Christian fellowship is important

During winter heavy snow falls hit groves of tall, young trees along a high way. The branches were bowed down with the heavy snow - so low that branches from one tree were often leaning against the trunk or branches of another.
Where trees stood alone, however, the effect of the snow was different. The branches had become heavier and heavier, and since there were no other trees to lean against, the branches snapped. They lay on the ground, dead and alone in the cold snow.

Remember Paul. He never travelled alone. He had problems with John Mark. He had an argument with Barnabas. He could have said, "Forget this community stuff. From now on I'm travelling alone. It is easier that way."
But no! He always took someone with him. He needed Christian community to be faithful to his calling. If anyone could have been working in isolation from other Christians, it was Paul. But he knew better.

And in every town and city in which Paul gained converts for the Lord, he established a community of believers.

In John 17: 20 - 23 Jesus prayed for all the believers of all ages. He prayed that we will always remain safe, and efficient in our calling, because we experience community with Jesus and his followers. Jesus said: “I pray for those who will believe in me through the message of my disciples, that all of them may be one, Father, just as you are in me and I am in you. May they also be in us so that the world may believe that you have sent me. I have given them the glory that you gave me, that they may be one as we are one: I in them and you in me. May they be brought to complete unity to let the world know that you sent me and have loved them even as you have loved me.”

May you be blessed as you serve God in fellowship with Jesus and his friends. May the branches of your “minis-tree” lean against the branches of another’s, that they may never snap - and die alone…