Koinonia

You might be a Christian, if you ... enjoy koinonia with your brothers and sisters at church.

Huh? What is koinonia? It's a Greek word, pronounced koy-nohn-ee'-ah, and it means fellowship.

Since the beginning of the Early Church, Christians fellowshipped.

"They were continually and faithfully devoting themselves to the instruction of the apostles, and to fellowship, to eating meals together and to prayers." (Acts 2:42 AMP)

I cannot lie; in today's church world, fellowship most often has an element of FOOD involved. (Can't nobody cook like church ladies!) However, fellowship does mean more than just eating together. It's doing life together. Sharing our experiences. Praying for one another. Getting and giving advice. Crying together and rejoicing together. Laughing together.

At my church, we actually had koinonia this past Sunday afternoon. Of course, we ate together, but we also traded salvation stories, found out who were deacons' kids growing up, shared some of our deep-seated fears (mine was the fear of mice, another lady was afraid of spiders, another was afraid of ... feet ... well, you just had to be there to understand that one.) We had a blast and walked away feeling like there were ladies who understood what we feel.

Koinonia - priceless!

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