Knowing God

1 John 1:3
“And indeed our fellowship is with the Father and with His Son Jesus Christ.”

“Christian people are those who are concerned with the ethics and teaching of the New Testament and who see the desperate need of applying them to the world today. Now I grant that that is part of the Christian life, but if our conception of it stops at that, we have not, in a sense, gotten anywhere near the definition given by the Apostle here. No. The Christian life is not essentially an application of teaching. It is a fellowship, a communion with God Himself and nothing less. While the Christian must hold right views and doctrines, that is not the essence of the Christian life and position. Rather, it is to have fellowship with the Father and with His Son, Jesus Christ. The Lord Jesus did not come to earth merely to give us an exalted teaching which we can apply to human relationships. He did not come merely to save us from Hell. He came to bring us into fellowship with the Father and with Himself. This word fellowship means something like this: the Christian is one who has become a sharer in the life of God, as Peter writes, ‘you are partakers of the divine nature’ (2 Peter 1:4).”