“If we say we have fellowship with him while we walk in darkness, we lie and do not practice the truth. But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus his Son cleanses us from all sin.”
(1John 1:6-7 ESV)
There is a profound mystery and a glorious truth in these verses. We miss the point when we call much lesser things "fellowship." Dinner is nice, but fellowship is a means of grace. Even non-Christians are decent enough to have people over for dinner. Christians have a special grace through the blood of Jesus that no one else has--non-Christians can't have fellowship.
This text points a finger at sin in my life. I don't practice Christian fellowship nearly as often as I should, and too often I find myself not walking in the light. However, let's not settle for just common grace, but pursue all that is ours in Christ. "He who did not spare his own Son but gave him up for us all, how will he not also with him graciously give us all things?" (Rom 8:32 ESV). So then let us be doers of the word, and not malign gospel grace by settling for such a weak definition.
I've recently discovered how important it is to make an effort to have that fellowship.
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