By 'church' he did not mean an ecclesiastical organization, but a spiritual fellowship of thoughtful men and women who spend their lives for a service to mankind that outlasts them.
Witnesses will not have spiritual fellowship with anyone who has been expelled from a congregation.
Founders and benefactors of monasteries were received in life into spiritual fellowship, and were clothed in death in some religious habit.
Within a household, family contact and marital intimacies may continue, but without spiritual fellowship such as family Bible study and religious discussions.
However, wedded bliss is not limited to procreation but includes spiritual fellowship, loving companionship and sexual satisfaction.
To be a spiritual fellowship of learning, experiencing an awareness of God, recognizing His person, and responding in obedience to His leadership.
For it is this spontaneous spiritual fellowship of communities under certain conditions to which the four or five most independent minds of Europe willingly bear witness to-day.
Or that I abandoned her after years of spiritual fellowship?
Instead they participate in "the wisdom of the brotherhood that really exists . . . the spiritual fellowship with those united in communion.
To create a more intimate spiritual fellowship among Methodist men and to organize our life around Jesus Christ as the Master of life.