I first connected with some of the people associated with the National Prayer Breakfast in March of 1981. As I met with different people and sat in on a few meetings and heard some reports from men and women who had recently been on trips to different states and different continents, I was struck by the radical way of thinking and challenging people. I was struck by how much it sounded like the early church. As I got more involved, I learned that many of these reports were part fact and part vision and dream. But, I was attracted to the vision and the hope and even the expectation that we could actually be part of building a community of believers and lovers of Jesus that would span the globe and touch many people.
I have been working on that dream and vision since I heard the Gospel message, read the New Testament and committed to join the revolution and serve and follow Jesus for the rest of my life.
Written below or by clicking here, you will find a short description of A True Fellowship. I don't know who started this list, but I have modified it in small ways through the years. I have seen evidence of this kind of fellowship and have experienced it many times in my life and I keep striving to be a full participant of such a fellowship. I believe this is a pretty good description of how Jesus wants us to live.
Please seek Jesus and such a fellowship with Him and others.
We are a people, from many nations, who gather in small groups on a regular basis to study the life and teachings of Jesus of Nazareth. We think together, discuss together, pray together, and play together in order to learn to:
We have chosen to do this together in order to establish throughout the world a "revolution of love" so powerful that the division and animosity separating people and nations will be reduced and replaced by the spirit of forgiveness and reconciliation as modeled by Jesus.
Jesus said this can only be accomplished by the transformation of the human heart by the power of God. This hope and effort allows us, little by little and step by step to begin to:
In the process of this, we as a global fellowship of friends are learning to become better citizens of our own nations, the world and the kingdom of God. We are learning on a day-to-day basis what it means to "love God and to love our neighbors as we love ourselves". (Mark 12:30-31) We consider ourselves to be brothers and sisters according to the words of Jesus.
We are learning to love and forgive our enemies. We are experiencing, in some small degree, the liberating power of "doing unto others what we would want others to do unto us."
We are certainly far from achieving this kind of fellowship or family of friends, but we are reaching toward it with great expectation.
We believe this is part of what Jesus meant when He said, "Come and follow me". (Matthew 4:19a)
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