This is especially true in times like these when there are so many winds of change blowing to and fro, helter skelter in the church for which Jesus gave his last full measure of devotion. At times like these, the hearts of some people are broken when they see that some of the people whom they have loved and appreciated through the years are giving up on the precious teachings of Christ and his Apostles, and are turning to man's interpretations of the Scriptures. These interpretations bring about division, and brethren who were once true to God and to one another, now find themselves on opposite sides of a question, or some interpretation. So, in the final analysis, what the Scriptures say is true while all of the interpretations of men may be wrong. But in times of anxiety, like the ones in which we are living, someone always asks a question that concerns us all.
Fellowship is the joint participation in some activity by two or more people.
This is the question to which we need to direct our attention. But before we do that, we need to point out that no mere man has the right to tell other men whom they may or may not religiously associate with. Popes do things of that nature because they assume that right, but such a right was never given to any mere man, at least not so far as the Scriptures are concerned. Firstly, let it be pointed out that we should associate with fallen brethren in that we try to get them to come back to the truth of the Word of God. Remember that God told Ezekiel, and Jeremiah, that it was not his will that the prophets should pray anymore for Judah.