{"id":104,"date":"2006-04-20T12:17:00","date_gmt":"2006-04-20T16:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/?p=104"},"modified":"2013-07-02T14:43:38","modified_gmt":"2013-07-02T18:43:38","slug":"packer-on-the-necessity-of-christian-fellowship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/?p=104","title":{"rendered":"Packer on the Necessity of Christian Fellowship"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/photos1.blogger.com\/blogger\/3428\/1662\/1600\/packer.jpg\"><img style=\"float: left; margin: 0px 10px 10px 0px; cursor: hand;\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/photos1.blogger.com\/blogger\/3428\/1662\/200\/packer.jpg\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nHere is a good quote from J. I. Packer on the absolute necessity of real fellowship among believers. This is supposed to be central to the church- not something we have to go find apart from our local church.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;We should not . . . think of fellowship with other Christians as a spiritual luxury, an option addition to the exercises of private devotion. We should recognize rather that such fellowship is a spiritual necessity; for God has made us in such a way that our fellowship with himself is fed by our fellowship with fellow-Christians, and requires to be so fed constantly for its own deepening and enrichment.&#8221;\u009d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>-J.I. Packer, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/redirect?link_code=ur2&amp;tag=thechildrshou-20&amp;amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325&amp;path=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2Fgp%2Fproduct%2F0801071054%2Fqid%3D1145549919%2Fsr%3D1-1%2Fref%3Dsr_1_1%3Fs%3Dbooks%26v%3Dglance%26n%3D283155\">God&#8217;s Words: Studies of Key Bible Themes <\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"leyihfaupfwhmpuyedee\" style=\"margin: 0px;\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.assoc-amazon.com\/e\/ir?t=thechildrshou-20&amp;l=ur2&amp;o=1\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" \/>(Downers Grove, Ill: InterVarsity Press, 1981), 193. Cited in Ryken, Philip Graham, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/redirect?link_code=ur2&amp;tag=thechildrshou-20&amp;amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325&amp;path=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2Fgp%2Fproduct%2F0875525075%2Fqid%3D1145549859%2Fsr%3D1-1%2Fref%3Dsr_1_1%3Fs%3Dbooks%26v%3Dglance%26n%3D283155\">The Communion of Saints <\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"leyihfaupfwhmpuyedee\" style=\"margin: 0px;\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.assoc-amazon.com\/e\/ir?t=thechildrshou-20&amp;l=ur2&amp;o=1\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" \/>(Phillipsburg, NJ: P&amp;R Publishing, 2001), 124.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here is a good quote from J. I. Packer on the absolute necessity of real fellowship among believers. This is supposed to be central to the church- not something we have to go find apart from our local church. &#8220;We should not . . . think of fellowship with other Christians as a spiritual luxury, &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/?p=104\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading &lsquo;Packer on the Necessity of Christian Fellowship&rsquo; &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=104"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3821,"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104\/revisions\/3821"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=104"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}