Fellowship is heaven, and lack of fellowship is hell: fellowship is life and the lack of fellowship is death: and the deeds that ye do on earth, it is for fellowship’s sake that ye do them.
- William Morris

Acts 2:42-47
Imagine a church with no fellowship.  What a sad place it would be! Following in the example of the first century church, we read in this passage how they devoted themselves firstly to the fellowship. The story recorded by Luke paints a picture of a true family, one brought together by God to fulfill the purpose of God. You read the story and you are able to see that they understood exactly what God expected of them as a family belonging to God. Luke wrote that they ate together in each other’s homes with glad and sincere hearts and met the needs of one another to make sure all were equally satisfied. This, to me, is like the African culture of Ubuntu where a child is not born to a family but to the village. Everyone participates in the upbringing of that child. This is the kind of family and fellowship needed in our family of churches in Southern Africa.