God's Empowered People: A Pentecostal Theology of the Laity by Steven Fettke

Author:Steven Fettke
Language: eng
Format: mobi
ISBN: 9781608998593
Publisher: Wipf & Stock, an imprint of Wipf and Stock Publishers
Published: 2010-12-14T23:00:00+00:00

What may seem strange to some is this connection of testimony and fellowship. It is important to understand just how vital it is for believers to intertwine their lives in the faith community. The best way to do that is to hear each other’s stories. As believers become familiar with their brothers and sisters in Christ, they learn about each other’s hurts, concerns, joys, and anxieties. They learn about their loved ones, their work, their neighborhoods. In brief, they become connected through the telling of their stories.

Miroslav Volf has made the point well about relationships within the believing community. He has noted that new believers do not attain full maturity in Christ when they come to faith in Jesus Christ. It is through fellowship with others that believers can grow to maturity. Volf observes,

Just as a person cannot arise, develop, and live apart from her relationships with others, neither can a Christian exist as a Christian before entering into relation with other Christians; she is first constituted as a Christian THROUGH these relations.[24]

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