Closing a rich month of fellowship, this message calls us to hold unswervingly to our hope, spur one another on, and not give up meeting together as we await Christ’s return.

Christian fellowship is more than meeting together; it means sharing a common relationship with Jesus Christ and living under the authority of God’s Word. Nehemiah 8 shows how powerfully God’s Word works when His people gather united, hungry and attentive.

Kindness is love made visible. Love thinks; kindness acts. Without kindness a fellowship can slowly become a courtroom instead of a refuge, but with it a crowd becomes a family.

Faithfulness means being the same person and keeping the same commitments, whether people are watching or not and whether it is convenient or not. We are faithful because we are connected to a faithful God: the branch carries the character of the Vine.

The fruit of the Spirit is one fruit with nine flavours, given for the benefit of others. Patience is a long temper: holding off wrong, ungodly and destructive anger.

If you did not come to church next Sunday, who would notice? God never designed us to grow alone. Fellowship is what happens when people who share Christ begin to share their lives.

After Pentecost, about three thousand people were added to the church in a single day. Their transformation came through Jesus Christ and the work of the Holy Spirit, and it led them into a life of fellowship and fruitfulness. Our unity, too, must be found in Christ alone, the true Vine.

The enemy has a plan against your family, but God has a purpose in your trial, and a family that stands together on the Word cannot be devoured.