Nine of us met for the first cell meeting in 2012 at our home this morning and we had a blessed time sharing fellowship, the word and lunch together.
The purpose of Cell groups is to enhance friendship, give mutual support to each other, sharing the Word of God and prayer and helping each other in discipleship. The early church did not have their own buildings, but met in the homes of the believers.
Acts 4:32-35 gives us a picture of how Christians cared for each other and the kind of community the Spirit produced in the early church.
The Holy Spirit of God took charge of the lives of the believers on the day of Pentecost. He produced a mystical unity among them. We read that the believers were of one heart and mind. They were experiencing a oneness, a unity which they could never have produced on their own. The diverse multitude that had gathered from all nations and tongues had been melted together by divine love into a union which was mystical in nature and divine in origin. The things which had divided them in the past now faded away into insignificance. They had met the Lord. They were together and they were one.
1 John 1:7 says, "But if we walk in the light as he is in the light, we have fellowship with one another." It is only as we walk in the light of the truth of God’s Word that we can enjoy true fellowship with one another. A common faith unites us.
They were not only united by their faith, they were also united in heart. Their faith had brought them together and now their desire was to follow Jesus Christ. They desired to express His love and to share it with others. They not only believed it intellectually and accepted it by faith, but also knew it to be true experientially. Because of the love of Jesus for them, they had fallen in love with Him; and along with Him, every other believer as well.
Unity in terms of our ministry produces an even greater sense of community among us. We move from a mystical unity of spirit into a practical unity of purpose. We’re a community but we’ve also been given a responsibility to carry out. There is work to be done. We are to save souls, grow saints and care for suffering humanity.
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