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My father died without a pension, leaving my mother with a pair of toddlers. He’d belonged to a barristers’ Inn of Court, a church and the Freemasons. Sadly, only that last group offered my mother any practical support. She dismissed them angrily, saying she didn’t want help from an organisation where women were viewed as inferior to men. So we lived on welfare, which was more generous in the 60s than it is now. It was OK.

In New Testament times, there was no welfare state, so everyone needed to belong to a ‘fellowship group’ or ‘association’. This was a formal organisation of individuals who covenanted to support each other in hard times. If a member was ill, had a sudden bereavement or needed expensive medical care, their fellowship group would help out. They were usually formed by people who felt committed to each other by a common interest, such as having the same occupation, originating from the same country or even just being neighbours in the same street. 

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