Introduction   A. What costs over $1 million and lasts for 1 minute?   1. The answer is a commercial during a Super Bowl game.   2. The goal: to persuade  you to buy that particular product.   3. Companies spend billions of dollars advertising their products in order to persuade you to buy them.   B. Our goal as Christians should be to persuade people to accept Jesus Christ as their Lord and Savior.   1. That is what this church is all about.   2. That is what our lives,

There are many figures of speech used in Scripture to help the people of God to understand themselves. 1.    Sheep – John 10:1-5    Sheep are dumb; they cannot lead anyone, so they have to have a Shepherd to lead them where they need to go.   2.    Salt – Matthew 5:13 Without salt some food just doesn’t taste as good as it does when salt is added. There is, of course, good salt for food, and there is salt that is not so good on food. For instance – table salt – good on food

Today, we will examine Fellowship – what it is and why it is vital to life in the church of Jesus Christ. Fellowship is a partnership, or a joint participation, a sharing with one another. Fellowship involves us caring for one another – ministering to one another ---- and, by doing so, we are building up one another. I want us to focus today on an aspect of fellowship that is essential for each of us to participate in if we are to build one another up and experience fellowshi