You can have it too!

1 John 1:3 We proclaim to you what we have seen and heard, so that you also may have fellowship with us. And our fellowship is with the Father and with his Son, Jesus Christ. 
With a passionate heart, John had something he fervently wanted to share - something he both knew and had experienced, that he believed was real and vital.  Fellowship.  What a watered down word that has become.   We tend to associate it with food and informal gatherings. It is even less than it was before the Holy Spirit gave it special meaning. Before the   Church became the congregation of fellowship, the term meant more or less a sharing in a common interest or goal.  But with the Church, it became so much more.  This sharing was not only sharing with a group of people; it was sharing with Almighty God and His Eternal Son.  It involves a binding to one another that reaches to our thoughts, motives, words and actions.  There is an intensity of sharing with the Divine Godhead and His people that enriches life like no other relationship can.  When we truly understand what "church" and "fellowship" are, it sends chills down our spine.  May we be drawn closer in that fellowship today.