The Way of Fellowship

When man fell and chose to make himself, rather than God, the center of his life, the effect was to put

man out of fellowship with God and out of connection with his fellow man. The story of man’s first quarrel

with God in the third chapter of Genesis is closely followed, in the fourth chapter, by the story of man’s first

quarrel with his fellow, Cain’s murder of Abel. The Fall is “We have turned every one to his own way”! If I

want my own way rather than God’s, it is pretty evident that I shall want my own way rather than the other

man’s. A man does not assert his independence from God to surrender it to a fellow man if he can help it. But a

world in which each man wants his way cannot but be a world full of tensions, barriers, suspicions,