There’s something about gathering in a home that strips away the formality and gets straight to the heart of what church was always meant to be. That’s the spirit behind this July’s theme, Church in the House.
Before we even get to fellowship, the message challenged how we see leadership. Leadership isn’t something you clock into on Sundays, it’s a daily job. In other words, it demands daily growth, daily discipline, and daily surrender.
In fact, to do something you’ve never done before, you first need to become someone you’ve never been before. And that kind of transformation doesn’t happen in isolation. Instead, it happens in community, in fellowship.
You cannot build genuine fellowship with a distorted sense of who you are. So the sermon made a bold point: the truest things you will ever know about yourself are the things God has said about you, not the labels the world hands you. After all, God, not circumstance, not self-doubt, crafts our accurate image. No image, no dominion.
Every Christian carries the anointing, and that truth changes how we relate to one another. For example, once you fit believers into a rigid, traditional leadership structure, you unintentionally create class segregation, a “them and us” that has no place in true fellowship. Simply put, you can’t carry God’s presence and still walk around with an inferior mentality about yourself or a superior mentality over others.
Scriptures like Matthew 18:20, Hebrews 12:22-24, and Acts 2:41-42 all point to the same truth: wherever two or more believers gather in Christ’s name, there is power. Likewise, wherever the presence of God shows up, power shows up with it. This, then, is the theological backbone of fellowship, it isn’t a social nicety, it’s a spiritual force.
You can’t serve God in vain, and you can’t grow in isolation. So if this message stirred something in you, don’t let it end here. Instead, find your house fellowship, show up consistently, and let community do its work, shaping you into who God says you are.
An excerpt from the sermon by Pastor Sam Adeyemi, on Sunday, July 19, 2026.
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