Better together?

This morning's message by Pastor Paul
on fellowship and community
(Eph. 4:1-16) was great.
After reflecting on the sermon and
thinking through aspects of how God
has given us this amazing gift of
fellowship to the church,
I thought of a story in Aesop's Fables.

The Four Oxen and the Lion
A Lion used to prowl about a field in which
Four Oxen used to dwell.  Many a time he tried
to attack them; but whenever he came
near they turned their tails to one another,
so that whichever way he approached them
he was met by the horns of one of them.  At
last, however, they fell a-quarrelling
among themselves, and each went off to
pasture alone in a separate corner of the field. 
Then the Lion attacked them one by one and
soon made an end of all four.
United we stand, divided we fall.

What do you think about fellowship in
community as described in the sermon?
Read 1 Peter 5:5-9.
Give some examples how God has blessed
your friendships in the church.
How can you grow in
practicing Biblical community this week?

The very first post (like a tree planted by the streams of Living Water)

Hello everyone! Well this is the very first post for Youth Fellowship blog. I thought I would give you a great quote by "the Prince of Preachers" Mr. Charles Spurgeon(thanks to Mr. Jeff H.). Let me know what you think!

As I sat under a wide-spreading beech, I was pleased to mark with a prying curiosity the singular habits of that most wonderful of trees, which seems to have an intelligence about it which other trees have not. I wondered and admired the beech, but I thought to myself, I do not think half as much of this beech as yonder squirrel does, I see him leap from bough to bough, and I feel sure that he dearly values the old beech tree, because he has his home somewhere inside it in a hollow place, these branches are his shelter, and those beechnuts are his food. He lives upon the tree. It is his world, his playground, his granary, his home; indeed, it is everything to him, and it is not so to me, for I find my rest and food elsewhere. With God's word it is well for us to be like squirrels, living in it and living on it. Let us exercise our minds by leaping from bough to bough of it, and find our rest and food on it, and make it our all in all. There are hiding places in it; comfort and protection are there. -Charles Spurgeon 1834-1892

So with that quote said, I know that I need the Word of God more than I think I need it. What are some ways we can live in and on the Word of God?