{"id":159,"date":"2015-02-23T09:51:10","date_gmt":"2015-02-23T15:51:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/andrewfarley\/?p=159"},"modified":"2015-02-23T09:52:25","modified_gmt":"2015-02-23T15:52:25","slug":"fellowship-is-free","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/andrewfarley\/2015\/02\/fellowship-is-free\/","title":{"rendered":"Fellowship is Free"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p><span style=\"color: #141823; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 19.3199996948242px; orphans: auto; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; display: inline !important; float: none; background-color: #ffffff;\">\u201cThe fellowship is free too, by the way. People talk about fellowship like it\u2019s a connection with God that comes and goes with our behavior. No way. In the Bible, if you\u2019re a new creation, a child of God, then your Father remains \u2018in fellowship\u2019 with you at all times (1 Cor. 1:9; 2 Cor. 13:14;1 John 1:7). \u2018Out of fellowship\u2019 would mean that you were lost, spiritually dead, without hope. You\u2019re either in fellowship with God, connected to him and therefore saved (1 Cor. 6:17<\/span><span class=\"text_exposed_show\" style=\"display: inline; color: #141823; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 19.3199996948242px; orphans: auto; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: #ffffff;\">), or you are out of fellowship with God, disconnected from him and therefore lost. There is no in-between state. There\u2019s no going in and out of fellowship. That\u2019s fiction. That\u2019s just somebody taking a term out of the Bible and redefining it to their liking. The truth is that our fellowship is unshakable and unbreakable because of what Jesus did, not because of what we are doing.\u201d (from \u201cRelaxing With God\u201d)<\/span><\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cThe fellowship is free too, by the way. People talk about fellowship like it\u2019s a connection with God that comes and goes with our behavior. No way. In the Bible, if you\u2019re a new creation, a child of God, then your Father remains \u2018in fellowship\u2019 with you at all times (1 Cor. 1:9; 2 Cor. 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