Relationship Or Fellowship?
June 26, 2025

KEY FROM GOD’S WORD:

Proverbs 26:11
As a dog returneth to his vomit, so a fool returneth to his folly.

 

THOUGHTS ON GOD’S WORD:

 

     One of the saddest things in the world today is the rotating doors of the church. As I have been blessed and allowed to speak in several churches over the years, I am often saddened to hear of people who once appeared to be so on fire for God, now back living in the world.

 

     In the church I pastored, and churches all across America we find the same thing happening time and again. You will see someone come to the church, get all excited about being there with so many loving people, join in everything they can, and do all types of great work in the church. They talk the talk of the born-again and go to every function that comes along. Then, some little detail of church or outside influence comes their way, and off they go back into the world, living as they did before they came to church.

 

     Ask them if they are saved, and they say, “Oh yes, I’m saved. I remember the date.” However, salvation is not a date, and it is not some magic words you once said. Salvation is a real relationship with Jesus Christ. Once you have that relationship with Him, the world’s sinfulness will taste bad.

 

     The Bible says a dog returns to his vomit and a fool to his folly. The lost will always long for the world, but when a person is saved, the Bible says in 2 Corinthians 5:17 “Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new.” Some say the people who go back into the world have lost their salvation. Friend, you cannot lose what you most likely never had.

 

CARRYING THAT THOUGHT THROUGH THE DAY:

 

     Enjoying church fellowship does not save you any more than in a garage makes you a car. True Christianity is not about fellowship, it is about relationship. A real relationship with Jesus will make you desire the church fellowship. 

 

Do you have a relationship with Jesus
or just a membership with the church?

 

IF YOU ARE JOURNALING:

Ask yourself, what are MY THOUGHTS concerning this Passage and today’s Devotion?

 

Do I find within this reading a CHALLENGE for my life?

 

What are one or two things I WILL DO today or this week to accept that CHALLENGE?

 

  

GOD TALKING TO ME:  June 26, 2025

THROUGH THE BIBLE ACCELERATED READING
^{(OT-1, NT & PS-2, Prov-Monthly)}
1 Kings 18, 19 / Psalm 146
Proverbs 26 / Revelations 18

 

THROUGH THE BIBLE OLD & NEW TESTAMENT DAILY
2 Chron. 4-6 / Acts 4