{"id":883,"date":"2016-09-04T23:51:15","date_gmt":"2016-09-04T23:51:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dictionary.tellingthetruth.info\/?p=883"},"modified":"2016-10-30T01:07:55","modified_gmt":"2016-10-30T01:07:55","slug":"fellowship-the","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/truth.circlescosites.com\/dictionary\/fellowship-the\/","title":{"rendered":"Fellowship, Family of God, Fold of God"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The 2x2s claim they are not a sect or denomination, preferring instead to call their group a fellowship, a family or the fold. They are nicknamed the <em>Friends and Workers Fellowship<\/em> (aka F&#038;Ws), and refer to themselves as <em>the truth, among themselves.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Acts 2:42 &#8211; <em>And they continued stedfastly in the apostles&#8217; doctrine and <strong>fellowship<\/strong>, and in breaking of bread, and in prayers <\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Phil 1:5 &#8211; <em>For your <strong>fellowship <\/strong>in the gospel from the first day until now.<\/em> <\/p>\n<p>Worker Quote: <em><strong>God&#8217;s people in the world are not a sect, or a denomination or a church.  They are a Family.<\/strong> They are His sons and His daughters.  He is their Father. Jesus is their Elder Brother, and they are brethren.<\/em> (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.trutharchive.net\/jack-carroll---we-represent-a-fellowship---1947-1\">Jack Carroll<\/a>, 1947)<\/p>\n<p>Worker Quote: <em>I would like to dwell for a moment on the word &#8220;fellowship&#8221;. It is one of the most important words in the Bible. It means companionship, comradeship and partnership. We represent then, <strong>a fellowship,<\/strong> a comradeship, a companionship, a partnership of under-shepherds and sheep in this great Fold of God, under the care of the Good Shepherd who left an example for all&#8230;<\/em>(<a href=\"http:\/\/www.trutharchive.net\/jack-carroll---we-represent-a-fellowship---1947\">Jack Carroll, 1947<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>Worker Quote:<em>&#8230;we tell people we have a worldwide fellowship and yet no organization, no registered name, no officers, no earthly headquarters, and yet we are held together as one compact, loving <strong>family<\/strong>&#8230;<\/em> (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.trutharchive.net\/howard-mooney---the-perfect-way-not-an-organization---great-falls-special-meeting---1970\">Howard Mooney, Great Falls Special Meeting, 1970)<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Worker Quote: <em>In fact this question of hire, pay, or salary could never enter into the mind or heart of any true under shepherd in the <strong>Fold of God<\/strong>. There were no hireling preachers then. There are no hireling preachers now in this <strong>Fold of God.<\/strong><\/em>(<a href=\"http:\/\/www.trutharchive.net\/jack-carroll---we-represent-a-fellowship---1947\">Jack Carroll, 1947<\/a>) <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 2x2s claim they are not a sect or denomination, preferring instead to call their group a fellowship, a family or the fold. They are [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-883","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-friends"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/truth.circlescosites.com\/dictionary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/883","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/truth.circlescosites.com\/dictionary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/truth.circlescosites.com\/dictionary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/truth.circlescosites.com\/dictionary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/truth.circlescosites.com\/dictionary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=883"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"https:\/\/truth.circlescosites.com\/dictionary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/883\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1278,"href":"https:\/\/truth.circlescosites.com\/dictionary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/883\/revisions\/1278"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/truth.circlescosites.com\/dictionary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=883"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/truth.circlescosites.com\/dictionary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=883"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/truth.circlescosites.com\/dictionary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=883"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}