# The foundation of your fellowship is \.\.\.

\.\.\. what?

Language: en  
Original issue: The Heartbeat of The Remnant, January/February 2013, Number 1  
Source pages: 10  
Read article: <https://remnant.truechristian.church/en/church-matters/the-foundation-of-your-fellowship-is/>
Original PDF: 2013\-01\-Remnant\.pdf
[The Heartbeat of The Remnant, January/February 2013](<https://remnant.truechristian.church/en/issues/heartbeat-remnant-2013-01/>)

### *\.\.\. what?*

Think about it, if you haven’t\. Just what is the basis upon which you and/or your congregation form a fellowship, a brotherhood of believers?

In the story we are looking at, we see a “battle” between fellowship based upon *experience* and fellowship based upon *obedience*\. There are many other possibilities: fellowship based upon *theology*, fellowship based around a *person/personality*, fellowship based upon a *common goal \(ex\. foreign missions\)*, fellowship based upon a *common reaction \(ex\. anti\-Catholicism\)*\.

Perhaps you are thinking, “My fellowship is based upon a person, the man Christ Jesus\!” While that sounds good and looks good on paper, the bottom line is that people use that phrase all the time to mean *one aspect of Christ or Christianity*\. It would do us all well to ponder just what our expectations are when we think of fellowship\. Do we demand obedience? Do we expect a common theology? Are we united around a common zeal we may have? Are we gathered around a good preacher?

If a testimony of conversion is required to be a part of your congregation, what is expected in that testimony? If *assurance of salvation* is testified to, what is the basis of that assurance? An assurance based upon *feeling received from an experience?* \(As in American revivalism\.\) Or an assurance based upon Christ living within, producing *victory over sin?* \(As in early Anabaptism, and Psalm 41:11\.\)

The purpose of the above article is to stir us to consider the foundation of our brotherhoods\. Foundations make or break congregations\!