I really enjoyed the programme and i learnt a lot of lesson from it. At the end of the meeting, i felt it's necessary for to share it and relate it with what people can understand.
Just like i said in my first post, I'm not a teacher or someone that knows all but i feel we i can share the little i know with you.
What is fellowship? Fellowship means different things to a lot of people. Fellowship simply means, association, community, communion, joint participation or intercourse.
Fellowship is an association of people who share common beliefs or activities.
This is a good way to start. Fellowship relates to our every day activity. At work with our colleague, at home with our father, mother, brothers and sisters, husband and wife. In the church or mosque as the case may be with our brethren and so on.
Now that we understand better what fellowship is, we need to also know that for a fellowship to be effective, there must be an agreement. Two people cannot move together except they agree. Is that really true?
What is the effect of agreement in a fellowship?
For a company to stand, there must be an agreement between the employee and the employer. What agreement does generally in any fellowship is that it makes everyone follow one route and having one purpose. With the agreement in place which is to do or not to do one thing or the other at a particular time.
Let me quickly use a verse in the bible which says "Can two walk together except they be agreed? (Amos 3:3). So even the bible recognises the effect of agreement.
Agreement gives a guideline to every of your activities in a fellowship which followed properly will yield good result.
Lets now look at the effects of fellowship itself.
- All things will be possible. Anything that is been planned together in one-ness in a fellowship is always possible because everyone has one input or the other and they just finds it easy for them.
- Extra-ordinary results are experienced. Aside making things possible with their combined effort, they also get extraordinary result in whatever they do. This can also be call "Synergy". synergy is the effect of two or more agents working together to produce an effect that is greater than the sum of the parts i.e the combination of two essential oil will be more effective than if used individually. That is in the case of 2 + 2 = 5. Even in the Bible it states that " One shall chase a thousand and two shall chase ten thousand". Also in Ecclesiastes 4:9-12 it states that "9.Two are better than one; because they have a good reward for their labour.
10For if they fall, the one will lift up his fellow: but woe to him that is alone when he falleth; for he hath not another to help him up.
11Again, if two lie together, then they have heat: but how can one be warm alone?
12And if one prevail against him, two shall withstand him; and a threefold cord is not quickly broken.
They are lots and lots of rewards you get when you are in a fellowship only if you find the time to relate it to what you are doing at the present.
Are you in good condition with your brethren in the church or mosque? Are you the type that don't even talk to your wife at home? Let me you these word, are you forming busy for your wife at home? Maybe you should check yourself well. There's happiness in been in fellowship with wife and husband.
A word they say is enough for the wise. I know you can do justice to the word than i have done and probably translate it better to your day to day activities.
Remember, Iron sharpeneth Iron.
Signing out,
I remain, Olaasanmi Oyewole Emmanuel.
