness is ultimately the church’s greatest responsibility.

13. F E A R Fear of rejection Expect to fail Ability to answer
2. Witnessing
b. The FEAR of witnessing R A E F
Fear of rejection
Expect to fail
Ability to answer
Remorse for sins

14. Radical Rational Relational 2. Witnessing c. The STYLES of witnessing
confronting unsaved people boldly and directly with the gospel, calling for response
Radical
using rational arguments to challenge the unsaved to believe in Jesus Christ
Rational
developing a friendship with unsaved people so that you can draw them to Christ
Relational

15. Lifestyle Experience Gospel 2. Witnessing d. The METHODS of witnessing
“Show me that you are redeemed and I will believe in your redeemer” (Nietzsche, atheist).
Lifestyle
“Our task is to live our personal communion with Christ with such an intensity as to make it contagious” (Paul Tournier).
Experience
And how can they believe in him if they have never heard about him? And how can they hear about him unless someone tells them? (Rom 10:14-15, NLT)
Gospel

16. 2. Witnessing d. The METHODS of witnessing L E G
The three methods are like the three legs of a stool. All three are necessary but not sufficient. If one leg is broken, the whole stool is broken.

17. Why should we give? 3. Giving
No one can serve two masters. Either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve both God and Money.
Matthew 6:24

18. Why should we give? 3. Giving
He calls us to give more for the good of our souls than for the needs of the church!

19. Why should we give? 3. Giving a) We give because we love God
b) We give because we love others

20. How much should we give? 3. Giving a) We should give systematically
b) We should give regularly
c) We should give proportionately
d) We should give generously

21. How much should we give? 3. Giving e) We should give sacrificially
f) We should give cheerfully
g) We should give trustingly

22. To whom should we give? 3. Giving a) Give to your local church
b) Give to advance the gospel
c) Give to brothers in need

23. 4. Serving
Many Christians want to do great things for God—save the world, raise the dead, die for Christ.
1) Is spiritual ambition a good thing?
2) Do you have any spiritual ambitions?
3) If so, how to you plan to realise them?

24. 4. Serving
A. The desire to go great things for God is righteous (1 Tim 3:1)
Yet many of the same Christians, who desire to do great things for God, never do anything significant for him.
Why not?

25. 4. Serving B. The willingness to be nothing in God is necessary
Your attitude should be the same as that of Christ Jesus: Who, being in very nature God, did not consider equality with God something to be grasped, but made himself nothing, taking the very nature of a servant, being made in human likeness.
Phil 2:5-7

26. Most people wish to serve God—but in an advisory capacity only.
4. Serving
B. The willingness to be nothing in God is necessary
Most people wish to serve God—but in an advisory capacity only.

27. 4. Serving B. The willingness to be nothing in God is necessary
“Between the great things that we cannot do and the small things that we will not do, lies the danger that we shall do nothing” (Adolph Monod).

28. 4. Serving C. The path to great exploits starts with menial service
Mark 10:35-45
Luke 16:10
John 13:1-17
Matt 25:21
1Tim 3:6
Just as there is no physical power without exercise, so too there is no spiritual strength without service

29. 4. Serving
During the American Revolution a man in civilian clothes rode past a group of soldiers repairing a small defensive barrier. Their leader was shouting instructions, but making no attempt to help them. Asked why by the rider, he retorted with great dignity, "Sir, I am a corporal!" The stranger apologized, dismounted, and proceeded to help the exhausted soldiers. The job done, he turned to the corporal and said, "Mr. Corporal, next time you have a job like this and not enough men to do it, go to your commander-in-chief, and I will come and help you again." The man’s name…George Washington.