To know what fellowship is, the first thing you need to do is look at 1 John 1:3 Paul also talks about fellowship with the Spirit 2 Corinthians 13:14 The word used here is like a partnership - the word means partnership. When you become saved, you are a partner with God. Fellowship is our common unity, and oneness. True fellowship is what we share with the Trinity and with each other. True fellowship is ministering to one another - us meeting each other's needs. Fellowship envelopes all the "one another's " in the New Testament.
Is there such thing as a healthy sense of guilt - when is it right, and when is it destructive? Another question asked to John MacArthur Yes there is - that's like asking if there's such a thing as healthy pain. All pain is good - its good in this sense (we'll say, I'm not that hot on it) because it tells you that your body has a problem. There is a disease that people have where they don't feel pain, and therefore cannot seek a remedy for it. In the same way when it comes to spiritual life and the area of the soul. The soul needs to know when its sick. When I sin, I want the chimes to go off! When we sin, we feel guilty, that's grace. Now if you still feel guilty after confessing your sin and God has forgiven you 1 John 1:9 you've moved from real guilt to psychological guilt. You need to forgive yourself, otherwise that's destructive. And if you won't forgive yourself, you're better than God and you have a god complex. Because God forgave ...