A Relationship Among Fellows

Did you know that the history of the word “fellowship,” is, rather simply, a relationship among fellows? The idea of a fellowship being that two or more people have been bonded together in some significant way.

For obvious reasons, this idea of fellowship, or “koinonia” in the Greek, came to signify the life of the early church. Why? Because of the unique power of the bond of Christ through the power of the Holy Spirit. This bond made through Christ enabled deep roots and ennobled the community of faith to the kind of rich, sacrificial life that Jesus himself modeled in the…