Echo Christian Fellowship

 

Echo Christian Fellowship

some 2,000 years ago, a Sound was heard in the earth… …and the Word became flesh, and dwelt among us…  in these last days (He) has spoken to us in His Son… and the report (echo) about Him was spreading into every locality in the surrounding district(john 1:14, hebrews 1:2, luke 4:37)
since that time, that Sound has echoed through generation after generation, sometimes loudly, sometimes softly… but each time the Word finds a home in a human heart, that Word speaks of a new birth.  … but as many as received Him, to them He gave the right to become children of God, even to those who believe in His name… (john 1:12)
indeed, each and every time, it is a new creation.  … therefore if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creature… (2 corinthians 5:17)

 

God speaks, and by His Word He births a new creation… and that creation echoes with His glory. what does all this have to do with us? as a part of that new creation, the Body of Christ echoes the Life of Christ in the world… we do this by being imitators of Christ, echoing His words by not only saying what He says, but by allowing our lives to resonate with His words and His life-giving Spirit dwelling in us.  this body of believers seeks to be that reflection in the world, that imitation, that …  

Echo Christian Fellowship  

Echo…

equipping…     followers to reflect Christ, through the study of the Word and the practice of set-apart living

cultivating…    new life into each other and those around us, through patient seed-planting and the practice of radical faith in God's power to transform lives

harvesting…    recognizable fruit that evidences God's work in the world, through leading others into life with Christ and through the practice of bearing in ourselves the fruits of the Spirit-filled life

overcoming…  anything that exalts itself against God in our lives, through boldly confronting our own patterns of ungodliness and through the practice of loving each other ridiculously and sacrificially 

Christian…

Christ…            

…it's by His Name that we are saved (acts 4:12)           
…it's in His Name that we have life (john 20:31)           
…it's at His Name that every knee shall bow (philippians 2:10)

…and so, without shame, with great joy, and with solemn responsibility, we bear His Name as we proclaim this a Christian fellowship

Fellowship…

"What we have seen and heard we proclaim to you also, so that you too may have fellowship with us; and indeed our fellowship is with the Father, and with His Son Jesus Christ." 1 john 1:3

we delight in the fellowship of believers, loving and not forsaking our own assembling together (hebrews 10:25), encouraging one another as we "do life" together.  

we also do not hesitate to fellowship together with Christ, in His sufferings (1 peter 4:13) and the sufferings of our brothers and sisters. 

Echo Christian Fellowship… echoing the life of Christ into a world that desperately needs fellowship with Him…

"Therefore be imitators of God, as beloved children;
and walk in love, just as Christ also loved you and gave Himself up for us
 an offering and a sacrifice to God as a fragrant aroma."
ephesians 5:1-2