When God created His prized creation of Adam & Eve, the LORD stated before creating Eve, “It’s not good for the man to be alone” (Genesis 2:18). In other words, God’s perfect world wasn’t complete without a life, soul partner for Adam. Our loving LORD designed that these two join in marriage and reflect/share a unique fellowship with each other based on Jesus’ fellowship with us (Ephesians 5:31ff).
How, then, would we describe the fellowship we share with God and each other as Christians? St. Paul tells us as he opens his letter to the Corinthians: “I appeal to you, brothers, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that all of you agree with one another so that there may be no divisions among you and that you may be perfectly united in mind and thought” (1 Corinthians 1:10). How is “perfect” unity possible? Certainly, it requires the fundamental truth that only through faith in Jesus Christ is a person saved (John 14:6; Acts 4:12). God’s underserved love moved Him to send His Son to be our Savior. As we rest our faith in Jesus, our only way to heaven, we have fellowship with God and each other.
But it’s also important to be faithful to ALL of God’s word. Otherwise, there is the danger of losing the gospel. The gospel alone proclaims that Jesus has done all to save us exceeding our human expectations, and through God’s word and sacrament He continues to keep us and feed us in this true faith.