Fellowship – Grace Evangelical Society

Are You on the Inside or Outside When it Comes to the Lord? (Mark 3:31)

November 24, 2022 by Kenneth Yates in Blog - Discipleship, Fellowship, Mark 3:31, Rev 3:20

Then His brothers and His mother came, and standing outside they sent to Him, calling Him. In Mark 3:31 there is a graphic, but sad picture. Jesus is in a house with His disciples. This includes more than the twelve apostles. There are so many disciples inside the house with the Lord that He can’t

Can We Slow Down Just a Little?

October 26, 2022 by Kenneth Yates in Blog - Death, Fellowship, Flesh, Sin

We have all seen self-destructive behavior. Perhaps it was an alcoholic who continued to drink, even after a number of DUI’s, destroyed marriages, etc. Or perhaps it was a drug abuser who continued that abuse even after the drug had destroyed their life. In cases like that, most of us look at the situation and

Do Not Abide in the Darkness

September 15, 2022 by Kathryn Wright in Blog - 1 John, abide, Darkness, Death, Fellowship, Romans 7

In 1875, a beautiful, young woman named Blanche Monnier from Poitiers, France, was engaged to be married. She was from a wealthy family, but her fiancé was not. Her mother did not approve of the man she chose to be her future husband. All of a sudden, she went missing. Her fiancé did not know

Watch the 2022 National Conference Online

May 23, 2022 by Shawn Lazar in Blog - conference, Fellowship, online

Food and fellowship. We all want it and need it, and Free Grace people often complain about being starved of both because there may be no Free Grace churches in their area. If so, I sympathize. That’s one of the benefits of our conferences. They provide spiritual food in terms of teaching, but they also

The Meaning of the “Supper”

January 25, 2021 by Shawn Lazar in Blog - communion, deipnon, Fellowship, Lord’s Supper, table

For I received from the Lord that which I also delivered to you: that the Lord Jesus on the same night in which He was betrayed took bread; and when He had given thanks, He broke it and said, “Take, eat; this is My body which is broken for you; do this in remembrance of

Two Abidings (1 John 2:24)

March 5, 2020 by Shawn Lazar in Blog - 1 John, abide, Fellowship

Therefore let that abide in you which you heard from the beginning. If what you heard from the beginning abides in you, you also will abide in the Son and in the Father (1 John 2:24). Do you remember everything you hear in church or in school? Does it automatically “stick”? Not with me. I usually have

Be Refreshing (Philemon 1:5-7)

December 3, 2019 by Shawn Lazar in Blog - Fellowship, Philemon

I thank my God, making mention of you always in my prayers,  hearing of your love and faith which you have toward the Lord Jesus and toward all the saints  that the sharing of your faith may become effective by the acknowledgment of every good thing which is in you in Christ Jesus. For we have great joy and consolation in

Fellowship with God and One Another

April 23, 2019 by Shawn Lazar in Blog - 1 John, Biblical separation, Fellowship, Lord’s Supper

Fellowship with God depends, in part, on fellowship with other believers. Let me offer two short proofs for the claim, one positive and one negative. First, the positive proof is that John says that fellowship with the apostolic circle implies fellowship with God: “that which we have seen and heard we declare to you, that

No Murderer Has Eternal Life Abiding in Him (1 John 3:15)

March 19, 2019 by Bob Wilkin in Blog - 1 John 3:15, Abiding, Assurance, Fellowship, Perseverance, Transformation

A reader who likes our magazine wrote, asking us to take him off our subscription list: It is with sadness I ask you to remove me from your mailing list. I truly love your materials. But 1 John is fairly clear that there has to be transformation in your life or eternal life simply doesn’t

The Arrogance of Control (James 4:13)

June 29, 2018 by Shawn Lazar in Blog - arrogance, Fellowship, pride, spiritual maturity

The Epistle of James was addressed to carnal Christians. James urged them to come back into fellowship with God. “Submit…to God,” he wrote (4:7). “Draw near to God and He will draw near to you” (4:8). Clearly, these believers were far from God. That distance was reflected in their actions, in their speech, and in