* Your faith becomes effective as you grow in the knowledge of what’s inside you.

* The only way to grow in faith is to grow in the “fellowship” of your faith.

* This means we must identify with other believers.

* For Philemon this meant identifying with his slave Onesimus as a brother in Christ.

* They were both changed on the inside through salvation.

* Now they had to identify with that change and recognize each other as brothers.

* If you want to have effective faith you must identify with other believers, seeing them as brothers and sisters and serving them as such, and you will begin to grow in the knowledge of what’s inside you.

* You don’t get saved and then become an island unto yourself.

* You’ll never grow in faith that way.