“Offer him friendship and fellowship.” (Page 95, Big Book)
What’s the difference between friendship and fellowship?
When people in AA hang out with each other, and they have chosen the ‘other’, that’s friendship.
If they haven’t, and everyone is both welcome and invited, it’s fellowship.
If the attendees of a meeting split into two groups afterwards, and go to two different venues, what they’re doing is friendship.
If they go to the same venue, it’s fellowship.
There’s lots of friendship, and that’s good. But friendship is two-a-penny, and the world is familiar with that. Us and them.
Fellowship is the radical leveller, and it is what brings health, mentally, emotionally, spiritually, and therefore physically.